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Quick guide to rallying stakeholders and gaining buy-in for a successful ERP project
sponsored by Deltek
WHITE PAPER: Using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can provide project-based businesses with much needed oversight as well an opportunity to drive efficiency and make cost savings. However, it is important that key stakeholders buy into ERP and sit firmly behind it, during its selection, implementation and day-today use.
Posted: 02 Aug 2013 | Published: 02 Aug 2013

All resources sponsored by Deltek

IBM CICS Performance Series: CICS, DB2, and Thread Safety
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the findings of a study about the factors that affect the performance of IBM CICS® transactions that access IBM DB2® resources through the CICS DB2 attachment facility.
Posted: 29 Jul 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

IBM

Mid-Market Analytics in North America: Transforming Data into Insight
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: For mid-sized organizations, business analytics offers the ability to transform data into insight and uncover opportunities for growth and competitive advantage. This research shows how some of the best companies are utilizing business analytics to stay ahead.
Posted: 16 Jul 2013 | Published: 16 Jul 2013

IBM

IBM Cognos Insight
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As organizations work to stay ahead of the competition, decision makers must find a way to seize opportunities quickly. Consult this resource to find out how you can quickly access and analyze the information you need to make decisions. By seamlessly sharing reports and analysis you can improve your business practices.
Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

IBM

Business Analytics made easy for SAP
sponsored by Every Angle
WHITE PAPER: Efficient analytics is a must in today's competitive market. But, finding the analytical platform that works with your IT environment can be a challenge. This resource presents a next-generation analytics technology SAP users can utilize in order to speed analysis of large data sets, increase transparency into SAP data, and more.
Posted: 02 Jul 2013 | Published: 02 Jul 2013

Every Angle

Kognitio Cloud
sponsored by Kognitio
WHITE PAPER: With the exponential growth of data in day-to-day business operations, business users need unlimited access to information.  View this white paper to learn more about how you can deliver analytics on rich data volumes and gain insight that can benefit your business.
Posted: 13 Jun 2013 | Published: 13 Jun 2013

Kognitio

Apache Hadoop* Framework Spotlight: Apache Hive*
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: This brief resource examines the true value of Apache Hive, a SQL engine for the Apache Hadoop framework. Inside, learn how Hive's facilities for data and metadata management are impacting the existing warehouse infrastructure and driving business success.
Posted: 29 May 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

Intel

Business Intelligence. It's Better Here: Why the WebFOCUS BI Platform Beats the Competition
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: This resource offers guidance to help you navigate the business intelligence (BI) marketplace, and introduces a BI platform that can help meet your business needs. Also inside, find eight key motivators you should consider when choosing a BI tool.
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Information Builders

Business Intelligence—NoSQL… No Problem
sponsored by MongoDB, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Find out how NoSQL databases can help your company meet the growing amounts of data in a manageable and usable fashion for BI. This paper gives an in-depth example at how MongoDB provides NoSQL benefits, as well as leveraging data in real-time, the benefits of document-oriented data, and examples of how users have implemented this to their BI.
Posted: 27 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

MongoDB, Inc.

The State of Customer Data Integration 2012: The What, Why & How of CRM Integration
sponsored by Scribe Software Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Customer data integration helps companies grow and thrive, but businesses still have a long way to go to implement customer relationship management (CRM) in a meaningful way. Check out what over 300 companies said about cloud, their CRM platforms, and customer data integration in this survey.
Posted: 20 Aug 2012 | Published: 20 Aug 2012

Scribe Software Corporation

The IBM big data platform
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: What have you done to prepare for the volume, velocity and variety of big data? Today's data explosion has forced companies to re-assess their capabilities for managing the full spectrum of big data challenges. Read this paper to learn why a big data platform could hold the answer to optimizing big data management to maximize business insight.
Posted: 14 Aug 2012 | Published: 14 Aug 2012

