Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely

Ovum has been following Oracle's Accelerate program over the last couple of years because they thought it is a smart strategy for penetrating the upper mid-market. Although Oracle developed Accelerate largely in response to slowing growth in its core large-enterprise market, the program seems prescient as the global business climate worsens and places new urgency on cost-effective sales strategies.

Why BI is Ripe - Now! - For Businesses of Any Size

Oracle's range of offerings to mid-size and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes.

How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP To Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough Economy

For midsize enterprises, now is the perfect time to invest in a significant IT expansion - despite the economic climate. Please read this case study to find out how installing the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 helped Gavina Coffee improve efficiencies, cut overall costs, and make the business more competitive.

Rapid Implementation: The New Age of ERP

Think your company is not 'big enough' for ERP? Think again. Not only can small and mid-sized companies reap the renowned ERP benefits of greater agility, increased business visibility and measurable ROI. But they also can implement ERP rapidly with a solution specifically tailored to their vertical industry. This white paper, Rapid Implementation: The New Age ERP, shows you how.

Leveling the Field: Powerful Software Solutions for Midsize Companies

You no longer need to be a large enterprise with deep pockets to afford comprehensive industry-focused software. Now, midsize firms and even start ups can benefit from Oracle's Accelerate program, which is a fixed-scope/fixed-price approach that ultimately lowers your software costs and speeds time to value. Download this useful paper to learn how Oracle's partners like Jibe Consulting, a management and technology consulting business based in Portland, OR, use Oracle Business Accelerators with their own industry expertise to enable companies of all sizes, including yours, reach "go live" faster.

Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain

This paper will explore the performance characteristics, energy demands and maintenance requirements of today's new, energy-efficient servers, and their potential impact on cost-containment strategies such as refresh-cycle adjustment.

IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers

Most organizations faced with budget challenges put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives, such as extending server life cycles and extending software licenses. This paper demonstrates that such a buy and hold strategy actually adds costs to the datacenter. In fact, refreshing server infrastructure on pace with newer technology (e.g., every two years) can reduce six-year server costs by 33% compared with buying and holding servers for those six years. Continue to read the full report from IDC.....

HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions

Welcome to the HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions. This guide features HP's latest industry leading technologies - products designed to help you build and maintain an infrastructure that delivers the performance you need to drive your best business outcomes. As the world changes, many business initiatives require technology that is easy to manage and makes every dollar count. Download the full guide now, compliments of HP.

The Business Case for Virtualization

The business case is clear: Virtualization can help you save money, increase IT agility, and improve business outcomes. Are you capitalizing on these opportunities?

Clipper Group Report: HP Provides Enhanced Options for Data Center

HP already announced a wide variety of servers based upon Intel's newest architecture, the Xeon 5500 Series Processor. They have now followed that up with the first announcement of support for Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors. To learn more about how HP can reduce the TCO of your data center with scalable, energy-efficient options that can consolidate and virtualize your environment, read this brief report from the Clipper Group.

Best Practices for Optimizing Performance and Availability in Virtual Infrastructures

Many IT administrators have already learned the hard way that managing the performance and availability of services built on virtualization technologies can be difficult, if not impossible at times. All too often, early adopters of virtualization have struggled with limited technology features and stability constraints, while learning new ways to effectively manage capacity requirements. Fortunately, some platforms now offer clustering solutions that are mature enough to automate the balancing of workloads across physical resources. When combined with disciplined capacity planning and sound deployment configurations, it is possible to achieve fast, scalable, and highly available IT services using virtualization platforms.

Ensuring High Service Levels in Cloud Computing

For many organizations, the move to cloud computing is imminent. This paper offers an overview of some key issues organizations should be aware of before they make the plunge. Featuring a range of practical insights, the paper looks at some of the most pressing challenges cloud computing presents in terms of service level management, and it offers some tips for overcoming these obstacles.

Capacity Management in VMWare Virtualized Infrastructures

VMware's virtualization capabilities have been deployed in an array of organizations around the world, and for good reason: they have helped many organizations significantly optimize the performance of their infrastructure. Yet for all the benefits virtualization delivers, its also present a range of challenges - most critically when it comes to doing effective capacity management. This white paper offers a detailed look at the challenges of capacity management in virtualized infrastructures, and it offers a wealth of practical insights into addressing these challenges and setting the stage for successful VMware deployments.

The Top 5 Server Monitoring Battles - and How You Can Win Them

The role of servers in your organization has changed substantially - with their uses, requirements, and complexity all increasing dramatically in recent years. Many of the traditional tools and techniques that worked in the past don't suffice any more. Consequently, server monitoring presents several critical battles in today's demanding environments. This guide looks at some of the most pressing challenges administrators face in ensuring optimal server performance, and it offers insights into the tools and strategies required to address these demands.

Death to PST Files

Managing the high volume of corporate email is incredibly difficult. Learn how a hosted archiving solution effectively manages email and prevents data loss and corruption.

A Green Architectural Strategy That Puts IT in the Black

Green computing tends to focus on individual servers and devices, but even greater benefits can be realized with an architectural strategy that leverages green computing practices across the data center.

The Tangled Web: Silent Threats & Invisible Enemies

Rich media, open-source platforms and social-networking sites are vulnerable to covert malware attacks. Learn how a hosted security service intercepts all types of web-borne threats.

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View

The paper is an analysis of organizations adopting a centralized virtual desktop (CVD) computing environment with the use of VMware View. It demonstrates that investment in the technology can result in significant business value with very high return on investment (ROI).

Master Data Management Projects in Practice - An Information Difference Research Study

Information Difference conducted a survey of both end-user organizations and systems integrators aimed at gaining deeper insight into MDM implementations and their success factors. This report summarizes and analyzes the results of that survey, and presents practical recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM. It also contains some enlightening findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects.

Open Source Master Data Management: The Time is Right

MDM is a natural extension to data integration and data quality. Open source MDM introduces a new, more accessible approach. It reduces implementation complexity, time to value and cost. In fact, as in many other markets, open source helps organizations overcomes obstacles and realize their goals. This White Paper provides an explanation of why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.