This white paper describes the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers. 

This executive brief reviews the benefits of integrated asset management between development and operations and provides a concrete example of the impact analysis benefits of having a unified catalog of services and assets. 

This white paper examines how IBM Tivoli Unified Single Sign-On addresses the needs of organizations for enterprise single sign-on, Web single sign-on, and federated single sign-on. 

This webcast explores a phased approach to consolidating application management solutions, aligning IT infrastructure with business needs and reducing costs. 

Read this white paper to learn how IBM identity and access management solutions help organizations realize business value through a centralized, automated identity and access management infrastructure. 

Heinz wanted to speed up and improve the quality of scorecard information they gathered about Heinz brands in retail stores; so they used the Electronic Retail Audit solution on BlackBerry devices to provide brokers with accurate feedback. 

Learn how you can how you can hook customers with fresh, unusual and relevant shopping experiences. Drive customer loyalty by training, empowering and providing employees with the technical tools to capture the nuances of customer behavior. 

Read how the software and tools SAP provides can help retailers succeed today by understanding their customers, anticipating their needs, and inspiring their loyalty as long-term customers by meeting those needs as they arise. 

This white paper discusses the nature of the retail marketplace moving forward and identifies the drivers behind retailers’ interest in data, network, and transaction security. Learn who the key decision makers in retail really are and find out how they play different roles depending on their size. 

Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. 

The retail giant Tesco has aggressive plans for global growth and has expanded its international presence significantly, including penetration of the huge US market. A key element in its expansion plan is its common operating model, which called for crucial mainframe applications to be modernized to run on standardized platforms worldwide. 

The purpose of this study is to provide a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Windows Server 2008 R2 on their organizations. Forrester's aim is to show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in Windows Server 2008 R2. 

Direct Store Delivery companies can gain a clear edge with a seamless system, because information from the field is immediately reflected throughout your company, with no data inconsistencies, mismatches or latency.