Who Moved My Oracle? Learnings From IBM DB2 Implementations In SAP Environments [ Source: IBM ]

August 2012- Through eight in-depth customer interviews, Springboard Research examines DB2 SAP implementations across the Asia Pacific region. Some of the reasons Springboard cites for the customers' migration decisions from Oracle Database to DB2 include the strong IBM/SAP relationship, better query performance provided by DB2, and healthy levels of ROI and TCO when running SAP applications on DB2.

Scalable, Integrated Solutions for Elastic Caching Using IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- This book discusses the scalability challenges and solutions facing today's dynamic business and IT environments. Topics discussed include existing scalability solutions, how WebSphere eXtreme Scale can be integrated into these solutions, and best practices for using WebSphere eXtreme Scale in different environments, including application data caching and database caching. Also included is an in-depth discussion of the WebSphere eXtreme Scale infrastructure, such as grid clients and servers, the grid catalog service, zone support, and scalability ...

Inventory Optimization for the Consumer Products Industry [ Source: IBM ]

July 2012- A big question for consumer products companies is how to efficiently manage working capital that is often tied up in inventory.

Read this solution brief to learn how inventory optimization can facilitate coordinated, integrated and multi-echelon inventory planning, improving turns and service levels while freeing working capital.

Gartner Magic Quadrant: Selecting a vendor [ Source: IBM ]

July 2012- Gartner Magic Quadrant for E-commerce. Read this Gartner report to gain insights into e-commerce trends such as increased globalization and growing demand for hosted and outsourced solutions, and use this Magic Quadrant as a guide during the vendor evaluation and selection process.

Analyst Research: IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with Smarter Commerce Initiative [ Source: IBM ]

July 2012- On March 14, IBM announced "Smarter Commerce", a strategic initiative that addresses the surging market for Commerce 2.0 solutions that take advantage of the convergence of a number of disruptive software and hardware technologies. The combined impact of these technologies and their application has blurred the lines between traditional and ecommerce, tying mobile, social, analytics, and cloud computing with brick and mortar.

In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter ...

Simple is Better: Overcoming the complexity that robs traditional data warehouses of their full potential [ Source: IBM ]

June 2012- Find out how leading companies are leaving the high-cost and complexity of traditional data warehouses behind and using the innovative simplicity of IBM Netezza's data warehouse appliances to unlock their data's potential.

Place Matters in the Helping Professions: GIS for Human and Social Services Organizations [ Source: ESRI ]

April 2012- Academics have made the case that social work needs mapping. This white paper describes how geographic information systems (GIS) fill that prescription. GIS is a key component in modernizing the information technology (IT) of many human and social service programs. By leveraging the data management, analysis, and visualization capabilities of GIS, social workers and other human service professionals (hereinafter referred to collectively as helping professionals) are empowered to understand community needs, measure environmental forces (including ...

The Evolving Workforce: The Workforce Perspective US [ Source: Dell & Intel ]

February 2012- The American worker is highly conversant with technology and also optimistic about the transformational power of technology in the workplace. Technology is widely seen as an enabler of many of the core characteristics of the workplace including: trust between employer and employee; personal freedom; and flexibility - in terms of working hours, remote working as well as seeking new ways of getting things done.

Already well established, these trends are expected to continue ...

The Evolving Workforce: Expert Insights [ Source: Dell & Intel ]

February 2012- Dell and Intel have commissioned TNS Global to undertake a global project to identify and explore key future trends and themes pertaining to the workplace and workforce, and in particular, the role that technology has played in its evolution. The project spans eleven countries and comprises of several stages combined to form an iterative journey of learning and discovery.

This report explores these seven trends in the evolving workplace:
• Crowdsourcing and ...

An Executive Guide To Video Communications [ Source: Avaya ]

January 2012- Video communication solutions offer direct benefits to help address top challenges in today's enterprise. In the past, video was dismissed as a costly and complex luxury that drained your network and IT resources, while offering limited return on investment. But with substantial reductions in cost and easier deployment within your network, now is the time to incorporate this highly collaborative, real time tool into your communications strategy.

This white paper explains the business ...

CMO Study Executive Study [ Source: IBM ]

December 2011- Our CMO Study is the latest in IBM?s series of C-suite Studies, encompassing interviews with more than 15,000 top executives over the past seven years. The study casts light on the challenges public and private sector CMOs confront - and the opportunities they envision - in increasingly complex times.

Key trends driving global business resilience and risk - Findings from the 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study [ Source: IBM ]

November 2011- Integration, cloud, security and company-wide participation are among key elements of successful business resilience and risk management strategies that deliver business value and competitive advantage - as detailed in the new 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study research report.

Overcoming the Dirty Data Problem [ Source: Experian ]

October 2011- Insurance is an industry of information and the manipulation of data. Contact data in particular is present in every database. This information critical to insurance operations as it affects risk assessment, policyholder communications and compliance.

But the difficulty of maintaining data is almost as prevalent as insurers having contact information in the first place. Because of the fluidity of information, insurers have a hard time keeping contact data clean and up to date. <...