This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes. 

There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper reviews three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other options. Each of the three architecture strategies presented here provides different trade-offs in cost, complexity and scalability. 

This paper analyzes the issues of conventional data warehouse design process and explains how this practice can be improved using a business-model-driven process in support of effective Business Intelligence. 

The backlog is the number-one hurdle to effectiveness for CIOs followed by inadequate budgets and a shortage of time for strategic thinking and planning, reports “The State of the CIO 2006” survey by CIO Magazine. For IT executives managing mainframe applications, these issues are all too familiar. After all, the average Fortune 100 company... 

This white paper explores how cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) effectively overcomes the challenges associated with traditional ERP deployments, such as implementation delays, transition issues, and questionable ROI. 

This expert presentation transcript outlines key application integration trends – including cloud-based integration, holistic integration, open source tools, and more – and offers an exclusive look at the integration vendor landscape. Read on now to learn more. 

In this handbook on open source and the cloud, we look at open source options, the benefits and liabilities, as well as the pros and cons of proprietary models. Explore some of the key issues shaping the market, the tools available and how data centers make use of and contend with open source issues. 

Using modern-day Agile techniques such as automation and cloud hosting solutions, today’s IT leaders have opportunities to reap better returns on their ALM investments. In this issue, experts will share source code control system automation strategies, hosting options for code repositories and trends in requirements management tools. 

This special issue of Information Security Magazine explains the ins and outs of security steering committees. Learn who needs to be there, why they need to be there, what they need to be doing, and how to help them do it. 

IT Problem: JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a clean interface for organising issues with customisable workflows, JIRA is the perfect fit for your team. 

Virtualized server environments or infrastructures have varying functionalities and interfaces for application aware integration to enable complete and comprehensive data protection with data and transactional integrity. 

Analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth offer advice on putting in place an effective, integrated, overall B2B solution.