In this new white paper, learn how SQL Server’s event notifications and extended events help prevent performance challenges. See how you can ensure maximum SQL Server performance, and solve problems before they become problems! Read the white paper now.

In this white paper, learn more about SCOM’s limitations when it comes to really understanding and managing database performance. Then, see how you can go well beyond basic monitoring, and how to quickly address – and correct – SQL Server performance issues.

Many development organizations rely on outsourcing for various stages of the application development process, but outsourcing does not often live up to the promised cost savings, and can actually result in final products that are over budget, delivered late and have missing or unusable features. This informative white paper explores the root causes of why outsourcing does not deliver on its promises, and offers an approach to eliminate these issues using a four-part strategy of processes, standards, practices and requirements management. Read on to learn how to obtain the benefits of outsourcing without the problems now!

How Organizations Are improving Project Success Rates.

Don’t let these 7 software roadblocks sabotage the big changes you’re expected to deliver this year. Find out what you need to know to move them out of your path.

Download our Whitepaper on The Rework Tax, where we examine the impact of poor requirements on the entire software development process and what you can do to dramatically reduce rework.

This paper introduces an enterprise requirements platform that enables business and IT stakeholders to author, validate, and manage the requirements process collaboratively.

"Learn how savvy enterprises, like Tickets.com, Verisign and Omnicare, use ServiceNow as a platform to enable business users to rapidly create applications with IT’s full guidance and support. During this webinar, you will discover how ServiceNow is enabling organizations to increase their competitive agility, user satisfaction and productivity, all while enhancing IT's value to the business."

While the concept of big data is nothing new, the tools and technology and now in place for companies of all types and sizes to take full advantage. Enterprises in industries such as media, entertainment, and research and development have long been dealing with data in large volumes and unstructured formats - data that changes in near real time. However, extracting meaning from this data has been prohibitive, often requiring custom-built, expensive technology. Now, thanks to advancements in storage and analytics, all organizations can leverage big data to gain the insight needed to make their businesses more agile, innovative, and competitive.

Competitive enterprises that embark on big data strategies do so with the expectation that their businesses will transform. They don't just want answers from the data they collect and analyze, they want results. Be it with small, fledgling trials or large, cross-functional efforts, these enterprises want to see clearly how big data can make a difference - with their customers, their processes, their bottom lines and, most important, with growing the business.

By combining communications tools such as instant messaging, presence, telephony, unified messaging, video conferencing, data sharing, and email, the technology known as unified communications (UC) lets your employees communicate and collaborate,

Data center consolidation and migration projects are fraught with risk. By using Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems to get a handle on dependency information, usage information, change impact information, and post-change problem identification, IT organizations can significantly reduce risk by automating and improving the planning process and minimizing disruption during implementation. Download this informative Riverbed white paper to learn more.

This document introduces Neverfail Heartbeat, a technology that enables the protection of applications against many potential failures, including application failure, operating system failures, and hardware, network or site failures, at a reasonable cost.

Decision-making is at the core of all business activity, as executives set strategy and manage operations by weighing a vast array of factors to arrive at the desired balance of risk and reward. The enormous growth of companies' size and operations in recent years-particularly across borders-is making this process increasingly complex. It is cause for alarm, then, that executives themselves perceive the quality of decision-making at their companies as mixed at best.

Learn from today's sales leaders who have benefited from building a sales strategy based on a position of deep customer knowledge.

In this paper, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data.

Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their "2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling." The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software.

Learn why the requirement to close books quickly and with quality is emerging again as an important project for today's global finance function.

In this paper, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data.

The Economist Intelligence Unit examines the lessons learned from the current financial crisis, and proposes ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.

Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations.  However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow.  

CRM is a business strategy that helps organizations cope with three of today´s most urgent business imperatives generating new growth, attaining operational excellence and enhancing competitive agility.

High-tech companies face a range of complex business challenges due to global expansion, shifting demographics, and continuous competitive pressures. Read why the high-tech HR organization finds itself at the forefront of many of these challenges, and what they must do to rise above them.

In this white paper, you'll see how Lotus Notes 8.5 boosts bandwidth by storing one copy of attachments, rather than allowing duplicate via threads. You'll also discover how upgrading lets you elevate collaboration and enhance efficiency with tools that empower users to take action, create and share knowledge, and collaborate with teams.

Read this astounding case study to see how migrating to IBM Lotus software with a broadly functional messaging platform increased the efficiency and support of mobile users for the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Then you'll learn how your own business can improve communications, drive down costs and eliminate the need for additional Web software.