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Business Intelligence and Analytics: Key Drivers for Enterprise Adoption

This Pulse white paper from Slashdot Media, sponsored by IBM, looks at the key benefits of BI solutions, the challenges to adoption, the ways by which advanced BI capabilities like predictive analytics are being applied in the enterprise, and the factors that are most important when considering a new BI or analytics solution.

Increasing the Bottom Line by Knowing Your Customers Better

As today’s organizations focus more intensely on their prospects and customers, the ability to collect and analyze customer information has become critical. Collecting and utilizing customer data is essential to developing a loyal customer base and optimizing product offerings. To better understand where organizations are on the path to developing a larger and more comprehensive data set about their customers and prospects, Slashdot Media fielded a Pulse survey to ask users how they are getting to know their customers better. Register now to read the results.

Managing the Big Data Journey: What’s Most Important to IT Today

As businesses struggle to manage the deluge of data, the demand for extracting actionable information from myriad data sources grows in concert with the volume, variety, and velocity of data entering the enterprise. Big Data solutions promise to bring order and value to this tidal wave of information. These solutions must enable users and lines of business (LOBs) to use this information both effectively and efficiently. As your organization wrestles with how best to plan for and deploy Big Data, there are four essential steps that must be completed before setting out on the path toward Big Data analytics. Download the Pulse paper to learn more.

Mobile App Agility: What Matters Most to Today’s Development and Operations Teams

What’s the biggest challenge that mobility presents to development teams? What’s the biggest focus? This Slashdot Pulse paper presents the results of a recent Pulse poll that looks into what’s top of mind for today’s mobile app development teams, such as the categories of apps that are gaining popularity, how to get feedback that speeds fixes and improvements to the field and the “next big thing” in mobile development.

Development in Motion: Wrangling the Moving Targets of Hybrid Cloud and Multiple Mobile Platforms

The evolution of IT infrastructure is no more evident than in the development teams that must provide access and linkage to the growing number of apps--in-house, packaged, and SaaS--that comprise today's infrastructure. This Pulse discusses the results of a recent Slashdot Media survey that looks at the challenges facing developers today, how the primary development target is evolving, and how strategies are changing to embrace public, private, and hybrid-Cloud models. Respondents to the survey were asked four questions regarding their challenges in development and their needs regarding infrastructure and PaaS. Download now to view the results.

Mobile Development for 2015: Challenges Enterprises Must Solve Now

A recent survey conducted by Slashdot Media asked mobile developers four key questions that look into the most pressing challenges they face today, how their development approach is changing, which mobile platforms are taking the forefront in the coming years, and how they are ensuring that their apps will meet the quality standards that users demand. Register now to see the results of the survey.

The Tech Big Picture: Issues that Drive Enterprise IT

You've heard all the buzzwords. Big Data. Mobility. The Cloud. Security. These four issues continue to vex IT at companies of every size around the globe. Which challenges are most pressing, and what should IT and LOB both be doing to resolve the challenges of the day?

To find out, IBM and Slashdot Media polled more than 500 visitors to Slashdot, using an online survey that asked what four technology trends or developments concerned them the most, and what things about each prompted that concern.

The Big Data Mystique: Analytics for Every Business

Everyone has heard of Big Data. Business analytics offers companies of all types and sizes the opportunity to make decisions faster, get a leg up on the competition and even increase efficiency of their operations. But what are the stumbling blocks that users fear, and what gains are they expecting by implementing advanced analytics into the enterprise? This SlashGuide looks into those questions, which were posed in a Slashdot Media Pulse poll on Big Data Analytics conducted in August 2014. This resultant white paper provides a combination of IT practitioner and expert insights gathered from that survey.

Becoming a Mobile Enterprise: Business Imperatives that Drive Mobile Strategy

More than ever, businesses today need to be responsive to changing conditions, act quickly on new business opportunities, and improve customer service. To accomplish these objectives, many organizations are turning to the benefits offered by increased mobility. However, taking a “mobile first” approach requires new thinking to address the challenges mobility can introduce. Specifically, it brings new platform, application development, access, data protection, and security challenges.

A recent survey of IT professionals conducted by Slashdot Media asked four key questions about businesses’ plans for mobility and the key factors when undertaking a mobile strategy. Register now to see the results of that survey.

Mobility, Location and iOS8: New Context for New Apps

Mobile devices are becoming so ubiquitous that Forrester predicts there will be about 3 mobile devices per living human by the end of this decade. Phones, tablets, wearables and who-knows-what will-come, all with IP addresses and internet connectivity are finding homes in pockets, on wrists and in the frames of eyewear. Now, location services are changing the way developers and marketers think about how to utilize the knowledge of where a user – consumer or business – is located and turn that into an action that can drive revenue, improve productivity or give a competitive advantage. This white paper looks at research about the latest iOS8 announcements, and how they might impact development in general and provide fuel for the coming wearable and contextual revolutions in app development and deployment.

The growing role of the cloud in Business Continuity

This study looks at the ways that the adoption of cloud computing strategies have impacted planning for business continuity and disaster recovery. This pulse research study looks into the drivers for adoption of both public and private cloud solutions as part of a BC/DR strategy, and why organizations are electing to use the cloud for specific parts of their overall business resilience plan.

Next-Generation Application Security

Today's high performance applications demand clean, efficient and secure code. Regardless of whether you and your team develop in C/C++, Java or C#, your code needs to be both reliable and secure. In years past, most development teams worried about the cleanliness of their code, but they rarely worried about code security. And if they did look out for security, it was often not during the development process. Learn how software development teams are turning analysis and code review into a holistic process that combines code verification and efficiency with security and other processes into one, streamlined system. Learn how this streamlined software development process can help boost the security and reliability of your code while making the work of development easier and more efficient.

Building a Better Network Security Strategy

In today's global, always-on world, network security is crucial. Enterprises need to ensure that employees accessing their networks are secure at all times. A comprehensive network security solution needs to include a number of factors, including network reliability, resources for managing the network, network features and functions, and full integration. This Slashdot Pulse offers insight into IT professionals who currently manage network security, giving readers a glimpse into real-word security plans and tactics.

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.

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).