Analyst Paper-Howard Dresner’s 4th annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study

Take a look at Howard Dresner's 4th annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence market study with in-depth market analysis, 80 charts and tables and 23 vendor rankings. Howard Dresner spent 13 years at Gartner Research, where he was responsible for the BI Magic Quadrants and conferences.

The Wisdom of the Crowds study is unique in that the findings are completely crowd-sourced from actual BI users, implementers and purchasers. This year's study shows that SaaS/Cloud, Dashboards, and Mobile Device Support have increased significantly in terms of importance. Read on to find out where BI is headed!

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IBM Rational Software for SAP

Organizations that use SAP must keep pace with constant change. IBM Rational Software for SAP offers a comprehensive suite of application lifecycle management and quality management tools to extend SAP Solution Manager capabilities and enable a holistic approach to SAP and non SAP deployment.
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Gartner on the facts and future of BYOD

This Gartner report, brought to you by Citrix GoToAssist, explores the BYOD phenomenon, outlining how to define and implement a plan that drives innovation, increases employee satisfaction and reduces costs.

Download this report to learn:
- The impact of BYOD on business
- Why it's important to establish clear policies
- How BYOD creates new mobile workforce opportunities
- 8 ways to optimise BYOD across the organisation
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The Forrester Wave: Managed Security Services: North America

Managed security service providers (MSSPs) offer clients an enhanced security environment, cost-effective security, and a scalable and flexible security platform capable of handling future expansion. Selecting the right partner for managed security services is a critical challenge. Read this white paper to learn how nine significant service providers measure up.
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The Beginner’s Guide to In-Memory Technology

According to Gartner Research, one of the biggest issues with Business Intelligence (BI) adoption is poor query performance. Business users want immediate results using fast and responsive applications, and anything longer than a typical Google search is simply too long to wait. This paper will explain why In-Memory Technology is Important for Business Analytics.
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Guidelines for Choosing a Business Intelligence Vendor

Implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) solution leads to dramatic operational improvements and benefits that far outweigh the investments in time, money, and personnel necessary to select, deploy, and maintain such an application. Unfortunately, far too many BI deployments fail to reach their anticipated potential, and prove to be a disappointment to both management and users. In this paper, we depict a series of the most common BI obstacles, and illustrate how to avoid many of these pitfalls.
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How Cisco’s UCS Compares to Flex System

Two years ago Clabby Analytics wrote a report that evaluated Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) and revealed shortcomings in the UCS design, stating that Cisco blade environments are "good enough" computing environment. Since then Cisco made improvements to their system design, but the blade market didn't stand still waiting for them to catch up as IBM announced a new system design: The IBM Flex System. Continue on to this new assessment from Clabby Analytics that compares Cisco's UCS blade server offering to IBM Flex System's in a soup-to-nuts evaluation. Also find out how these two major players compare to the competitors in the blade marketplace.
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Integrate Rational ALM applications with SAP Solution Manager

IBM Application Lifecycle Management, powered by Jazz, delivers the IBM vision for a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management process. The IBM Application Lifecycle Management platform can now also be integrated with SAP Solution Manager to enhance quality throughout enterprise applications lifecycle for SAP and heterogeneous projects. In the Technical White Paper you will understand how SAP Solution Manager is integrated with IBM ALM.
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Info-Tech Quality Management and Test Champion Report

Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscape reports recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace. This report notes that "IBM offers a comprehensive suite of products aimed at testing the most demanding and complex apps." For more information download the report today.
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