Need to compare open source business intelligence (BI) technologies and understand which vendor leads the pack? Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT is named the leader due to its richness of reporting functionality. 

Forrester Research conducted briefings and demonstration reviews with five commercial and four open source enterprise service bus (ESB) product vendors and evaluated their capabilities in each of the five following functional categories: architecture, connection, mediation, orchestration, and change and control. 

The commercial potential of cloud computing and cloud services is widely accepted, both in private industry and in the public sector.  The opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency in the UK public sector are real and achievable, but require significant changes to procurement practices, delivery frameworks and across the supplierlandscape. 

In this complimentary webcast, explore some of the challenges the consumerization of IT has brought (and will bring) to today's enterprises. 

In the Fall 2011 issue of IT in Europe, Manek Dubash explores how open-source storage could be the key to breaking the chains of vendor lock-in. 

HP's Operations Manager 9.00 for Windows allows your organization to spend more time on strategic initiatives by using consolidated infrastructure monitoring tools. Download this evaluation copy and get a hands-on example of how this software works. 

As companies face the prospect of a recession, IT is even more challenged to justify and deliver value while avoiding risky projects.  This is not the time to slash budgets; instead, follow a few rules to simplify decision making and focus your investment in areas that deliver the greatest return. 

KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group conducted an in-depth analysis of 15,452 Web leads generated by KnowledgeStorm. The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of Web leads that maximize sales opportunities and to debunk myths around what makes a good sales lead. 

The challenges faced by today’s government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied—and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models. 

Findings of the Web Lead Evaluation and Scoring Study, conducted by KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group, suggest companies using the Internet to generate leads might discover that focusing on the C-suite is not the fastest route to improved lead-to-close ratios. Listen to this podcast to find out why. 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

This IDG paper highlights key findings from a survey of over 300 organizations about their virtualization of business critical applications. Find out what drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers, what value they're realizing, and what the true extent is of feared risks like performance impact and limited ISV support.