SAP Pitfalls: How Can You Avoid Them?  by AT&T Corp

October 19, 2009 - SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.

SAP® BusinessObjects™: The Preferred Business Intelligence Choice Designed for Growing Companies  by SAP AG

December 01, 2008 - SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization.

Sawmill 8 - Web Log Analysis Tool  by Flowerfire, Inc.

May 19, 2009 - Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system.

Secure your future now: run your business critical applications on industry standard platforms  by Microsoft, Intel and HP

October 28, 2009 - This webcast explores the business benefits of migrating from expensive, proprietary server architectures to cost-effective, industry-standard architectures. Gain insight into how this transition can enable your organization to increase reliability, availability and serviceability.

Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT  by SAP America Inc

June 02, 2009 - A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.

Selling to the C-Level: How to Convince Company Leaders to Buy  by ZoomInfo

November 09, 2009 - This paper examines how to conduct successful C-level sales calls and the psychological strategies and linguistic tactics that help you convince company leaders to buy. Read on to learn the five steps for conducting the successful C-level sales call.

SharePoint Customization Best Practices  by Global Knowledge

December 10, 2008 - This white paper explores how to change some of the default user experiences by customizing elements of both the Look and Feel and the site Navigation. Many additional "out of the box" customization elements are available.

SharePoint E-Zine - Volume 16: Adding Virtualization to SharePoint Governance  by SearchWinIT

November 18, 2009 - In this issue, we'll discuss how virtualization sprawl has quickly become a major issue in virtualized SharePoint deployments since today's technology makes it so easy to create virtual machines. We'll also talk about taking advantage of SharePoint's underutilized business intelligence tool, and using jQuery to enhance your user interface.

Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtualized IT Datacenter  by Dell, Inc.

May 13, 2009 - In this session, we will review the latest advancements in protecting against disaster in virtual environments and highlight real-world customer experiences.

Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies  by Oracle Corporation

May 04, 2009 - This white paper will discuss the impact of Tier 1 systems on IT departments in terms of ongoing maintenance, demonstrating that Tier 1 systems make many IT tasks easier, ranging from new-report generation to user training to upgrade management.

Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them  by SAP America Inc

September 28, 2009 - This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.

Six Reasons Why Microsoft's Hyper-V Will Overtake VMware to Become the Major Player in the x86 Server Virtualization Marketplace  by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

May 01, 2008 - In this report, Clabby Analytics explains why Hyper-V will overtake VMware in just a few years to become the x86 server virtualization market's leader.

Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses  by Syncsort

October 12, 2009 - For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.

Spreadsheet Reporting with Actuate BIRT Spreadsheet  by Actuate

September 09, 2009 - Actuate BIRT Spreadsheet is an innovative reporting technology that produces reports as easy-to-use and familiar Excel spreadsheets, combining the autonomy users experience with Excel with the efficiency, scalability and control of a centralized reporting solution. Download this technical whitepaper to learn more about Actuate BIRT Spreadsheet.

SPSS’ Solution for Surveys saves publisher $20,000 annually without consultants  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters

May 01, 2009 - Aspen Publishers Inc. was able to complete two benchmarking surveys more efficiently and save $20,000 per year without the help of outside consultants by using SPSS for Windows, SPSS Data Entry Builder, and SPSS Data Entry Station. Read this case study and find out how they did it.

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Series: Business Strategies  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

November 20, 2009 - It isn't always easy to know when to upgrade to the latest hardware or software release. In the case of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, there are many compelling reasons to make the move, including: Enhanced business intelligence; improved business continuity features; better performance and better management capabilities.

State of the Data Integration Market  by Oracle Corporation

November 20, 2008 - This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009. It defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations.

Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and Improving Operational Efficiency  by BMC Software, Inc

November 03, 2009 - To meet business demands for higher levels of performance and availability – all while adding services and reducing costs – IT has to modernize. A strong service assurance capability enabled by available Business Service Management (BSM) solutions can help you modernize IT and deliver compelling business benefits.

Structuring the Haystack - Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions  by Information Builders

June 01, 2008 - A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports.

Sun and Pentaho: Achieving enterprise business intelligence success with integrated, open, enterprise-class solutions  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

October 09, 2009 - Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions.

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: The Core of an Accelerated MCAE Workflow  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

December 03, 2008 - Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems accelerate MCAE workflow by speeding data to processors and then providing shared data access to all.

Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the needs of stakeholders  by Oracle Corporation

December 01, 2008 - This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

Sybase IQ 15: Addressing the Need for Speed  by Sybase, Inc.

August 01, 2009 - Bill Jacobs, Director of Technical Marketing, Sybase IQ, discusses the speed and performance capabilities of Sybase IQ 15. These enhancements are designed to help make IQ 15 remain the smartest choice for analytic, reporting, business intelligence, data mining, and related applications.

Sybase IQ 15: Making the Economical Choice  by Sybase, Inc.

August 01, 2009 - Bill Jacobs, Director of Technical Marketing, Sybase IQ, discusses the elements and attributes of Sybase IQ that make it a very economical choice for your business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing activity. The features in the latest release are highlighted, along with the base characteristics of Sybase IQ.

Sybase IQ 15: Smarter Analytics  by Sybase, Inc.

August 01, 2009 - Businesses today are facing a very different kind of competition that is rooted in extensive data analysis and demonstrated in decision making that is fast, comprehensive, and based on factual information. In this environment, Sybase IQ shines as a highly optimized analytic server.

Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting  by Sybase, Inc.

August 01, 2009 - Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs, and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper will explain why reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical.