This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

Finding the right storage option for your content management system perticualary, SharePoint, can be a challeneging task. BLOBs are emerging as a soild option for a low-cost and high performing storage. 

This webcast featuring business intelligence expert Wayne Eckerson will explain how big data -- the combination of Hadoop and analytical databases -- is transforming the business intelligence industry. 

In this e-book, you will gain advice on building a business case for the adoption of SharePoint and planning a SharePoint project from experienced users and industry analysts. Also learn best practices for successful SharePoint deployments, tips for managing SharePoint installations and potential pitfalls involved in SharePoint implementations. 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

Read this paper featuring Forrester research now and learn about the total economic impact and potential ROI that enterprises are realizing by deploying IBM Netezza DW appliance with data analytics. By taking some time to digest this resource, you will know whether a similar installation within your company will have a similar financial effect. 

This case study outlines how Medtronic, the largest medical technology company in the world, successfully managed to transfer large amounts of data from Excel to SAP with minimal error or SAP downtime. Read this paper to learn how Medtronic achieved its user productivity goals for maximum business gain. 

Strategic HR is essential to the long-term health of your organization. Focusing on talent identification and retention, workforce planning and succession management, rather than tactical HR duties such as payroll processing, can yield significant results. This paper outlines the business benefits of investing in strategic HR capabilities. 

Are your decision-support systems and servers up to date, equipped to handle today's onslaught of data? Legacy systems are no longer viable. This paper explores the results of a research report about decision-support systems, highlighting how Dell's 12th-generation servers and solutions meet these evolving requirements based on users' responses. 

As IT budgets continue to slump, you'll need to develop a solid case for the SQL Server upgrade. Inside this e-Book, learn about the features that will get the management buy-in. 

Get virtualization enabled with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, the only solution that seamlessly integrates disaster recovery and data protection for your physical, virtual and cloud. 

Micro Focus SilkPerformer® is a cost-effective, performance testing solution for optimizing the performance of business applications. It facilitates performance tests that accurately simulate peak demand loads and isolate performance bottlenecks. Take advantage of this risk-free trial and experience the significant advantages it offers. 

Part two of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com's three-part guide on collaboration products offers expert insight into gathering pertinent information into the technical information necessary to move forward in the process.