Backup, despite the breathless hyperbole of many in the industry, is simply a form of insurance. What's important about your backup strategy is getting your systems and data protected in the most effective and affordable manner possible. Speaking plainly - you must be careful that you are in control of your backup strategy rather than your backup strategy (and vendor) being in control of you.
Clouds are all the rage right now. And the truth is that cloud-based computing can be a tremendous value. Cloud-based computing is not just an opportunity for a bunch of venture capitalists hanging out at Sand Hill Road, it's a wonderful chance for small and medium businesses to take a step toward aligning their information technology spend to increase their focus on revenue-generating opportunities.
This tongue in cheek white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which any company is created is protected - scrupulously following these shortcuts should also ensure that you lose not only your data but your job as well.
“Unpolluted” data is core to a successful business – particularly one that relies on analytics to survive. But preparing data for analytics is full of challenges. By some reports, most data scientists spend 50 to 80 percent of their model development time on data preparation tasks. SAS adheres to five data management best practices that help you access, cleanse, transform and shape your raw data for any analytic purpose. With a trusted data quality foundation and analytics-ready data, you can gain deeper insights, embed that knowledge into models, share new discoveries and automate decision-making processes to build a data-driven business.
In today’s crowded analytics marketplace, who can you trust? What’s needed to deliver on the promise of transforming data into real value? And what do CIOs need to cost-effectively and successfully lead their organizations through changing technologies? For an organization to experiment with (and ultimately deploy) analytics, the responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of IT. IT must provide secure access to lots of high-quality data, a friendly environment for experimentation and discovery, and a method for rapidly deploying and governing models. SAS can support an organization's journey toward becoming a data- and analytics-driven organization. We can help unlock the value by enabling with choices that make sense. Plus, we can show organizations how to get the most out of technology investments.
Learn how to increase your landing page conversion rate by 10-30% using data validation, which will help you to get the most out of your landing page optimization.
When it comes to storing data, the concepts of cost-effectiveness and efficiency are often at odds with each other. What we all seek is that elusive deal where we don’t affect the quality of service, yet are able to store a lot more (without spending a lot more). Read this white paper to learn how IBM Real-time Compression provides the data center with the flexibility to increase capacity and maintain performance for all kinds of data, including your most active data.
Modern enterprise businesses need the right IT tools to engage
customers online and keep them engaged until they buy. In
short, they need marketing automation software.
According to Dr. Barry Devlin of 9sight Consulting, the truth behind all the talk about big data and the possibilities it can offer is not hard to see, provided that organizations are willing to return to the principles of good data management processes.
This paper discusses how InfoSphere capabilities can be used to create comprehensive and accurate 3600 views of your customers from internal and external sources.
Big data analytics offer organizations an unprecedented opportunity to derive new business insights and drive smarter decisions. The outcome of any big data analytics project, however, is only as good as the quality of the data being used. Although organizations may have their structured data under fairly good control, this is often not the case with the unstructured content that accounts for the vast majority of enterprise information. Good information governance is essential to the success of big data analytics projects. Good information governance also pays big dividends by reducing the costs and risks associated with the management of unstructured information. This paper explores the link between good information governance and the outcomes of big data analytics projects and takes a look at IBM's StoredIQ solution.
Creating more person-centric, coordinated and value-based care means all service providers must share risks and data, conducting business with partners that cross traditional boundaries, while data is transforming this industry at an unprecedented pace.
Watch this webcast to learn more of how organizations are optimizing their business processes to lower costs, analyzing data to improve quality, care, and population health, while learning to engage in new ways to drive better outcomes.
Do you feel like you are rolling the dice every time you buy a new prospect list? How do you know that the money you spend on a new list is a good investment or not?
Organizations are frequently turning to SaaS solutions for their CRM needs. But there are risks when deploying any solution at scale, especially if you select the wrong vendor. Understand how to make the smart choice for your CRM solution in this informative eBook.
When making a CRM decision, it is important to ensure your deployment will not be hit with hidden fees or other extra costs that reduce the return on investment. This study reveals the total cost of ownership (TCO) among the four leading midmarket CRM solutions.
When making a CRM decision, it is important to ensure your deployment will not be hit with hidden fees or other extra costs that reduce the return on investment. This study reveals the total cost of ownership (TCO) among the three leading midmarket CRM solutions.
What if you could give everyone that touches customers an indispensable tool that optimizes business process, removes data silos and makes customer interaction extraordinary? See how Redglaze Group uses Sugar to give individuals access to critical data, optimize processes and improve efficiencies.
Customer relationship management software has been used by organizations of all types and sizes for over 20 years. However, few have managed to tap into the true potential of CRM. Learn how the power of CRM for the individual can transform your entire business.
CRM has long been seen as a must-have sales tool. However, much of the value of traditional CRM accrues to managers, not the reps that use them daily. Learn how CRM designed for the individual benefits the entire sales organization from increased data quality to more predictable revenue pipelines.
Organizations are frequently turning to SaaS solutions for their CRM needs. But there are risks when deploying any solution at scale, especially if you select the wrong vendor. Understand how to make the smart choice for your CRM solution in this informative eBook.
After an initial rollout to more than 45,000 sales users, IBM wanted even greater insights. Thanks to the high usability of Sugar, IBM was able to increase sales data quality - which has gone on to power predictive sales analytics. Learn how IBM and SugarCRM are driving more effective sales teams.
Learn how email verification technology helped to minimize Party City's hard bounces at point-of-sale by allowing data to be cleansed and verified in real time, which greatly reduced the amount of human error.
