With new technologies—such as planning and analysis solutions powered by IBM Cognos® software—companies are automating the process, getting faster reports and data that fuel “what is” and “what if” scenarios. Read this paper to learn more. 

<p>Take a look at this Gartner Magic Quadrant for an in-depth comparison of numerous employee performance management (EPM) systems. Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of each and uncover who comes out on top.</p> 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

This e-book offers insights on the benefits and value that financial reporting automation solutions can offer. Read on and learn about: High-performing organizations and their ability to automate financial reporting, low-performing organizations and why they are mired in complex and manual processes, and more. 

Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment. 

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error. 

Government agencies are frequently adopting advanced case management strategies to automate processes, streamline practices and achieve better, swifter results. This paper from IBM discusses how advanced case management strategies are taking hold in today's agencies and how these practices can help foster more efficient, effective environments. 

More and more companies are showing interest in data center outsourcing, but there are a variety of providers to choose from. This white paper compares the outsourcing capabilities and infrastructure utility services of 17 vendors. Find out which providers were considered the challengers, leaders, niche players, and visionaries. 

In 2011, Q1 Labs continued its rapid growth and became more visible in competitive evaluations. The QRadar appliances can be deployed as all-in-one solutions for smaller environments, or can be horizontally scaled in larger environments using specialized event collection, processing and console appliances. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

Check out this E-Guide to learn how to determine the real cost of your storage and other factors to consider into this cost – including disaster recovery and data protection. Read on to learn more. 

This expert E-Guide explores the different data backup and storage systems available, and which ones will really eat up your storage budget. Read now to learn more.