<p>Listen to this podcast as industry expert R "Ray" Wang explains what you can do to overcome common sales order management complications, and hear his advice on what technologies can help integrate information from across organizational functions to provide the highest quality data to order management applications.</p> 

Download this report from Arthur D Little to learn 5 key innovation concepts for CIOs and CTOs. 

Read this paper to learn how to clear out the backlog of new and modified applications that development teams are racing to create—and streamline release processes- so you can promptly release application enhancements and immediately leverage them. 

<p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> 

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. 

Planning on backing up virtual machines? Which option is right for your business – purpose-built VMware backup tools, or a heterogeneous backup offering? In this archived webcast, W. Curtis Preston - aka “Mr. Backup” – discusses the advantages of both, and which is right for you. 

Check out this FAQ podcast, to hear W. Curtis Preston, independent backup expert and executive editor, source and target deduplication, how these approaches differ, what that means from a disaster recovery perspective and more. 

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the various options available today for backing up virtual machines including VMware's VCB, third-party products, and the ways that backup software products are evolving to ease virtual machine backups. 

W. Curtis Preston discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast. 

While fixed-function devices such as point-of-sale (POS) systems, ATMs, mobile devices and more are subjected to the same threats and compliance requirements as regular endpoints, they also have their own innate security challenges. This paper uncovers a 3-pronged approach to securing fixed-function devices and how to effectively implement them. 

Storage Magazine Online is starting off the New Year right – specifically, by covering a few of the major topics, issues and technologies you’ll likely be hearing about quite frequently in 2011 like new storage strategies and hybrid cloud storage. 

While most common payroll process errors are avoidable, they are also easily overlooked. Unfortunately even the smallest errors can lead to long-term issues and increased expenses. Read more to find out the top 10 payroll pitfalls and how to prevent them. 

Are you going to upgrade to SQL Server 2012? This edition of SQL Server Insider sets out to help you decide whether the investment is worth it or not. Read this edition to learn if several IT pros are going to upgrade and why, how this release will affect the database marketplace and pros and cons of actually upgrading.