Business Formation

IT BRIEFING: This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this report to read about an IDC study that found the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to have a 438% ROI over three years, improving both IT and end-user productivity.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

EBOOK: This e-book describes how using a cloud-based suite of applications and services integrated with a community of experts and trading partners can fuel the collaboration needed to improve your performance and profits.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

PODCAST: This podcast event provides important real-world perspectives on what virtualization is helping companies achieve, and offers suggestions on how to plan, deploy and managed virtualized environments.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Premiered: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing offers massive scalability -  in virtual computing power, storage, and applications resources - all at almost immediate availability and low cost, and business managers are demanding their IT operations assess the benefits this new computing model can represent.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

EZINE: In this expert e-zine, find out how to use ROI and VARs to make the case for virtualization so you can start taking advantage of today's newest technologies. Also, get tips on using the Open Virtualization Format tool and learn how to plan storage for virtual environments.

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data abstraction overcomes data structure incompatibility by transforming data from its native structure and syntax into reusable views and data services. But some data abstraction approaches work better than others. Composite data virtualization is an optimal way to implement an abstraction layer at enterprise scale.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how to change some of the default user experiences by customizing elements of both the Look and Feel and the site Navigation. Many additional "out of the box" customization elements are available.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: In this ERP Selection Checklist, provided to you through our ERP Decision Center, two experts with broad experience in ERP implementations give their advice on matching business requirements with product features in five key categories: functional fit, integration, business intelligence and reporting formats, deployment model and customizability.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Explore the newest features in VMware vSphere 5, and find out how vSphere helps businesses accelerate the shift to cloud computing. Learn about the new VM format, support for Apple products, improvements in availability and scalability, and more!

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming.

Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how important it is to address the different BI needs of your business constituents, so they have insight when and where they need it.

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 | Published: 08 Feb 2011

IT BRIEFING: Several important technology changes, social trends and customer needs are driving the future development steps and functionality of Business Intelligence solutions, this report from Birchman reveals.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: BI can yield valuable insight that increases performance. For some, BI programs can be derailed by factors beyond technology- by people and process. Learn how to prepare a BI strategy that will help you achieve excellence in your initiative.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.”

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief article to discover how this growing retail chain of "island fashion" utilizes their loyal customers and their information to keep their business going through the recession and beyond.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

TRIAL SOFTWARE: CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 is an industry-leading data modeling solution that provides a simple, visual interface to manage your complex data environment.  It provides state of the art visualization capabilities, coupled with a dynamic new user interface. Download this demo software to give it a try!

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 20 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about HP's extensive Business Process Outsourcing offerings.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Too often, business intelligence (BI) initiatives end up being detrimental to a business. They can be costly and highly complex, and often are integrated loosely— or not at all— causing data quality to plummet. Read this paper to discover a BI alternative that provides fast, cost-effective integration across SAP and non-SAP systems.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy.

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Whatever the type of business, it’s rare to find one that doesn’t have a computer at its heart. Able to manage everything from accounts to stock control and customer communications, a company computer is a critical purchase which should be chosen taking the specific needs of the  business in mind.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper is written for BI technical professionals and provides an in-depth overview of the Oracle BI Foundation Suite functional capabilities and technical architecture.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Identity Governance involves various identity-related processes including cleaning up existing user entitlements, building accurate role models and enacting policies and processes which help ensure delivery of appropriate privileges to users. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Managers in small and medium sized businesses used to treat IT as a luxur y they could only just af ford.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Customers are urgently looking for the WOW Effect to create awareness and transfer an innovative image. Most digital signage to date has been a video feed or a slide-show, where it is almost like a poster replacement.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

VIDEO: This brief video demo details an analytics dashboard that seamlessly pulls together analytics for campaign marketing lists. Watch this now to see how easy it is to use this dashboard for improving your marketing campaigns.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a discussion of SOA Suite 11g, a family of products that take SOA to a new level and correct some of the problems caused by the very combination of components and multiplication of languages that make SOA a flexible, agile system.

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this new release of SOA Suite (11g), Oracle continues to emphasize on simplification of the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009