Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. 

In this research report, we examine five of the critical issues that are creating new opportunities for the accounting profession and nine key strategies for obtaining competitive advantage. 

Read this expert E-Guide to discover strategies and best practices essential for effective SQL Server consolidation and optimization. Gain insight into the common challenges associated with consolidation initiatives and learn how to maintain a high level of availability and performance in SQL Server virtual machines. 

This article explores ways in which small and mid-sized businesses can improve the performance of their databases — and their businesses — by upgrading to SQL Server 2008. 

With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night. 

This white paper will discuss what you can do to protect your company's data in case of an unexpected disaster. Having a disaster recovery plan is not only a smart business move, but in some cases it is mandatory for legal and regulatory reasons. 

This paper discusses some of the common myths about infrastructure monitoring, and addresses how to ensure your infrastructure monitoring is responsive enough to satisfy and retain your customers. 

With its new in-database analytics capability, Sybase IQ provides an analytical platform that can decrease processing time, increase accuracy, and manage data volume. Read on to learn how Sybase® IQ delivers advanced analytics power with in-database analytics. 

Authored by database security expert Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press) is the definitive 454-page guide for both security pros and DBAs. Chapter 2, presented here, covers topics central to hardening the database. 

In this technical brief, John Weathington, President and CEO of Excellent Management Systems, Inc.,explores Toad® Development Suite and Oracle's SQL Developer. He provides an honest look at both solutions, and helps you see how a simple side-by-side comparison isn't enough when choosing the right tool. 

Read this expert E-Guide from Dell to learn key concepts that will help you architect your next SQL Server installation. 

Learn more about offerings to improve energy efficiency across your infrastructure. 

This solution brief explains the value of IBM® Data Studio Administrator. This powerful and flexible tool simplifies the process of identifying, analyzing and implementing database schema changes for IBM DB2® for Linux®, UNIX® and Microsoft Windows®.