Data Mart Architectures

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents 13 somewhat common infrastructure decisions that can result in poor IT security. It is possible that your organization can improve its security in one or more of these areas. Take the time to assess your current security policy in each of these areas to see if there is room for refinement or improvement.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to IT certifications, not all certifications are equally valued by companies. Find out the top 15 certifications most in demand for 2012 and what their corresponding salaries are on average. Discover which certifications will net you a 6-figure salary.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that while the global economic recession of recent years has largely been replaced by a lethargic recovery, many workers continue to be impacted by job loss, reduction insalary and benefits, or job change.

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 | Published: 20 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, uncover the three most important things you should know about service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to be sure you are getting the most efficient and effective performance out of your enterprise application architecture.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

VIDEO: To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT’s ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 | Published: 19 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is becoming more of a hot topic as it allows organizations to control costs and use limited resources to manage their desktop infrastructures. This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, Vmware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Learn more here.

Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Servers are the workhorse of the modern business, and as IT demands increase, so your server technology needs to be able to grow and scale cost-effectively to meet future requirements.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware by using private cloud industry standard concepts and defining the technology benefits of Microsoft private cloud solutions.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines different considerations for separating decision support systems (DSS) from Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments and touches upon technical procedures for achieving the same, as well as examines data warehouse solutions, different storage topologies, storage interface optimizations and much more.

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 08 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recent technology advances in five key areas put efficiency gains on the fast track. Here's how Dell can help CIOs capitalize on virtualization, mobility management, storage optimization, cloud services, and automated IT management.

Posted: 14 May 2010 | Published: 14 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: HP Converged Systems are designed to deliver the business value of applications faster, more predictably, and with less risk. While other companies can deliver pieces and parts of a solution, only HP can deliver this level of innovation across the full breadth of your business demands. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Published: 11 Nov 2011

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights.

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 | Premiered: 01 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: For the 11th year in succession, the Airline IT Trends Survey tracks the key technology trends in the airline industry. It demonstrates the role that the survey’s global benchmarks play in underlining the importance of IT within the airline industry, while also stimulating debate in boardrooms worldwide about the way ahead.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: This resource presents a newer and better way to monitor and manage application environments with leading-edge automation.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: As companies face the prospect of a recession, IT is even more challenged to justify and deliver value while avoiding risky projects.  This is not the time to slash budgets; instead, follow a few rules to simplify decision making and focus your investment in areas that deliver the greatest return.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The cloud continues to drive both rapid ROI and new ISV business models.  Beyond the cloud, expect 2010 to bring greater use of analytics, automation, and CRM, and a permanent shift in structural unemployment.  Bid auf Wiedersehen to the vendors who still haven’t gotten it.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WEBCAST: Watch this webinar to hear presentation coach Tim Wackel share the 6 worst presentation habits that put barriers between you and your listener. You'll also learn unique and proven methods for conquering these habits so that you can become a more professional and inspiring presenter.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 25 Jan 2012

VIDEO: This transformation workshop seeks to foster a collaborative effort to enable an integrated modernized IT environment. Check out this brief video to get a preview of the application transformation workshop that clients are calling "a day well spent".

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 21 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Find out how to measure ROI for your business. Companies of all sizes constantly evaluate their operations, seeking to make changes that will increase effectiveness while controlling costs. This paper offers concrete practices, processes, and recommendations to drive the ROI of a company's IT investment (ROIT).

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details best practices for a smooth migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Review how to identify and minimize risks before migration, prepare the existing infrastructure, and perform the actual migration.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study provides an overview of the different possibilities for accessing and integrating SAP data as well as their advantages and disadvantages in light of the growing demands on Business Intelligence in modern organizations.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

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