This essential resource breaks down must-have cloud capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework for choosing an enterprise cloud provider to meet your organization’s IT and business needs. 

As companies face the prospect of a recession, IT is even more challenged to justify and deliver value while avoiding risky projects.  This is not the time to slash budgets; instead, follow a few rules to simplify decision making and focus your investment in areas that deliver the greatest return. 

KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group conducted an in-depth analysis of 15,452 Web leads generated by KnowledgeStorm. The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of Web leads that maximize sales opportunities and to debunk myths around what makes a good sales lead. 

In Quocirca’s evaluation of major providers of Managed Print Services (MPS) in Europe, Quocirca found that Xerox and HP  lead the pack, due to their  global scale and broad service capabilities. The analysis also showed that Ricoh and Lexmark  have gained considerable ground, demonstrating effective maturity and service delivery excellence. 

Explore advanced networking features in VMware vSphere 5.0 in this in-depth, step-by-step guide to configuring and testing these essential features for your virtual environment. Discover how NetFlow, port mirroring, and user-defined resource pools help network admins gain visibility in virtual machine traffic and troubleshoot network issues. 

In this comprehensive user manual, explore how to best configure and install the components of VMware vSphere 5 to ensure that your virtual environment runs smoothly and at peak performance levels. Get step-by-step instructions complete with screenshots and helpful tips. 

Check out this evaluation of a data protection solution for VMware. Access test results regarding ease-of-implementation, functionality and interoperability in VMware vSphere 5 environments. 

How to have a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation. 

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. 

Hear from Brent Leary of CRM Essentials on his thoughts of SAP Sales OnDemand and its benefit to SAP current and prospective customers. Designed for the way you sell today, SAP Sales OnDemand gives you what's needed to work smarter, sell better, and win more. 

This paper offers insight into an option that capitalizes on predictive analytics, enabling your business to target, optimize and automate your customer-centric interactions. Read this now and learn from other successful companies 10 pivotal tips - including careful planning and setting goals - that will help you craft the perfect data mining plan. 

The advent of cloud-based CRM applications has eliminated the significant initial budgetary barriers to entry for many businesses, and the proliferation of products geared toward smaller businesses has presented small business with options that allow them to choose based on specific features. Learn more about how CRM can help your small business. 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps.