Cost Benefit Analysis

WHITE PAPER: Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

ANALYST BRIEF: Philip Dawson, Gartner VP offers best practice advice for organisations looking to virtualise their IT infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

IT BRIEFING: This  guide from the Open Group, offers advice on assessing how cloud fits into your IT organisation

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

IT BRIEFING: This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Managed print services (MPS) offer organisations the opportunity to control costs, reduce the complexity of managing a heterogeneous infrastructure and improve business processes.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Published: 06 Sep 2011

PODCAST: This podcast provides strategies for SAP customers which can optimize their systems for increased functionality while still reducing costs. Listen now to hear about the concerns of today's SAP customers, the changing role of the CIO and low-cost strategies for optimizing SAP environments.

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 | Premiered: 15 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to get best practices on addressing the typical infrastructure challenges facing today’s data center managers. Discover how an integrated infrastructure can address an organization’s unique business needs while increasing efficiency, ensuring availability and reducing cost of deployment or ownership.

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options.

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 | Published: 21 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 | Published: 21 Apr 2011

CASE STUDY: Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing services, enabling organizations to manage every part of the customer relationship without having to maintain expensive, in-house applications. Read this case study to learn how Saleforce.com made room for new service and customer growth with Dell's PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. Intel’s vision for the future of this technology focuses on key principles to make the vision a reality. View this resource to learn more.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The new economics of terminal emulation enables organizations to cut costs from the IT infrastructure while continuing to provide users with a productive, innovative, fully de-risked and supported working environment.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: NOSQL data stores are proliferating as a means of supporting web-scale data. There are a wide variety of NOSQL systems, each with their own set of use-cases and advantages. This paper describes the primary NOSQL data sources in the market today and how to integrate them with other sources using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: The leading international marketing services organization implements DataFlux MDM Solution to power enterprise data management initiatives.

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Schalleur, Devine & Surgent (SDS) is a mid‐sized Certified Public Accounting agency with over 30 employees comprised of CPAs and other certified professionals based in Devon, Pennsylvania.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help address 5 areas of concern: compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity. The needs of the A&D market aren’t easily addressed by one-size-fits-all products.

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 | Published: 04 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Dolphin’s Content Archive Service for Cloud lets SAP users use Storage as a Service as an ArchiveLink repository. The service allows a direct connection from the SAP archiving layer to major public cloud provider. It’s an option that makes sense for any organization, whether or not you are running other SAP solutions in the cloud.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Nissen Chemitec America has utilized several different systems to manage enterprise operations but these systems weren’t designed to meet the specific needs of automotive injection molding suppliers. Nissen selected EnterpriseIQ because it meets manufacturing-specific functionality and automotive industry requirements in a single-database system.

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 | Published: 06 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth.

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 | Published: 06 Jan 2011

EBOOK: SAP shops have long been using the Workflow module to automate processes controlled by the SAP FI module. Customers are looking to extend SAP Workflow to derive more value from SAP systems in place. Learn the benefits and challenges of using the SAP Business Workflow module as well as tips for planning a successful Workflow strategy.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This technical white paper takes an in-depth look at data deduplication. Read on to develop a better understanding of what this technology does, how it does it, and why it is becomes such a popular tool among organisations looking to manage storage more efficiently.

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 | Published: 14 Jul 2010