Deduplication is an emerging technology that has the potential to help organizations improve enterprise storage and recovery performance. By completing the worksheet here, organizations can determine if they should immediately invest in deduplication. 

Is your organization making the most of BI and reporting projects? Find out how to improve your enterprise reporting with best practices advice and tips from BI expert Kimberly Nevala of Baseline Consulting. 

This executive brief presents the six "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions in the manufacturing industry. 

In this webcast, learn how two leading data modeling tools compare and how utilizing advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing. 

The main focus of this white paper is about revealing key factors in sales rep productivity, including what helps improve their efficiency (increasing selling time) and effectiveness (getting better results from the available selling time). Both are important and require strong leadership and teamwork between the sales and IT departments. 

Read this case study to see how FCBT used Robot/ SCHEDULE to connect and coordinate their job scheduling needs across multiple systems. 

The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs. 

Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative. 

Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This webcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI. 

Quality leads result in easier/better sales. It is also agreed that taking time away from selling to generate leads cuts into sales productivity. Closer alignment between sales and marketing could improve both of these factors and reduce the disconnect that exists today. Read on to learn how to attack these costly and divisive issues. 

This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement. 

Since its introduction nearly 10 years ago, Apache Lucene has become a competitive player for developing extensible, high-performance full-text search solutions. This white paper describes the new features and improvements in the latest version, Apache Lucene 2.9. 

This white paper will help anyone responsible for improving customer experiences with affordable technology solutions to understand why self-service support falls short in terms of immediate customer response expectations, how on-demand remote support delivers immediate ROI benefits, and what to look for in a new remote support solution.