WHITE PAPER - Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.
Posted: March 12, 2012 | Published: September 6, 2011


Topics:  Competition | Cost Benefit Analysis | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | DB2 | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Managed print services (MPS) offer organisations the opportunity to control costs, reduce the complexity of managing a heterogeneous infrastructure and improve business processes.
Posted: October 21, 2011 | Published: October 11, 2010


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services

WHITE PAPER - Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.
Posted: October 20, 2011 | Published: October 22, 2010


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Productivity

WHITE PAPER - Access this exclusive resource to get best practices on addressing the typical infrastructure challenges facing today’s data center managers. Discover how an integrated infrastructure can address an organization’s unique business needs while increasing efficiency, ensuring availability and reducing cost of deployment or ownership.
Posted: July 7, 2011 | Published: July 7, 2011


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | High Availability | Integration Server Hardware | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.
Posted: May 5, 2011 | Published: May 5, 2011


Topics:  Blade Servers | Budgeting | Cost Benefit Analysis | Infrastructure Management | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options.
Posted: April 21, 2011 | Published: April 21, 2011


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning Software | Cost Benefit Analysis | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing Software | Software as a Service | Vendor Selection

WHITE PAPER - This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.
Posted: April 21, 2011 | Published: April 21, 2011


Topics:  Backups | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments | IT Best Practices | IT Spending | Private Cloud | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Cloud computing promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. Intel’s vision for the future of this technology focuses on key principles to make the vision a reality. View this resource to learn more.
Posted: April 7, 2011 | Published: April 7, 2011


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Cloud Computing | Cloud Security | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Security | Infrastructure Management

WHITE PAPER - The new economics of terminal emulation enables organizations to cut costs from the IT infrastructure while continuing to provide users with a productive, innovative, fully de-risked and supported working environment.
Posted: April 6, 2011 | Published: April 6, 2011


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Customer Service | IT Infrastructure | Mainframe Computers | Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) | Productivity | Terminal Emulation Software | User Interfaces

WHITE PAPER - NOSQL data stores are proliferating as a means of supporting web-scale data. There are a wide variety of NOSQL systems, each with their own set of use-cases and advantages. This paper describes the primary NOSQL data sources in the market today and how to integrate them with other sources using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform.
Posted: March 31, 2011 | Published: March 31, 2011


Topics:  Application Programming Interfaces | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Management | Data Storage | Databases | Enterprise Information Management (EIM) | SQL | SQL Server | XML

WHITE PAPER - Schalleur, Devine & Surgent (SDS) is a mid‐sized Certified Public Accounting agency with over 30 employees comprised of CPAs and other certified professionals based in Devon, Pennsylvania.
Posted: February 9, 2011 | Published: February 8, 2011


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Customer Privacy | Data Migration | Data Security | Messaging Security | Microsoft Outlook

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help address 5 areas of concern: compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity. The needs of the A&D market aren’t easily addressed by one-size-fits-all products.
Posted: February 4, 2011 | Published: February 4, 2011


Topics:  Aerospace and Defense Industry | Competition | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Compliance reporting software | Cost Benefit Analysis | Lean Production | Manufacturing Industry | Reporting Software | Software Selection | Work Breakdown Structure

WHITE PAPER - Dolphin’s Content Archive Service for Cloud lets SAP users use Storage as a Service as an ArchiveLink repository. The service allows a direct connection from the SAP archiving layer to major public cloud provider. It’s an option that makes sense for any organization, whether or not you are running other SAP solutions in the cloud.
Posted: January 10, 2011 | Published: January 10, 2011


Topics:  Architectures | Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Document Management | Document Management Software | Enterprise Applications Software | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product) | Storage Management | Storage Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Nissen Chemitec America has utilized several different systems to manage enterprise operations but these systems weren’t designed to meet the specific needs of automotive injection molding suppliers. Nissen selected EnterpriseIQ because it meets manufacturing-specific functionality and automotive industry requirements in a single-database system.
Posted: January 6, 2011 | Published: January 6, 2011


Topics:  Automotive Industry | Cost Benefit Analysis | EDI | Enterprise Applications Software | ERP | ERP Software | Lean Production | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Software | ROI | SaaS ERP | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth.
Posted: January 6, 2011 | Published: January 6, 2011


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Economic Environment | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | ROI | Small Businesses | SMBs | Software Implementation | Strategic Planning | Vendor Selection