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Small Business Data Protection

The need for protecting data is universal – whether a small to mid-size business, the largest enterprise data center, or an individual. The recognition of the value of information and the impact of data loss has reached the point where repeating it is no longer required. The issue now has turned to how to protect the data.

Mailbox Size Management in 4 Easy Steps

This paper provides information which will help you to plan a solution for your mailbox size. Planning Modification to any email system takes just four easy steps.

Managing PST Files from Discovery to the Archive

As the need to retain corporate data has increased to meet regulatory requirements-- and best practice may dictate email meeting certain internal policies-- the very existence of PSTs is putting email more and more "at risk. So what can you do about PSTs?

The Critical Role of Data Consolidation for Your Data Protection Systems

This strategic view is the proverbial "gold" that can be mined from your data protection systems; it is the asset that will enable IT management to prioritize activity to bring activities in line with business objectives and communicate policy compliance to corporate officers and data owners.

Storage Management Simplified with Virtualization

Imagine a world where storage management is simplified; everything works together; there are no configuration issues when upgrading, and vendors all cooperate to allow information to be easily stored and retrieved seamlessly. This was a reality in the mainframe world, but the deployment of open systems shattered these concepts.

CMM and CMMI: Show Me the Value!

Is there any value in the CMM® and CMMI® Absolutely! Find out how CMM and CMMI can be used to improve your organization's processes and achieve project success.

The All-In-One Data Management Solution for Developing, Executing and Monitoring SAP Data

In today's world, your SAP system has moved to center stage for managing all of your Corporation's mission-critical applications on a global basis. SAP controls the books, manages the inventory, produces the product and oversees the entire the sales process. Recognizing the importance of SAP is central to the success of your overall enterprise.

Extending XML-based Services Beyond the Perimeter

The vast majority of IT professionals and business people agree that security is the leading concern for SOA and XML messages and most quickly realize that SSL is limited by not providing content security, auditability or reliability. This paper will discuss how to extend SOA beyond the perimeter through high performance.

Architecting the Infrastructure for SOA and XML

This white paper introduces the requirements for an XML infrastructure that is designed to ensure the opportunities and benefits of SOAs and Web Services can be realized.

Service Virtualization: Key to Managing Change in SOA

Load balancers, name servers (e.g. DNS), even stock brokerage services are existing examples of virtual services in the worlds of networking and financial services. This paper will introduce the concept of virtual services for SOAs and provide details of the characteristics of virtual services that enable SOA success.

Keeping Up Your SOX Compliance and Turning IT into a High Performer by Improving Change Control

This paper covers the implementation, disclosure and ongoing evaluation of internal controls for SOX compliance with a focus on the role of IT, as well as the penalties for non-compliance.

Top 10 Points to Consider in a Business Integration Vendor

Selecting the right business integration vendor is a challenge. While it is essential to focus on what is critical for your company, it is also important to evaluate vendors using a common set of metrics. This document uses customer feedback taken from a broad portfolio of evaluations to offer key factors and considerations to use when selecting an integration software vendor.

Centralized and Offsite Backup

Mitigate risk and lower costs by letting your disaster recovery replica server double as a server for performing an offsite backup. This informative white paper will teach you how...

IT Challenges in the Business Continuity Market

This white paper address the challenges that IT professionals face when implementing a geographically distributed data configuration and the features that a comprehensive replication solution must provide to answer these challenges.

Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture

The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source: the systems that run the business.

Achieving Compliance- Meeting Today's Reporting Requirements With Business Intelligence Technology

Learn about the challenges and solutions for meeting the reporting requirements faced by today’s organizations, with attention to formal government legislation, industry-specific regulations, and internal corporate governance.

Establishing a Culture of Measurement – A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence

This paper serves as a synopsis of Information Builders' philosophy of business intelligence. By using this paper as a model, you'll learn how to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.

The Cost of a Question – Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions

Reduce the purchase, maintenance, and implementation costs of business intelligence by standardizing on a single solution that meets all of your reporting and information delivery needs. This paper compares the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of BI solutions from Cognos, Business Objects, and Information Builders.

Service-Oriented Architecture ( SOA ) – A New Alternative to Traditional Technology Integration

Service-oriented architectures are being heralded by industry analysts and vendors as the only viable way to overcome the complexities involved in creating agile, reusable business systems. This paper examines the basic premises underlying SOAs.

