Solution Set

Info-Tech has identified five trends that promise to transform IT departments within the next two years. Changes in mobility, cloud, big data, social media, and security will alter the way IT functions within the business.

Case Study

New technologies mean that IT needs new skills. When the new skills aren't available in-house, it's time to start looking outside.

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Employees have become savvy consumers, and they are marching into the enterprise with consumer technology. Use this consumerization research to deal with the invasion, and make the most of consumerization by understanding consumer technology.

Solution Set

There is no need to fear consumers. Understand the technology that has consumerized the enterprise.

Many IT departments are turning to a master data management (MDM) strategy in order to establish a single version of the truth for enterprise reporting and analytics.

Vendor Research

This report will help vendors and solution providers understand how the adoption process of consumer technology takes place within businesses.

Solution Set

Many enterprises are unfamiliar with the benefits of data integration tools. Use this research to get a handle on how you can best integrate diverse source data, and which software vendors will help you manage your data.

Tool

Use this tool to find the best roadmap to your consumerization strategy. It will then provide the optimal roadmap to consumerization success, with detailed steps to follow that path.

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Learn about the implications of a broader roll-out by using this template to ask participants questions about the consumerization pilot project.

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Consumerization is not an option. You must allow consumer devices and unmanaged applications into your organization. Use this timely research to help you find the right path for the enterprise.

Solution Set

Pressure to bring consumer devices and applications into the organization has mounted in recent years. Users (some of of whom are business executives) continue to bring devices and apps into the workplace despite limited organizational readiness.

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Demand for consumer technology in the workplace makes it almost impossible for IT leaders to resist the trend. Instead, the CIO needs to think about his or her options for adopting consumer tech into the workplace.

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Alberta Finance and Enterprise takes an open strategy to consumerization to improve worker satisfaction, but not at the cost of its data security.

Tool

Mobile device management may be the perfect technology storm if IT leaders do not plan ahead and formulate a strategy. Determining mobile device management strategy doesn't have to be a scary exercise. Answering eight simple questions can get...

Vendor Research

This report will help vendors and solution providers better understand the Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution market.

Solution Set

Business Intelligence (BI) has changed in the last ten years. Learn what's new and what could make your BI platform more successful.

Vendor Research

This report will help vendors understand how to position their mobile device management (MDM) solutions.

Solution Set

This solution set will help you understand the causes of data quality problems and provide strategies to fix the causes of data quality problems, and not just address the symptoms.

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Mobile device adoption is expected to surpass traditional computing form factors by 2013. Without an effective management strategy, IT will be hard pressed to deploy and secure mobile devices in a cost effective manner. Info-Tech helps you...

Solution Set

This solution set will provide a straight-forward mechanism to rate the magnitude of the data integration challenges you face and help you put a strategy and tactics in place for improvement immediately and going forward.

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Many mid-sized organizations live in a state of data chaos. While it's not a conscious decision, many sink themselves further into a messy data architecture by using insufficient tools, methods and processes. Understand the basics of data...

As a business develops, the number of point-to-point integrations grows to become a hopelessly tangled web of integrations. Data integration can bring order to data chaos to increase accuracy and consistency, decrease redundancies, and make...

Data governance is a vital component of any master data management strategy. The creation of a governance program depends upon executive sponsorship and gaining the support of key stakeholders. Develop a clear project strategy from the outset to...

Building or purchasing a Master Data Management (MDM) solution will not solve master data problems on its own. Employee behavior and organizational processes need to be changed first. Assemble a data governance group to drive the organizational...

For many organizations, transactional hub architecture represents the ideal Master Data Management (MDM) solution. However, it may not be possible or necessary for some environments given the cost and complexity of this project. When...

Service oriented architecture (SOA) promises to provide businesses with flexible applications that can be quickly adapted to meet evolving business. However, successful SOA projects must be built on a solid foundation of quality data. Solve data...

In the age of terabytes, effective data management is imperative to business success. Turn to data integration solutions to provide stakeholders, both internal and external, with a unified view of enterprise information in preparation for the...

Managing multiple enterprise data sources is painful, especially when they contain conflicting or incomplete information. Steps must be taken to reconcile the data sources and establish a master data set for reporting and analytics. To gain...

The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model can offer considerable operational benefits, but it also challenges enterprises to better manage data that is dispersed across multiple stores and locations. IT leaders must ensure that their SaaS...

A critical component of any master data management (MDM) project is finding the appropriate architecture to support the solution. Making the right choice requires an understanding of the standard architectures and their associated benefits and...