Get The Message: How WebSphere MQ Can Connect Your Business
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2012-
Today's business environment is proliferated with thousands of millions of customer endpoints. This large number of endpoints can cause unpredictable usage spikes when you offer special promotions or when you attempt to extend the global reach of your business through market expansion. Back-end transaction processing systems must support business integrity - secure, reliable and synchronized customer experience over multiple transaction channels - and must sustain accessibility with infrastructure that can support bursts of activity. And ...
Analyst Report: The new promise of BI realized
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
IBM has redefined BI with an enterprise solution that brings reporting, analysis, modeling, planning and collaboration together for better decision-making cycles and to help remove the barriers to being analytics-driven. This is the new promise of BI realized.
This paper describes how IBM has infused traditional BI with personal analytics and performance management to balance user freedom and IT control. It introduces IBM Cognos Enterprise, the solution that can help your organization take ...
Business Intelligence for Business Users
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Learn how important it is to address the different BI needs of your business constituents, so they have insight when and where they need it.
The Top 5 IT Budget Killers
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Many of the largest IT budget problems can be traced back to five big money drains:
1. Storage expansion
2. System complexity
3. Hardware sprawl
4. The Need for High Availability
5. Over or under-provisioning
If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone. This e-book, provided by IBM, will introduce you to the five big IT budget killers - and some of the best ways to knock them out.
The Challenge of Effective Master Data Management: Reliable Data Improves the Bottom Line and Reduces Risk
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Master data is a collection of data objects defined uniformly across organizational processes, enabling consistency and accuracy by serving as the single source. This document helps you to initially think about how master data plays an important role in your company and what to do to start maximizing its use for business value.
Data Lifecycle Management Strategies - The importance of the complete business object
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
It is critical that an organization understands relationships between data, its business value and how to ensure long-term and accurate data access. Every process - defined or otherwise - within the organization creates information as the process is executed. An organization's information can be grouped into many small units of related data, often referred to as the complete business object.
This white paper defines the complete business object as it applies to organizations ...
When Infrastructure Really Matters, A Focus on High-End Storage
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
This paper provides a pragmatic analysis about the undeniable importance of mission critical infrastructure, presenting IBM DS8870 as an assertive option to satisfy the needs of enterprise-class storage.
Driving Operational Excellence with Predictive Analytics
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Manage physical and virtual assets, maintain your infrastructure and capital equipment and maximize the efficiency of your people, processes and assets with predictive analytics.
Decisions that Drive Success
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Every day, people in your organization are struggling to make the right decisions - working with customers, partners, and each other - because they simply can't use all available data. There's too much of it for humans to internalize, understand, and apply in real time. That's why organizations that automate and optimize decisions informed by predictive analytics have a significant advantage over competitors.
Read this IBM white paper and discover how decision management ...
Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Databases and information management systems let you describe, categorize, store, modify and analyze data. What if you could do the same with decisions? Your systems could learn from previous choices and manipulate them to fit new parameters to intelligently mold future decisions made by executives, everyday business users and even your systems to optimize outcomes.
Read this specially selected excerpt from James Taylor's new book, "Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using ...