Butler Group on iWay Service Manager

iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.

The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture

This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.

An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments

Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.

ILM as a Journey: Moving Towards Storage as a Service

This report positions Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) in the context of infrastructure management as a whole, to yield understanding of where we are today, and how much further there is to go.

Solving the Data Quality Problem

This paper examines the nature, cause and impact of data quality problems in typical IT system implementations. It argues that the extent and impact of poor data quality is largely misunderstood and often ignored.

Making Mass Changes to SAP Data in Record Time with Minimal Resources

This paper describes some of the best practices that many companies have adopted and are able to make mass changes to SAP data in record time with minimal resources.

Empowering Business Users to Automate Transfer of Spreadsheets to SAP

This white paper describes how many companies are realizing significant productivity gains by empowering the business users with tools to transfer their own data between spreadsheets and SAP.

Upload Excel Data to SAP: 7 Best Practices

This paper describes 7 best practices that many companies have adopted in automating the upload of Excel data into SAP. Adopting these best practices will alleviate many of the pains that business users and IT analysts face in uploading Excel data to SAP.

The Storage Area Network Goes Global

As the demand for bandwidth grows, so does the reach of networks. Users need to access data globally, from multiple locations around the world, quickly and transparently without breaking budgets. Data centers locked into servicing only local users unnecessarily constrain growth and expansion.

Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform

This white paper describes how the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis, and capitalizes on lessons learned from solving similar problems in the structured domain.

Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage

In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of BPM and SOA in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities.

The Banking Data Warehouse and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

This white paper outlines the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions in addressing the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the SOX regulations.

The Definition of a Business Service for Customer Data Integration

This white paper will define different vendor approaches to developing business services and the relative cost implications of each approach for the customer.

Advanced Global Name Recognition Technology

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the issues, requirements, and technologies available for automated advanced name recognition.

WebSphere Customer Center Product Positioning Paper

This paper gives the reader an overview of the functionality of IBM's WebSphere Customer Center, and explains why IBM is the strategic partner that more Fortune 500 companies select as their strategic platform for Customer Data Integration.

IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II

This white paper will outline the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions to address the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the Basel II Capital Accord.

HP Automation: Delivering Intelligent IT Control

Read how HP allows companies to operate more efficiently by automating labor-intensive IT tasks and datacenter operations.

Synchronizing Business and IT to Capitalize on Change

It is not enough to maintain a certain level of IT to run a business. IT has to be a driver of business goals. And that requires a rethinking of IT’s role from maintainer to innovator. All IT management must get this free whitepaper if they want to read how HP offers ideas to transform their enterprises.

Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence

This paper describes how to leverage WebFOCUS business intelligence software to generate Excel spreadsheets directly from enterprise data sources, consolidating large amounts of data, performing complex calculations, and creating advanced structures like PivotTables.

Master Data Management: The Myth of a Single Vendor Platform

Master Data Management is a cohesive strategy for managing all master data domains. Where is your organization most likely to derive business value from a Master Data Management solutions? This report answers these questions and details the path forward: Adaptive Master Data Management.

How to Sell Skeptics on the Value of Master Data Management

This comprehensive report addresses industry-specific issues for the Financial Services sector, Insurance, Pharmaceutical companies, Retailers, Manufacturing, and High-Tech.

Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants

Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You'll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.

Simplified Data Protection for Small to Medium Businesses

Once a business clears the financial hurdle and begins to plan their data protection strategy the choices can appear daunting. Do they select tape or disk? Apply differential or incremental backups? How much will a new system cost and how much time will it take to implement? What data should be included in the backup? This article attempts to address these concerns.

Effective Content Analysis for Email Inspection & Control

Organizations are struggling to enforce both mandatory regulatory rules as well as internal corporate policies governing email content and distribution. One of the biggest obstacles is determining whether or not the content of an email, or its attachment, is subject to any policy rules or restrictions. This whitepaper describes the techniques required to perform intelligent, accurate content analysis and the shortcomings of most current approaches.

Another Year on in the ILM Journey

Quocirca conducted two surveys separated by 12 months that looked at the data management infrastructure of UK and Irish businesses and how this was linked to their ability to respond to the whims of the regulators. In the year between the two surveys a lot had changed.

Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption for optimal data center efficiency.

