For SMBs, business intelligence is a critical technology initiative that allows them to gain competitive advantages and improve business responsiveness with limited costs. Access this white paper to learn the five crucial steps for delivering optimal BI in your organization. 

Business intelligence is a hot topic in 2010, especially with the upcoming release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 being dubbed as the "BI release." In this e-zine, one SQL Server expert breaks down exactly what goes into self-service BI, where it works and where it falls short. 

Planning is a key component of any IT transformation effort, whether the effort is large or small. This resource discusses top ten tips for successfully planning your IT transformation in an efficient, cost-effective manner. 

Access this essential resource to discover how consolidating, modernizing and virtualizing major IT initiatives can help your organization in the long term by drastically improving cost savings, efficiencies, agility, and enterprise business benefits. 

BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment. 

In today's instant on world, instant results can put your enterprise ahead of the competition. To embrace this new view, enterprise IT must overcome complexity and critical constraints. This resource explores how organizations can meet today’s instant on demands efficiently and cost-effectively. 

This resource details how, by leveraging modern application portfolio management, businesses can identify redundancies and inefficiencies to cut costs and complexity, access dashboard views that easily identifies which high-cost applications can and should be replaced and more. 

Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this presentation transcript, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs. 

Legacy enterprise content management (ECM) systems are no longer functionally viable, meaning it's time to adopt a new solution. Read this paper and learn about a modern, innovative ECM solution that seamlessly integrates advanced case management and compliance capabilities to address today's business, reduce risk and costs and increase revenue. 

Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies. 

Dell claims that its management solutions, based on Altiris, do more than HP's to simplify management. Are these claims valid? Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC (PNA) explored the logic behind these claims. Read this paper to see what the research reveals. 

This podcast focusing on application portfolio management demonstrates how proper evaluation and rationalization of your applications can streamline business and cut costs by identifying opportunities to eliminate redundancies and replace software which doesn't provide the necessary cost benefits. 

Learn how sound, enterprise-wide business intelligence practices can help your business improve customer relationships, manage risk, reduce costs, increase sales and more.