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The Impact of a Total Cost of Ownership Model
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Operators are increasingly focused on a basic formula: capital and operational costs divided by revenue. As investments in capital equipment and operational costs increase, the revenue for some...
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Accenture Testing Services: Engaging Its Consulting Strength To Drive Testing Transformation
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Accenture's testing services practice skillfully blends its consulting heritage and experience with a quality assurance mindset that aims at helping clients move toward transforming quality into a...
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Pervasive Business Intelligence
November 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. BI and data warehouse (DW) tools and analytic applications ? a set of technologies and processes...
Provided by IDC
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Improving Organizational Performance Management Through Pervasive Business Intelligence
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Evidence of the competitive value of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. Fact-based decision making is spreading throughout commercial, nonprofit, and public sector...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Reflections On The Continued Growth Of The Mobile Communications Industry
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In barely more than 25 years, mobile telephony has undergone three generations of technological change and stands on the threshold of a fourth. Anchored in cellular technologies and architecture,...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Leveraging Next-Generation HLR Solutions
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The global telecommunications industry has evolved; today's Service Providers (SPs) face continuous pressure to win more profitable customers and maintain their competitiveness. One key challenge...
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A Consumer Revolution In The Enterprise
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
And what they have at home, they want in the workplace. They want to use multiple electronic devices to access multiple Web-based applications, and they want to do so with the same ease at work...
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Common Short Codes: The Time is Now for Mobile Marketing and Outreach
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile marketing offers one of the most effective and rapidly evolving opportunities to engage with target audiences in new ways. In the developed world, the cell phone is the ubiquitous "Third...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Addressing Virtualization and High-Availability Needs with Sun Solaris Cluster
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise applications must continue running, even in the event of an unforeseen/unplanned outage. Outages can be caused by a number of events - hardware or software failures, network outages,...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
The Sun Certification and Team Performance: The Impact on Application Developers
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Application development environments are increasingly complex. The pace of innovation is brisk. Legacy modernization, especially leveraging 3GL technology and integrated development environments,...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
The Sun Certification and Team Performance: The Impact on System Administrators
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
CIOs and IT managers demand an integrated approach to business continuity, fault resistant and high-availability architecture designs, a reduction in unplanned downtime, and vastly increased...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
The Proven Professional Certification: Proving Certification Can Profit
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This IDC paper analyzes the career impact of IT professionals who are certified EMC Proven Professionals. EMC, in conjunction with IDC, fielded this survey in November 2009 to a population of...
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Cloud Computing Drives Break through Improvementsin IT Service Delivery, Speed,and Costs
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers. It allows decision makers to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of...
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Nolio Application Service Automation: An Application-Centric Approach to Datacenter Automation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Driven by increased adoption of services-based computing, virtualization technologies, and mixed private and public cloud computing, enterprise datacenter ww.idc.com applications are evolving from...
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Identity and Access Management for Approaching Clouds
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is in the process of changing the enterprise IT landscape. Formal and informal surveys of IT management professionals provide strong evidence that cloud computing not only is here...
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Automation and Integration Vital for Efficient Data center Operations
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Today enterprise datacenters are experiencing a number of operational challenges as they strive to implement virtualization, prepare for cloud computing, and accommodate increased demands to...
Provided by IDC
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The Journey to Private Cloud - Taking the first step
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The modern IT organization is changing. IT organizations need to increasingly deliver IT through a services orientated model. As such, leveraging consolidated and convergent infrastructure will...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Cloud Computing Drives Break through Improvements in IT Service Delivery, Speed, and Costs
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers. It allows decision makers to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Building Virtualized Datacenters and Private Clouds: The Critical Role of Unified and Converged IT Infrastructure
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The stresses associated with the economic crisis is driving several fundamental changes in business executives' attitudes towards and priorities for IT investments. Put simply, senior executives...
Provided by IDC
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Virtual Storage Delivers a Three-Dimensional Approach to Storage Scaling
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The foundation for the effective and efficient transformation of the traditional siloed data center to the next-generation highly virtualized dynamic data center requires not only the...
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Business Value Of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling The Storage Solution: Leveraging The Storage Investment
November 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Today's challenging business environment demands that IT managers extend the business value of past and future IT investments while boosting the efficiency of their IT operations. Despite...