Why Master Data Management Vision May Fail

Master Data Management (MDM) has made the CIO's technology short-list. This paper addresses issues related to data governance, the business master, building on proven success, and ROI.

Archive Management Service Protects Data and Saves Time

Organizations face a double whammy when it comes to data archive management. On one hand, the volume of digital and paper archives is growing exponentially. Industry analysts report that digital hard disk storage has grown 85 percent a year over the last eight years and 2.7 billion new sheets of paper are filed into folders every day.

Business Success Dependent on Data Protection Capabilities

Disruption to your production environment is costly, and any loss of information can be disastrous. Consequences may include loss of revenue and company reputation, lower shareholder confidence, potential exposure to business continuity risk, or sanctions and fines for noncompliance with regulatory requirements. Organizations need an effective and reliable way to safeguard corporate information in the wake of an unforeseen downtime event.

The Increasing Role of Compliance Mandates: Archive Management

Many organizations have no policies in place for retaining, managing, and purging documents. This paper looks at some of the basic components of a document strategy—retention, management, and destruction—and highlights some of the current compliance drivers that make it all necessary.

Information and SOA: Gaining Greater Insights Through MDM

Information management, which includes both data and content management, is an essential building block for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). By taking a service oriented approach to information, you can achieve much greater value from your information assets.

PCI DSS Compliance with Tripwire

Find out step-by-step what it takes to become compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), and how Tripwire can help your company achieve and maintain PCI compliance.

The PCI Data Security Standard

Learn about the validation requirements of the payment card industry's data security standard (PCI DSS), including administrative and technical elements of the program, and the potential sanctions for failure to comply.

PDF/A and the Document Retention Landscape

Read this whitepaper to learn about PDF/A and how it must be implemented in conjunction with tools and applications to manage records according to the various business practices and recordkeeping processes today's information-dependant organizations employ.

6 Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration

Need a retail intelligence system that doesn't require a significant up front investment, coordination of multiple software vendors and system integrators, or take months or years to implement? This guide will help you gain greater visibility of all your sales channels, products, distribution and suppliers to make timely and effective business decisions.

Unmasking the Complexities of Data Sync: Understanding Retailers' Options for Reaping Benefits

Major retailers and mass merchandisers are turning up the pressure on their trading partners and even other retailers to implement Global Data Synchronization (GDS) within their organizations. These advocates see GDS and participation in the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) as the best path to improving the timeliness and accuracy of their supply chains, particularly once these efforts are broadly supported across the retail supply chain landscape.

The Future of B2B Leaders: The Transition from Operations to Business Value Drivers

This white paper provides an overview of the growing opportunities for EDI managers and coordinators. It highlights how their role can change from being responsible for implementation of technologies for operational activities to being infrastructure leaders. It shows how they can deliver increased efficiencies and velocity for value chain automation, which increases visibility, control and agility for a business.

e-Life Sciences 2010: Enabling a Trusted Electronic Value Chain

This white paper presents a solution framework for Life Science Organizations that want to implement enterprise digital trust management to protect their electronic value chain.

The Digital Signature Paradox

Digital signatures aren't enough. This paper posits that data integrity needs to be redefined within the context of a time-sensitive mechanism.

Electronic Signature Assurance & the Digital Chain-of-Evidence

This white paper defines the life cycle of an electronically signed record and describes the requirements for handwritten signature-equivalence throughout its retention period.

Data Center Consolidation: Management Foundation Based on Service-Driven Operations

Planning to consolidate your data centers? The focus of your consolidation strategy is providing value as well as decreasing your cost structure. We invite you to read the Butler Group/DataMonitor white paper on this topic and see how this approach can help you set a solid yet flexible foundation for your IT operation going forward.

Gaining Maximum Value from Information and Data

Mid-sized organizations have similar issues to large organizations when it comes to the storage and management of information and data, yet they often have limited capability to attract, retain and maintain the skills that large organizations will use in managing their data assets. There is a strong need for more effective tools that will enable mid-sized organizations to manage their data assets and gain the greatest value from them.

Informatica Announces Salesforce.com On-Demand Solution: TDWI

On-demand computing is apparently in demand, at least in the eyes of data integration specialist Informatica Corp. The Switzerland of data integration, as some have called it, just announced availability of its first on-demand offering, which is specifically designed to handle data from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) stalwart, Salesforce.com.

