Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues. 

The purpose of this paper is to outline how IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management software and solutions are best suited to drive maximum value from investments in the SAP Business Warehouse. This topic is of interest to Business and IT Executives as well as SAP Solution Managers and Project Managers. 

Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel. 

The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment. 

This quick demo gives you a great overview of the look and feel of BSD Group’s Oracle Extension for Rational Performance Tester, its features, and its capabilities. This plug-in will help you capture, record and playback transactions using Oracle NCA technology. View the demo now to learn more about increasing application visibility during testing. 

This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies. 

Read this paper to learn why Load Testing 2.0 solutions are needed and who benefits. Learn best practices to get business value out of advanced load testing features, the limits of load testing 1.0 solutions, how today's approach complements existing 1.0 solutions, and what factors are important for selecting successful Load Testing 2.0 solutions. 

Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. 

As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE. 

The browser wars bring fresh challenges for web designers and developers. This session enables you to understand JavaScript behavior and performance across browsers, as well as consider object load order differences. 

The combination of high performance and efficiency make the PowerEdge R900 an excellent Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization server. 

One of the key findings discovered in this series of tests is that the Dell PowerEdge R710 server and Dell EqualLogic storage supported 22.2% more virtual machines than did the HP ProLiant DL385 G5 server and HP StorageWorks EVA 4400. Read this test report to learn more. 

This paper explores the challenges and rewards of test management and provides practical ways to help you implement an organized and structured testing process. It also discusses the benefits of HP Quality Center software.