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Realize the ROI in Document Collaboration
The critical -- and often overlooked -- factor in a collaboration system is adoption. If the tools are difficult to learn and use, if they are slow, or if they don’t support all the devices, your users will defeat the tools, and work around them.
Cursed with a clumsy collaboration system, your users will collaborate by email attachment, losing track of revisions and risking moving forward with a wrong version. They will fax manual markups around. They will do whatever they find convenient, wasting the dollars spent on enabling collaboration and sacrificing most of the benefits.
In the end, the simple solution users will gladly adopt is a better way to go than a more powerful toolset they won’t touch. We invite you to read a short paper that describes a better solution. If your users are actively avoiding (or subverting) your enterprise collaboration systems, please read the paper today!
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Visual Discovery Tools
Visual discovery tools are self-service, in-memory analysis tools that enable business users to access and analyze data visually at the speed of thought with minimal or no IT assistance and then share the results of their discoveries with colleagues, usually in the form of an interactive dashboard.
As you’ll read in this informative technical paper, visual discovery tools are used by power users to explore and analyze data in a variety of systems; superusers and BI specialists to create interactive dashboards for colleagues; and casual users to view and work with those dashboards.
Visual discovery tools often replace desktop analysis tools like Excel and share most characteristics with multidimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) tools except write-back capabilities. They are now starting to bleed into other BI segments, particularly ad hoc and operational reporting, relational OLAP and big data analytics platforms.
Read this paper to learn everything about visual discovery tools – and how to use them to benefit your company (and reduce the load on your development team). The paper is written by Wayne Eckerson, Director, BI Leadership Research. Learn more – read the paper today!
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Selecting Devices for Mobile Testing
Since your customers demand a flawless experience, you must test your mobile apps and websites on the actual devices that they are using - at least the most popular ones representing each platform. Anything else increases your risk and costs.
As you’ll read in this short, informative paper, the devices you choose should be based on the preferences of your target market, using available internal analytics as well as market research. In order to ensure a timely and cost-effective ALM cycle, it is important to correlate the number of devices with the relevant testing stages.
While there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution, read the paper to see best practice guidelines for choosing the right mobile devices based on the "Must/Major/Market" model. These guidelines are well-suited to the majority of enterprises dealing with the challenges of deploying mobile services. Learn more, read the paper today!
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11 Key Questions About BI
According to Gartner, only 20% of employees use BI today. This falls far short of the potential transformative capabilities of BI throughout your company!
It’s time for BI that says Yes. Yes to the requirements of your budget, business, and business users. Yes to fewer compromises.
This short paper first looks at the fundamental requirements that a BI solution should deliver to your company. Next, this whitepaper covers the 11 Key Questions that you should be asking of a future BI technology partner. When the BI provider can answer Yes to all of these questions, you have BI that is capable of fulfilling your analytical and reporting needs both today and over time – it is flexible, powerful, and efficient. It is BI that says Yes.
Learn more about the top questions – and answers – you should be asking of your BI solution. Read the paper today!
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Why Cloud-Based Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence solutions in the cloud represent the unification of two key trends –the evolution of cloud computing as a cost effective, quick and efficient platform and the use of BI technology to gain insight and improve the quality and speed of business decisions.
Read this short paper to see how to make the most of BI, with respect to multi-source data capability, data discovery, analytics and reporting, scalability, automation and flexibility.
This white paper explores the 10 substantial aspects of BI-as-a-Service:
• Faster Return on Investment (ROI)
• Lower Implementation Costs
• Lower Ongoing Costs
• Increased Collaboration, Maximum Insight
• Easier Budget Approval
• Scalability
• Agility
• Multi Tenancy
• Greater Visibility
• Low Risk
Learn more – read the paper today!
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Bringing Sexy Back to the Enterprise Database
Database changes are typically handled by writing SQL scripts which are error-prone and difficult to create and manage. Writing scripts has become the status quo only because there's no other way. But, when multiple change scripts are involved in complex environments across distributed teams, determining the impact of changes in the production environment is nearly impossible.
In fact, every time you touch database schema there is a 76% chance it will break your application. Ouch! What could your team accomplish if you eliminated that probability?
As you will read in this short paper, faster and more accurate application deliveries are one benefit. You could also work through that backlog of change requests, take on new projects, and explore new and innovative functionality with your application team’s newly found capacity.
What would the implications be for your business?
More application improvements faster, reduced costs, shorter time to market and less downtime – those are competitive advantages.
Sound intriguing? Sexy? If you struggle with business critical application deployment, change management, configuration, release integration, and hand-off issues please read the paper today!
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2013 State of the Art in Application Performance Management
It’s ready for you – a collection of five timely, informative articles about application performance management (APM). The 2013 State of the Art and Trends is organized around the following five key trends that will impact how applications are managed and optimized:
• Complexity Will Continue to Accelerate Around Management of Business Critical Apps. IT environments continue to become more complex—at the edge of the internet, in the cloud and in the data center—increasing the need for new generation APM with unified, real-time insight across the application delivery chain, including third-party and cloud services.
• Performance Analytics Will Be a Requirement For a Complete APM Strategy. Organizations now collect unprecedented volumes of data. The key to making sense of this will be systems that automate analytics and deliver actionable insight and answers, not just more data.
• The Mobile Surge Will Drive the Industrialization of Mobile Applications. Users now access applications from an unprecedented number of mobile devices. Mobile applications are fast becoming the primary engagement model and mobile end users expect the same performance as from desktops.
• APM Will Become a Strategic Component of Big Data. Big data is trending from experimental projects to becoming an enterprise-wide analytics platform. Expanding data volume, variety, velocity, and complexity necessitates a new approach to enterprise analytics. Integrating new generation APM into big data environments will become a best practice for organizations to eliminate risks and costs associated with poor performance, availability, and scalability.
• A Lifecycle Approach to APM Will Drive Adoption of DevOps and Agile Operations. Leading organizations are already using new generation APM to support unified management of the application lifecycle—development, testing, and production. With DevOps and Agile gaining ground, more organizations will take a lifecycle approach to APM.
Learn more about what’s hot in APM by downloading this collection of articles today!
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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Testing and ASQ SaaS
Demand for solutions to test applications on the cloud and for the cloud is rising significantly as high-quality, well-performing software across platforms drives business innovation and competitive positioning.
As you’ll read in this report from research firm IDC, companies investing in software in an economy that remains volatile with constrained resources and complex deployment challenges are benefitting from and committing to automated software quality (ASQ) software as a service (SaaS) and adaptive testing infrastructure support for and in the cloud.
We are pleased to off you this IDC MarketScape — but only for a short time. If you care about the latest innovations in software quality and testing, download this IDC report and share it with your team today!
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Get to Know the Database Decision Factors
What should you look for when choosing a relational database system? This informative article by Robert Schneider of WiseClouds LLC begins by briefly explaining why the information management landscape has become so mystifying lately.
Robert offers five helpful overarching recommendations to help you make more informed decisions when picking a database for your organization. In a nutshell, he suggests that you evaluate databases using five key factors:
• Reliability
• Adaptability
• Scalability
• Predictability
• Manageability
To help bring these suggestions to life, Robert tie each of those five criteria to tangible business benefits. Get the details behind the database decision factors – read the article today!
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Exploring the Database Forest
Today’s database technology landscape is more dynamic and varied than ever before. What’s driving all of this activity? In this article, Robert Schneider of WiseClouds LLC explains that enterprises are capturing, storing, and using immeasurably larger quantities of information, and they’re retaining it for much longer, too. Secondly, there are many more data categories - such as video, images, and machine-generated metrics - in play now. Finally, there are bountiful new opportunities to take advantage of all this information.
Robert explains some of the most interesting trends that are shaking up the information management industry, along with the noticeable effects that these developments are having on IT, including why a ‘one-size-fits-all’ database platform isn’t a good idea given today’s complexities. Get the details – read this short article today!
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