Read this paper to learn all the factors you need to consider when choosing a data modeling tool. You will learn about the different model types and how each tool measures up to the demanding needs of your company today and in the future. This paper will lay out all the information you need to make a clear decision on data modeling today. 

Cisco Services presents a series of four white papers to provide a framework for discovering compelling business cases and identifying the necessary services needed to deliver the desired experience. The second white paper in the series covers critical knowledge areas in the successful planning and design of a medianet or media-optimized network. 

Making the transition to digital management of paper and electronic records is challenging. Companies can't risk efficiency or accuracy with their data, and may need a more simplified approach during the transition. View this resource to uncover a more practical approach to records management in the digital era. 

This white paper discusses key issues surrounding configuration management and compliance, such as the IT department's need to lower costs, increase management flexibility and control, and increase responsiveness to business needs and requirements. 

Whether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid. 

Business intelligence (BI) and business analytics have become a common solution for enterprises. This white paper outlines how you can choose an analytics solution that works for your organization now and also helps satisfy your needs in the future. 

Information security best practices remain largely the same as 15 years ago, based on a strong perimeter defense. However, virtualization and cloud computing are radically changing data center operations. Security and compliance controls need to extend across the physical, virtual, cloud continuum in order to adapt to this new infrastructure. 

The white paper provides key insights to helping organizations achieve better storage cost-containment, more flexible storage architectures, streamlined storage management, and an overall better storage quality of service to meet current and future needs. 

The need for self-service business intelligence (BI) is greater than ever. And while the market is filled with BI tools, they don't readily enable everyone to access and work with data 

IT organizations are shifting from traditional IT strategies to highly virtualized and automated infrastructures, preferably running on scale-out building blocks and Ethernet. This white paper discovers the epitomes of the new approach that is demanded of storage. 

To stay ahead in today's marketplace, your business needs a mobile storefront - but this means sensitive customer transactions are open to a new variety of mobile attacks. This white paper explores the considerations for protecting mobile applications - from the application architecture to the testing technologies needed to assess risk.