All Research Sponsored By:IBM
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The Business Value of Web 2.0 Technology
It's fast becoming a Web 2.0 world. Read this paper to learn how to take advantage of new technologies and tap into the collective knowledge of employees, customers, and influencers.
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Site and Facilities Services from IBM - Success Stories: A Guide to Client References
As energy costs rise, so does the demand to reduce data center costs. In this white paper, you'll learn about IBM® Project Big Green's five-step approach to increasing your data center's energy efficiency.
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An Examination of Server Consolidation - Trends That Can Drive Efficiencies and Help Businesses Gain a Competitive Edge
The white paper also describes areas of savings and provides advice on sustaining your new environment.
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Retail Opportunities in a World of Extremes: Understanding Today's Teens and Boomers
This IBM study focused on two groups – teens and boomers. It explores their lifestyles, values, and particular preferences and attitudes toward shopping. Read this paper to learn how retailers can better meet the needs of these two segments.
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IT Optimization as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage
This white paper highlights the costs of IT asset proliferation and the advantages of the IBM view of IT optimization as a strategic, ongoing process.
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Mastering Carbon Management: Balancing Trade-offs to Optimize Supply Chain Efficiencies
Taking into account traditional concerns about quality, service and cost, a comprehensive carbon-management strategy can build a base for sustaining growth -- enabling companies to maintain competitive differentiation.
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A Day in a Low Carbon Life: What Might It Be like to Lead a Business in 2012?
This entertaining paper describes a day in the life of a fictional Chief Executive Officer, preparing to face market analysts in 2012.
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The Outsourcing Decision for a Globally Integrated Enterprise: From Commodity Outsourcing to Value Creation
The ability to manage operations, expertise and resources more fluidly enables globally integrated enterprises to enter new markets and seize new business opportunities wherever they happen to arise.
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Telecom Switches Emphasis: Preliminary Analysis of the 2007 Telecom Industry Survey
As revenues from traditional telecom services decline, the continual erosion of technology barriers to adjacent industries offers the prospect of new markets for telecom providers.
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Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Core Banking Transformation with System z
This paper provides practical insights into global best practices and the strategic benefits of core banking transformation through the lens of the CEO, COO and CIO.
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The New Information Agenda: Do You Have One?
This white paper defines the information agenda; describes key considerations and best practices in creating and implementing an information agenda.
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Why Advocacy Matters to Grocers: Surveyed Consumers Give Retailers Food for Thought
Grocers can pursue customer-focused initiatives and investments with greater precision and success by concentrating on customer advocacy. This paper discusses the attitudes and behaviors that can do improve the level of advocacy among customers.
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Multi-channel Retailing: The Route to Customer Focus - Putting the Customer First by Moving from Multiple Channels to Multi-channel Retailing
This document elaborates on how successful retailers are using multichannel retailing to make operating model change to put the customer at the heart of their organisations.
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Keeping Your Data Center Cool - There Is Another Way
This white paper helps you to understand what's happening in an overheated system and to see if yours is at risk and also explains how the IBM Rear Door Heat exchanger helps to dramatically reduce data center power consumption.
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IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value of Information
XML has emerged as an important driver for SOA-enabled business agility and growth because it is not tied to any specific platform, language or system.
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Master Data Management: Effective Data Governance
This white paper will describe how engaging in a master data management (MDM) project enables effective governance of data-specifically master data-and achieves maturity in key categories of the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model.
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The New Information Agenda - Do You Have One?
The cost and complexity of managing increasing volumes of data and content, combined with the need to provide trusted information to every user for every transaction, is driving CIOs to rethink their approach to information delivery.
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The Art of the Possible: Rapidly Deploying Cost-Effective Energy-Efficient Data Centers
In this white paper, IBM® reveals the next generation data center: scalable, modular data centers (SMDC).
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Leveraging Information for Innovation and Competitive Advantage
This paper by Hurwitz & Associates provides an overview of what is required to create an environment that leverages information dynamically in your enterprise.
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Customer Service as a Competitive Advantage: IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions in Insurance
This paper explains how to excel at customer service using the best tools for the task.
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Choosing the Right Enterprise Report-Management System for Your Enterprise, Buyer's Guide: Purchasing Criteria
Download this buyer's guide to learn what you need from an enterprise report management solution.
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Case Management: Transformational Process Management in Government
IBM FileNet Business Process Framework is a framework that gives governments the ability to rapidly build a case management system.
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Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise
IBM's Optim™ Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise provides proven archiving capabilities.
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Optim Data Privacy Solution
The Optim™ Data Privacy Solution de-identifies application data so that it can be safely used in testing or training environments.
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The importance of security assessments
This white paper helps you understand the variety of security assessment options that are available and provides the criteria for selecting a vendor that can help you meet your company?s security requirements.