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Improving Collaboration by Adding Social Capabilities to Email

This paper looks at why email remains the primary mode of communication in business today and the fact that more and more organizations are looking at social software and other real-time communication methods to add to the email experience. Analyst firm IDC expects that organizations will use software, such as Notes and Domino 9x Social Edition which seamlessly combines email with social capabilities both on-premises and in the cloud, to complement existing tools and address the business need of getting the right data to/from the right people at the right time for the foreseeable future. Share this paper with your clients.

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.

Champions of Software as a Service: How SaaS is Fueling Powerful Competitive Advantage

The use of Software as a Service (SaaS) has skyrocketed over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing. What’s driving that demand? An IBM Center for Applied Insights study – based on input from more than 800 IT and business decision makers worldwide – offers some surprising answers. As expected, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their applications is the top reason companies try SaaS. However, top performers are gaining something even more critical: competitive advantage. Leading companies are leveraging SaaS in powerful and even transformative ways.

Embracing SaaS: A blueprint for IT Success

This ebook outlines compelling approaches for CIOs to establish and lead a defined SaaS strategy for their companies, in order to meet line-of-business (LoB) needs for innovation and agility. We share key success factors for CIOs that can help them and their organization.

Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data Solutions

The MDM of customer data solutions market segment grew healthily in 2012. New acquisitions and integrations of prior acquisitions by the Leaders have continued, and several visions for linking MDM and social data have emerged. This Magic Quadrant will help you find the right vendor for your needs.

The MDM Advantage: Creating Insight from Big Data

To help enterprises create trusted insight as the volume, velocity and variety of data continue to explode, IBM offers several solutions designed to help organizations uncover previously unavailable insights and use them to support and inform decisions across the business. Combining the power of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) with the IBM big data portfolio creates a valuable connection: big data technology can supply insights to MDM, and MDM can supply master data definitions to big data.

Dangerous File-Sharing

A new survey of over 500 corporate employees reveals the greatest threat to data security. Find out what tools your colleagues use most to share data, and how to facilitate safe file sharing through improved policies and better tools.

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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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The Hidden Costs of Self-Signed SSL Certificates

The total cost of ownership (TCO) of an SSL certificate is far more than just the price of the certificate. From security hardware, to management software, to data centre space and more, the costs of establishing a secure self-signing architecture can quickly add up. Not only that, but a do-it-yourself approach to SSL security may put an organisation at risk – from both technical and business perspectives – in a variety of ways. This paper explores the true TCO for self-signed SSL certificates, including a side-by-side comparison of a self-signed architecture versus working with a third-party SSL vendor. Before a company decides to use self-signed certificates, these issues deserve careful consideration.

Vunlerability Assessment: Feeling Vulnerable? You should be.

Do you know which of your databases, servers and network devices are most vulnerable to hackers? With an intensifying threat landscape and ever-expanding number of mandates to address, having unobstructed insight into your risks is more vital than ever. A vulnerability assessment helps identify critical weaknesses in Web applications, databases, servers and other network devices.

Ten ways to save money with IBM data protection

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions can help organizations save money while addressing their data storage challenges by providing data reduction, unified recovery management, capacity-based licensing, scalability, high performance, data life-cycle management, and high reliability.

Meeting Demand of High Availability with Advanced Data Protection

IBM delivers scalable, cost-effective solutions for data protection that help organizations support both high-availability applications and traditional workloads. With a single vendor, organizations can meet the demands of always-on applications, while containing cost and complexity.

Hybrid Cloud Backup Delivers More for Less

In this technology brief, research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) shares their perspective on the increasing importance of a hybrid approach which combines on-premise and cloud capabilities to meet today's data protection requirements.

Cloud Storage is strategically inevitable

Cloud computing can deliver storage services more effectively while saving both time and cost - but only if an organization first establishes an efficient data storage infrastructure. IBM can help by providing efficiency, automation and optimization capabilities.

Master data management: The key to leveraging big data

This white paper explores how MDM’s well-defined approach augments the value of big data by giving it structure and meaning, and how InfoSphere MDM and big-data analytics tools help companies analyze big data, match it to master data and derive actionable information to inform decisions and extract insights.