Interview: Don Tirsell, Product Marketing, Informatica

Don Tirsell, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Informatica, discusses "complex data," their recent acquisition of Itemfield, and how Itemfield's technology fits into Informatica's overall data integration platform.

Interview: Karen Hsu, Informatica

David Loshin, consultant and author talked to Karen Hsu about Informatica's data quality, unstructured data and data governance solutions. Karen highlighted customers like Navteq and Humberside Police's innovative use of Informatica.

Driving A Single View of The Customer

The purpose of this white paper is to outline the importance of data quality with reference to single view of customer. In any organization SVC is the foundation of successful customer relationship management (CRM).

Seven Steps to Successful Data Migration

In Informatica's data migration podcast, Arvind Parthasarathi spoke with editorial director, James E. Powell. He explores "the seven steps", what IT does wrong, what keeps IT from getting started and what one can do to improve the odds of data migration success.

Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI

The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions – with similar results. There are thousands of business process steps in a typical enterprise where pervasive BI insights can be added. What are leading companies doing with pervasive BI?

The Impact of the New FRCP Rules on Your Business

Have you adjusted your data retention policies and electronic discovery procedures to comply with the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)? Learn how email archiving can help you with these electronic discovery requirements.

How to Ensure That Your Employees Will Want to Use CRM

In this paper, learn how with the right CRM solution, information workers can increase productivity, improve customer service, and boost collaboration, while the business simplifies complex processes, increases sales, and reduces costs.

Survival of the Fittest: Move Beyond FTP

In a world where only the fittest survive, Axway can help. Our Managed File Transfer Survival Guide gives you a step-by-step plan for building a business case to ensure your success in managing the integrity of your data infrastructure. Download your complimentary survival guide today!

Enhancing SQL Reporting Services with Double-Take

Although SQL Server offers options for database protection and recovery, none of them is intended to provide a complete disaster recovery solution. Make sure you’ve take the time to develop a high availability and disaster recovery plan to cover unforeseen catastrophes that might threaten your database in the future. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business critical data and applications.

Service-Oriented Data Access: Building Interoperable, Robust & Reusable Data Services

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to organizing IT resources and data to meet the changing needs of the business. Implementing SOA depends upon the IT organization being able to build interoperable, robust, reusable, and composable Services that abstract the underlying application functionality and data in the organization.

Middleware in Action: Industrial Strength Data Access

This independent technology assessment by Ken North, the industry expert on databases and middleware, presents a top level view of the role of data access middleware and its importance. It discusses the defining characteristics of premium data access middleware, such as features that affect performance and scalability, and includes a checklist of critical features.

Milhouse Engineering Manages the O’Hare Airport Project with GlobalSCAPE WAFS

In 2005, O’Hare International Airport began a project to relocate and modernize a 2.1 million ft.² runway. Five independent firms worked on the project design with the IT/data management led by Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc. Milhouse implemented GlobalSCAPE WAFS which mirrors critical files to all sites. This provided fast local access to all project files automatically without any administrative burden and with no delays.

Information Security for SMBs: Ensuring End-to-End Care of Data Assets

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from the expansive use of information technology (IT) just as much as their larger counterparts. Indeed, in many cases they have to, because to trade they need to interact with business partners of all sizes and IT failure affects not just internal users but those of third parties.

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset

This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.

GlobalSCAPE Gives Williams Lea a Competitive Edge

Williams Lea is a leading global provider of customized corporate information solutions. The company needed to reliably, easily and securely transfer sensitive files and implement a system to share files and ensure a business continuity/disaster recovery plan. Today, Williams Lea uses the GlobalSCAPE’s Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution to provide secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest.

GlobalSCAPE WAFS Helps To Fill the Pipeline at Jordan and Skala Engineers

Jordan & Skala Engineers is a growing company with 5 offices. It needed a scalable solution to optimize their network and their resources as more and more work was distributed across sites. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS files mirror instantly in real time using byte-level differencing. So as soon as a file is saved or closed, the file deltas appear in every other location on the network. Users are never waiting for files to upload, download, or open across a network.

