IT Resilience: Building Fault Tolerant Architectures

The Axcient IT Resilience eBook teaches IT leaders a new approach to building enterprise resilience. Learn how to build an IT architecture that leverages the perfect balance of on-premises and cloud infrastructure to deliver more high-performing, resilient, and agile IT at lower costs.
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Back to the Future with the API Economy

With this survey-based research, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts set out to assess the API economy from multiple dimensions.

Examining both the “consumer” and “provider” sides of the equation, the study explores the challenges of API usage in today’s production environments.

This white paper summarizes the survey findings on the deployment, management, and governance-related challenges of delivering API-driven services.

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Analytics and Business Intelligence: Achieving User-Driven Results

Businesses are wallowing in data from an increasing number of sources – both internal and external. However, turning data into actionable information becomes harder as both IT and business users try to keep up with the data deluge.

This Battlecard looks at the evolution in analytics and business intelligence solutions today, especially the bifurcation into Traditional BI vs. Exploratory Analytics, why BOTH are important, and lists three key factors that users – both business and IT – must consider when evaluating a BI solution.

Key points will include:

  • How User Experience Matters
  • BI and Hybrid IT: Cloud, On-Premises and Both
  • Supporting Self-Service: The Data Scientist in the Software

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Ptak Associates Report: BMC’s NGT = DB2 Utilities for the 21st Century

In this analyst report, you’ll learn how the operational demands of the digital age will require next generation DB2 management technology that can optimize infrastructure performance and deliver excellent response to customers.
Read the report to:
  • Learn about the operational challenges of dynamic databases
  • Explore how next generation technology can enhance data management
  • See how BMC can cut DB2 management costs while improving application availability
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New Approaches to Cut Mainframe Operating Expenses

To get more from your IT budget, you need to get mainframe MLC costs under control - without sacrificing service delivery. This eBook presents tools and solutions to help you intelligently optimize when and where workloads run to improve efficiency and lower costs.

You'll learn how to:

  • Make intelligent decisions about utilization with full visibility into business impact
  • Recover underutilized capacity and reduce your rolling peaks
  • Optimize where your subsystems run to eliminate excess DB2 and IMS instances
  • Lower monthly license charges by up to 20 - 30 percent
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“Optimizing Monthly License Charge Costs To Better Leverage Your Mainframe”, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC, February 2016

BMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an in-depth study of IT and senior corporate managers in US enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to evaluate mainframe strategies and how they impact mainframe operating costs. Forrester found that by optimizing mainframe Monthly License Charge (MLC) costs, these companies have lowered operational costs and increased automation, which improved their productivity. Learn about four recommendations to help you save.
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Adapt to Digital Business with Single System Image (SSI) Monitoring Capabilities for Mainframes

Meet the demand for performance and availability with simpler mainframe monitoring.

Finding and resolving issues is critical to keep revenue-generating digital services running their best. In this paper, you’ll learn how to achieve a single, simpler view across your mainframe environment before performance and availability issues impact your business.

Read the white paper to:

  • Improve the efficiency and productivity of mainframe staff
  • Maintain performance despite growing complexity
  • Shrink MTTR, reduce system outages and lower TCO

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Deliver Better Results for Mainframe Cost Reduction Initiatives

In this white paper, you’ll learn how you can leverage BMC’s mainframe cost optimization solution to avoid unnecessary MLC expenses and risks while focusing on projects that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver the highest ROI. What you’ll find in this white paper:
  • Understand why past cost reductions failed to deliver expected savings
  • Learn how to identify projects with the best chance of success
  • Discover how to save significantly on MLC costs
  • See how to avoid unnecessary changes to applications
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Five Database Must-Haves for Meeting Evolving Needs

By 2017, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a hybrid IT strategy composed of public cloud, on-premises and private cloud components. In an increasingly “cloud-first” era, agile, scalable infrastructure matters more than ever.

This Battlecard looks at the changing nature of business, the growing importance of data to all parts of the enterprise, and offers five key considerations when evaluating database options for tomorrow’s enterprise.

Key points will include

  • Supporting Next-Generation Applications
  • Big Data and the Enterprise
  • What Hybrid means to the database
  • The Economics of Cloud
  • Security and the Database

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IBM API Connect

Today’s leading enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation. They are diving into the API economy, in which businesses provide services—and the services of partners—when and where customers want them. They are connecting existing enterprise applications, data and services to new channels of personalized customer engagement. These transformations are driven by:

  • Consumers’ thirst for compelling, omni-channel brand experiences
  • Enterprise leaders’ desire to connect internal groups of developers across lines of businesses to increase reuse of digital assets and accelerate time to innovation
  • Incumbent businesses’ need to compete against new entrants that are offering enhanced experiences—in today’s markets, if you’re not disrupting, you’re being disrupted

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ODM For Dummies

In this IBM limited-edition Dummies book, you’ll learn what operational decision management (ODM) is and how it can benefit your organization by helping to:

  • Enable faster and more agile change so your business can react more quickly to opportunities and threats
  • Automatically capture knowledge so it can be reused to make better business decisions
  • Manage compliance better by providing a clear record of the rules that govern business operations
  • Make operational decisions more predictable and repeatable while also allowing you to model, measure, collaborate on and refine these decisions as your business needs change
  • Improve customer service with more consistent and accurate rules-based decisions, as well as by personalizing the user experience

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BPM For Dummies

Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, shows you what BPM is and how it can help your organization. You see how the BPM solutions from IBM help you gain many benefits from higher customer satisfaction to greater agility in adapting to changing market conditions.
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