Rather than being an inhibitor to take up of cloud computing, the use of cloud services can actually improve an organisation's security stance. Cloud delivery is suitable for a range of security services from basic ones such as malware protection...

The further down this stack you go the more tools there are available and the more relevant those tools are. However, the use of tools can certainly be valuable in the formulation of policies (at least sometimes) and, more especially, tools are a...

When expressor first came to market in 2008 it was targeting very high performance for complex transformations. However, it subsequently changed its go-to-market model to the structure seen today. In our view this was a sensible change. We are...

This paper draws from both our latest research and a comparison with the results of our 2007 survey. The results are instructive: we have been able to see whether the recommendations we made in 2007 have been adopted and how successful they were, as.

The social network landscape is packed with choices and pitfalls for the unwary, so a careful, well thought out and appropriately nuanced respoonse is required.

One of the main headaches is the allocation of expenses to the right client while maximising the amount that can fairly be claimed from each client. Another is ensuring the expenses can be reported in a granular and auditable manner to those clients.

This report provides an overview of the inherent risks when operating an insecure print environment and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security strategy.

This Quocirca small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data today, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It goes on to look at how these risks can be mitigated.

Data replication has been around for a long time: since the early '90s. The earliest implementations were by investment banks (Goldman Sachs, for example) that wanted to distribute pricing information across time zones so that the Japanese stock...

This paper is about data quality and master data management and their relationship. They are complementary, but also differ in many ways. In particular, data quality has a role to play that is distinct from that of master data and which may be...

With Innovator for Business Analysts, MID offers a modern, forwards looking tool for the business analyst role-oriented towards business stakeholders (rather than mainly targeting IT). It helps the business analysts in a business to manage...

Bloor Research has now conducted a further survey of the market for data migration with this survey taking place during spring 2011. On this occasion we have not limited ourselves to the Global 2000 but have spread our survey net more widely.

This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Master Data Management market. Master data is data that is shared between computer systems: data domains such as customer, product, location and asset. Large organisations have many.

It is often the case in large enterprises that multiple data marts are deployed, along with a central enterprise data warehouse acting as a system of record. While these data marts serve the requirements of the departments or divisions that...

This paper discusses the printing challenges faced by SMBs and how, by using a simple and flexible MPS, a business can save time and money whilst improving employee productivity.