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Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website. Rather, mobile is the manifestation of a much broader shift to new systems of engagement. These systems of engagement help firms empower their customers, partners, and employees with context-aware apps and smart products. Thsi paper discusses what orgaizations need to do in order to remain vital in this business technology reformation.

The increasing possibilities that come from deploying mobile solutions in the workplace are now counter balanced by an exponentially complex ecosystem of options that can make navigating the corporate mobile landscape challenging - and risky. While organizations are rightly deploying mobile device management solutions as a means to secure their mobile devices, there is much more to be done. This executive insight examines the needs for organizations to deploy a holistic enterprise mobility management solution that goes well beyond mobile device management.

In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business to keep ahead of the competition and increase revenue. This paper highlights how the benefits of BI can be complemented when combined with predictive analysis.

Explore how organizations of every size are recording more data than ever, but still letting Terabytes, Petabytes, Exabytes fly by unanalyzed. Managing these gigantic flows, probing massive respositories and speedily extracting actionable business intelligence is a major opportunity for enterprises.

You've heard the term "business intelligence" and know that large companies are using it to obtain a competitive advantage. But right now, your company's primary analysis tool is a spreadsheet. Isn't it time your analysis capabilities graduated from spreadsheets to more powerful tools as well? This paper from SAP offers guidance on how business intelligence can give your company a competitive edge.

Learn how SAP has aligned with Gartner's Nexus to embrace the cloud, mobile and information forces. Gartner believes SAP has been identified as an unique world leader in enterprise technology with a strategy around applications, database and technology, cloud and analytics.

In this report, Ventana Research identifies attitudes toward and utilization of predictive analytics. The research was designed to investigate practices and needs of individuals and organizations and the potential benefits from improving their existing processes, information, and systems.

The need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. This white paper explores how organizations are looking to the next generation of BI dashboards solve these challenges.