Management White Papers

Red Hat JBoss Fuse Technology Overview

Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a flexible, small footprint integration platform that can be configured with any combination of components for a customizeable IT footprint. Read the technology overview to learn more about the functional components and key features in Red Hat JBoss Fuse that will allow integration beyond the datacenter.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss Fuse Compared with Oracle Service Bus Competitive Brief

Middleware integration solutions requirements often vary greatly and can influence the technology used for implementation. This competitive brief presents the high- level differences between Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Oracle Service Bus and also examines the significant economic difference between the two. Read this paper to learn how to start more projects, deploy technology more pervasively within the enterprise, and apply more of your budget towards innovation with Red Hat JBoss Fuse.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss BRMS Best Practices Guide

Learn the technical best practices for development with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise BRMS. Following the best practices outlined in these guides will result in systems with better design, easier test-ability and superior maintainability. Developers will also be able to validate Red Hat JBoss BRMS platform requirements more easily.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Is an Open Source Business Process and Rules Management Solution Right for You?

The availability of highly functional, open source business process management systems (BPMS) and business rules management systems (BRMS) are bringing the benefits of process automation technology within reach of many more companies and projects. If you are considering deploying business process or rules management but have been daunted by the cost, footprint, and complexity of proprietary solutions, an open source approach may be just what you are looking for.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Edition

The technology foundation for both JBoss Enterprise Middleware and IBM's middleware offerings is the application platform. This competitive brief outlines the differences in the economies of the competing application platforms, the implementation of the JEE specification, open standards support and other non-JEE specifications features. Read this paper to learn more about how your organization can benefit from Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server Edition Competitive Brief

The technology foundation for both JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Oracle Fusion Middleware is the application platform. This competitive brief outlines the differences in the economies of the competing application platforms, the implementation of the JEE specification, open standards support and other non-JEE specifications features. Read this paper to learn more about how your organization can benefit from Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Sponsor: Red Hat

Harvard Business Review: How Mobility is Changing the World

Mobile device proliferation across the globe is astonishing. This Harvard Business Review report highlights research on how mobile is being deployed in developing countries. Learn about use of cutting-edge applications, ranging from location-based services and mobile payments to machine-to-machine communications and augmented reality.

Sponsor: SAP

Mobile Commerce: The Path to Customer Engagement

Mobile provides an unprecedented way for enterprises to establish and strengthen customer relationships. Download this playbook, sponsored by SAP, and learn how to navigate this new world of mobile customer engagement and commerce.

Sponsor: SAP

How Mobility is Transforming Industries

This Harvard Business Review Report discusses the transformational effect mobility is having on all industries. Their analysis sheds light on which industries are pioneers in the mobility landscape, the lessons that can be learned from thought leaders, as well as some unique scenarios where mobile is transforming business.

Sponsor: SAP

Delivering on the Promise of Mobile ROI

Most companies have embraced mobility to some degree, but few have established means to correctly measure the success or failure of mobility deployments or mission-critical app extensions. Achieving a concrete ROI should be mandatory given the significant effort required to make mobile solutions work. This white paper, by J. Gold Associates, focuses on ways enterprises can create guidelines for success and measurement criteria to determine ROI for all mobile projects.

Sponsor: SAP

BYOD Policy Guidebook

Bring your own device (BYOD) presents an opportunity for organizations to cost-effectively extend the benefits of mobile technology. This policy guidebook was created to assist SAP customers in their BYOD implementation. It is intended to steer you through the questions to ask and provide some best practices to consider when establishing your own policies.

Sponsor: SAP

Forrester: Mobile is the New Face of Engagement

The access and convenience of mobile apps and devices shifts more power to individuals than did the PC or the Web. This Forrester reports examines the dramatic impact mobility will have on CIOs and explains how and why CIOs must step up and work with other executives to establish an "office of the chief mobility officer" to implement an enterprise wide mobile strategy.

Sponsor: SAP

Intelligent IT operations: Making IT smarter with advance event correlation and management

Consolidating IT event management in a centralized operations bridge can help you increase efficiency in the short term while setting the stage for greater competitiveness over the long term. Organizations that consolidate IT event management and exploit event correlation against a dynamically updated topology model eliminate costly duplication of effort and focus IT activities on what matters most to the business. Adding operational analytics capabilities to the core platform for event management and correlation extends the operations platform to a service and operations bridge. This provides increased return on investment, and augments the intelligence and efficiency of IT operations. The result is faster advanced event management, problem resolution, higher service quality, and lower overall IT costs.

Sponsor: HP

In-Memory Database Technology: A Critical Success Factor for the Real-Time Enterprise

This IDC white paper explores the issue of high performance in data management and the need for such performance in implementing a real-time enterprise. It describes the needs of the real-time enterprise and how they are best met by an in-memory database, which is managed by memory-based database management system (DBMS) technology.

Sponsor: SAP

Open Data Management Configuration vs Specialized Database Systems: Considering All the Factors

Consider the decision process in choosing between a specialized and an open-data database configuration. Options include a specialized factory database for fixed purposes from a single vendor - or broad infrastructure software with database management processes controlled by IT across the enterprise.

Sponsor: SAP

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Profiling

The power of data profiling lies in the ability to summarize details about large data assets from many angles. This paper considers the techniques used by data profiling tools, the way the analyses are performed, and how those analyses can yield value in a number of application contexts, including reverse engineering, assessment for potential anomalies, business rule validation and validation of metadata and data models.

Sponsor: SAS

Data Visualization Techniques: From Basics to Big Data with SAS Visual Analytics

Regardless of how much data an organization has, creating visuals of data will deliver the most meaningful analysis. This paper discusses some of the basic issues concerning data visualization, from data size and column composition, to solving unique challenges presented by big data.

Sponsor: SAS

How to Effectively Realize Data Visualization

Data visualization enables decision makers to understand what data really means. SAS Visual Analytics is a high-performance, in-memory solution for exploring massive amounts of data very quickly. Extending well beyond traditional query and reporting, discover how it enables users to spot patterns, identify opportunities and convey visual results via Web reports or an iPad.

Sponsor: SAS

Practical Fundamentals for Master Data Management

In this paper, the fundamentals for successful master data management initiatives are examined. Discover the early benefits that can be achieved by concentrating on simplifying and standardizing semantics, managing metadata and improving data quality as first steps in building a long-term enterprise information strategy.

Sponsor: SAS

Challenges in the Effective Use of Master Data Management Techniques

Master data management (MDM) is an enterprise activity that must go beyond the needs of any single business function. The focus on data consolidation (targeting the elusive single source of truth) has created a scenario in which MDM programs can lead to increased data management complexity, more inconsistent data and an inability to meet business needs. Rethinking data management strategies and taking an incremental approach have proven to be most successful.

Sponsor: SAS

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