Provided by IDC
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Dynamic IT: The Impact Of Virtualisation
December 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
The storage system is really the foundation for data management. So when IT wants to enable datacenter-to-datacenter recovery in a virtualized environment, the abilities of the storage systems and...
Provided by IDC
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Achieving Business Value With Network And Application Visibility
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The author conducted nine in-depth interviews with current Riverbed Cascade customers in order to obtain qualitative information about the end-user experience since deploying the network and...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Increasing Business Performance : Using Virtualization For SAP Applications On IBM System Pservers
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Each of the CIO experiences their outline in this paper is unique, but there are a number of common factors. This section summarizes the main findings of this research. SAP applications are...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Leveraging A Dynamic Application Infrastructure For Effective Private Cloud Computing
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Common to all cloud computing models is the expectation that they will reduce costs, provide faster time to value, and improve reliability. These potential benefits have riveted the attention of...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
The Business Value Of Large-Scale Server Consolidation
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
At the datacenter level, the proliferation of small servers has introduced a set of pressing agenda items for IT staffers to address: managing large numbers of servers; maintaining all of the...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Mobile Line-of-Business Applications For The Midsize Business : An ROI Analysis
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile solutions continue to make inroads into companies of all sizes. Once perceived as an ad hoc solution or tool, mobile solutions have become key components of core business processes. The...
Provided by IDC
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Microsoft Online Services : Giving Businesses A New Choice For Productivity Tools
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper takes a look at three myths that are used to explain and even justify why over 85% of all organizations still run their own email and other productivity tools software. The...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Driving Sales Performance By Effectively Managing Incentive Compensation
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This White Paper examines the key factors contributing to the rising deployment of automated sales incentive compensation management solutions, discussing the many factors that are driving their...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Business Intelligence/Performance Management Applications: Profiles Of Successful Hospital Case Studies
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper presents the findings and analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with nine senior executives and system architects at three prestigious teaching hospitals acknowledged to be...
Provided by IDC
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Business Transaction Management : Facilitating The Management Of Virtual Environments
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One emerging technology that can help address the problem of managing performance in a virtualized environment is Business Transaction Management (BTM). BTM focuses on business transactions as the...
Provided by IDC
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Stream Global Services: Differentiated Services, Consistent Performance, A Worldwide Stage
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
These are challenging times in the realm of business process outsourcing (BPO). 2010 sits mired in a troubled economic setting, even as more complex customer demographics and expectations push...
Provided by IDC
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Coordinating Marketing And Sales Across The Entire Revenue Cycle
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As B2B customers become more sophisticated and competition increases, the integration of marketing and sales becomes more critical for meeting and exceeding market demands. And the cost for this...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Both Businesses And Bankers See The ROI Of Digital Services
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In early 2009, Financial Insights conducted a global survey of businesses and bankers regarding their investments in and use of financial digital services. Financial digital services are defined...
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Digital Services Play A Key Part In Customer Acquisition And Retention
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In early 2009, Financial Insights conducted a global consumer survey and in-depth bank interviews on financial digital services. Financial digital services are defined as the distribution of...
Provided by IDC
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Digital Services: Building A Foundation For User Experience
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Digital services encompass the online and increasingly mobile interactions financial institutions have with their customers. The next wave of digital services are being developed and deployed by...
Provided by IDC
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Comparison Of Approaches To Improving Employee Onboarding And Offboarding Processes
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
HR departments are beset by a variety of pressures, including the need to support cost reductions, consolidations, mergers, regulatory changes, and increasing demands to improve core HR processes....
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Evaluation Criteria For Selecting A Successful Business Performance Management Solution
January 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Business Performance Management (BPM) (sometimes called Corporate Performance (CPM) or Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)) means many things, but in the software world BPM is defined as...
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Case Studies
Alphawest Builds on Cisco UCS for its Cloud Computing Solution
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Alphawest Services faces the challenges to building a world-class infrastructure for delivering a private virtual datacenter offering. They deployed to Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS),...
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Whitepapers
Improving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software drives competitive business success in a global economy. In that context, software quality is key and costs of defects late in the life cycle become prohibitive. Increasingly, therefore,...
