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Removing the Barriers to IT Governance: How On-Demand Software Changes the Game
sponsored by Innotas
 | White Paper: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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IT governance has a well-deserved reputation for being extremely complicated, expensive, and time-consuming. But today’s CEOs and governing boards expect accountability, strategic alignment, cost saving, and contributions to overall growth from IT departments, all of which can be facilitated by IT governance.
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Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 31 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 01 Aug 2009 | |
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Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs, and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper will explain why reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical.
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Sustainability: A Green Model for Data Governance
sponsored by Baseline Consulting
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 26 Aug 2009 | |
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An effective governance program will determine what kinds of data are inputs, outputs or byproducts, and will enable the company to quickly distinguish and process data elements accordingly. Read this paper to learn more.
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Competing on Innovation - A Guide to Next-Generation BI Appliances
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 25 Aug 2009 | |
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IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase “in the moment” insight and business agility without disrupting current operations.
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Going Independent-- A Technology Survival Guide: How to Evaluate and Select the Right Software for Your New Firm
sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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This guide is intended to help advisors who are considering going independent or who have already struck out on their own to better understand and navigate their technology options.
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Earned Value Lite: Making Earned Value Management Work for Every Project
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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Read this paper to learn how the implementation of 10 fundamental steps can help your organization reap the rewards of EVM and give you the visibility you need to complete your projects on time and within budget.
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Unified Communications: Strategic Value, Benefits and the Role of System Integrators
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 29 Aug 2008 | |
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This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.
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Creating a Business-ready Infrastructure with HP and VMware
sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 05 Aug 2009 | |
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HP and VMware help you change the economics of IT by creating a business-ready infrastructure based on three pillars: standardize, optimize, and automate.
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Data Conversion in a System Migration: Best Practices for Compliance and Continuity
sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2009 | |
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This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.
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Sybase IQ Accelerates Business Reporting
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 07 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jul 2009 | |
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Organizations want and need better access to information to make smarter, faster decisions in response to changing circumstances or events. Reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical. Sybase IQ infuses organizations with fast, flexible access to information.
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Gaining the Performance Edge Using a Column-Oriented Database Management System
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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This paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach.
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Sybase Analytic Appliance on IBM Power Systems
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 07 Jul 2009 | |
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The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more.
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IT Modernization: An Exercise In Alignment
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 30 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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A survey conducted in February 2009 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Oracle and HP, shows in most companies the business functions and the IT function understand the benefits of modernization. But that does not mean that most companies know how to do it right. Read this white paper for practical advice on achieving modernization.
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Oracle on the HP BladeSystem Matrix: Standardize, Optimize and Automate
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 30 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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IT projects are being increasingly scrutinized, so expenditures must support business requirements and contribute to the operational efficiency of the data center. Combined with HP technology, Oracle dynamically optimizes shared resources to simplify administration of the physical and virtual platforms, letting you meet those business objectives.
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Open Sesame: Why Open Source BI, Data Integration, and Data Warehousing Solutions are Gaining in Acceptance - by Dr Claudia Imhoff
sponsored by Talend
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 28 Jun 2009 | |
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This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions.
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