eBusiness

Is open source secure? How much business risk is introduced with it?  Fortify surveyed the open source community for an answer and revealed that open source projects lack the three essential elements of security:  people, process and technology.  Read this research to discover what actions can reduce these risks within your organization.

IBM PureFlex Systems combine advanced IBM hardware and software with "patterns of expertise" and integrate them into three optimized configurations that are simple to acquire and deploy. Read the data sheet to learn more about configurations optimized for small businesses, application servers, and transactional and database systems.

Companies with a cohesive strategy for integrating digital and physical elements can successfully transform their business models - and set new directions for entire industries. To find out how to transform your business model to capitalize on today's digital age, download this executive report.

Visa Europe addressed the unique nature of the European market by building a new payment platform which houses tens of thousands of business rules governing payment clearing and settlement. The result is greater business agility and competitiveness for both Visa Europe and its 4,000-plus member institutions. Read to find out more.

Learn how intelligence, integration, and interactivity can drive the results you are looking for!

Findings From Forrester's Q4 2010 Survey Of Customer Intelligence Professionals

Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions. They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.

You've already taken basic cost-cutting steps and saved the easy money. You know that you need to dig deeper. But where should you start? What's killing your IT budget?

Use the IDS Low Administration ROI tool to assess potential savings and expenses in deploying IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.

Increase user productivity and security with a proven single sign-on solution.

The online customer experience, Web 2.0 and the consumerization of technology are driving online sales strategies, as well as the demand for site redesigns and upgrades. Use this Magic Quadrant during vendor evaluation and selection.

The traditional view of online transactions is anchored on the idea that online stores are first and foremost a venue for transactions, which, by and large, tend to be tightly structured interactions involving the buyer and the retailer. Within this interaction, the retailer’s key job is to provide customers with the information they need to purchase–such as pricing, product descriptions and orderly merchandising–and to deliver all within the context of a superior customer experience. However, the way customers are seeking and processing this information is beginning to change, and that’s expected to have a big impact on tomorrow’s online experience.

Many of your customers prefer doing business with you online. They go to your Web sites to learn about your products and services, to find products and/or services that address their needs, to configure and price the products and/or service s that they’d like to buy, and to purchase those products and/or services. They also set up and manage accounts with you. When those customers are consumers, we call these activities B2C (business to consumer) ecommerce.

This white paper explains how the seven basic principles for managing enterprise application data can help your organization: Establish effective policies for full-lifecycle enterprise data management to control data growth and lower storage costs; Meet service level goals to achieve the timely completion of key business processes for mission-critical applications; Support data retention compliance initiatives and mitigate risk for audits and e-discovery requests; Implement scalable archiving strategies that easily adapt to your ongoing business requirements.

This document introduces the reader to the concept of Enterprise Portals as a means of conducting business on the Internet. We continue on to a discussion of the value of using Enterprise Portals, combined with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods, to tie existing processes and applications together to support the Enterprise.

This white paper from IBM describes how a set of five predictive imperatives can help ensure that your company maximizes the value of its customer relationships and sustains higher levels of revenues and profits.

This white paper explores how predictive analytics helps marketing organizations increase ROI by executing highly targeted campaigns focused on high revenue-generating customers and prospects.

View this online demo to learn how leading retailers are using market basket analysis to gain insights into buyer patterns to offer products and promotions that match shopper preferences and behaviors as well as to link purchases to specific buyers to create tailored offers.

How the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action.

This paper describes five practical steps companies can take to achieve customer intimacy and, by doing so, provide a springboard for excellence in the other critical value disciplines.

This white paper from IBM describes how a set of five predictive imperatives can help ensure that your company maximizes the value of its customer relationships and sustains higher levels of revenues and profits.

View this online demo to learn how leading retailers are using market basket analysis to gain insights into buyer patterns to offer products and promotions that match shopper preferences and behaviors as well as to link purchases to specific buyers to create tailored offers.

How the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action.

Learn how the right blend of customer-centric strategies and advance analytic tools can help your business achieve advantage.

This paper describes five practical steps companies can take to achieve customer intimacy and, by doing so, provide a springboard for excellence in the other critical value disciplines.