IBM

Outperforming in a data-rich, hyper-connected world
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the results of a survey conducted amongst more than 1,100 executives across nine industries in 64 countries on their ability to capture data, share insights and take actions based on what they learn. Read this now to discover how other companies are harnessing and handling their data and learn how you can follow a similar path.
Posted: 09 Aug 2012 | Published: 08 Aug 2012

IBM

The Social Business: Advent of a new age
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the why organizations need to become social businesses today. Read on to learn how your business can become social through crafting the right blueprint relying on networks, social and real-time collaboration, mobility and integration, how to deepen your customer relationships and the benefits associated with it, and much more.
Posted: 30 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

IBM

Smarter Commerce for Consumer Products
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The connected customer is changing the way you must conduct business. In order to comply with your customers' demands, you must change the way your products are sourced, manufactured and distributed. Smarter commerce enables this, allowing you to transform how quickly you can manage and adapt your source, market, sell and service processes.
Posted: 18 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

IBM

Boost Government Revenues Without a Tax Increase
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: SAP analytics solutions can help today's government agencies overcome the many challenges associated with tax discovery. Read on to learn how SAP's public sector software solutions can benefit government agencies by improving performance, reducing costs and streamlining service delivery.
Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Get a Better Handle on Unspent Funds
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper details SAP's range of public sector solutions, designed specifically to assist government agencies in proactively monitoring their current and future spending. Learn how to get a better handle on unspent funds such as unliquidated obligations (ULOs) by drilling into layers of data to create accurate reports and projections in real time.
Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Accountants Access Information Faster, Enjoy Collaboration, Save 20 to 30 Hours Weekly
sponsored by Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: This case study discusses how one organization turned to a unified document-management platform to improve and simplify the way they access their paper and digital data. Discover how they were able to digitize 46,000 paper documents and review the benefits they are now experiencing.
Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

Microsoft

SUMMARY RESULTS FROM THE BI SURVEY 10
sponsored by MicroStrategy
WHITE PAPER: Following nine other surveys, the BI Survey 10 analyzed the platforms of six of the largest BI vendors and asked 2,961 organizations across 80 countries many of the same questions as previous years. Read this now and learn how organizations view certain aspects of their BI tools, such as response time, performance, business benefits and more.
Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

MicroStrategy

Increasing the efficiency of case file coordination in social services
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Social service agencies are experiencing challenges with manual processes. Advanced case management strategies are being implemented to streamline these processes and foster greater insight, collaboration and decision-making capabilities. This white paper explains how one such solution allows you automate these processes to elevate processing.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

IBM

Overcoming challenges of asset management amid declining federal budgets
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper details an asset management solution from IBM. This option is designed for the federal government and enables seamless integration and support maintenance of every asset across the enterprise. Read this now and learn how this option can offer complete visibility into every asset, enable elevated risk management and more.
Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

IBM

Analyst Whitepaper: Bloor Research: Sybase ASE Total Cost of Ownership - A Comparison to Oracle
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to SAP customers installing a new instance of SAP or looking to migrate their existing SAP installation to a different database.
Posted: 22 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

SAP America, Inc.

Dell Compellent Storage Center - Linux
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems.
Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 05 Apr 2012

DellEMC and Intel®

Splunk App for Citrix NetScaler with AppFlow
sponsored by Splunk
WHITE PAPER: In this brief resource, you will discover the possibilities of Splunk's flexible, visual application for Citrix NetScaler and learn how it can provide enhanced visibility and analytics within your organization.
Posted: 04 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2012

Splunk

Splunk App for VMware
sponsored by Splunk
WHITE PAPER: This paper covers features and benefits of the Splunk app for VMware and how it can add visibility to virtual environments within your organization.
Posted: 04 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2012

Splunk

Splunk for Application Management
sponsored by Splunk
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines features and benefits of a unified application management structure that can give you real-time data access, custom dashboards, performance metrics and more.
Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Apr 2012

Splunk