GlobalSCAPE WAFS Passes the Test for PHR+A

Patton Harris and Rust and Associates has 13 branches. Management and IT needed a way to help these offices work on projects together to optimize company resources. Using GlobalSCAPE WAFS gave PHR+A fast file access across branches using minimal system resources. No management is required as it operates in the background and real time byte level differencing not only reduces bandwidth usage and spikes but also the changes are sent as they happen – not when they are needed.

How AON Simplified and Automated Files Transfers with GlobalSCAPE

AON’s Human Capital division needed a better way to automate their data transfer processes. They wanted a simple yet flexible system that didn’t require customization to adapt to growing needs. They wanted to consolidate their sensitive data transfers and ensure the security of this data and to provide integration with current workflow and key legacy applications. AON deployed the GlobalSCAPE EFT (Enhanced File Transfer) server.

Milhouse Engineering Manages the O'Hare Airport Project with GlobalSCAPE WAFS

Optimizing File Sharing & Data Back Up Over Wide Area Networks

Disaster can strike when you least expect it. So how do you back up and maintain control of your data and still provide access to data in a distributed organization? The challenges are clear...large and growing amounts of data need to be distributed across many sites yet complications such as bandwidth usage, file coherence, version consistency, and file latency all result in lost productivity.

Make Sure You Have Answers to IT Questions After Major Disasters Strike

In preparation for disasters, it’s critical to have a backup site that can be used if your primary location goes down. Does your business have the right procedures and equipment to recover after a disaster? Get answers. Download this article about a new enterprise data center and learn more about protecting your IT infrastructure.

IT Users Discuss New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data

This paper chronicles the implementations of three enterprises that represent a diverse set of industries (Financial, Legal and Technology). The IT managers responsible for protecting company data had the foresight to recognize the growing gap between their business continuity requirements and the ability of tape-based backup systems to meet those requirements.

ESG Lab Report: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems - What to Know and Ask

While disk-to-disk (D2D) backup systems have been widely accepted as functionally superior to tape, they still carry a significant cost penalty. However, with the addition of data deduplication technology, D2D systems now provide compelling operational and cost efficiencies, thanks to increased manageability and reduced storage and bandwidth needs.

TCO Comparison Report: Reducing Costs in the Data Center

Is backup and recovery unnecessarily draining your budget and resources? This report measures the TCO of an enterprise environment using various data protection models, including tape, virtual tape library, and data deduplication solutions. Learn how each stacks up in this comparative report.

The ROI Case for WAN Vaulting - Extending Disk-to-Disk to Offsite Disaster Recovery

Systems and storage expert Barb Goldworm describes the benefits of deduplication and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup for disaster recovery (DR) and how these techniques are extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection. You’ll learn the benefits of deduplication and D2D backup, how D2D can be extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection and DR, and how to build a business case for WAN vaulting.

Symantec NetBackup Design Best Practices with Data Domain

This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.

Evaluating Data Deduplication Solutions: Looking Beyond the Hype

Data deduplication is without a doubt one of the hottest technologies in storage right now. However, with many different deduplication approaches from various vendors - each hyping their own unique benefits - you can get caught up deciding on the factors that are most important for your organization.

Deduplication Comes of Age

Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS) deduplication can help you reduce storage consumption up to 95%. A behind the scenes look at how this free technology leverages the NetApp WAFL® file system to conserve disk space while keeping system overhead low.

Virtualizing Storage for VMware Success

If you’ve virtualized your servers but not your storage, you’ve done only half the job. Learn how FAS deduplication and other NetApp technologies can help you cut storage costs in half, reduce your VMware RTO to minutes, and increase your overall operating efficiency.

Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness

The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.

WebSphere MQ Delivers Real Value Today and Tomorrow

Ensuring that data can be exchanged between disparate systems reliably and with speed and transactional integrity is a difficult trick to pull off. And it gets even trickier when things don’t work as anticipated. Yet this is exactly the challenge IBM has addressed for over a decade: first with IBM MQSeries® and now with IBM WebSphere® MQ.

Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments

Planning for recovery is a requirement in businesses of all sizes. In implementing an operational plan that ensures that both data and applications can be recovered, IT personnel are generally confronted with several challenges. Do you have a plan that meets your recovery requirements to your satisfaction? Read this paper to learn more about the ideal plan for IBM AIX Environments, and whether your plan is complete.

