Business - IT Alignment

EGUIDE: In the expert guide discover how the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy can increase overall efficiency and visibility in your enterprise. Learn 6 steps to evaluating ERP vendors, 8 questions that will help you determine your organization’s ERP needs, and much more.

Posted: 01 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

EZINE: In their rush to capitalize on big data, enterprises may be putting the cart before the horse, in this case infrastructure before business outcome. This e-zine can help CIOs and business executives formulate a big data strategy that is business-goal and business-value driven, including the choice of big data platforms.

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 | Published: 10 Apr 2013

EGUIDE: Location intelligence can provide your business with unprecedented insight into customer behavior, market trends, and more -- so why don't more organizations include location features in their overall BI applications? Read on to learn the benefits of integrating location intelligence with BI and get 7 expert steps for getting started.

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 | Published: 28 Nov 2012

EBOOK: Read this four-part expert e-book for practical advice for evaluating, planning, and managing deployment of real-time analytics systems for maximum insights and minimal complications.

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

EGUIDE: Business intelligence (BI) offers IT leaders the chance to achieve greater strategic decision-making through the use of dashboards, data analytics, reporting tools and much more. So how can IT leaders plan for a seamless BI deployment? Inside this e-guide, uncover expert tips that will help ensure long-term BI success.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 22 Jul 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article will examine the role of this new star in the business world.

Posted: 24 May 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2008

EZINE: This edition of the CIO Decisions e-zine demonstrates how BI and data analytics are dramatically changing the way businesses interact with their data. Inside, learn how the Obama campaign used "microtargeting" techniques to read the polls and understand how they were changing and evolving during the campaign.

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 | Published: 08 Feb 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to  learn about IBM vs. Oracle’s different methods of workload optimization. Review the differences between IBM’s three server approach and Oracle’s one-size-fits-all approach to deep analytics, operational analytics, and transaction processing, and decide which technology best suits your organization.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the inherent challenges of dealing with "big data": overwhelming information that seems to come from everywhere and everything. Continue reading to discover strategies for overcoming these challenges by processing "big data" and providing impressive, real-time decision making.

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011