Business Analytics and Data Quality, Big Data, Strategy and Visualization

Based on observations and conversations with clients, Gartner has identified five "hot" trends related to business intelligence: data quality, mobile BI, big data hype, BI strategy and visualization and has made recommendations for addressing these trends to meet changes that are coming in BI in the next few years. IBM Business Analytics software provides solutions and services that can help you follow their recommendations. Learn about these solutions and how they can help you address their trends.
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BI and BA: Smarter Products, Smarter Buyers

Business Analytics/Intelligence have earned reputations as "difficult" and risky to implement. Applications of this sort classically required complex integration across numerous working systems and data repositories AND a (usually long) period of customization. Learn how and why your colleagues are focusing efforts to access and analyze data in new, lighter, more agile, web-oriented ways that enable self-service by experienced analysts and end users.
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IT Quality Health Assessment

This two minute survey consists of ten questions to assess your software quality environment. When complete you will receive custom recommendations that you can view and print out to help plan your QA strategy; complete with next steps, and thought leadership guidance and papers.
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Cloud for Dummies, IBM Midsize Company Limited Edition

Midsize companies need to understand how cloud computing is valuable to many different constituents within their organization. The benefit of cloud computing for IT leaders is that it actually is an invitation to the boardroom for the IT manager who learns how to leverage the cloud to enable the business to be more flexible and responsive to client needs and new market opportunities. This book gives mid-sized companies insights on what it means to create flexible pools of computing resources that break down silos in your company so you can perform in a smarter and more proactive manner.
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How B2B Solutions Can Enable Growth

In this IBM sponsored webcast, representatives from BlueStar and REMEDI discuss how their partnership allowed BlueStar to overcome their B2B integration challenges, increase efficiency, and do away with error-prone manual processes. Attend the webcast and you will learn how REMEDI's rapid implementation plan allowed BlueStar to speed time to market and demonstrate business results and ROI almost immediately. The webcast also discusses how BlueStar gained greater visibility into their business network and greatly increased the speed of their error resolution processes.
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ESG – Evolving APM Big Data Approach, Integrated End-user Experience Monitoring Bring Deep End-to- end Application visibility

Highly complex IT environment with multi-tier application architectures delivering apps and services, detecting and diagnosing code level performance problems can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. While it may be plain to the end user that there is a problem, understanding where that problem originates and exactly what is causing it is difficult, and time consuming. Riverbed OPNET AppInternals Xpert addresses this challenge by combining end-user experience, transaction tracing, and application component monitoring for deep end-to-end application visibility. This latest release facilitates bi-directional workflows between operations and application development to expedite problem resolution. Register to read report.
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OPNET, Now a Part of Riverbed Technology, Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring

"We are very pleased that OPNET has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the rapidly growing APM market. A core part of our business strategy has been to be a market leader in application performance monitoring, both in terms of innovation and market share. Now representing more than 70% of OPNET's product sales, APM has been growing at more than 30% per year for the last four years," said Marc Cohen, Chairman and CEO, OPNET.
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ADCs and APM Solutions Will Combine to Optimize Delivery Intelligence

As applications are consumed with different types of devices and via different types of connectivity the monitoring of end-user experiences is critical to gauging the satisfaction of the delivery of the application to the user. Content optimization technologies should automatically profile and analyze the device being used and apply specific optimization techniques for the device.
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Banking On Analytics Financial Services Count On A Consolidated, Secure Platform For Real-time Analytics

This Forrester thought leadership paper provides Business Analytics and Data Warehousing owners and influencers the insight they need to enable them to more efficiently plan and execute on a successful Business Analytics Strategy. The paper is purposed to drive awareness and engagement for new prospects, as well as existing customers. The paper will be behind registration so that customer/reader information may be captured; we look for visitors to take steps deeper into their buyer's journey.
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Private Clouds Will Use Hybrid Infrastructure- The Role Of Mainframes In Cloud: To Meet The Full Range Of Reliability And Security Needs

This paper looks at the requirements of the next generation of applications moving to the cloud. The paper discusses cloud customers' desire for a greater infrastructure choice and openness to hybrid infrastructures. The paper concluded shtt hybrid cloud infrastructures are inevitable, particularly for private environments. Hybrid clouds deliver higher values with high compute density, yielding strong cost efficiency for applicable workloads.
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Serving the Cloud by TBR

An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective means for midmarket to reduce costs and provide flexible computing capacity.
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