Guidelines for the Evaluation of Enterprise De-Duplication Solutions

This document is intended for the use of Enterprise1 Storage Professionals, focused on Data Protection — Backup, Restore,DR and Archive operations — who are interested in evaluating the potential impact of de-duplication technologies to their business. There is much hyperbole associated with de-duplication. The purpose of this document is to help readers distill the essence from the hype, as the basis for sound decision-making.

Evolving Standards for Managed File Transfer: Do Recent Secure File Transfer Standards Measure Up?

Business to business (B2B) process integration demands secure and reliable communications between companies. Traditionally, sensitive data has been shared between organizations over dial-up connections, dedicated point-to-point links or Value Added Networks (VANs). This paper details the high level file transfer requirements and contrasts them with the capabilities of different types of solutions.

The Why, What, and How of Managed File Transfer in Business

This paper will examine how organizations like yours are meeting the challenges of finding more secure and reliable ways to manage file transfers. It isn't our goal in this paper to take you into a detailed technical discussion of file transfer; rather we will give you some of the concepts and terms so you can understand the significant technical challenges and solutions. In that way, you'll be more equipped to develop the right solution for your organization.

WDS Whitepaper

Finally – some clarity in the application acceleration and WAN optimization space. Find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS) in the white paper. Download today and dive into the technical specifics of WDS and understand how it can accelerate and simplify your IT infrastructure.

Business Intelligence for Consumer Products: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

While historically consumer packaged goods (CPG) organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration, much of the data stored in their IT infrastructures has not been analyzed or deployed to further the firms' business performance. Those enterprises that learn to effectively harness the vast quantities of information generated by their IT systems - both within and outside the corporation - will enjoy a substantial competitive advantage.

Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration (through data warehouses and the like), it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its accumulated data to actually drive business performance. In the years to come, as globalization and increased reliance on the Internet further complicate, accelerate and intensify marketplace conditions, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.

Leveraging Information for Innovation and Competitive Advantage

Think differently about information. Information is not just stored in your customer databases, file systems, content management systems or applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, and SCM). Information resides in many different repositories including custom applications, e-mails, digital images and reports. You need to make sure you are leveraging all your relevant information no matter where it originated, no matter what its format, and no matter where it resides to help your organization innovate, compete, provide service and grow.

The New Information Agenda: Do You Have One?

The lack of trusted information - information that is accurate, timely and relevant - is on the minds of CEOs and senior executives around the world. The cost and complexity of managing increasing volumes of data and content, combined with the need to provide trusted information to every user for every transaction, is driving CIOs to rethink their approach to information delivery.

IBM Multiform Master Data Management: The Evolution of MDM Applications

IBM Multiform Master Data Management manages master data domains - customers, accounts, products - that have significant impact on the most important business processes and realize the promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). IBM is the only vendor that delivers an integrated MDM product with significant out-of-the-box functionality for each MDM usage style - collaborative, operational and analytical - across multiple data domains, thereby managing the complete data lifecycle.

Master Data Management: Effective Data Governance

Organizations with data-sharing environments, complex information and systems hinder business responsiveness and decision makers’ ability to make informed decisions. This white paper will describe how engaging in a master data management (MDM) project enables effective governance of data - specifically master data - and achieves maturity in key categories of the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model.

Snap-in, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade

This white paper, authored by industry analyst IDC, explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational efficiency, and more effective overall governance. Specifically, the paper considers the problems posed by the complexity of "data integration" technology in terms of its configuration and maintenance. It looks at the utility of a grid computing approach in providing scalability and manageability for "data integration" and considers how an appliance approach can further reduce cost and risk for customers.

Advances in Data Warehouse Performance

WinterCorp analyzes IBM's DB2 Warehouse and how it addresses twin challenges facing enterprises today: improving the value derived from the torrents of information processed every day, while lowering costs at the same time. Discover why WinterCorp believes the advances in data clustering strategies and intelligent software compression algorithms in IBM's Data Warehouse improves performance of business intelligence queries by radically reducing the I/O's needed to resolve them.

5 Steps Every CIO Should Follow to Increase Operational Maturity through IT Automation

This whitepaper is directed to technology executives and team members who are looking to increase the efficiency and operational maturity of their IT operations. It will discuss in detail the following five steps, each required to fully realize the potential of your technology investments.

