All Research Sponsored By:IBM

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Drive business value with innovation for security defense
This white paper details an integrated approach to security that can help your company address security threats while supporting compliance and protecting data, Internet-based systems, physical environments and applications.
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Patterns for REST Services with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
This white paper explores how to better implement an SOA based on the REST architecture through the use of SOA appliances.
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Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
Learn how DB2 can help you meet the demands of business intelligence by reducing query response time from hours to seconds, supporting real time data warehousing, and optimizing your storage while lowering operating costs.
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Cyber Attacks on the Rise: IBM 2007 Report
This white paper shows how the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® research and development team discovered, analyzed and recorded new vulnerabilities and the status of varying threats throughout the first six months of this year.
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Effectively Manage Access to Systems and Information to Help Optimize Integrity and Facilitate Compliance
This paper details a comprehensive, standards-based approach that integrates access control and identity management and enables you to cost-effectively provide users with access to applications and data while protecting assets from unauthor...
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How CIOs Can Drive Growth, Business Flexibility and Innovation in a Flex-Pon-Sive* Company
Aligning IT with business and focusing on business models and processes is the key to enabling flexibility. Read this paper to learn how SOA can help your organization improve its flexibility while increasing revenue.
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The New CIO: Change Partner and Business Leader
While all CIOs understand the importance leveraging technology, most of the organizations they serve do not fully use technology to drive growth and innovation. Learn how to become more of a business leader and change partner in your organization.