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Connecting the clouds: Best Practices for Integrating IT Service Management

With software as a service (SaaS) you are integrating an external service, hosted by an external party, with your internal systems. The SaaS integration is a matter of connecting the clouds and well articulated interfaces defining the data that is traveling back and forth. With the right integration strategy, SaaS integration can be simple, straightforward, and easy. Moreover, it can position your IT organization to effectively leverage SaaS and migrate from one SaaS solution to another to avoid vendor lock-in. Read this information white paper to understand the things to consider when developing your integration strategy.

Forrester’s Ideal Tool Set For Application Performance Management For Better Business Performance

Forrester benchmark data on current state of application availability and performance within the enterprise. In conducting a survey of 159 IT professionals with direct responsibility for business-critical applications, Forrester found that all enterprises surveyed had fundamental issues while managing the performance of these applications and business services. Read the report to learn the key findings of this study.

How Mobility Is Changing the Enterprise

Forward-thinking enterprises use mobile technology across their organizations to give employees, suppliers, and customers access to appropriate data when and where they need it. In this paper, Harvard Business Review examines how mobile 2.0 is about innovation and transformation. Download now to learn how you can reap the benefits of mobile 2.0.

Mobile Commerce: The Path to Customer Engagement

Mobile technology provides an unprecedented way for enterprises to establish and strengthen customer relationships, as well as increase revenues. Download this mobile commerce playbook from SAP and InfoWorld to learn what you need to know in order to get started in creating your mobile commerce strategy.

Three Keys To Better Data-Driven Decisions: What You Should Know Right Now

Download this Executive Brief from TEC to learn about the 3 keys in data-driven decision making and how your organization can gain a competitive advantage by being in the position to access the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions.

Rethinking Analytics For The Social Enterprise

In this paper, The Tapscott Group examines how today's enterprises are embracing the social revolution by leveraging new analytics to enable better-informed decisions and richer collaboration in real-time. Read more to learn how your organization can gain a competitive advantage.

The Platform Strikes Back: The Advantages Of A Single Comprehensive Analytics Solution

Download this informative white paper to learn how your organization can benefit from moving to a single BI Solution. Based on recent research by the Aberdeen Group, key benefits include; eliminate complexity, distribute information accurately & efficiently, and easily adapt to the changing BI needs of your organization.

Best Practices For A BI & Analytics Strategy

Gain insights and best practices from Dan Vesset, Program Vice President of Business Analytics Research at IDC, to help you define and create an organization-wide BI and analytics strategy.

Managing The Total Cost Of Ownership Of Business Intelligence

Take a close look at the factors that drive total cost of ownership (TCO) for business intelligence. Learn how your organization can position itself to deliver a cost-effective business intelligence solution that meets your user community's thirst for information, addresses new data sources, and offers the lowest TCO.

How SMEs Can Tap Into Real-Time Business Intelligence

This paper explains how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can establish a competitive advantage by tapping into the power of real-time BI to identify issues and opportunities as they arise - and to act on them with confidence.

Case Study: Prudential client reference Ricoh Americas Corporation client reference

Ricoh Americas Corporation implemented a virtualized storage environment which included IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, IBM XIV Storage System and IBM System Storage DS8000, enabling seamless migration and more efficient storage management.

IBM Case Study: Dar Al-Handasah engineers smart solution to data growth challenge

With storage needs doubling every few years, Dar Al-Handasah needed to rationalize and optimize its storage infrastructure. Performance, capacity, cost and ease of management needed to be addressed. The solution deployed two IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems with built-in tools for data migration, thin provisioning and auto data tiering; virtualized legacy storage systems within the V7000 environment. The benefit Backups run 25% percent faster; increased performance of existing storage; cut floor space requirements by 75%; improved efficiency of capacity utilization; delayed investments in extra capacity.

Reinventing Antivirus: How cloud architecture and behavior recognition are changing the security game and making traditional antivirus obsolete

Traditional Antivirus is Becoming Obsolete. Have you seen a lot of articles and blog posts with titles like "Is Antivirus Dead?" If so, there is a good reason: Traditional signature-based antivirus technology is rapidly heading toward obsolescence. But there are new approaches that can make antivirus effective and practical again. Here we will look at three of them: Client/cloud architecture; Behavior recognition; and Journaling and rollback.

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection vs. Seven Competitors

This report presents results and findings as a result of performance benchmark testing conducted for endpoint security products. The aim of this benchmark was to compare the performance impact of Webroot's SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection product with seven competitor products.

Closing the Circle: How to get manageable endpoint, mobile device and web security together

In this white paper we will discuss: Why traditional endpoints and mobile devices require overlapping (but not identical) security solutions; How to enhance the protection of all endpoints by adding web security; Why today's threats require that endpoint protection and mobile device protection activities be moved to the cloud; and how Webroot makes it easy to "close the circle" by managing endpoint protection.