This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration. 

This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP. 

This Videocast provides best practices for planning and implementing data center projects, as well as how to prepare for the costs and staffing requirements associated with such projects. 

Today, virtual servers can migrate and fail over between data centers, but it requires at least a short disruption to the application to restart the virtual machine. Live data migration between data centers over distance could be a boon for disaster recovery purposes but it could be a while before it becomes a reality. 

Dell Client Migration and Deployment Services are designed to save cost and deployment time, mitigate risk, and reduce network traffic to ensure a successful migration. 

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. 

EIM is the effort and practice of reaching across all data and application silos embedded in the organization's operating infrastructure; then binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration... 

The results of the survey clearly show that open source data integration solutions are mature enough for mission-critical enterprise use in every arena. 

The macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever for corporate executives and end users to access critical information to make effective business decisions. This paper will examine how a new generation of SaaS-based BI solutions is responding to the escalating challenges facing companies of all sizes. 

Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection. 

This white paper explains the different alternatives to open source data integration, and presents the visible and hidden costs of these alternatives, on several types of projects. 

The retail giant Tesco has aggressive plans for global growth and has expanded its international presence significantly, including penetration of the huge US market. A key element in its expansion plan is its common operating model, which called for crucial mainframe applications to be modernized to run on standardized platforms worldwide. 

This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits.