IT-Analysis.com Papers

Enterprise Performance Management - Cycle II

Quocirca — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0100

In February 2009, Quocirca interviewed 800 individuals across 8 geographies for their views on, and usage of, enterprise performance management (EPM) tools and processes. The research was repeated in December 2009 and there was a clear... [Read More...]

Telecoms reinvention - optimising the online customer experience

Quocirca — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0100

As networks, devices and media converge, telecoms companies have increasingly complex catalogues of products and services on offer to customers who are, in turn, becoming more aware that they can easily switch to other providers. [Read More...]

Mobile Application Momentum

Quocirca — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:55:00 +0100

With the seemingly un-wavering boom in sales of smart mobile handsets, the opportunity for developing and selling mobile applications more sophisticated than ringtones and games is ever more appealing. [Read More...]

Operations Management Platforms for the Services Sector

Bloor Research — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Operations Management Platforms provide a comprehensive solution to solve operations management issues. [Read More...]

Warehousing for low latency analytics

Bloor Research — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Low latency analytics is becoming increasingly prevalent and we expect demand for the sorts of facilities described in this paper to grow substantially with time. [Read More...]

Operations Management for the Services Sector

Bloor Research — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Operations management for the service sector can be viewed as a composite collaborative application that acts as a hub to support shopfloor staff. [Read More...]

Loading and analyzing web data

Bloor Research — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0100

In this white paper we are concerned with analytic environments where it is important to be able to include web-based data within your analyses. [Read More...]

The Security Paradox

Bloor Research — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0100

This paper will explain why the security paradox needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. [Read More...]

The Security Paradox

Bloor Research — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0100

This paper will examine the practical steps that should enable midsized businesses to deal with the security paradox. [Read More...]

Storage Thin Provisioning Explained

Bloor Research — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:00:00 +0100

Explaining how thin provisioning can greatly reduce the work involved in storage capacity planning and reduce costs. [Read More...]

The strategic use of removable media

Bloor Research — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

How can the removable media challenge be addressed in a sensible, strategic way? [Read More...]

Avoiding the Integration Tar Pit

Bloor Research — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Almost all projects involve data integration these days, because nearly every IT project involves multiple applications and databases. [Read More...]

The IBM Workload Optimized Approach

Sageza Group, Inc. — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Today's data center is called upon to deliver a dynamic, realtime IT infrastructure that can support business transformation with increased scale, complexity, and diversity of workloads. IBM has positioned itself to address these needs. [Read More...]

MPS in European and US Enterprises

Quocirca — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0100

This report should be of interest to anyone who is considering managed print services or looking to improve the management and control of their printing infrastructure. [Read More...]

Integrated Systems Management

Sageza Group, Inc. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:00:00 +0100

IBM is advancing the Systems Management discipline in x86 environments to be consistent with its other hardware platforms. IBM has positioned itself to address the need for holistic Systems Management of x86-based servers as well as... [Read More...]

Log and Event Management

Bloor Research — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0100

In this paper we will discuss what events and logs are and when you should care about them. [Read More...]

Case Studies in Data Mastering - Part 2

Bloor Research — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Data mastering can bring significant value to a user organisation independent of whether or not it is implementing packaged PIM or MDM solutions. [Read More...]

Spreadsheet Governance

Bloor Research — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:00 +0100

There are a number of positive benefits in addition to compliance, better quality data and reduced risk of fraud. [Read More...]

Customers in the real world

Quocirca — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0100

As more and more human activity moves online, it is easy to think that geography no longer matters-surely the internet is without borders? Whilst in some cases this is true, more often than not online activity spills over into the real... [Read More...]

Uncovering the enterprise output management opportunity

Quocirca — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0100

While many organisations focus on the office environment, there are opportunities to be uncovered by taking a wider view of printing - to include enterprise output - as a way to gain further cost benefits and drive business efficiencies. [Read More...]

Managing carbon reduction across your data centre assets

Quocirca — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0100

In April 2010, many organisations will find that they fall under the UK's new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme). [Read More...]

Vertica 3.5

Bloor Research — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Vertica is one of the fastest growing next generation vendors of analytic warehouses. [Read More...]

EXASolution 3.0

Bloor Research — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0100

EXASolution is the highest performing data warehousing system available in the market. [Read More...]

Analytic Warehousing

Bloor Research — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0100

The primary value in analytic warehouses is in supporting complex and ad hoc analytic queries with sufficient performance to meet business needs and support service level agreements. [Read More...]

Price Management in Financial Services

Bloor Research — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Price management is the end-to-end process of optimising, communicating, and enforcing prices and discounts. [Read More...]

IBM Systems Migration Assurance

Sageza Group, Inc. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0100

As IT investments reach the end of their design life, the need to refresh them provides organizations an opportunity to bolster their competitive advantage through state-of-the-art IT technologies. [Read More...]

Privileged user management

Quocirca — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0100

IT Managers tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant to themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs. [Read More...]

Storage Virtualisation Explained

Bloor Research — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Bloor believes that storage virtualisation is here for the long haul and all organisations should therefore be planning to implement it. [Read More...]

Sybase IQ 15.1

Bloor Research — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0100

Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications. [Read More...]

Greenplum Database 3.3

Bloor Research — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Greenplum is one of the leading next generation vendors of analytic warehouses. [Read More...]