This research presents a demonstrable connection between analytical adoption, and elevated business performance. This report is based on feedback from 222 executives in May and June 2011, across the globe. 

Alpha ImageWorks 9000 centralizes patient records into a single, secure repository, providing easy access, accelerated processing time and billing, and significant time saving in reviewing patient records. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

Why should an independent software vendor (ISV) care about cloud computing? The answer is simple: Using the cloud has the potential to increase an ISV’s revenues and/or decrease its costs. This white paper discusses why cloud computing is important for ISVs and provides insights on a solution that can help them benefit from this environment. 

This second issue of Customer Experience Exchange highlights the contact center. Often an overlooked facet of customer relationship management (CRM), the contact center is usually the first way a customer reaches out to a company and thus should always be considered in CRM strategies. 

This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. 

This brief e-guide explores the notion that data quality issues are worse in real-time data integration applications versus batch-oriented techniques. In the form of two articles, this resource serves up options for real-time integration, touches on the concerns associated with it and outlines the proper steps required to address data quality. 

This tip guide from our editorial team features an article on overcoming single-view issues and how customer experience management (CEM) technologies are a valuable tool for this problem. 

Read this brief article to discover how this growing retail chain of "island fashion" utilizes their loyal customers and their information to keep their business going through the recession and beyond. 

This article shows how an application grid built on Oracle Fusion Middleware can not only prevent unplanned outages, but it can improve the overall performance of mission critical business applications. 

This article provides a high-level overview of the manageability aspects of the VMware ESXi solution on Dell PowerEdge Servers. It discusses the various facets of manageability and the management tools that an IT Administrator can use to deploy, monitor, inventory, configure, and update an ESXi system. 

Virtual server backup is a known pain point among backup administrators. In our tutorial, learn all about VMware backup with this collection of articles on VMware backup and restore, VMware Consolidated Backup, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and more. 

Your next software implementation doesn’t have to be a nightmare. It can be done faster and with less training and without the need for upgrades or continued training. Read this paper to learn about the Plex Online implementation and training process, a process perfected over hundreds of successes.