Information Management Reports

ANALYST REPORT: Competing pressures to ensure customer satisfaction and reduce the cost of quality is driving many manufacturers to question the efficacy of their current quality management systems. This report provides actionable steps to begin to create a closed-loop enterprise system that aligns the entire value chain with a single view of quality execution.

Posted: 09 Mar 2011 | Published: 09 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the key role that SAP users play in enabling their organizations to improve processes, and discusses how their expertise is lost in some of the traditional approaches companies use to try to improve processes. Learn an alternative “user-centric” approach that will enable companies to measurably improve their processes.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Mobile business intelligence is a process, not a project, and a journey rather than a destination. The case studies included represent two forms that mobile BI can take to empower the mobile worker and port existing applications. This paper discusses two different companies, their environments, reasons for going mobile and key success factors.

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 | Published: 24 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report that the current information projects are going well. The new call center is up and running, the new data warehouse is on-line, and the new customer loyalty systems have been deployed successfully.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s easy to understand why business leaders regard their experience and intuition as inadequate tools for optimizing their enterprises.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: An information agenda can help transform information into a strategic asset to improve business outcomes. This quick self-assessment is the first step to find out how IBM's Information Agenda approach can help your company unlock the business value of information.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this issue brief by Center for Digital Government to learn how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the County of San Diego are improving service delivery by managing information electronically.  What benefits could ECM bring to your agency?

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) have a reputation of being somewhat lax when it comes to information protection. Symantec’s last SMB survey, for example, showed a high percentage of SMBs had failed to enact even the most basic protections- Which is why this year’s SMB Information Protection Survey is so surprising. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses challenges with trusted data in enterprises and recommends solutions through a data warehousing implementation scenario. The paper also discusses the capabilities of InfoSphere Foundation Tools and provides proof points through customer scenarios on the productivity, acceleration and risk reduction benefits.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

WEBCAST: Curious about IBM Information On Demand (IOD) Global Conference 2010 in Las Vegas? Explore the best of the conference, virtually. Learn how to deliver trusted information for greater insight and smarter decisions, and align information and related projects to business goals.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Premiered: Dec 15, 2010, 13:00 EST (18:00 GMT)

WHITE PAPER: It’s a fact: Information–both its availability and accessibility–is critical for the success of any business in a 21st Century economy. Yet most IT organizations are not organized around information, but around infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications. We are entering perilous times for data. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Electronically stored information (ESI) has become an integral part of organizations today – so it is necessary to understand the compliance regulations and best practices that come along with ESI. Find out how to create and maintain an ESI system that eases e-discovery requirements, and more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

EBOOK: This eBook examines data governance trends and methodologies for managing governance programs. It covers issues such as new ways of organizing data governance teams and emerging best practices to help organizations succeed with enterprise data governance initiatives. It also provides expert advice on how to design and implement governance programs.

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 | Published: 05 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: As we enter a new decade of record-setting growth of digital information, we face unprecedented challenges in how to manage our Digital Universe. Are you ready for the Digital Decade?

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn about EMC SourceOne for Microsoft SharePoint, which enhances an organization’s use of SharePoint, improves content control and governance, and connects end users to the broader information environment and processes without impacting their day-to-day activities.

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 | Published: 12 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Many organizations have achieved dramatic performance improvements by sustaining a focus on strategy implementation. We have captured and codified a body of knowledge from these successful organizations that provides the foundation for an emerging professional function focused on the management of strategy.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This tool offers you a better understanding of your organization’s ability to manage growing volumes of information. It only takes a few minutes to answer these questions and receive your score. Try it now.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This Magic Quadrant will help CIOs and business and IT leaders that are analyzing their Web strategies to assess whether they have the right Web Content Management offering to support them. Use this Magic Quadrant to understand the fresh vitality in the WCM market and how Gartner rates the leading vendors and their packaged products.

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 07 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: New IBM DB2 features make compatibility easy. In this guide, you’ll learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more—all designed to improve your ability to run applications on both DB2 and Oracle platforms

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

EZINE: In this special issue, SearchSOA looks at elements that drive the fervent interest in BPM today, with a special focus on the problems teams run into when they convert theory into practice. Read about workflow do’s and don’ts, BAM strategies, and CEP implementation challenges in this first edition of SearchSOA’s BPM quarterly.

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: NoetixViews transforms the complexity of the Oracle E-Business Suite database into recognizable business views of data that are used to create operational reports and ad hoc queries. NoetixViews enables faster, easier and more cost-effective access to information stored in the Oracle E-Business Suite data structure. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 04 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: What exactly is business analytics and how can it help? Business analytics is, simply put, the application of analytical techniques to resolve business issues. It provides organizations with a framework for decision making, helping organizations solve complex business problems and more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: We are now exiting a historical moment of under managed and only occasionally acted-upon information to an environment requiring much more active, much more intense, much more aggressive information management. You as an executive will be held much more accountable for your data management behaviors. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

EBOOK: The growing adoption of enterprise contentmanagement tools for e-discovery, log managementand integrated content archiving is advancinginformation governance strategies.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010