July 01, 2008 - (Free Research) A columnar data base is a data base arranged to optimize data analysis, but how? What is a columnar database really? This document presents the basic concepts of columnar databases in a straightforward manner so anyone who is involved with data, business or technical, can understand their purpose and application.
March 06, 2009 - (Free Research) This Ferris Research white paper looks at spam: what it is, how it is
sent, and how it is filtered. It unravels the complexities and gives an
accessible, factual overview into the scourge of spam.
July 22, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how Event-triggered marketing has seen five times the response rate of non-timed mass-marketing campaigns and how your company can take advantage of event-based marketing by using Infor CRM Epiphany Outbound Marketing suite.
August 20, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the CMS (configuration management system) as emphasized in ITIL V3, and explores how it differs from a CMDB. Further, it shows how a CMS increases your ability to make better IT decisions that impact business agility, productivity, and quality of service.
August 2008 - (Free Research) In studying the best practices in strategic meeting management, there's proven evidence that a "managed" meetings program can generate significant and immediate cost savings for corporations of all sizes.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) white paper highlights a number of specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI and other benefits, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and explains why most current approaches to virtual system management fall short.
September 2009 - (Free Research) SOA governance is comprised of the strategies and technologies that ensure a SOA is developed to meet company standards and expectations.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Lead scoring is often touted as the new secret sauce that transforms marketing from art to science. This guide will walk you through the process step-by-step, ensuring you have just what you need to drive continuous lead engagement, satisfy the needs of your salespeople, and play a key role in the generation of revenues.
January 2001 - (Free Research) The FACTS MANAGED CARE SUITE provides a full range of reports to help you manage your organization, design plan requirements, and control and monitor costs.
April 2008 - (Free Research) Volt Information Sciences, Inc. provides staffing services, telecommunications, and information solutions to Fortune 100 customers. Executives completed an in-depth request for proposal process to narrow CRM solution options to four enterprise alternatives. They selected Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM because it best met the firm's usability, user..
April 2009 - (Free Research) Lucid Imagination brings market-leading expertise to open source enterprise search, and can help any organization quickly design and optimize search solutions based on Lucene and Solr.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
July 2009 - (Free Research) With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP.
June 2008 - (Free Research) A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports.
June 2009 - (Free Research) In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business, to keep ahead of the competition, and to grow revenue. With reduced funding for new initiatives, it can be difficult to meet these objectives. Read on to learn how expanding your business intelligence with predictive analysis can help.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Join IT Knowledge Exchange for a LIVE chat hosted by Microsoft Unified Messaging and Exchange experts Frank Byrum, Ed Banti, and Yesim Koman. Sign up for a reminder today and join our chat LIVE on November 12th from 11AM EST to 2PM EST.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Join Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology evangelist Phillip Haase in this webcast to learn about the Microsoft strategy and investments in enterprise CRM solutions and to understand how these solutions address the requirements for users, management, and IT.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Since its introduction nearly 10 years ago, Apache Lucene has become a competitive player for developing extensible, high-performance full-text search solutions. This white paper describes the new features and improvements in the latest version, Apache Lucene 2.9.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Organizations have long known that implementing their records management initiatives is challenging. People and processes are both important elements, but choosing the right records management solution can be the difference between success and failure. Read on to learn about selecting the right records management solution for your organization.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Join us for an informative discussion about how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?
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