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. 

Emerging markets offer huge potential for technology companies to expand. This report from Grant Thornton assess the opportunities in a range of emerging markets. 

Read these articles to create a framework for stating your company's case for implementing a data governance strategy. 

<p>This e-guide features editorial articles with insight from IT industry consultants and technology professionals on the importance of data quality as well as advice for ensuring a successful program.</p> 

This editorial e-guide features two articles on choosing the right master data management (MDM) software and how to convince your executives to invest in MDM tools. 

This small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It shows how these risks can be mitigated. 

Limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many organizations to recognize that capital and operating expenses for datacenters have become an increasing part of their budgets. Read this paper to learn about the range of technologies that can help you drive more efficiency in your datacenter. 

Tim Zimmerman, Gartner research director offers some practical advice to organisations wanted to use iPads on their corporate wireless networks. 

As SAP customers plan their BI strategies in the face of support deadlines for BEx tools that are inching closer, many customers are contemplating their next steps with BW. In this e-book, readers will learn the keys to planning a successful SAP data warehousing strategy, and get help deciding what role BW should play in it. 

<p>Read this expert article to discover exactly what your managers needs to know about software testing. Find tips on how to make processes run more smoothly and ways to make sense of large quantities of data to make the most informed decisions possible.</p> 

Big data can present big problems. Just ask expert Wayne Eckerson, who takes some time in this first installment of a two-part video series to discuss the common issues surrounding the management of big data growth in a data warehouse. Learn why big data is more pivotal than ever, how you can gain a competitive advantage by analyzing it and more. 

In this case study, explore how Sportif, a leading outdoors clothing innovator, reduced email management costs and increased data protection for their users with Metalogix Archive Manager for Exchange. 

Query performance three times faster is just one item in this top-10 list from the analysts at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Download this article to read the full top 10 and learn why Cognos 10 holds "strong value for upgrading customers and prospects."