Sponsor: IBM Corporation

Most businesses see the value in CRM and ERP. When implemented properly, these platforms can enable better sales, more efficient marketing, and drive both top line and bottom line revenue growth. Getting there however, is a challenge. This IT Managers' Journal is designed to give IT managers and business leaders 10 steps that can help them transform CRM into a winning solution for revenue growth and business efficiency. Read this ITMJ and discover how IT and business management can work together to realize real, demonstrable ROI.

Read this whitepaper from FSN's Gary Simon to learn how disclosure management solutions from IBM can extend the value of your existing Business Intelligence tools.

Download this whitepaper to learn how organizations can extend their productivity gains provided by disclosure management solutions to their budgeting, planning and forecasting processes.

Read this whitepaper to learn how businesses take advantage of the power of the cloud to build strong analytically oriented teams, adopt new ways to use information and jump ahead of their competition.

Read this whitepaper to learn how Big analytics can improve your business decision making and enhance business innovation. Most of all what does it provide in terms of business value for big data.

See what's new and exciting in Cognos Enterprise. The overview is an animated video about the Cognos family and others are demonstrations of enhanced features.

Based on observations and conversations with clients, Gartner has identified five "hot" trends related to business intelligence: data quality, mobile BI, big data hype, BI strategy and visualization and has made recommendations for addressing these trends to meet changes that are coming in BI in the next few years. IBM Business Analytics software provides solutions and services that can help you follow their recommendations. Learn about these solutions and how they can help you address their trends.

Business Analytics/Intelligence have earned reputations as "difficult" and risky to implement. Applications of this sort classically required complex integration across numerous working systems and data repositories AND a (usually long) period of customization. Learn how and why your colleagues are focusing efforts to access and analyze data in new, lighter, more agile, web-oriented ways that enable self-service by experienced analysts and end users.

Ziff Davis explains why organizations don't need to move their entire data holdings in-memory in order to provide faster performance to their users. A platform that allows flexibility in how much memory to use - and what to put in-memory-is a viable and cost-effective alternative.

Read how OLAP give organizations the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.

Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools for monitoring business, finding patterns and taking action.

This paper covers how IBM analysis software can help the people in your organization compile the facts and trends needed to make better and smarter decisions.

Read the Ventana Research White Paper and see how new approaches to information analysis enable outperforming the competition.

This two minute survey consists of ten questions to assess your software quality environment. When complete you will receive custom recommendations that you can view and print out to help plan your QA strategy; complete with next steps, and thought leadership guidance and papers.

"Open source software is found in nearly every enterprise nowadays and it has been proven to be a viable choice for some software development projects. But don't let it's low (or zero) acquisition cost lull you into making a decision, without first spending some time determining if it's truly the right choice for your organization or project. Take just a few minutes answering some questions to see if there are other considerations that you should investigate first. IMT Program notes: this tool is used within the ALM and Agile Buyer's Agenda in various Buyer's Journey GTM kits, also in Science of Nurture."