This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit examines how their practices are evolving and offers examples of data use at some highly successful companies. 

Against a backdrop of an increased use of software that is generally more sophisticated, flexible, scalable and easy to integrate than in times gone by, this research set out to explore the impact of having to maintain a plethora of different software solutions from different vendors in today’s cash-strapped corporate environment. 

<p>This expert resource guides you through case studies focusing on testing in agile development environments. Learn tips for agile testing and discover the collaboration that must take place between testers and programmers in order for automation to be successful.</p> 

In a recently-released State of Software Security featured supplement, Veracode examines the software security posture of public companies and the material risks they face due to the weaknesses in their software applications. This webinar uses Veracode data to examine how public companies manage the risks inherited from software. 

<p>Gaining visibility into your applications is essential to overcoming the challenge of aligning business with IT. Watch this webcast featuring Manger of Global Applications and Architecture from The Hersey Company, Philip Buckley, to learn how Hersey improved their accessible information for manufacturing.</p> 

Companies need to take their customer experience to the next level. This means being more responsive and proactive, delivering consistently on brand promises, listening to customers and acting on that insight. Read on to learn why customer trust is critical to your business and how to successfully build your customer's trust. 

<p><strong>High-tech companies face challenges keeping pace with new</strong> <strong>cloud-based business models, this study from Accenture reveals.</strong></p> 

This paper highlights the results of a study commissioned to derive what business execution practices are actually driving shareholder value. Read this now and learn why companies that aligned its goals, rated users on the achievement of them and leveraged business execution software to increase their execution achieved elevated stock returns. 

The Miami Herald Media Company used the DataFlux data quality and data integration platform to improve and enhance the data that drives its Database Marketing division. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

This paper examines how SharePoint 2010 is a sophisticated enterprise-level collaboration platform. Whether it’s creating wikis and micro-blogging, or document sharing and project management, SharePoint 2010 allows organizations to take collaboration to an entirely new level.