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To help enterprises create trusted insight as the volume, velocity and variety of data continue to explode, IBM offers several solutions designed to help organizations uncover previously unavailable insights and use them to support and inform decisions across the business.

Our objective in this Checklist Report is to share best practices that will position the reader to take advantage of a cloud-based data warehousing solution.

Cloud-based data presents a wealth of potential information for organizations seeking to build and maintain competitive advantage in their industries. However, as discussed in “The truth about information governance and the cloud,” most organizations will be challenged to reconcile their legacy on-premises data with new third-party cloud-based data. It is within these “hybrid” environments that people will look for insights to make critical decisions.

This video explores the four governance elements you must get right to take full advantage of the hybrid cloud while ensuring your data remains secure and trustworthy.

An interactive white paper describing how to get smart about insider threat prevention - including how to guard against privileged user breaches, stop data breaches before they take hold, and take advantage of global threat intelligence and third-party collaboration. Security breaches are all over the news, and it can be easy to think that all the enemies are outside your organization. But the harsh reality is that more than half of all attacks are caused by either malicious insiders or inadvertent actors.1 In other words, the attacks are instigated by people you’d be likely to trust. And the threats can result in significant financial or reputational losses.

Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering. Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure. Download this premium guide to understand how HCI can • Provide the resilience, scalability and performance to run all your applications without compromise. • Design the data center as a fluid resource that can immediately adapt to the evolving needs of the business. • Enable agility with scale-out architecture that eliminates the need to rip and replace for seamless growth and scale.

The survey findings paint an interesting picture - and an interesting disconnect. The very features that businesses are demanding before they will move to a SaaS solution (such as proven cost-effectiveness advantages over on-premise solutions) are benefits that many businesses are already enjoying from their SaaS solutions.

You want to maximize the potential offered by new technologies and establish an advantage over your competitors. But you know the latest IT developments can also bring new security challenges.

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.

MarketBridge, a leading global provider of sales and marketing services, surveyed 493 senior and upper management-level business professionals in a variety of functional roles at leading international corporations to learn more about their company's language-learning needs. Please download this free white paper for more information.

As companies seek to gain a competitive advantage when tapping into new markets, two major trends have emerged. Read this white paper to learn more.

Just like a house needs a good foundation, a finance system needs the right technology. Workday took a fresh approach to technology to give finance a distinct advantage in analytics, close and consolidation, growth, and more. See how Workday helps finance become a strategic partner.

Rethink the way you plan, budget, and forecast. This webinar, hosted by Workday and featuring Paul Hamerman of Forrester Research, provides insight into the advantages of: Uniting organizational, workforce, and financial data Collaborating with stakeholders and planning participants Guiding the business with reporting, dashboards, and scorecards Watch the webinar replay to learn best practices for planning, budgeting, and forecasting that’ll help your organization succeed.

Despite slower initial adoption, more finance leaders are now turning to public cloud SaaS for their applications. This joint video between Gartner Research and Workday explores why the financials market is shifting and what advantages await finance leaders in the cloud.

These four resources will help you take advantage of the latest CIO tech trends and understand the importance of a true cloud solution.

You've dipped your toe into the virtualization waters, and now you'd like to learn how you can dive in and fully reap the money-saving and business-building advantages.

This white paper will explain DCIM as well as provide technology advice on teh tools and practices for its implementation and use, and how to take advantage of DCIM to improve energy efficiency and effectiveness in the data center.

See for yourself how easy it is to implement RSA Archer Business Continuity Management & Operations right out of the box. Try it free for 30 days, then take advantage of the special purchase offer through 7/31/13.

Download this whitepaper to learn how your enterprise can leverage a powerful new technology to learn about each prospect from the first click on a website or ‘Like’ on a social media page.

Learn three reasons that being a competitive employer of choice demands that you take advantage of a cloud-based, paperless system for generating and storing pay stubs and the increasing amount of data they contain.

Data is critical to the entertainment industry and not taking advantage of it can keep you from creating great experiences and delivering the right content to partners. And, more than that, it can make it hard for you to optimize operations, get insight into the content’s value and stay ahead of the many changes in how content is created, consumed and monetized. However, even with the new digital tools in production, there are many challenges to making use of this data. The effort involved can take time and resources away from film production, introduce security risks, and leave key data inaccessible to those that need it. In this paper, we review: • The current state of production data • The challenges the entertainment industry is facing in making use of data • A new “Smart Content” approach that is helping industry pioneers to reduce complexity on the set, drive reporting, and enable them to stay ahead of market changes

The traditional functions of a time and attendance system still matter, but newer solutions can deliver so much more. Join this informative webcast to learn some of specific advantages that cloud delivery offers for time and attendance, and for an update on the security best practices that vendors should employ to keep your system—and your data—safe. The presenters will also describe how a modern solution can improve decision-making, boost productivity, and provide a better view of your total workforce.

Taking advantage of a variety of private and public cloud services.

Are misperceptions preventing your company from taking advantage of the cloud? Discover why common objections to cloud backup are based on myths rather than reality.

Read this white paper to learn why your data is being wasted and how to take advantage of customer analytics.