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Big data is less about the terabytes and more about the query tools and business intelligence needed to make sense of massive amounts of data. This guide dives into the impact big data will have on government, highlighting how legacy business models and systems will be disrupted and the methodical steps agencies can take to create an effective strategy.
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Today's Business Intelligence (BI) tools provide a new way to think about data with self-service capabilities and user-friendly analytics that can be used by nearly everyone. This white paper offers a primer on BI, from understanding how it compares to analytics and the tools required for effective BI, to overcoming common barriers to success.
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80% of self-service business intelligence (BI) applications offer more flexibility than traditional BI tools. Learn the key selection criteria required to provide your organization with the capability to address structured data, unstructured data and mobile demands so that employees can view and manipulate data on their own, from virtually any location.
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IT Leaders See security as barrier to enabling employees. However with new Business assurance technology you are able to give Continuity, Agility, and Governance.
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For decades, fear has dominated the discussion of cyber security. Every magazine article, presentation or blog about the topic seems to start the same way: trying to scare the living daylights out of you with horror stories, alarming statistics, and doomsday scenarios. The result is that most IT shops and security vendors think security is only about what you prevent. They think it's about blocking, prohibiting, controlling, constraining, excluding, outlawing, and forbidding. Hence IT's reputation as the "Department of No."
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Several years ago, a transformation in IT began to take place; a transformation from an IT-centric view of technology to a business-centric view of technology that Forrester refers to as business technology (BT). This transformation has a profound impact on the role of the CIO. The CIO must now view himself or herself as a business enabler. He or she must focus on continuously aligning with business objectives, improving delivery capability to support business processes that bring new products and services to market more quickly, fostering innovation, and reducing costs through improved performance. In this custom Technology Adoption Profile (TAP), the data confirms this trend. In Q4 2012, when Forrester asked IT execs to identify their top technology initiatives for the next 12 months, 72% reported "improve IT project delivery performance" as a critical or high priority, and 67% reported "develop new skills to better support emerging technologies and business innovation" as a critical or high priority
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From the Era Before security to this current era of empowerment this infographic from Blue coat provides a timeline navigates the rise of web commerce and the rise in securities which protect us. Starting with when web commerce began to grow and hackers took notice to now when Web Security is able to empower businesses.
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The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in the space have begun using a unique moniker for it: "user management." Forrester fields many client inquiries from CISOs, security architects, other IT pros, and marketing professionals seeking to maximize security and facilitate a great user experience in identity-enabled customer interactions. This report summarizes the five topics representing the most frequently asked client inquiries, along with our responses.
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Download this white paper for IT professionals to learn about a DFA solution that enables any financial organization to harness existing IT investments to deliver a seamless, adaptable solution that can meet and exceed the demanding requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act or any other regulatory policy that requires extensive transaction-centric recordkeeping of diverse data types.
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The ability to apply policies consistently can lead to effective information governance, but there are challenges that can deter the implementation of sound governance processes. Because most systems today only manage content in their own repositories, information is decentralized-and there's the added complexity of new formats like audio, video, and social media. Download this HP Autonomy white paper, "Turn your information into enterprise value: HP Autonomy's Policy-Based Information", and learn more about how policy-based information governance delivers a next-generation approach that can give you a higher Return on Information, with less risk.
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Packed with practical advice, the white paper includes a 'model solution for social media' that outlines four best practices to help information professionals play by the rules in the new social arena. Also covered are tips on capturing private information along with the forms of risk that possession of this type of content may create for the organization.
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Struggling with recurring maintenance expenses to keep legacy applications around? What would the savings be if you could decommission these applications without losing legacy access? Explore a three step process to free your business from unnecessary costs and to protect your business from unnecessary risks.
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Database is critical to business operations across the enterprise. As the data foot print grows, a myriad of challenges emerge. Application performance degrades and drives down business users' productivity. Capital and operating expenses eat up an increasing portion of the budget which hampers innovative investments. Backup and recovery windows lengthen which increases IT overhead and operational risk. HP was not immune to these crippling headaches. It established an archiving process in 2009 and has been able to achieve reductions in query time (89%), storage (48%) and full backup window (37%). Find out how from this HP IT best-practice whitepaper.
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This white paper from Osterman Research discusses best practices for archiving file-based content and offers some recommendations about how organizations should manage the increasing growth of files.
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This paper explores the latest ideas on evaluating cloud deployment: public or private clouds, data location and privacy, data ownership and access, and cloud technology ownership. It offers best practices for cloud-based information governance and outlines solutions for eDiscovery, archiving and records management, social media and electronic communication governance, and data protection.