Building a Leak-Free Enterprise

In this white paper Clearswift address the question "Is it possible to build a leak free enterprise?" In addition to a Gartner research note on "Understand Data Leakage" we answer the question by describing 15 of the most common mistakes of web and email security and the associated risks and solutions.

A Powerful, Flexible Solution to Optimize SharePoint 2007

SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (SES) resolves SharePoint issues by providing a framework that enables companies to model and connect the structures and relationships of the metadata across the entire SharePoint environment. SES continuously updates and synchronizes metadata across SharePoint site collections, Web applications and farms by leveraging and extending SharePoint’s native capabilities.

Managing Metadata for Life Science Enterprises

In the Life Sciences industry, information is the source of innovation. Vast varieties of content and information sources feed the development pipeline. The ability to create, share, navigate, find and protect essential information is critical to research and development groups, clinicians, regulatory agencies, marketing teams, and those who benefit the most - customers.

Managing Metadata for Oil & Gas Companies: Reducing Total Installed Cost for Capital Projects

Oil & Gas companies operate in an increasingly complex environment. SchemaLogic's enterprise solution for managing content and document metadata enables Oil & Gas companies to model, update and synchronize content across project document repositories or collections for greater reliability and reduced total installed cost.

IBM Power Systems Offer a Smart Alterative to Windows Servers

Maintaining data security, performance, availability and recoverability is a growing challenge. The IBM Power platform offers many advantages in performance, scalability and key functional capabilities to support key database serving. In addition, it simplifies virtualization, making it easier to reduce the number of physical servers required. This ITG report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform as an alternative to commodity Windows servers in mid-sized companies.

IBM Power Systems: Cost-Effective Linux Database Serving

Maintaining data security, performance, availability and recoverability is a growing challenge. The IBM Power platform offers cost-effective performance, scalability and key functional capabilities to support Linux-based database serving. It also simplifies virtualization, making it easier to reduce the number of physical servers required. This ITG report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform for Linux database serving in mid-sized companies.

Distributing Data Downstream

Can the JT data format solve the problem of interdisciplinary communications in the PLM industry? The white paper, "The Business Case for a Common Data Distribution Platform: A Look at UGS' JT," examines the case for its adoption as a standard for design, analysis and manufacturing in PLM and beyond.

Insights to Accelerate Services Growth

As a Services Executive are you struggling with questions regarding what to measure, how to effectively engage with your customers, and what information should be leveraged and shared with service-chain partners and customers? Leading edge organizations are making tools and data available to their suppliers and customers with aggregated information from multiple data systems. Service-chain partners and customer personnel can now see the same views of service performance and activity. This is the next frontier to creating customer "stickiness" and business growth.

Why You Need Email Encryption: Use Case Scenarios

DSS, GLBA, HIPAA, OMB, PCI, PIIG... just a few of the standards and regulations that place additional constraints on how data is stored, processed, and transmitted. Adopting best practices for protecting the sensitive or private information valued by your company, customers, employees and partners adds a new complexity to email security.

Data Modeling: A Necessary and Rewarding Aspect of Data Management

Data modeling has evolved from an arcane technique for database designers into an entire family of interrelated techniques that serves many constituencies, including techno-phobic business stakeholders and users. The new maturity of modeling tools and techniques arrives in the nick of time, because new technical and regulatory realities demand that enterprises maintain scrupulous awareness of their data and how it is used. Data modeling is no longer for databases only, no longer for technologists only, and no longer optional.

No Free Lunch White Paper

This white paper discusses the CAP theorem (consistency, availability, partition-tolerance), the incongruities of the claims that competitors make against this theorem, and the pareto-optimal approach Riverbed takes to reconciling the CAP theorem. Download this white paper now.

Easing the Migration to Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Countless companies want to take advantage of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and its notable business and technology benefits. However, with the prevalence of large, complex and sprawling information technology (IT) infrastructures, many organizations are wary of - or avoid altogether - the time, expense and effort required for a mass overhaul of their database environment.

Achieving Efficiency and Effectiveness With Your Master Data

Read this article to identify the 5 phrases of an EDM implementation you need to achieve efficiency and effectiveness with your master data.

How Sauder Woodworking Transformed Its Business With SAP

Learn how this furniture manufacturer used the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence composite application to integrate data from multiple sources, build team-leader and operator dashboards, and streamline production flow and efficiency on the shop floor.

Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System

Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process.