BI capabilities are becoming a must-have for independent software vendors. But customers and prospects are no longer satisfied with basic home-built solutions and offerings from legacy vendors. 

Learn how new developments in BI make it easier and faster to serve those departments and groups whose BI needs have gone unmet. Birst hosts this educational webinar featuring Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. 

With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be. 

Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information. 

This podcast will review the steps CIOs can take to select top projects with the most value to the business, map resources and finally fill in the gaps. 

User demand for infrastructure and services has increased at a much greater rate over the past few decades than IT resources available, thus causing an IT service delivery gap. Learn how Surgient's self-service platform can bridge that gap. 

This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team. 

With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners. 

This white paper provides insight into the requirements for protecting privacy in SAP non-production environments and describes some of the comprehensive data masking techniques available with the IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for SAP® Applications. 

This paper examines the primary data threats that currently concern chief security officers (CSOs) and IT security management within enterprises, and recommends best-practice techniques to minimize and overcome risks to data security. These best practices have been successfully implemented and deployed in organizations. 

This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment.