An important part of pervasive BI systems is to ensure all people in a company have access to the information provided in business intelligence solutions. The problem is that not all people want to learn or use an advanced reporting solution. This is where e-mailing, automatic distribution and exception reporting come into play. Learn how business rules can streamline the distribution of your key information through email in real-time.

What steps are companies taking to grow their data environments while still reining in costs and complexity? This 31-page report from the IOUG ResearchWire and Unisphere Research confirms current and future virtualization strategies from responses provided by 381 enterprise-level information management professionals and members of the IOUG (Independent Oracle Users Group). Download compliments of Database Trends and Applications.

This month's special section of sponsored content, "Best Practices in Data Management," directly addresses some solutions to widespread enterprise data management challenges.

This report includes the input of over 4,000 companies during 2009 that run AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments, focusing on data protection and recovery technologies/strategies. Learn how your peers are striking the balance between the often conflicting priorities of IT availability, system performance, service level agreements, IT staffing and budgets.

Due to its integration into every aspect of your business, any lack of availability of your SAP® application, or its underlying data, represents a serious threat to your ability to deliver your products and services to your customers. This white paper will review the unique issues related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery in your SAP environment, including 2- and 3-tier architectures, and guide you in developing appropriate SAP data and application management strategies.

Composing CICS-based services is an effective way to do more with core resources and spend less. This white book explores how CICS Transaction Server, IBM Service Flow Feature, and HostBridge together meet the broadest possible range of CICS integration requirements in the most intelligent manner. It analyzes what CICS application types to compose as services, where and how to compose for optimal performance and fidelity, and how to make sound services decisions.

Choosing a Remote DBA Instead of a Full-Time Consultant

Many companies struggle with the increasing growth and complexity of their database environment and end up reaching outside their own organization for extra help.  In this paper, we will first define remote database administration (RDBA)/Database Administration As A Service®, discuss how it differs from an onsite consultant and help you determine if RDBA is right for your business.

Virtualization offers many benefits, but most IT organizations are missing out by focusing too much on the virtual infrastructure, and not enough on the mission-critical application workloads it supports. The result is inefficient operations, underachieved virtualization goals, and negative business impacts.

In this white paper, EMA VP of Research, Systems & Storage Management Andi Mann will highlight how enterprises can use advanced workload automation technologies in their virtual environments to:

• Increase server utilization, VM efficiency, and server consolidation ratios

• Reduce the time that senior staff are wasting on routine, mundane operations

• Leverage virtualization and automation to provide 'just-in-time' cloud computing services

This Whitepaper describes how the UC4 platform integrates with the VMware vSphere Server and the VMware vCenter Server. With this integration, UC4 Software has enabled customers to manage VMware tasks such as Deploy Virtual Machines, Power ON/Off, Create Snapshot, and others. Using the UC4 platform as the central administration tool, VMware tasks can now be part of the IT processes and part of the IT Housekeeping strategy.

Mainframe modernization takes many forms: providing a streamlined method for using mainframe information on other platforms, extending the mainframe to the Web, or making the mainframe an active participant in service-based composite applications. This Checklist Report details six ways to make the most of your mainframe investment. Download today!

This paper provides practical details on how to send and receive SMS text messages using a GSM modem.  These practical instructions are meant to illustrate how quickly you can exploit the value of your databases to become a player in the smart devices arena. 

The uncertain economic climate has put a damper on data security budgets, and organizations have made little progress safeguarding their data according to the results of the new 2009 IOUG survey. Read the "Investing in Data Security Pays Off" whitepaper to learn how to mitigate the risks exposed by the survey and find out more about some of the organizations who took the survey and are protecting their data while still containing costs.

The future of competitive advantage lies in managing and analyzing all the critical data entering a business environment. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can bring big data analytics to your organization, quickly and cost-effectively using Aster Data nCluster, The First MPP Database with Applications Inside.

Aster Data's SQL-MapReduce combines the power of MapReduce with the strengths of relational databases so business analysts and knowledge discoverers can quickly analyze and transform massive datasets. Developers can write rich analytic and transformation functions using MapReduce and easily invoke them through a standard SQL interface.

In this IDC Vendor Spotlight, IDC Research Vice President Carl Olofson outlines how new, memory-optimized, 64-bit native database technologies are helping to "create new economics for database management" and how "these database technologies provide new choices to database users seeking better performance and throughput at lower cost by exploiting the new economics of IT."

