IT-Director.com Papers

BYOD - who carries the can?

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:05:00 +0100

Overall, BYOD, is often referred to as evaluating whether mobile deployments are 'corporate-liable' or 'employee-liable', which this report will explore further, along with the implications for the organisation. [Read More...]

Managed Print Services Landscape, 2013

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:55:00 +0100

This report examines the competitive landscape for MPS and discusses the key market drivers and trands that will shape future generation MPS engagements. [Read More...]

Beyond Big Data - The New Information Economy

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0100

Organisations are faced with an ever-increasing flow of different data types, including formal, database transactional information as well as less structured documents, voice and video. [Read More...]

The next frontier for managed print services

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0100

The MPS market has matured since many organisations inked their first deal. Organisations moving beyond first generation engagements have often reached the end of their cost-cutting phase and are looking for innovation to drive more... [Read More...]

FM, IT and Data Centres

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0100

Often, Quocirca finds that an organisation has one team, FM, looking after the physical facility of the data centre, with another, IT, looking after the servers, storage and network equipment, along with the software running within it. [Read More...]

FireMon Security Manager Platform

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:00:00 +0100

FireMon's Security Manager Platform provides organisations with the enhanced situation awareness that is required for effective decision making, allowing organisations to better plan what actions to take and prioritise efforts for maximum... [Read More...]

Financial Intelligence and Business Reporting

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

This paper compares different approaches to reporting against the JD Edwards (Oracle) EnterpriseOne and World ERP application suites. It should be noted that the general comments made here would be applicable to any ERP environment... [Read More...]

Identity management services

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Identity and access management technologies and services are used to increase security by ensuring that applications and the data they contain are not accessed inappropriately. These services also aid productivity by ensuring that those... [Read More...]

The identity perimeter

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:35:00 +0100

This paper should be of interest to all those in roles charged with the responsibility of providing secure access to online resources and to those who want to make the case for rolling out new online services. [Read More...]

Printing: a false sense of security?

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:00:00 +0100

This paper discusses how secure printing technology can provide authentication, authorisation and accounting capabilities, helping businesses improve document security and meet compliance regulations. Includes new research amongst 150... [Read More...]

Denodo Platform 5.0

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Businesses today have the opportunity to make huge gains by leveraging more data than ever before for both analytics and operations to improve customer service, speed products to market, cut costs and more. They could use lots and lots... [Read More...]

Preparedness for the CRD IV

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:10:00 +0100

The CRD brings new reporting structures into place. A business-driven language, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a mandated part of how financial organisations across the EU have to submit their reports to the necessary... [Read More...]

The trouble heading for your business

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:00:00 +0100

New research, presented in this report, underlines the scale and real impact of the problem, the measures being taken to defend against targeted attacks and how effective they are. [Read More...]

Safyr

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Safyr (pronounced as in 'sapphire' and previously known as Saphir), from Silwood Technology, provides ERP metadata intelligence to organisations that have implemented one or more of SAP, SAP BW, Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel,... [Read More...]

Getting ahead in the cloud

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Cloud-based applications and services, and software-as-a-service applications in particular, are coming into widespread use by organisations of all sizes. Such applications are used to process and store sensitive information making it... [Read More...]

Harnessing big data for security

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Volumes of data are expanding rapidly, and effectively harnessing the data volumes generated by organisations today brings both significant gains as well as challenges. In particular, big data security sets bring specialised challenges... [Read More...]

Key considerations for security intelligence in big data

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Today, all organisations face threats from targeted, sophisticated attacks by well resourced and motivated criminals who are looking to conduct industrial espionage for the purpose of stealing trade secrets or intellectual property, to... [Read More...]

Database performance management

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

It can be argued that the best and perhaps only real true measure of performance for any computer system is how long it takes to respond to a user's request for information or, en masse, how long it takes to respond to all users' requests.... [Read More...]

Using ICT financing for strategic gain

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:55:00 +0100

This report with new research, 102 SMBs in the UK, provides insights into views on various aspects of using financing and leasing of ICT hardware and software and comparisons with existing use for other areas such as vehicles and office... [Read More...]

Smart self-service - a guide for buyers

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0100

This guide gives advice on assessing vendors with some examples and checklists of desirable criteria. [Read More...]

The wastage of human capital in IT operations

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0100

This report presents research that underlines the scale of the problem and makes the case for more automation in IT operations management, rather than deploying more and/or cheaper labour. [Read More...]

Availability, recovery and archive

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0100

Changes in how technology can be implremented and improvements in connectivity mean that business continuity and rapid systems recovery is now within the reach of many more organisations. [Read More...]

Effective print security for SMBs

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:00:00 +0100

the paper highlights the risks of unsecured printing and discusses how integrated print management provides SMBs with a simple and scalable approach for print security. [Read More...]

2012 - The year of Application Performance Management (APM)

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:00:00 +0100

The report should be of interest to senior IT and business leaders. [Read More...]

Powering the Data centre

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:00:00 +0100

With the increasing cost of energy, the most cost-effective approach to ensuring that an IT platform can continue to operate, even when power from the grid system is no longer available, has to be a high priority for any business. [Read More...]

The value of big data in security

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Volumes of data created and processed by organisations are spiralling rapidly as ever more information-generating devices, including mobiles and industrial control devices connect to networks. According to the McKinsey Global Institute,... [Read More...]

The value of big data in security

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0100

By continuously monitoring information flows in real time, organisations will better be able to ward off internal and external threats [Read More...]

Atego Asset Library

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

One of the first of these (possibly the very first, depending on what you define as an intelligent asset library) has been developed by Atego, which specialises in standards-based development of 'systems of systems'... [Read More...]

Uniface Modernisation

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Application modernisation is a particularly useful option for bringing legacy Uniface software up-to-date with the latest SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) applications and web services interfaces. You can even add a modern Uniface... [Read More...]

Enhancing security through a trust-based approach

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Cyberthreats are becoming ever more insidious and affect organisations of all sizes, spanning all industries. In many cases, the organisation will not know that it has been a victim of an attack as today's threats aim to evade... [Read More...]