This paper discusses the results of numerous interviews Nucleus Research conducted with customers that decided to use IBM Cognos as their business intelligence and performance management solution in order to embrace, enhance and extend their SAP and ERP investments. 

This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution. 

This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions. 

Rational Functional Tester provides test teams with automated testing capabilities for functional testing, regression testing, GUI testing and data-driven testing. 

In this webcast, discover new unified communication (UC) technology that enhances collaboration and conferencing capabilities. Gain insight into four UC applications and how to select the best one for your use cases. Learn how to extend telecommunications, mobility, desktops and applications to improve business operation performance. 

This white paper examines the TCO of this blade solution at acquisition and at 1, 3, and 5 years. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space. 

This videocast highlights the importance of metrics and measurements for enabling efficient and optimized physical, virtual or cloud data centers and storage. It discusses some different metrics, for example performance, availability/data protection, and capacity/space. It also gives tips for what metrics to use when, where to use them, and why 

Application security is the aspect of understanding how applications are built and how someone could gain an advantage by looking at the application’s flaws. In this podcast, dive into the nature of applications for details on their security and how we interact with them. 

The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more. 

Experts discuss SharePoint adoption trends, reveal how to measure the impact that SharePoint-email integration has on mainstream user adoption, and review IT options available to IBM customers that want to integrate email with SharePoint – including migration and Lotus Notes-SharePoint coexistence strategies. 

This paper provides an overview for effectively creating BlackBerry applications that interact with Domino databases. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server is part of an integrated mobility solution that connects Lotus Domino databases to mobile users. 

This webcast explains the business value of unified communications to improve productivity by streamlining processes. Discover how to get started and which considerations to keep in mind when implementing this technique. Gain an understanding of various use cases of this approach and determine which applications best fit your needs. 

BPEL is an XML-based language that defines the execution of a business process. It is used to implement a particular flow through computer services. Now an OASIS standard, BPEL grew out of separate initiatives at IBM, Microsoft, and BEA to create an orchestration language for business processes.