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Intelligent Compliance: Establishing Trust in the Datacenter

With the average cost of a data breach reaching $3.5 million, the pressure is intense to maintain the security and compliance of your data center. It only takes one breach and the cost to your organization can spiral out of control. In this whitepaper, you will discover how your organization may be at risk and how you can protect your data center from costly and highly visible breaches.

BLU Acceleration changes the game

Born from new advances in data processing from IBM Research, IBM® DB2® with BLU Acceleration is a leap forward in database technology that raises the bar for performance and value. BLU Acceleration uses patented technologies to deliver a unique combination of performance, ease of use and cost-efficiency.

Considerations for maximising analytic performance

Philip Howard of Bloor Research compares performance capabilities of the leading BI platforms. Companies studied in this comparison are IBM (Cognos, DB2 with BLU Acceleration), SAP (BusinessObjects, HANA), Oracle (Business Intelligence, Exadata) and Microsoft (Business Intelligence, SQL Server). His conclusion? "DB2 with BLU Acceleration should not only provide better performance in the first place but also provide consistent performance, with a corresponding requirement for less hardware and less cost.

Creating a Sustainable, Easy to Maintain BI Environment

Business Intelligence (BI) has become a mandatory part of every enterprise’s decision-making fabric. Unfortunately, with this rise in popularity, came a significant and disturbing complexity. Many BI environments began to have a myriad of moving parts with each requiring significant effort to ensure performance and support for the various needs and skill sets of the business resources using the environment. These convoluted systems became hard to manage or enhance with new requirements. To remain viable and sustainable, they must be simplified. This paper covers what is needed to simplify BI environments and the technologies that support this simplification.

Rapid Insight With Results: Harnessing Analytics in the Cloud

Today’s data-driven organization is faced with magnified urgency around data volume, user needs and compressed decision time frames. In order to address these challenges while maintaining an effective analytical culture, many organizations are exploring cloud-based environments coupled with powerful business intelligence (BI) and analytical technology to accelerate decisions and enhance business performance. Access the report now.

Considerations for maximizing analytics performance

Philip Howard of Bloor Research compares performance capabilities of the leading business intelligence platforms. Companies studied in this comparison are IBM® (Cognos, DB2 with BLU Acceleration), SAP (BusinessObjects, HANA), Oracle (Business Intelligence, Exadata) and Microsoft (Business Intelligence, SQL Server). His conclusion: "DB2® with BLU Acceleration should not only provide better performance in the first place, but also provide consistent performance, with a corresponding requirement for less hardware and less cost."

Applying social business: The repeatable patterns that improve business processes and provide return

A shift of power in commercial relationships from producers and sellers to buyers has changed marketplace and leadership thinking toward greater collaboration with customers, partners and employees. Fortunately, new capabilities in technology and business practices can help organizations adapt and harness these marketplace dynamics. Read this white paper for more information about seven examples of repeatable approaches for using social business practices and capabilities to impact your business, to create competitive advantage and to gain identifiable and measurable ROI.

Data on the Move = Business on the Move; How Strategic Secure Managed File Transfer Adds Value and Drives Business

This whitepaper describes the formal and informal file-sharing methods business employees use to perform their daily functions and explains that, from sending small text documents to multi-gigabyte video files, the right managed file transfer (MFT) solution can allow such transfers to continue without risking the security of the corporate network. The paper explains that the right MFT solution can enable business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and increase ROI. Choosing the right MFT solution requires eight considerations described in the paper, and concludes by explaining why Globalscape solutions are the choice of our customers around the world.

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Infographic – Big Data Solutions on System x

This IBM System x Reference Architectures for Big Data InfoGraphic provides concise and compelling executive messaging to leverage with our clients in an easily consumable single page graphical deliverable.

Analytics: A blueprint for value in midmarket organizations – Converting big data and analytics insights into results

The IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a global study to investigate how organizations were creating value from an ever-growing volume of data obtained from a variety of sources. This resulted from data-derived insights, which then guided actions taken at every level of the organization. The findings identified nine levers that enabled the organizations to create the most value. Read the study to see not only why it’s vital for midsize companies to act on this opportunity but also which actions lead to greatest success.

Analytics and Big Data for the Midmarket (eBook)

With so much emphasis in the business world being placed on big data and analytics, it can be easy for midsize businesses to feel like they’re being left behind. These organizations often recognize the benefits offered by big data and analytics, but have a hard time pursuing those benefits with the limited resources available to them. Read this Aberdeen ebook to find out how midsize businesses can overcome their relative lack of resources to select the right analytics solutions, use these solutions to drive measurable business benefits, and become a top performer in business analytics.

Cost/Benefit Case for IBM PureData System for Analytics

In a world of big data and real-time information, organizations must deal with fast growing data volumes, demands for more sophisticated interpretations of data, and more rapid delivery of results. Check out the new ITG TCO comparison and see how IBM and Oracle stack up.

Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: How to Use Mobile Analytics to Deliver the Best App ROI

Where the business performance of their mobile app portfolios are concerned, most companies are flying blind. While traditional application portfolios are held to all kinds of ROI measure, the investment plan for mobile apps – increasingly the more crucial bet – is made by guesswork and dart-throwing.

This interactive e-book investigates how mobile is driving the need for app and portfolio measures unlike any we saw in the days of web. Good mobile analytics must deliver leading indicators of user experience to drive business investment. Includes the five mobile analytics no organization should be without.

The real-world use of big data – How innovative enterprises in the midmarket extract value from uncertain data

This study highlights the phases of the big data journey, the objectives and challenges of midsize organizations taking the journey, and the current state of the technology that they are using to drive results. It also offers a pragmatic course of action for midsize companies to take as they dive into this new era of computing.

A Smarter Approach: Inside IBM Business Analytics Solutions for Mid-Size Businesses

Teams of engineers and statisticians spend their days immersed in seas of data from various sources. However, it isn't just the largest of organizations that can benefit from analytics and data-driven decision-making. Businesses of all sizes need to leverage the new currency of data and information.