The Internet has changed the dynamics of technology sales and marketing. While most marketing efforts emphasize generating leads, and most sales efforts are focused on closing sales, not enough consideration is given to the little-understood but vital middle ground of lead qualification. Learn more about industry best practices. 

Despite well-publicised concerns regarding security, compliance and data integration issues, banking institutions have begun embracing cloud computing across the services spectrum. 

In this exclusive resource, read common questions on private, public, and "hybrid" cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems posed by Sage Software customers to IDC's research director Scott Guinn. 

Juniper Research defines mobile banking as  “the provision of banking services to customers on their mobile devices”: specifically we mean in the vast majority of instances “the operation of bank current and deposit or savings accounts”. 

Although large data sets contain valuable business insights, they are often difficult for CIOs to manage. This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com underscores the need for CIOs to make use of this information and describes new technologies that can assist them in their efforts. 

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

Is social CRM just hype or is it really worth your business's time? Read this eBook from SearchCRM.com for expert advice. 

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. 

To better understand how today's organizations are using analytics, a survey was conducted amongst a global sample of nearly 3,000 executive managers and analysts. Based on the results, this study offers recommendations on how organizations can strengthen their analytics capabilities to achieve a long-term advantage. 

View the slides presented in the "New Research: How to Improve Your B2B Email Marketing Results in 2007" Webcast and find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. 

In this Storage Decisions University classroom, we dissect the “big” issues surrounding “big data” and offer technical solutions to address these challenges.