Read about IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies, delivering essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting & forecasting in one affordable solution. 

Download a free trial of IBM Cognos Express and test its full range of features and capabilities for 30 days. See how Cognos Express delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. 

Senior managers who have balked at the cost and complexity of adopting technology such as business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) should consider IBM Cognos Express as a way to adopt these technologies while minimizing time to benefit, deployment costs, and support costs. 

Analytics offer insight and can help you make better, smarter decisions - both of which can enable positive customer experiences. In today's wide-open business environment, customers have plenty to choose from. This paper explains why using analytics to your advantage is key to fostering successful customer relationships. 

<p>Many companies struggle to choose the right hardware to support their critical business functions. This IT handbook provides an expert checklist to help you navigate the server selection process, increase resource utilization, and design a disaster recovery strategy for your virtual environment.</p> 

Once designated to the finance organization, functions such as forecasting and analysis have spread to other parts of the business. Performance management solutions are being deployed more broadly, migrating to everyday users. This paper explains why a Finance Center of Excellence can help ensure your performance management initiative succeeds. 

Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business. 

This webinar will share with you how to free yourselves from vendor lock-in by expensive proprietary storage hardware companies and how you can take advantage of the new wave of storage buying.  You now have an alternative choice through the use of open source software and commodity hardware. 

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. 

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. 

The communications provider landscape is evolving as the demand for data—in fixed locations and on the move—outstrips the still growing demand for voice communications. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy.