The most helpful information and best content will have little impact without simple protocols that make your Web site easier to use and more visually appealling. This paper focuses on 10 tips you can employ to ensure your web site is effective from the day it goes live. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

One of the most eagerly awaited features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is the “Self Service Business Intelligence” technology known as PowerPivot. This white paper highlights the new PowerPivot features. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is gaining traction in today's constantly changing and complex application environment. This paper outlines the increasing need for such a solution, offering insight into the five dimensions of modern APM, how to ensure a positive end-user experience, how to measure APM and so much more. 

Existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the value of the huge volumes of data generated by today's Web-oriented, virtualized, real-time applications. Read this paper to learn how to meet increasing demands for immediate information with the modern data management products of the VMware vFabric platform. 

Download this report from Accenture to discover the 6 IT technology trends that will impact CIOs in 2012. 

SQL Server 2008 R2 has been labeled a BI release because of its new features for business intelligence. In this interactive classroom, industry expert Don Jones explains the improvements made to existing SQL Server BI features like SSRS. Learn about the benefits of self-service BI and Master Data Services. Then take a quiz to test your knowledge. 

Are you still unsure if SQL Server virtualization is the best move for your organization? Or have you already decided to move forward with a virtualization initiative and don't know where to start? Read this expert e-guide to discover when virtualization is not a good idea, must-do checklist items for getting started, pitfalls to avoid, and more! 

The security of SQL Server database servers has become a top priority for database administrators. This article examines best practices that can be employed to secure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. It provides an overview of the security model in SQL Server 2000 and discusses best practices you can employ to secure yours. 

Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now. 

This paper examines the underlying threats to sensitive data with no regular scheduled patches and offers a practical and reasoned method for protecting databases when vendor patches cannot be installed promptly after they are released. 

Read this white paper to learn about a high performing analytic platform that will give you exceptional results in record time. 

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.