Are You Leveraging, Or Missing, An Opportunity?

Read Forrester's Thought Leadership Paper to find out how your peers plans for application modernization and migration stack up against your plans. The paper covers key findings such as today's modernization budget strength, drivers, and various modernization services in which firms expressed interest.

Most businesses today rely on the stability and power of Linux or Unix in their data centers. However, these venerable platforms also create some compliance and security challenges. Learn to maximize Linux and Unix while keeping your data safe and secure. Read this new Quest Software white paper today.

Enriched with a study from Gartner research, this paper will help you better understand why real-time information is now a business imperative and about the data integration/CDC software solutions that help you achieve it faster and more cost-effectively. Read on to learn more about these technologies and how you can achieve Operational Data Replication (ODR) and improved reporting/BI.

A rewind button for applications, files and transactions? That's what continuous data protection (CDP) technology provides to managers of  IBM AIX and i5/OS operating environments. CDP rapidly recovers accidentally deleted or otherwise corrupted data and provides many other valuable benefits. Read this informative eight-page paper to learn more about this breakthrough data protection technology.

This white paper provides a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data in AIX environments and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action. The paper also outlines the benefits of continuous data protection (CDP) technologies for AIX.

Escape from the constraints of closed and outdated Mainframe technologies. Modernize aging applications to support new and emerging architectures and technologies!

* Automated migration tools for ADABAS, VSAM, IMS, IDMS,

* Methodology proven in hundreds of modernization projects

Learn how today with the "10 Steps to Modernization" guide.

If you find that you're spending a growing percentage of your budget running your mainframe applications and databases, now is the time to modernize your legacy systems.
 
Download the Modernization Project ROI guide and learn how to assess Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and projected ROI for modernization projects, and how calculating ROI helps organizations better understand the financial impact of IT environment changes.

The Experience You Need for Legacy Modernization

Download the BluePhoenix Professional Services paper and learn how BluePhoenix delivers fast, cost effective and high quality modernization projects; predictable solutions founded on a combination of market proven migration tools and the know-how of our team of highly experienced professional service personnel.

This white paper explores how to make the functionality of VSAM-reliant CICS applications valuable to web services and SOA initiatives by resolving batch limitations. Read about the business and project issues for modernizing: keep existing applications with minor changes, move to a relational database, or move to a new database and rearchitect the application.

The Great BI Debate: On-site vs. SaaS

Business intelligence (BI) delivered under the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is gaining traction as a cost-effective solution for small-to-medium businesses that, historically, have been priced out of enterprise-level reporting capabilities. This complimentary white paper explores the key criteria to assess when making the decision between on-site and SaaS BI.

Mainframe infrastructures of today bear little resemblance to the rigid, monolithic systems of the past. Industry standards and integration tools have matured to provide increased flexibility and intuitive integrated development environments to simplify reusing legacy data sources in new application development initiatives. As this report has shown, utilizing zIIP specialty engines as part of your SOA enablement strategy can significantly lower mainframe TCO. However, without software to exploit the zIIP across multiple data and applications environments for Web services, SOA or data connectivity, its true potential cannot be realized. DataDirect Shadow is a single unified-platform, built exclusively for integration with IBM System z mainframes. It uses patent-pending technology to deliver broad exploitation of zIIP engines and enabling customers to deliver business systems that involve the System z platform in a timely manner and with a material reduction in overall TCO. DataDirect Shadow provides a new benchmark in mainframe integration, one that not only allows the mainframe to be a full participant within an SOA, but extends the value of the platform to business by enabling it take on new workloads with dramatically reduced costs.

In today's world of round the clock operations, online commerce and tough compliance regulations, you need more than tape backup to protect your AIX operating environments. This informative paper outlines the options and strategies for moving your protection and recovery plan beyond simply tape backups, including how continuous data protection (CDP) technology makes any point-in-time recovery possible. Also learn how EchoStream technology has significantly improved both AIX data recovery times and AIX data recovery points.

Data warehousing professionals continue to expand the scale, scope, and deployment roles for their enterprise data warehouse investments. Today's most demanding EDW environments support petabytes of aggregated data, trillions of records, thousands of concurrent users and queries, complex mixed-query workloads, subsecond latencies, and continuous high volume data loading. Information managers are adopting EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing the agility to optimize this critical infrastructure to ever-changing analytic workloads.