Metals and Mining Industry

WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT: Too many people erroneously use the terms "VDI" and "Desktop Virtualization" interchangeably. The reality is that they're not the same. In this virtual classroom, independent industry experts will teach you how you can easily manage your traditional desktops and laptops in a low-risk way to get many of the same benefits of VDI.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 15 Mar 2011

ANALYST REPORT: IT managers typically spend a substantial part of their budget on storage, usually more than they'd like to. Therefore, rethinking the approach to storage is one of the areas where there are huge savings and efficiencies to be had — particularly in data protection and disaster recovery. Read this analyst report to learn more.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Explore the impact of business intelligence in provider settings, and the results of the SearchHealthIT.com reader survey, in this exclusive report.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 28 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management.

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

IT BRIEFING: This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Although large data sets contain valuable business insights, they are often difficult for CIOs to manage. This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com underscores the need for CIOs to make use of this information and describes new technologies that can assist them in their efforts.

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012

EBOOK: This e-book offers IT, business intelligence (BI) and analytics managers tips on building a business case for real-time analytics and also for avoiding potential pitfalls that can trip you up during the implementation stage.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how the data warehouse, metadata and modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years — and what you need to do to leverage it for your business, the major components of DW 2.0 architectures, and key modeling and metadata management strategies for DW 2.0.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

RESOURCE CENTER: SQL Server 2008 R2 has been labeled a BI release because of its new features for business intelligence. In this interactive classroom, industry expert Don Jones explains the improvements made to existing SQL Server BI features like SSRS. Learn about the benefits of self-service BI and Master Data Services. Then take a quiz to test your knowledge.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Access this comprehensive research report by Wayne Eckerson to further your knowledge of big data and the way analytics are evolving.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

CASE STUDY: By simplifying its networking infrastructure through such techniques as virtualization to create centralized pools of PCs and workstations, Lifetime Brands was able to improve the performance of its networking infrastructure and reduce data center costs.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

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

CASE STUDY: Learn why six leading software companies are now embedding BIRT into their product for highly customizable, visually rich data analysis and reporting rather than choosing to develop tools of their own.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Brian Madden explores the value of bare-metal client hypervisors in the context of PC lifecycle management.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Organizations need a business-based approach to creating a log management strategy that will help them detect attacks, deal with mounds of data collected by network and security devices, and meet compliance requirements. This white paper will outline a five step process which will help reduce the complexity of this process.

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 | Published: 23 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the market shift from data modeling to XML, NOSQL, big data and the cloud, and whether data modeling has a purpose in today's data management market.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

IT BRIEFING: This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper from Semphonic president, Gary Angel, explains the challenges of warehousing Web analytics data and its limitations for marketing purposes, especially if real-time personalization is the aim. He then looks at Celebrus Technologies—a system which assists with building a digital measurement infrastructure.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

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 week's special issue of Computer Weekly, we reveal the UKtech50 - our list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT. This year's winner is Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, who talks in an exclusive interview about his hopes for the UK technology industry, and life at HP since the company's 7bn GBP acquisition. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Need to compare open source business intelligence (BI) technologies and understand which vendor leads the pack? Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT is named the leader due to its richness of reporting functionality.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing (DQP) by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the fundamentals of traditional business intelligence (BI) platforms and why traditional BI no longer works with today's market. It then details how BI platforms have changed to become more agile and lightweight. Read on to further your understanding of BI and what the main debate is with traditional versus agile BI.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior business intelligence (BI) faster, the characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling and how to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012