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Whitepapers
Effective Data Leak Prevention Programs: Start by Protecting Data at the Source
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Data, data everywhere. Organizations rely on data for business operations. The information being created, collected, and stored is valuable to everyday operations, and it creates opportunities and...
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Whitepapers
Past as a Guidepost to the Future: Reflections on the Continued Growth of the Mobile Communications Industry
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In barely more than 25 years, mobile telephony has undergone three generations of technological change and stands on the threshold of a fourth. Anchored in cellular technologies and architecture,...
Provided by IDC
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Whitepapers
Addressing WAN Optimization in the Integrated Services Router
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of WAN optimization in recent years has resulted in significant gains to the enterprise in terms of application performance, reduced network costs, and improved employee productivity...
Provided by IDC
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Whitepapers
Improving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software drives competitive business success in a global economy. In that context, software quality is key and costs of defects late in the life cycle become prohibitive. Increasingly, therefore,...
Provided by IDC
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Case Studies
Alphawest Builds on Cisco UCS for its Cloud Computing Solution
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Alphawest Services faces the challenges to building a world-class infrastructure for delivering a private virtual datacenter offering. They deployed to Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS),...
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Comparison Of Approaches To Improving Employee Onboarding And Offboarding Processes
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
HR departments are beset by a variety of pressures, including the need to support cost reductions, consolidations, mergers, regulatory changes, and increasing demands to improve core HR processes....
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Digital Services: Building A Foundation For User Experience
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Digital services encompass the online and increasingly mobile interactions financial institutions have with their customers. The next wave of digital services are being developed and deployed by...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Digital Services Play A Key Part In Customer Acquisition And Retention
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In early 2009, Financial Insights conducted a global consumer survey and in-depth bank interviews on financial digital services. Financial digital services are defined as the distribution of...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Both Businesses And Bankers See The ROI Of Digital Services
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In early 2009, Financial Insights conducted a global survey of businesses and bankers regarding their investments in and use of financial digital services. Financial digital services are defined...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Coordinating Marketing And Sales Across The Entire Revenue Cycle
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As B2B customers become more sophisticated and competition increases, the integration of marketing and sales becomes more critical for meeting and exceeding market demands. And the cost for this...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Stream Global Services: Differentiated Services, Consistent Performance, A Worldwide Stage
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
These are challenging times in the realm of business process outsourcing (BPO). 2010 sits mired in a troubled economic setting, even as more complex customer demographics and expectations push...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Business Transaction Management : Facilitating The Management Of Virtual Environments
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One emerging technology that can help address the problem of managing performance in a virtualized environment is Business Transaction Management (BTM). BTM focuses on business transactions as the...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Business Intelligence/Performance Management Applications: Profiles Of Successful Hospital Case Studies
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper presents the findings and analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with nine senior executives and system architects at three prestigious teaching hospitals acknowledged to be...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Driving Sales Performance By Effectively Managing Incentive Compensation
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This White Paper examines the key factors contributing to the rising deployment of automated sales incentive compensation management solutions, discussing the many factors that are driving their...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Microsoft Online Services : Giving Businesses A New Choice For Productivity Tools
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper takes a look at three myths that are used to explain and even justify why over 85% of all organizations still run their own email and other productivity tools software. The...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Mobile Line-of-Business Applications For The Midsize Business : An ROI Analysis
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile solutions continue to make inroads into companies of all sizes. Once perceived as an ad hoc solution or tool, mobile solutions have become key components of core business processes. The...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
The Business Value Of Large-Scale Server Consolidation
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
At the datacenter level, the proliferation of small servers has introduced a set of pressing agenda items for IT staffers to address: managing large numbers of servers; maintaining all of the...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Leveraging A Dynamic Application Infrastructure For Effective Private Cloud Computing
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Common to all cloud computing models is the expectation that they will reduce costs, provide faster time to value, and improve reliability. These potential benefits have riveted the attention of...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Increasing Business Performance : Using Virtualization For SAP Applications On IBM System Pservers
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Each of the CIO experiences their outline in this paper is unique, but there are a number of common factors. This section summarizes the main findings of this research. SAP applications are...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Achieving Business Value With Network And Application Visibility
