Big businesses are planning to grow their mainframe computer capacity despite the downturn  this survey of 1,347 large mainframe users worldwide by BMC Software reveals. 

There may be a lot of recent innovations to data technologies but the best approach is to determine whether you can utilize these new tools for your current BI, analytics and data management strategies. This issue of BI Trends + Strategies features advice from industry experts including, Claudia Imhoff, Colin White, and Lyndsay Wise. 

As more businesses deal with aging SAP systems, data archiving strategies are becoming more important. Most administrators either have added storage or migrated historical data to offline storage. But simply moving old data elsewhere isn’t ideal. Read this e-book to learn how to develop successful SAP data archiving strategies and solutions. 

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error. 

This paper focuses on business intelligence and corporate performance management in the cloud and how it is beneficial to small and mid-sized businesses. 

Virtualization has introduced technologies that allow for a more efficient and simple restoration of data and services after a disaster. In this interactive classroom, we cover what you need to know about implementing a disaster recovery strategy, taking advantage of DR tools and setting processes and policies. 

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is what keeps the latest software tools working, and Agile ALM provides transparency and improved communications between teams and stakeholders. This exclusive e-zine discusses the latest collaboration tools for ALM and software configuration management (SCM). 

Virtualization is the first step towards cloud computing, but there are many challenges along the way. Discover tools and strategies for managing virtualized and cloud-based environments in this white paper. 

This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency and productivity as well as harnessing knowledge through collaboration. 

In this expert podcast, virtualization architect with MTM Technologies Inc. Bill Kleyman explains to how to best utilize the native tools available to you in order to implement an effective DR plan. 

This paper details the current state of business analytics, revealing why it's not as pervasive as one may think. Read this now and learn some best practices that will help CIOs spearhead their company's BI initiatives to make better use of data for a competitive advantage. 

<p>Explore how you can enable an effective Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) strategy for your mobile enterprise. Discover considerations to make, use cases, and more.</p> 

In this first issue of Business Applications Digest, find advice from industry insiders on mastering the five success factors for enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrades, choosing the best fit between 'best of breed' business intelligence (BI) and built-in ERP tools, and how to take advantage of the latest Software as a Service (SaaS) trends.