Use SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses whether you conduct surveys to support business, education, or government decisions, or for your academic research. No matter your field, you now have a way to combine your qualitative and quantitative analyses using a single advanced but easy-to-use desktop software program. 

Gaming is a fast-growing market in South Africa, due to the rapidly emerging middle class. As entertainment spending is increasing, Emperors Palace wanted to enhance the impact of its marketing to make the company more competitive. Read how SPSS helped them achieve this. 

This IDC Buyer Case Study describes the adoption, deployment, and utilization of business analytics software at the cable operator Cablecom. 

Check out this page of links to learn what ILOG has to offer as it is now part of IBM. Read on for more information about IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS, optimization, and visualization products. 

This paper presents service-oriented architecture (SOA) through the eyes of people with different roles within an organization. It will show their needs, challenges and tasks as they relate to SOA. 

This e-book by IBM, will introduce you to the five big IT budget killers and some of the best ways to knock them out. 

Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. 

In this webcast, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems. 

Recently lean manufacturing has gone from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. However, this does not mean it is entirely understood as a business practice, nor does it mean that it has been implemented to any large extent. 

Building greater confidence in your underlying data is easier said than done. The typical organization is home to a wide variety of fragmented data sources. Organizations with a baseline of data management maturity will get better value from their BI investments. They are also more likely to outperform organizations less mature in data management. 

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of <i>The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance</i>, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions. 

In a challenging economy, the price paid for bad decisions can be dire. Even average decisions can cost your organization dearly. See how information sweet spots and performance management can help you not only weather the storm, but be better prepared to steer your way with greater agility into the upturn. 

It isn't always easy to know when to upgrade to the latest hardware or software release. In the case of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, there are many compelling reasons to make the move, including: Enhanced business intelligence; improved business continuity features; better performance and better management capabilities.