This Forrester Research Inc. research report examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) of extract, transform and load (ETL) software. 

IT considerations are not given adequate attention or rigour in the due diligence prior to mergers and acquisitions, this report from Ernst & Young reveals. 

This whitepaper provides an overview of the evaluation process a Global Fortune 500 corporation completed to test the various features included in Oracle Advanced Compression Option, as well as the impact on space and performance they experienced. 

One of the first places to look for increased simplicity is in the server infrastructure, where advances in virtualization, scalability and manageability are opening up new paths towards a simpler way of life in the data center of today and tomorrow. Read on to learn about the specific advances that are impacting server strategies. 

This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

Effective IT service delivery is critical for any business to run smoothly, however, many organizations are finding that this can be challenging in a cloud environment. This white paper offers key tips on how to overcome this issue and ensure optimal performance of your IT environment by leveraging new, advanced service assurance solutions. 

Bit9 conducted a survey on 1,020 IT and security managers in France, Germany, Spain and the UK studying their current views on today’s emerging threats and their stance against them. View this report for a summary of the overall results and uncover key findings. 

Database security is the last line of defense, so it deserves greater focus on the protection of private data from both internal and external attacks than IT pros have traditionally given it. Read this paper to learn what steps you can take to improve database security in your organization. 

This paper examines how analytics and BI can be used to get speedy insight, decisions and action at critical business moments. 

Enterprise networking is increasingly dependent on wireless technologies. Read this white paper to discover the business and technology trends powering this relationship. Also detailed is how a WLAN architecture is paramount to attaining cost-effective and scalable wireless network deployments. 

From the turn of the millennium until the end of 2007 MLBS (Mobile Location Based Services) had promised much, but delivered very little in terms of commercial applications. Even in Japan and South Korea, the most advanced markets for commercial MLBS, usage was disappointing. 

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