A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making. 

Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments. 

Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization. 

The process of SQL "tuning" involves finding the absolute fastest route to answer your query. In this webcast, discover how SQL tuning brings down your CPU costs and lowers response and run times. Also find out answers to pressing SQL tuning questions including "how do you find the SQL to tune" and "which SQL must be tuned and why?" 

MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try. 

Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance. 

This webcast explores the legal and business penalties that organizations face when they do not comply with privacy laws. Discover which of these laws apply specifically to your enterprise, which personally identifiable information (PII) you need to protect and where to find the critical data hiding in your networks. 

This paper examines performance metrics and focuses on the nature, identification and use of Key Performance Drivers to enhance business success. It illustrates how these KPD metrics can be visualized and logically related to the Key Performance Indicators that measure those outcomes. 

Find out how you can get the sales solution of the future today. In this webcast, you learn how creating a connected, collaborative sales team can help you win new business, as well as keep the business you already have. 

In the automotive world, testing is part of the culture, and it extends to the IT team where initiatives are undertaken with scientific precision. Such was the case with SGF, a Bavarian maker of automobile parts that was seeking a storage management solution. As this Case Study shows, SGF found the perfect match with Northern Storage Suite. 

IDC White Paper: Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings Learn how companies like yours built custom apps 4 - 5 times faster at half the cost with Force.com Platform. 

You know you have to protect your sensitive data, but in order to do that, you have to find it. Data classification consists of identifying what information is confidential, then deciding how to store and secure that information. In this video, Adrian Lane of Securosis gives insight into the data classification process. 

Read this expert E-Guide to learn more about the integrated threat management landscape and receive some tips and best practices to properly deploy an integrated threat management solution.