Database Trends and Applications second annual Best Practices in Data Integration and Master Data Management outlines key approaches to integrating data from leading organizations. Download the complimentary DBTA report today. 

jQuery's powerful features make it one of the most popular web development toolkits available, used and recommended by individuals and companies large and small.  Learn more by downloading this new white paper from Revelation Software.

Today's database administrator has a broad set of responsibilities. Not only is he responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and repair of his organization's databases, often he is tasked with programming, analyzing and modeling data, and systems management. This paper takes a look at a day in the life of a typical multi-tasking DBA working for an organization, and examines some of the tools and best practices he can use to be more productive and efficient in completing essential tasks.

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.

90% of all enterprises have more than one database management system in place.  This whitepaper, "Managing Multiple Database Platforms for Performance and Availability."  will show you how database management and performance optimization tools that give you a single interface from which to manage multiple database systems, streamline everyday tasks, and dramatically increase your productivity.

It's not uncommon for companies that have been in business for a while to have hundreds of legacy applications that deliver limited value--but still involve significant operational and maintenance costs.

This paper discusses strategies for retiring legacy applications, how to make decisions about which applications should be retired, and the seven key steps involved in legacy retirement. It also introduces the key advantages of the Informatica solution for application retirement.

Learn how to lower the overall cost of business intelligence applications by selecting a business intelligence database that:

(1) Meets the current needs of BI applications about to be implemented;

(2) Future-proof's BI systems experiencing rapid grow or soon to be deployed;

(3) Delivers an ROI that greatly exceeds expensive traditional databases.

This paper discusses the most proven way to tame the issues that surround big data and Business Intelligence systems.  It also describes how the Calpont InfiniDB database not only supplies the right technology for dealing with the challenges of BI databases, but does so at in an incredibly cost effective and simplified manner.

Read an independent review confirming how Calpont InfiniDB exceeds expectations in providing truly scalable data warehousing via a specialized data storage engine for the MySQL database. See how the results of building an actual star schema data warehouse for row-oriented vs. InfiniDB's column-orientation delivers superior results with zero to very minimal special configuration or design considerations. 

This paper highlights, and discusses the features and benefits of the column-oriented database from Calpont, InfiniDB, and describes how its deployment can rapidly and cost-effectively address the database requirements of any BI application.

Before you decide, compare. Database management systems are changing. They're optimizing for specific needs. Make the best choice for your organization. Download the eBook: Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin^TM Compared.

You will learn: the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin and Oracle Exadata solutions, which solutions best meet your business needs, and how to achieve optimal results from your data.

This whitepaper discusses the differences between PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server so you can optimize your choice of open source database. You'll learn enough about the different capabilities, modules, and uses for each product to make the best Postgres choice for your organization.

EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server builds on the rock-solid PostgreSQL foundation to deliver significant value-added features not available in the community edition.  These features include Infinite Cache, Query Optimization Hints, DRITA runtime statistics and wait-states, DynaTune and more.

This whitepaper takes a high-level tour through the five feature sets of Oracle Compatibility built into Postgres Plus Advanced Server: SQL Extensions, PL/SQL support, Tools and Utilities, Application Compatibility, and Migration. For a detailed feature by feature explanation, visit www.enterprisedb.com and download the Oracle Compatibility Developer's Guide.

Traditional Web and enterprise application architectures leverage JBoss extensively to service compute-, display- and data-intensive operations. But Web 2.0 and other advanced applications require much higher volumes of transactional data, and their scaling requirements are indeterminate. This paper suggests a rebalancing of responsibilities between JBoss and Postgres Plus.

Is your current phone system still the right choice for your business? Focus research indicates that VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has become an attractive alternative to older telephone technologies for SMBs. This information-packed guide compares the top 10 hosted VoIP phone system solutions for SMBs. Reviewing the key features and data points will help you to decide which solution is best suited to your business. Get side-by-side comparisons of multiple aspects including: Basic and advanced features; Integration and service options; Support; Pricing. Download the free 2010 SMB Phone Systems Comparison Guide now!

Implementing ERP is a long-term business improvement strategy. If done correctly, your ROI will improve dramatically in the years that follow a successful deployment. So how do you know if an ERP solution is right for you? This free checklist will help you quickly evaluate whether conditions are ripe for an upgrade. Recognize  that signs that ERP may be the key to improving operational flow and minimizing expenses. ERP may be a viable solution if: You are experiencing uncontrolled business growth; Efforts are being duplicated by departments;Information is hard to find or inaccessible. Get your free checklist now.

Quality research is hard to come by and nothing is more important when considering IT solutions for your business. In this extensive, 40-page ERP Systems Buyer's Guide, Focus analysts have gathered all of the information you need into one definitive document. Explore all aspects of the ERP market, and get insight into specific areas of interest, such as: Top products, costs, and vendor considerations; Buying advice directly from buyers like you; Tools and worksheets every buyer needs. Download your free 39 page, in-depth report now.

Compare side-by-side functionalities of seven leading IP phones. When it comes to choosing what's right for your company, the specifics are what determine what phone best suits your needs. We've done all of the research for you in this IP Phone Comparison Guide. You'll get exact details on specific IP Phone features such as: Function buttons; Display resolution; Weight; Price.

New research from the Aberdeen Group finds that deploying database security solutions leads to fewer data breaches and audit deficiencies-at lower cost. Aberdeen found customers who deployed database security solutions over application-level security requiring encryption of data achieved 30% fewer data breaches and 15% greater audit efficiency, with 34% lower annual costs.

Advanced technology capabilities are now ready to deliver business intelligence (BI) across the organization. This section features six solutions to successfully move your organization closer to an era of "Democratized Data". Download this complimentary section from Database Trends and Applications.

Information services are the foundation of the successful enterprise architecture. A mature architecture will manage an appropriate level of consistency and diversity of business information; it will be agile enough to evolve while maintaining high levels of data integrity.

This doesn't happen by accident. A reference architecture, policy and process framework is required together with appropriate tools and platforms that enable the essential automation and life cycle governance.

This report describes the CBDI-SAETM framework in the context of information services and describes how the best practices can be implemented in the Progress Semantic Integrator platform.

This e-book includes interviews with Susan McNeice, Global Program Manager, OSS/BSS Competitive Strategies, Stratecast, and John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software. The e-book also explores:

• The business case for why data transformation is critical for competing in the applications business, and how data modeling is critical to enabling the integration needed to make transformation happen.
• What NGOSS is and where the TM Forum is trying to take their standards going forward to help telecom open up to other industries.
• How some top Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have used SOA and TM Forum's Information Model, the SID, to drive transformation, how to apply SOA correctly - and incorrectly, and how this technical work is driven by, and aligns with, business strategy.

Mainframes play a critical role in a wide range of enterprises, but in order to extract the maximum value and benefit from these systems they must be integrated with other business-valued applications and systems. Organizations that rely on mainframes are turning to enterprise integration solutions that connect people, processes, and systems with real-time information to increase visibility into their business and enhance their ability to respond more rapidly to change.

Unless well informed about the workings of IBM's System z and its latest advances, enterprise architects developing a Service Oriented Architecture may overlook integration middleware that exploits the zIIP and ZAAP specialty engines, limiting the full potential for mainframe involvement within enterprise integration initiatives. This white paper shows how next-generation mainframe middleware can leverage the zIIP and zAAP specialty engines to redefine the economics of mainframe TCO within SOA.

CIOs understand the need for ongoing IT modernization efforts as a cost effective measure to extend the ROI of existing IT investments. In order to achieve efficiency, the cost of modernizing must be weighed against the alternatives: not modernizing at all or completely replacing IT systems.

HP and Informatica teamed up to create a framework for building an enterprise data foundation to drive operational efficiency. Learn about the challenges in managing costs and risks and making a case for Enterprise Information Management (EIM).

Ralph Kimball proposes a specific architecture for building an integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW). This architecture supports master data management efforts and provides the platform for consistent business analysis across the enterprise.

In this whitepaper by Datamonitor, you learn how a data integration platform can help your company realize the full potential of its enterprise applications throughout their life cycle.

Learn from customer case scenarios and industry leaders how they used operational data integration to become a Real-Time Enterprise and achieved operational excellence. 

Making the decision to acquire a BI solution is one thing.  Getting people to use the solution is another.  According to a recent survey, only 24% of individuals in an organization that has implemented BI actually use the software.  That takes care of your power users and dedicated people, but what about everyone else?  To make the right BI choice, decision makers must consider what it takes to get the information generated by their BI solution into the hands of more people, thereby enabling the organization to truly compete on analytics.

Ovum takes a deep-dive technology audit of Vertica's Analytic Database that is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Ovum states, " Vertica's differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with massively parallel processing (MPP) and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability. Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data, and Vertica addresses this by using a hybrid store that handles write, update, and insert operations. The store also makes the data available for queries in-memory. Ovum believes that Vertica's technology could be applicable across a range of markets among companies that have a mix of analytical requirements."

Independent research firm Knowledge Integrity Inc. examine two high performance computing technologies that are transitioning into the mainstream: high performance massively parallel analytical database management systems (ADBMS) and distributed parallel programming paradigms, such as MapReduce, (Hadoop, Pig, and HDFS, etc.). By providing an overview of both concepts and looking at how the two approaches can be used together, they conclude that combining a high performance batch programming and execution model with an high performance analytical database provides significant business benefits for a number of different types of applications.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

In a world of growing data volumes and shrinking IT budgets, it is critical to think differently about the efficiency of your database and storage infrastructure. The Vertica Analytic Database is a high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solution that can bring dramatic savings in hardware, storage and operational costs. With its columnar storage architecture and compression-aware query engine, Vertica can speed up queries to run orders of magnitude faster (50x-300x based on customer benchmarks), and at the same time shrink database storage by 50-90%. Watch as more and more users within your enterprise are empowered by high performance data analytics, and without breaking the bank!

Business change often outpaces enterprise data warehouse evolution. Rather than wait to change the warehouse yet again, learn the eight proven ways organizations like yours are using data virtualization to:

• Fulfill new BI needs faster

• Preserve and extend existing data warehouse

          investments

• Reduce data warehouse total cost of ownership

According to industry analysts, data virtualization is the fastest growing data integration method today.  Providing flexible and enterprise-scalable data integration as both stand-alone solutions and as complements to earlier-era enterprise data warehouses, learn the twelve reasons why data virtualization demand is accelerating.

Well deployed in the most demanding environments, five common data virtualization usage patterns have emerged including:

• Data Federation
• Data Warehouse Extension
• Enterprise Data Sharing
• Real-time Enterprise Data Infrastructure
• Cloud Data Integration

Learn these patterns, the business and IT challenges behind them, and how data virtualization delivers.

IBM mainframes house some of the most strategic, high-volume, complex applications on the planet. They represent decades of investment in hardware and software for many companies and are not easily replaced with newer computing architectures. Long the workhorse of computing around the world, IBM has invested billions of dollars in evolving these platforms to meet the demands of modern workloads. Despite these investments and unparalleled heritage, many customers do choose to move to Windows, Unix or Linux environments. However, for those organizations needing thousands or tens of thousands of MIPS installed, the IBM mainframe can be utilized well into the next decade.

Now more than ever, IT organizations need to cut costs but they've exhausted the traditional options. An alternate take on cost-cutting is to find more value in existing assets. For organizations with mainframes - still in use at 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies - this means gaining a new perspective. This white paper examines three steps to take today to make environments with mainframes work optimally for the business: Take a fresh look at current applications, infrastructure, and their uses; tune mainframe batch processing; and draw greater value from existing applications. Learn more today.

Restart capability for z/OS batch applications minimizes the impact of program failure and prevents batch abends from escalating into business problems.  This white paper describes how a generic restart capability safeguards z/OS batch workloads and discusses criteria to evaluate and choose a system-wide restart solution for mission critical batch.

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.

Do all your vendors, platforms, and virtual machines add up to a manual scripting nightmare? Not if you have the know-how and technology to integrate it all.

In this free white paper, learn to solve virtual environment challenges including: uncontrolled costs, complexity, configuration, risk, performance, and staffing. The solution: control virtual and physical automation at a single point. Dynamically deploy new virtual machines, power machines on/off, create snapshots, and more-maximizing your VM ROI. Download now.

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. 

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.

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.

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.