White papers are one of the most misunderstood, miswritten and misused marketing tools available. While many companies think they need a white paper, few manage to write, design or use them to their full potential. This podcast outlines eight key steps to take when writing a white paper and what you should do once the paper is written. 

Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs. 

Watch this product demo as it illustrates a typical problem-solving process that can be served by a BI solution that incorporates a deeper level of timely business intel to drive the best possible business-improving decisions. 

In this edition of Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine, discover innovate ways that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is gaining traction in the enterprise environment. Uncover how VDI technology enabled Scottsdale Community College to save $250,000, and Wisconsin Department of Children and Families to realize a 30% savings in workstation support. 

This white paper reports on the rate of data growth worldwide and points out the limitations of many SQL-based decision support systems. Discover key purchasing criteria to consider when selecting servers and storage to support these critical systems. 

In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. 

Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management. 

This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

This white paper explains how a business rule management system (BRMS) can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage. 

Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives. 

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