When IBM Cognos users complement their deployments with formal training services, end users become more productive, report building costs are reduced, and more end users adopt IBM Cognos tools such as BI and PM. 

Improving data quality is a timeless strategy that can provide value on its own, or can be done as a first step towards something else, such as master data management (MDM). It can also be done in conjuction with MDM. This white paper explores three use cases of improving data quality. 

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. 

This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

Mobile operators are in a unique position to capitalise on the M2M (Machine to machine) opportunity with operators such as Vodafone, o2, Verizon and KPN already putting significant resources into developing M2M business units. 

The more you know about built-in functionality in the .NET framework and ASP.NET, the less code you have to write, which ultimately makes your applications more maintainable. This white paper outlines several different tips to enhance developer productivity and reduce the amount of code that needs to be written in many cases. 

The struggles disaster recovery (DR) may soon be in your rearview mirror, thanks to the power of virtualization. In the April 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Lauren Whitehouse highlights the benefits of using virtualization for DR and provides tips for how to integrate these technologies into your own strategy. 

This podcast summarizes, Define What's Valued Online, a new study which confirms what many technology marketers have instinctively suspected all along: Buyers of technology products consider Internet research essential to their ability to do their jobs. Listen to this podcast to learn about basic changes you can make to improve your online content. 

This small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It shows how these risks can be mitigated. 

Content provided by Google. This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery. 

The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized. 

This white paper discusses vDS and some of the changes that have occurred in VMware’s networking, specifically addressing VMware’s vNetwork Distributed Switch.