Why Device Fingerprinting Provides Better Network Security than IP Blocking

Unfortunately, most network security products rely on the equivalent of drivers' licenses: IP addresses associated with known attacks and spam. But there is a better way. In this short paper we will examine:
- Why IP reputation-based blocking doesn't catch smart cyber-criminals
- How device fingerprinting changes the economics of hacking
- How device fingerprinting works
- How global intelligence service based upon device fingerprinting can enhance your
network security infrastructure.
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Webinar-BIRT Makes the Impossible Possible

Every day developers are tasked with creating impossible applications with complicated requirements and expected to deliver results in a short amount of time.

Join us to understand why BIRT should be an integral part of your data visualization development environment. We will show you how to build "cool" content quickly so you can free up cycles to meet all of your application's requirements for presenting structured and unstructured data over the web and delivering scalable rich data visualizations.

View this web seminar to learn how to:
-Easily incorporate world-class web-centric analytic content into applications without the need for time-consuming custom code
-Use a drag-and-drop visual design environment to create information-driven content based on a wide variety of sources, including your application, live feeds and legacy data
-Collaborate with the BIRT community's 2.5 million developers

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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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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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Beat the 3 “Vs” with Real-Time, In-Memory Technology

Companies today are struggling with how to deal the 3 "Vs" of their data. They must manage and use vastly larger volumes of data. They must incorporate a greater variety of data types such as that produced by social media and smart devices. And they must handle the velocity of today's data gathering, processing and analyzing fast-changing data in real time. In-memory technology has increasingly become the way to address the challenges of data's 3Vs and achieve business success.

A recent survey by Slashdot Media asked more than 500 IT and business managers four key questions concerning real-time, in-memory technology to support business analytics/intelligence objectives.

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Big Data and Business Intelligence: Organizations Hunt Actionable Insights to Improve Business Ops

In the past few years Big Data has grown quickly, from fringe topic to a top concern of CIOs and business leaders. No surprise; organizations of all sizes are drowning in ever-growing pools of data, desperate to put it to good use.

To better understand the challenges, opportunities and practices related to Big Data, Slashdot Media recently conducted a survey of 500 IT and business leaders, with a special focus on the role of business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA).

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Why IBM Operational Decision Management?

By using IBM Operational Decision Management (IBM ODM) software for implementing decision logic, you can realize a major advancement in bridging the gap between business people and IT. The solution provides capabilities for the line-of-business to define policies in a form that is both understandable by the non-technical user and deployable to the systems that use them to automate decisions, facilitating clear communication between the policy managers defining the requirements and the developers implementing the business system solution.
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Register Now!! Learn how to get big results from your big data

Register now for "Business Analytics in the Era of Big Data" free-to-attend virtual event by IBM on June 11. Discover how the latest in IBM Analytics solutions can empower you to:
  • Spend less time organizing data and more time extracting real meaning
  • Improve decision-making in your job function
  • Drive fact-based actions for better business results
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Learn how to get big results from your big data

Register now for "Business Analytics in the Era of Big Data" free-to-attend virtual event by IBM on June 11. Discover how the latest in IBM Analytics solutions can empower you to:
  • Spend less time organizing data and more time extracting real meaning
  • Improve decision-making in your job function
  • Drive fact-based actions for better business results
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Business Intelligence: A Guide For Midsize Companies

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.
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