Business Intelligence/Analytics White Papers

Case Study: Simplifying the Transition to Exchange 2010 with Email Management Solutions

Summers Labs relied on a bare-bones AS/AV product, until a plan for a complete infrastructure refresh opened the door to a more comprehensive solution. Read this case study to learn how a cloud-based email management solution greatly simplified the company's transition to Exchange 2010.

Sponsor: Mimecast North America Inc.

Application Security eGuide

Enterprises around the world are facing what could be called the most aggressive threat environment in the history of information technology. Disruptive computing trends are emerging that offer increased employee productivity and business agility, but at the same time introduce a host of new risks and uncertainty. Applications are no exception - the ways that developers create the programs that support the business are always evolving, but security measures to protect these new applications struggle to keep up. When it comes to commercial applications, patching security holes is a must - yet so often these holes are left unplugged and vulnerabilities find their way into the corporate network.

In this eGuide, CIO and sister publications CSO and InfoWorld bring you news, opinions, research and advice regarding the risks that enterprises face from lackluster application security, and steps that can be taken to improve IT defenses. Read on to learn more about application security trends and approaches for today's insecure world.

Sponsor: HP

How Storage Resource Management Suite Meets Today's Storage Management Challenges

This white paper outlines the common use cases Storage Resource Management Suite addresses including comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and analysis for heterogeneous block, file, and virtualized storage environments.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation

When Application Performance is Better, Business Works Better

Poor application performance can cost more than you think. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates reports that it can exceed $1 million per hour in large enterprises. Taking a pragmatic, phased approach to improve application performance is frequently the most successful IT strategy. Discover six steps you can take to optimize application performance and efficiency.

Sponsor: HP

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

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

TDWI: 7 Keys to High Performance Data Management for Advanced Analytics

What are the keys to advanced analytics success? This TDWI report focuses on how organizations can align data management practices and technologies with requirements for advanced analytics. Focusing on seven key steps, it explores how organizations can use high-performance computing options to support advanced analytics through in-database processing, in-memory analytics, event processing and alternative approaches to data transformation and integration.

Sponsor: SAS

From Value to Vision: Reimagining the Possible with Data Analytics

This 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review report provides an in-depth look at how organizations are succeeding with analytics. On the cusp of an analytics revolution, it highlights the findings of a two-year global study, detailing the success factors required to excel in analytics and offers a framework to show other organizations how to maximize the use of analytics.

Sponsor: SAS

Making Business Analytics Work

The potential of business analytics is tremendous. This white paper highlights the lessons learned from businesses that are gaining the most value. Leverage their practical advice to find a pragmatic way to develop business analytics' success in your organization.

Sponsor: SAS

The Evolution of Decision Making: How Leading Organizations are Adopting a Data-Driven Culture

More than 70% of organizations that deployed analytics reported improved financial performance, increased productivity, reduced risks, and faster decision making. This report presents the survey data and analysis based on the responses of 646 business leaders whose companies are at the forefront of adopting a data-driven culture.

Sponsor: SAS

Innovating with Analytics

A recent survey conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review reveals the strong correlation between the value companies say they generate from data analytics and its impact on their competitive differentiation. The findings highlight the key areas where innovators like Match.com, PayPal and Amazon have seen the greatest impact of investments in analytics.

Sponsor: SAS

Big Data - Lessons Learned from the Leaders

The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 752 executives across a broad range of sectors to learn how high-performing businesses are leveraging big data. This report details the lessons these leaders have learned, highlighting how these organizations have been able to exploit data, secure the right talent, leverage social media and web-tracking analytics, and demonstrate the strong link between financial performance and a well-defined data management strategy.

Sponsor: SAS

What's Needed for Cloud Computing

Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

Sponsor: Riverbed

The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure

Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Four Little-Known Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization

You know that WAN optimization has evolved into a complete system that optimizes traffic across the broad range of most popular applications while providing deep visibility into performance. But did you know that it's a great tool to consolidate data centers and branch services? And that WAN optimization providers are evolving solutions that drive greater IT performance for any environment?

Read this white paper to learn how far WAN optimization has come, and how to make this most of your investments by using it to improve mobility, cloud and virtualization, disaster recovery, VDI, branch office consolidation, and more

Sponsor: Riverbed

The eGuide to Data Movement and Governance: Helping Business Professionals Stay Up to Speed

The purpose of this eGuide is to help you grasp the measures that can keep your organization on track to meet objectives and in line with regulations. What's more, it's your choice to become more effective in your job and build the confidence to bring valuable suggestions to your security department. You have a lot to gain!

Sponsor: IBM

One Size Shouldn't Fit All: Achieving Partner Engagement with Flexible B2B Integration

IBM puts you in the driver's seat with flexible B2B integration solutions that meet the needs of your partners and your organization. Rather than delivering a single, "one size fits all" approach, we have created comprehensive solutions that complement your environment to help maximize resources and help you achieve your business goals. From software to cloud to hybrid options, learn how IBM delivers tools to effectively connect with partners across your value chain, automate processes for increased cost savings and customer satisfaction, and enhance collaboration to drive greater success for your organization and those with whom you do business.

Sponsor: IBM

Decision-Driven Data Management

Data-driven decision making exists at the intersection of data quality and decision quality. This paper examines the variables that can disrupt data-driven decision making, such as time, big data, pattern recognition, human biases, intuition and errors and it explains how strategies that leverage data quality and data governance result in better business decisions.

Sponsor: SAS

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