Listen to this podcast to learn how geographic information systems (GIS) help you analyze a compilation of data by projecting it visually on a map, enabling you to see or predict trends and patterns that support more informed decision making. 

Read this white paper to learn how leveraging the data management, analysis, and visualization capabilities of geographic information system (GIS), empowers social workers and other human service professionals to understand community needs, measure environmental forces, deliver services more efficiently, and detect fraud and abuse. 

Allan Pym, vice president of sales for APOS, explains how geospatial technology integrated with business intelligence systems greatly improves market analysis. 

Watch this video session with BI expert Wayne Eckerson to learn the best practices aligning BI with your organization's business activities. 

This product overview looks at the features and benefits of Esri Maps for IBM Cognos. 

The momentum behind technology-enabled business growth and innovation continues to remain strong. This resource explores some of the top enterprise IT trends in 2012 driving growth including: cloud computing, big data, convergence of IT, green computing, collaboration, mobility, and much more. 

This edition of BI Trends & Strategies features a lead article by SearchCIO.com's Linda Tucci, who offers a helping hand in the quest to dismantle the dreaded data silo. The second piece outlines mobile BI, including a reference to Apple's iPad, and the final article delves into the world of performance management. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com discusses some of the obstacles facing administrators managing virtual environments. Explore the "side effects" virtualization can bring to the data center and learn how implementing a few new tools can help alleviate some of these pain points. 

Featuring the results of an in-depth survey of over 300 IT professionals, this ESG white paper outlines current trends in storage resources - specifically, the adoption of scale-out architectures - as well as planning, current challenges and more. Read on for an in-depth look at the most prominent storage trends today. 

<p>Uncover tips and techniques to help you prepare your IT department for 2012’s top IT initiatives, from virtualization to cloud computing to video.</p> 

In the third issue of BI Trends and Strategies, learn from BeyeNETWORK experts William McKnight and David Loshin how to create a time-proof information management infrastructure, as well as five steps you can take to improve the quality of analytical data. Also learn about connectors for moving data between relational databases and Hadoop clusters. 

From distributed data centers to cloud computing, several consolidation trends will solidify in 2012. An expert discusses how these trends will change data center facilities and IT roles. 

Learn how businesses are reducing their current data center energy consumption and explore the steady rate at which server virtualization spending continues to increase. Gain insight into the downward trends in systems management spending and IT job advancement.