IT-Director.com Papers

Best practices for cloud security

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0100

Rather than being an inhibitor to take up of cloud computing, the use of cloud services can actually improve an organisation's security stance. Cloud delivery is suitable for a range of security services from basic ones such as malware... [Read More...]

Data Migration - 2011

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0100

This paper draws from both our latest research and a comparison with the results of our 2007 survey. The results are instructive: we have been able to see whether the recommendations we made in 2007 have been adopted and how successful... [Read More...]

expressor 3.5 to 4.0

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0100

When expressor first came to market in 2008 it was targeting very high performance for complex transformations. However, it subsequently changed its go-to-market model to the structure seen today. In our view this was a sensible change. We... [Read More...]

Tools for Data Governance

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0100

The further down this stack you go the more tools there are available and the more relevant those tools are. However, the use of tools can certainly be valuable in the formulation of policies (at least sometimes) and, more especially,... [Read More...]

4 C's of social media: Community, connection, conversation or channel

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +0100

The social network landscape is packed with choices and pitfalls for the unwary, so a careful, well thought out and appropriately nuanced respoonse is required. [Read More...]

Mapping and Modelling Survey

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:00:00 +0100

It is now 20 years since the first MS Windows-based modelling tools came to market. Many thousands of licences of modelling tools have been sold since then. They are becoming pervasive in software development and were accepted long ago in... [Read More...]

Rethinking MPS: The independent approach

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0100

This paper outlines the need for MPS and why organisations that are operating a heterogeneous print environment should consider an independent MPS provider to proactively manage and transform their print infrastructure. [Read More...]

Managing expenses in the legal sector

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0100

One of the main headaches is the allocation of expenses to the right client while maximising the amount that can fairly be claimed from each client. Another is ensuring the expenses can be reported in a granular and auditable manner to... [Read More...]

Closing the print security gap

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:10:00 +0100

This report provides an overview of the inherent risks when operating an insecure print environment and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security... [Read More...]

The data sharing paradox

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0100

This Quocirca small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data today, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It goes on to look at how these risks can be mitigated. [Read More...]

7 Steps to BPM success

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0100

This paper provides the reader with a 7 Step model that seeks to suggest ways in which organisations can maximise their business returns. The model sets out to blend the benefits of non-technology approaches with the more technological... [Read More...]

7 Steps to Business Architecture

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0100

Business Architecture is the glue that links the pieces together as a coherent whole. It is the approach by which you can step forward and deliver the navigation system for business, enabling your business to ask smart questions and get... [Read More...]

Informatica Data Replication for real-time (big) data warehousing

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0100

Data replication has been around for a long time: since the early '90s. The earliest implementations were by investment banks (Goldman Sachs, for example) that wanted to distribute pricing information across time zones so that the Japanese... [Read More...]

Data Quality: more than just master data

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0100

This paper is about data quality and master data management and their relationship. They are complementary, but also differ in many ways. In particular, data quality has a role to play that is distinct from that of master data and which... [Read More...]

Innovator for Business Analysts

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0100

With Innovator for Business Analysts, MID offers a modern, forwards looking tool for the business analyst role-oriented towards business stakeholders (rather than mainly targeting IT). It helps the business analysts in a business to... [Read More...]

Email archiving best practices

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0100

Email is of vital importance as a communications and collaboration tool as it is one of the prime ways that business information is communicated and shared. This makes its storage and archiving a necessity for maintaining and improving... [Read More...]

Managed print services: An SMB priority

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0100

This paper discusses the printing challenges faced by SMBs and how, by using a simple and flexible MPS, a business can save time and money whilst improving employee productivity. [Read More...]

Composite Information Server for Netezza

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0100

It is often the case in large enterprises that multiple data marts are deployed, along with a central enterprise data warehouse acting as a system of record. While these data marts serve the requirements of the departments or divisions... [Read More...]

Master Data Management

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0100

This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Master Data Management market. Master data is data that is shared between computer systems: data domains such as customer, product, location and asset. Large organisations have... [Read More...]

Data Migration - 2011

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:00:00 +0100

Bloor Research has now conducted a further survey of the market for data migration with this survey taking place during spring 2011. On this occasion we have not limited ourselves to the Global 2000 but have spread our survey net more... [Read More...]

Where is the Business?

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0100

All business needs information to make decisions and never more so than in our ever-changing world. Providing the right information at the right time is never going to be a simple task. Enhancing data by adding information about location... [Read More...]

Building Breakthrough Applications

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0100

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of breakthrough applications in more detail. Further, we will consider the implications for the underlying technology elements (development environment and database) that will underpin... [Read More...]

Saphir from Silwood Technology

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0100

It is not often that one can give an unequivocal recommendation for a product or technology. There are nearly always some sort of mitigating or offsetting factors. However, in this case there are none. Silwood Technology is unique in... [Read More...]

Choosing a platform or an application based approach to MDM

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0100

In this paper we will discuss the requirement for multi-domain MDM implementations. Rather than consider this in general terms we will illustrate this by means of a number of use cases. We will then go on to consider the implications of... [Read More...]

Architecting the security of the next-generation data centre

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0100

This document is aimed at those looking at data centre builds, upgrades or consolidation. It provides an introduction to some of the new security challenges of such environments and provides recommendations for implementing security in... [Read More...]

Grid-Tools Data Masking

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0100

Tools for data masking are widely available. However, this does not mean that they are widely deployed. In a recent (2011) survey conducted by Bloor Research into data migration, one of the questions we asked was with respect to how users... [Read More...]

E-invoicing: Ready for Prime Time

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0100

Despite today's digital age, of the 30 billion invoices sent and received in Europe every year, more than 90% are in paper format. This is not only labour intensive and error prone, but comes at both a financial and environmental cost. [Read More...]

Uses and benefits of SaaS-based Enterprise Social Networking

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0100

This survey looked at the business arguments for using an enterprise social networking (ESN) system based on software as a service (SaaS). We also investigated decision makers' views on the comparative qualities of SaaS based systems and... [Read More...]

Taking back control in today's complex threat landscape

rss@it-analysis.com (Bloor Research) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0100

The security threats that we face are getting ever more harmful. Attacks launched en masse are no longer the order of the day. Rather, they are targeted, use a complex range of techniques, are sophisticated in their ability to defeat... [Read More...]

Carrying the can

rss@it-analysis.com (Quocirca) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0100

There is an increasing trend among employees to want to use their personal choice of mobile device in the fulfilment of their work commitments. This appears to bring many benefits to the employee but what about the organisation. [Read More...]