Expanding Web Single Sign-On to Cloud and Mobile [ Source: CA Technologies ]

October 2012- Discover how organizations are protecting larger and larger volumes of sensitive data while still allowing users to easily conduct business.

Edison: Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems [ Source: IBM ]

September 2012- As it has been the trend over the last decade, organizations must continue to deal with growing data storage requirements with the same or less resources. The growing adoption of storage-as-a-service, business intelligence, and big data results in ever more Service Level Agreements that are difficult to fulfill without IT administrators spending ever longer hours in the data center.

Many organizations now expect their capital expense growth for storage to be unstoppable, and ...

IDG Tech Dossier: A Faster Path to Client Virtualization [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

September 2012- Client virtualization encapsulates a user's desktop including operating system, applications, data and personalization-and stores it in the data center, rather than on the end-point device.

This has several advantages. The desktop is stored and maintained centrally, so it's much easier to manage, maintain and support. It's not tied to a particular computer, so it can be accessed from different devices. And the end-point device stores neither desktop nor data, so the security danger ...

Big Data Analytics [ Source: SAP ]

December 2011- Big Data is leading to Big Challenges for many organizations today. Getting a solid understanding of big data analytics - including business and technology drivers - and learning the lessons of successful use cases can make the difference to those organizations seeking the right solution going forward. Learn more by downloading the newly published TDWI Big Data Analytics Report.

Building smarter products with IBM Integrated Product Management [ Source: IBM ]

February 2011- Building smarter prodcuts with Integrated Product Management. Turning product development into competitive advantage. Whether you operate in the automotive, aerospace, telecommunications or electronics marketplace, business trends dicatate that you need to deliver innovative products that incorporate advances in software, electronics and hardware to deliver a customizable experience to users.

The key to creating this new class of offerings is to elevate software development to a strategic business process while leveraging advanced modeling capabilities ...

Estimating the Complexity of Your Microsoft Access Project [ Source: OpenGate Software Inc ]

December 2009- Microsoft Access is a leading desktop database application. With MS Access readily available on many PCs at work, a large number of prospective users try their hand at creating an Access database application to improve their group's productivity and minimize information errors often caused by maintaining data in spreadsheets. While Microsoft made many improvements in Access 2007 to simplify database creation, there is still much to learn when developing an Access database project. This brief paper ...

Benefits Of Embedded Database [ Source: ITTIA ]

May 2009- This white paper discusses the benefits of incorporating an embedded database into applications for embedded, intelligent, and mobile devices. An embedded database library is an inexpensive replacement for flat files that gives applications access to relational database features, such as transaction logging and indexed search, without the overhead of an enterprise database. Applications developed with an embedded database are scalable and protected from data loss by leveraging decades of data management expertise.

The Business Intelligence Conundrum [ Source: Stonefield Query ]

January 2009- You’ve created a great database application. It has an easy to use and intuitive user interface. All of the information that anyone could hope for is being stored in the database. Yet, your users still aren’t happy. Why? In a recent survey one of the world’s largest accounting and CRM software manufacturers asked their customers "What if anything would you like to see us improve in our applications?" Over 50% of the respondents ...

Quality of Spatial Data for e-Government From an Ontological View [ Source: Vienna University of Technology ]

January 2008- Discussion on quality of spatial data is traditionally separated in different groups. Data quality mainly covers the observation process and the process of data manipulation. This research paper from Vienna University of Technology investigates the different types of decision processes and shows that processes of e-government must deal with a different type of quality than technological processes. Using the 5-tier ontology one can separate different levels and show how the different aspects of quality emerge ...

How to Best Leverage J2EE, Struts, and ADF in Your Portal [ Source: Oracle ]

January 2008- The Oracle Portal Developer Kit (PDK) enables one to develop portlets in many different technologies using Web services, Java (J2EE), XML, Struts, and PL/SQL. The PDK also provides the option to build these portlets using Oracles APIs or the new portlet standard APIs  OASIS/WSRP and JSR 168. This paper discusses when to leverage the declarative features for building portlets and when to build custom portlets. This paper also discusses how to quickly ...