IBM Analytic Answers for Retail Purchase Analysis and Offer Targeting [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- Many small and midsize retailers could benefit from using advanced analytics to understand their customers better and improve promotions but are daunted by the prospect. They are aware that advanced analytics can help retailers turn purchase data into retail excellence. However, they perceive that advanced analytics requires massive infrastructure changes, expensive software licenses, analytics expertise, long lead times and major upfront capital expenses.
Making Confident Decisions with the Full Spectrum of Analysis Capabilities [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- 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.
Business Intelligence and Analytics Fundamentals [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- The demands of business in todays economically challenging environment are forcing organizations to become smarter and more efficient about the use of their information. This paper from looks Ovum Research examines the key criteria and considerations you need to be aware of when evaluating your organizations BI and analytics strategy.
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.
Security: Security Enterprise Data and and Ensuring Compliance [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Securing Enterprise Data and Ensuring Compliance In the Face of Multiple Threats, Strategies Must be Comprehensive
Security is an important element of an information integration and governance framework. This research perspective by Ventana Research provides insight to help organizations ensure a centralized, holistic security architecture to prevent breaches and automate compliance.
Application Consolidation: Consolidating and retiring applications: Effective Management Can Reduce Costs and Modernize IT [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Information, an essential asset in virtually all organizations, requires careful attention and robust processes to ensure it can reliably support business decision-making. Information arising from multiple sources must be integrated and governed to ensure it is a trusted source and in compliance with internal policies and external regulations and legislature. The process of the integration and governance of information provides a framework that incorporates acquisition, organization, control and use of information to create and enhance ...
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 ...
Predictive Maintenance for Manufacturing - How to improve productivity, minimize downtime and reduce costs [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Your goal is clear produce high-quality goods while optimizing resources at every step of production. And in today's uncertain economy, cost-control efforts may never have been more important. Unscheduled downtime because of equipment failure can have a serious impact on your organization's bottom line.
Download this white paper from IBM, and learn the basics of predictive maintenance, the benefits it provides manufacturing operations and the underlying technologies that make it possible. 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 ...
Strategy guide to business protection for hospitals [ Source: HP/Intel® Xeon® Processors ]
February 2013-
Learn more about HP Business Protection, which offers select, preconfigured disaster recovery solutions, helps hospitals manage risk and keep critical IT infrastructure up and running.
HP Business Protection is based on HP Converged Infrastructure, an integrated plataform comprising servers, storage, networking, management software, PCs and printers that helps provide high availability, data protection, network security and off-site disaster recovery.
