Increase efficiency, reduce costs, and optimize IT with data deduplication
This IDC Buyer Case Study explores the benefits EMC realized from the use of a range of EMC's own backup and recovery solutions that leverage deduplication technology.
Advance Your Tech Career in One Simple Step
Want to know the single most important thing you can do to advance your IT career? This brief, brought to you by Citrix GoToAssist, explores how thinking less about yourself and more about the people around you is the most important thing you can do to advance your IT career.
Download the brief to learn: How to become everyone's go-to geek; Why focusing on others is good for your career; 3 career suggestions to flat out ignore; And more.
4-Step Game Plan for Effective Support Teams
Want to know how to create a better support centre? Just ask your agents. "Your agents have a great deal to tell you about how to create a better support centre." This brief, brought to you by Citrix GoToAssist, explores how you can make your agents part of the continual improvement process and thereby accelerate productivity, control costs and increase customer satisfaction.
Download the brief to learn: 4 steps to creating an effective support team; Why employees should spend less time being support agents; Strategies for fostering a culture of ownership; And more.
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.
Ziff Davis: Maximizing Performance and Minimizing Cost with Interactive Business Intelligence
Ziff Davis explains why organizations don't need to move their entire data holdings in-memory in order to provide faster performance to their users. A platform that allows flexibility in how much memory to use - and what to put in-memory-is a viable and cost-effective alternative.
The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP give organizations the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.
The Forrester Wave: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012
Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools for monitoring business, finding patterns and taking action.
Making confident decisions with the full spectrum of analysis capabilities – IBM White Paper
This paper covers how IBM analysis software can help the people in your organization compile the facts and trends needed to make better and smarter decisions.
The Broad Spectrum of Business Analysis – Ventana White Paper
Read the Ventana Research White Paper and see how new approaches to information analysis enable outperforming the competition.
Loads Better: Delivering reliable applications with confidence
There will soon be more mobile devices on the planet than people to work them. That's 10 billion devices all hooked up to the internet. More organizations than ever are using mobile and enterprise apps - people just like you check their bank accounts from their mobile up to five times a day. So your load performance testing plans have to reflect that pressure.
Silk Central: Visibly better
Software must perform across more platforms than ever before, so it must be stronger and more flexible than ever before. It has to be future-proof and - of course - delivered yesterday. Organizations must increase application quality and reduce the time to market. It's a problem. Perhaps that's why, on average, 68% of projects don't succeed, 50% are late and 40% require rework. Fragmented infrastructure can prevent efficient testing and disparate teams affect traceability and compliance.
Silk Test: The bug buster
If software is important to your business, then a robust software change management strategy should be vital. Complex software requires frequent changes and inadequate testing means more bugs. Bugs can and will cause software failure, loss of market share and reputational damage. Whatever the size of your company, one little bug in your flagship software product can cause big problems. Change management needs careful handling, because your company is only as strong as your software testing.
BYOD Now – Focus on Secure Data Governance
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend roars on, posing bigger challenges than ever for IT leaders and organizations to backup, secure, manage and otherwise govern key enterprise information. Failure to do so can result in catastrophic damage to business due to loss and corruption of corporate information assets. This information-packed e-book provides proven strategies, tactics and technologies for managing the new realities of today's mobile, BYOD workforce.
Service Virtualization for Dummies book
Discover service virtualization and how it fits into the big picture of software quality. In this book, Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition written by industry analysts Marcia Kaufman and Judith Hurwitz, learn how to deliver higher quality software by increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing processes while reducing testing downtime and testing cost.
Wintergreen Research, Inc White Paper: The Economics of Software Testing: Service Virtualization
"Read the paper from Winter Research, Inc sharing details on the "Dramatic savings brought by IBM Rational automated test solutions". Learn about the positive ROI from an increased ability minimizing
the cost and time to identify errors."