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The author conducted nine in-depth interviews with current Riverbed Cascade customers in order to obtain qualitative information about the end-user experience since deploying the network and...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Dynamic IT: The Impact Of Virtualisation
December 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
The storage system is really the foundation for data management. So when IT wants to enable datacenter-to-datacenter recovery in a virtualized environment, the abilities of the storage systems and...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Business Value Of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling The Storage Solution: Leveraging The Storage Investment
November 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Today's challenging business environment demands that IT managers extend the business value of past and future IT investments while boosting the efficiency of their IT operations. Despite...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Virtual Storage Delivers a Three-Dimensional Approach to Storage Scaling
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The foundation for the effective and efficient transformation of the traditional siloed data center to the next-generation highly virtualized dynamic data center requires not only the...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Building Virtualized Datacenters and Private Clouds: The Critical Role of Unified and Converged IT Infrastructure
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The stresses associated with the economic crisis is driving several fundamental changes in business executives' attitudes towards and priorities for IT investments. Put simply, senior executives...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing Drives Break through Improvements in IT Service Delivery, Speed, and Costs
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers. It allows decision makers to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
The Journey to Private Cloud - Taking the first step
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The modern IT organization is changing. IT organizations need to increasingly deliver IT through a services orientated model. As such, leveraging consolidated and convergent infrastructure will...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Automation and Integration Vital for Efficient Data center Operations
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Today enterprise datacenters are experiencing a number of operational challenges as they strive to implement virtualization, prepare for cloud computing, and accommodate increased demands to...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Identity and Access Management for Approaching Clouds
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is in the process of changing the enterprise IT landscape. Formal and informal surveys of IT management professionals provide strong evidence that cloud computing not only is here...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Nolio Application Service Automation: An Application-Centric Approach to Datacenter Automation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Driven by increased adoption of services-based computing, virtualization technologies, and mixed private and public cloud computing, enterprise datacenter ww.idc.com applications are evolving from...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing Drives Break through Improvementsin IT Service Delivery, Speed,and Costs
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers. It allows decision makers to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
The Proven Professional Certification: Proving Certification Can Profit
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This IDC paper analyzes the career impact of IT professionals who are certified EMC Proven Professionals. EMC, in conjunction with IDC, fielded this survey in November 2009 to a population of...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
The Sun Certification and Team Performance: The Impact on System Administrators
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
CIOs and IT managers demand an integrated approach to business continuity, fault resistant and high-availability architecture designs, a reduction in unplanned downtime, and vastly increased...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
The Sun Certification and Team Performance: The Impact on Application Developers
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Application development environments are increasingly complex. The pace of innovation is brisk. Legacy modernization, especially leveraging 3GL technology and integrated development environments,...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Addressing Virtualization and High-Availability Needs with Sun Solaris Cluster
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise applications must continue running, even in the event of an unforeseen/unplanned outage. Outages can be caused by a number of events - hardware or software failures, network outages,...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Common Short Codes: The Time is Now for Mobile Marketing and Outreach
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile marketing offers one of the most effective and rapidly evolving opportunities to engage with target audiences in new ways. In the developed world, the cell phone is the ubiquitous "Third...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
A Consumer Revolution In The Enterprise
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
And what they have at home, they want in the workplace. They want to use multiple electronic devices to access multiple Web-based applications, and they want to do so with the same ease at work...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Leveraging Next-Generation HLR Solutions
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The global telecommunications industry has evolved; today's Service Providers (SPs) face continuous pressure to win more profitable customers and maintain their competitiveness. One key challenge...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Reflections On The Continued Growth Of The Mobile Communications Industry
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In barely more than 25 years, mobile telephony has undergone three generations of technological change and stands on the threshold of a fourth. Anchored in cellular technologies and architecture,...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Improving Organizational Performance Management Through Pervasive Business Intelligence
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Evidence of the competitive value of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. Fact-based decision making is spreading throughout commercial, nonprofit, and public sector...
Provided by IDC
-
White Papers
Pervasive Business Intelligence
November 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. BI and data warehouse (DW) tools and analytic applications ? a set of technologies and processes...
Provided by IDC
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