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The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for Competitive Advantage
sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 06 Oct 2008 | |
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An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.
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Getting Personal with Business Continuity: Five Critical Success Factors in Overcoming Workforce Disruptions
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 02 Oct 2009 | |
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This white paper addresses the critical factors you need to address when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics.
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ROI Evaluation Report: IBM Cognos Software
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 May 2009 | |
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Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.
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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Professional Users
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Jan 2009 | |
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Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information at business speed. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.
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Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Jan 2009 | |
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The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
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Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 11 Dec 2008 | |
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In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.
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Dynamic Infrastructure - Helping Build a Smarter Planet: Delivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 13 Feb 2009 | |
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IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.
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Leveraging SUSE Linux Enterprise and HP Platforms for Business-Critical Workload Deployments
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 30 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jul 2009 | |
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This IDC White Paper takes an in-depth look at the use of Linux as a commercial solution in business-critical environments. It offers a deeper review of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) and HP's portfolio of standards-based server solutions.
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Driving business agility through SOA Connectivity and Integration
sponsored by PointSource
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper describes some of the business and IT issues that enterprises must address to become more agile and to improve their responses to challenges and opportunities. Included is how a service oriented architecture (SOA) can help an enterprise align its IT infrastructure with business needs.
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Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.
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ERP in SMB: Exploring Growth Strategies
sponsored by SAP
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Nov 2007 | |
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This report is a road map for SMBs seeking to meet the corporate goals of growth strategies and customer service through Best-in-Class ERP implementation.
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SaaS Realities: Business Benefits for Small and Midsized Business
sponsored by SAP
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 14 Feb 2008 | |
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This paper considers the business advantages of moving to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model for improving business operations, and to better meet the challenges of growth, competition and regulatory compliance faced by small-to-midsize businesses.
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A Primer for IT and Business Decision Makers: Understanding the Planning and Deployment Requirements of Today’s Software-as-a-Service Solutions
sponsored by SAP
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 30 Sep 2008 | |
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Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
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Making Strategy Real
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 25 Sep 2009 | |
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How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
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Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency During IT Failures
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Jun 2009 | |
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For many companies, the upside to a down economy is an opportunity to consolidate IT operations. Read this white paper for five requirements to attain greater IT efficiency.
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