Business Management

Paper: Is System Center Enough?

Although IDC is expecting worldwide spending on business analytics software to be $33 billion in 2012, technology is only part of the story. The growing demand for faster response and deeper business insight is forcing companies to adopt a more pervasive approach to business intelligence (BI) that supports evidence-based decision making. Higher BI and analytics competency and pervasiveness are achieved when organizational culture, business processes, and technologies are designed and implemented with the goal of improving or automating all strategic, operational, and tactical decision making capabilities of all stakeholders. Access this paper to learn essential best practices for creating a solid BI and analytics strategy.

As the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend sweeps across the business world, it raises a huge management challenge for many companies. It changes who within an organization gets access to mobility. It also affects the way a business operates, with implications that go far beyond simply IT. BYOD presents new, fundamental questions about security, liability, and cost. Answers depend on two aspects of mobility management: device management policy and the technology used to fulfill and enforce a policy.

There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated with the investment. As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute these projects within the long-term strategic plan of organization wide decision management. Read an active Q&A session with Dan Vesset, IDC Program Vice President of Business Analytics on building a successful enterprise BI strategy.

With the now growing economy, companies are realizing they can save money and increase productivity by streamlining their back-office and front-office operations using CRM-ERP technology. This technology allows for the timely sharing of accurate customer data and also automates end-to-end business processes.

Cloud computing has a lot of appeal, from auto-scaling to lower costs, and it's all just a few clicks away. Thus, the big question is not "why cloud?" but rather "how cloud?"

Staples Canada operates locations in ever Canadian province. The company was in search for a scheduling solution that met stringent requirements, while reducing costs. Meeting Room Manager met and exceeded Staples' requirements. Read to find out how Meeting Room Manager can help save you time and money.

Learn how Westfield Insurance developed an award-winning, business-led smarter analytics competency

Learn how CPG and Wholesale Distributors are becoming more efficient, more innovative, more agile, and more competitive.

Attend this webcast to learn how VMware vFabric Application Director can help you ensure simplified and highly flexible application provisioning and create best practice application architectures to be reused by other functions in your organization.

View this webcast to learn how to cost-effectively run your applications & balance your load across virtual machines.

This informative report examines the Riverbed® Steelhead EX + Granite appliance, which helps organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally. Find out how edge-VSI can improve your IT infrastructure.

The What, Why & How of CRM Integration This report contains insights from C-level executives, business analysts and IT engineers, and systems integrators and consultants who design and implement data integration for their enterprise clients.

Using Splunk, Cricket was able to identify system degradation and failures, even in the application area of Cricket's highly-automated and virtualized environment. Read about Cricket's impressive hard and soft ROI.

Discover a unique approach to handling large, semi-structured or unstructured time-series data. Splunk can be deployed in a matter of days to provide rapid cross-correlation between different data types-giving you unprecedented operational visibility.

Download this guide to help you take the guesswork out of implementing SSL for Exchange 2010, making it easier than ever to get the SSL certificate you need for a successful and secure Exchange implementation.

Read Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies® to learn about the state of cloud computing today, how CSBs add business value, what's important to think about when considering a CSB, and predictions about what's to come.

Learn how application delivery problems continue to frustrate IT managers and how to move to the cloud without losing your sanity.

This paper talks about the strengths and weaknesses of on-premise and could deployments and which organizations need hybrid solution.

Organizations must be able to extend the boundaries of their corporate network to provide consistent Web security protection, policies and reporting for all users on any device or network.

By exploiting popular places on the Internet, such as search engines, social networking and email, malnets have become very adept at infecting many users with little added investment.

Read this white paper to understand how the HP CloudSystem Matrix is an integrated IT infrastructure solution that meets this challenge head-on, enabling organizations to simplify their IT infrastructure and streamline operating costs.

IANS CUSTOM RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SECURITY INVESTMENT ANALYSIS (ISIA) REPORT on Log data management and compliance products

This paper explores the question: what could your organization do with faster, better answers, and provides possible use case scenarios that illustrate the value this technology brings to a variety of industries.

This paper defines predictive analytics, then details ways this type of analytics can be applied to marketing, risk, operations and more. It also includes information relevant to a wide variety of industries - from manufacturing to hospitals.