Scalable Enterprise Servers   IT managers are facing infrastructure challenges that include costs, energy, change and productivity. Whether for memory hungry virtualization solutions , compute intensive databases, or high availability for mission-critical business, IT managers must have the flexibility to scale and configure servers for their unique datacenter requirements. To gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that incorporates supercomputer and mainframe-inspired features that provide a faster response time and improved system performance. Top solutions in this space offer increase speed, workload performance, reliability and security with higher memory and less energy consumption. We interview Mike Mitsch to gain NEC's perspective on Scalable Enterprise Servers. Mike is the VP of IT platform products at NEC. 20 Minutes Sybase ASE 15.7   There is explosive growth in the data volumes being managed by organizations. The transition from an average of a few hundred gigabytes managed by the operational store a decade ago, to the many terabytes being managed today, has happened rapidly. Terabyte-scale operational environments present a unique set of challenges. Such environments need the performance and scale to meet the most demanding Wall Street trading systems, but at the same time the ability to run intra-day and end-of-day reporting and operational decision support systems. This ability to handle “mixed workloads”— the happy coexistence of demanding transactional systems and operational reporting systems — is key to gaining a competitive advantage. We interview Raj Rathee to gain Sybase's perspective on mission-critical enterprise database management systems. Raj is a senior manager for product management at Sybase. 30 Minutes Big Data & Text Analytics   You already know that tracking your assets such as money, real estate, employees, equipment, orders, deliveries and intellectual property is a strategic exercise. However, you may not have an accurate assessment of some of your most valuable data? For example, some of your most valuable data may reside in documents, emails, intranets, websites, blogs and wikis. That unstructured data presents a Big Data challenge when it comes to finding and exploiting business-critical information. So, to gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that provides deep textual analytics on your unstructured content. That deeper level of analytics will enable your organization to derive more value from your Big Data. We interview Scott Coles to gain ISYS Search Software’s perspective on Text Analytics & Big Data. Scott is the CEO of ISYS Search Software. 22 Minutes Mobile Tagging   Mobile is the global mass communication medium—in the sense that it includes all the capabilities of its forerunners (print, radio, movies, TV & Web). If there is any doubt about where your business must go, one thing is certain: it must go mobile. Customers expect no less. Anything that makes instant access to relevant content cumbersome is about to become a deal spoiler. Consumers expect all media to be available on their mobile devices. And people want to access mobile content from any of their devices. Business leaders can choose to strengthen the connections between their brands and mobile consumers. More than that, you can choose to engage and entertain consumers through mobile media, and you can do it in immersive and measurable ways. We interview Brian Fleisher to gain Microsoft's perspective on Mobile Tagging. Brian is a Senior Director of Product Management and Business Development for Microsoft Tag. 25 Minutes Information Architecture Tooling   Improving enterprise alignment to enable better business intelligence and information management is a key challenge facing forward thinking companies. However, data architecture is no longer enough to create a connection between business and IT. To make that connection, many organizations are selecting a model-driven approach to improve business intelligence and Information Architecture. Top solutions in this space support alignment by leveraging an enterprise glossary and a user interface that can be completely customized by role. To gain a competitive edge, look for a solution that leverages metadata management with a 360 degree view of key information assets and an enterprise-wide impact analysis capability. We interview David Dichmann to gain Sybase's perspective on modeling and architectural tools.  35 Minutes Social Logic   DM can deliver ROI but its adoption is limited by a steep learning curve. Business rules requirements need to be specific, clear and actionable. By doing so, business rules implementations converge quickly to high quality and accurate business rules, significantly reducing uncertainty and project risk. DM technologies provide agility; but you can make DM more Performance-Driven by leveraging business data and analytics in context at authoring time. A wealth of tacit knowledge resides in the heads of Customer Service personnel. The key to gaining a competitive advantage is capturing that tacit knowledge out of the collective. That tacit knowledge can then support Case Workers making manual decisions, providing insights on the impact of those decisions in real-time. We interview Carole-Ann Matignon to gain Sparkling Logic's perspective on social logic. Carole-Ann is CEO and Founder of Sparkling Logic. 44 Minutes Gain Visibility & Control with EPM   Project and portfolio management helps organizations improve visibility and control across varied portfolios. Effective PPM solutions need to provide organizations of different sizes and maturity levels with the right tools to ensure that teams can successfully collaborate to deliver projects on time and realize their anticipated return on investment (ROI). Even departments within a large organization might have divergent PPM requirements. To stay competitive, select an EPM solution which provides executives, portfolio analysts, managers, and team members with productivity tools to effectively manage all work throughout its life cycle, and to ensure alignment with an organization’s business strategy. We interview Arpan Shah to gain Microsoft's perspective on Enterprise Project Management. Arpan is the Director of Product Management for Microsoft Project.  23 Minutes Business Rules Management   Making consistent decisions across your organization is a complex task. Usually for any one decision, multiple data elements must be evaluated. In addition, decision making must respond to constantly changing conditions—external factors such as economic changes, competition, or regulations, as well as internally driven changes such as new product launches or new strategies. Without a sophisticated system for managing rules, it’s highly improbable for an organization to make decisions that avoid losses or drive maximum revenue. When selecting a BRMS look for technologies that help IT and business experts work together to develop intelligible, effective rules; and to quickly deploy new process applications with immediate support from the rules system. We interview Don Griest to gain FICO's perspective on BRMS. Don Griest is Sr. Director, Product Management with FICO. 43 Minutes Complex Event Processing   In order to be a global competitor, you need real-time agility, and you must driven by events. A delayed response to changing conditions can mean missed opportunities, and overlooked threats. To meet this challenge, CEP is being leveraged to identify patterns in fast paced, high-volume data streams that move through business systems in real time. But building low-latency event driven applications that can distill insight from the noise of incoming data has been difficult—until now. Quickly building and deploy new applications with rapid application development is key to achieving an enterprise view of the market. Rapid application development represents a third option to the perennial “buy vs. build” debate, by letting you have the flexibility and fit of a custom solution at the lower cost and reduced implementation time of an off-the-shelf solution. We interview Neil McGovern to gain Sybase's perspective on CEP. 54 Minutes Democratizing BPM   Seeing and understanding important business and IT information is a critical challenge. Meeting this challenge can be achieved with diagramming tools that help you organize and simplify business process complexity. Whether you’re capturing existing business processes or analyzing your supply chain, you need to leverage tools that make it easier for business and IT users to map processes and share business insight across your organization. By using standardized notations you can help all process participants build diagrams that conform to standards and make complex business process information easier to understand. But, getting the entire picture requires a clear and complete view of your business processes at both a high-level perspective as well as a more detailed look into you data. We interview Chris Crane to gain Microsoft's perspective on BPM. Chris is the director of Visio Product Management at Microsoft.  39 Minutes Text Analytics   In today’s competitive landscape, you need accurate business answers fast. You probably have noticed that much of your information is locked in unstructured text. So, what can you do about integrating structured data with unstructured and semistructured content? Well, many leading organizations are leveraging analytical database systems that build in text search and analysis which turns raw data into actionable information. By doing so, enterprises are now able to analyze previously untapped sources of information, such as web content and email, to deliver smarter answers across structured and unstructured data. We interview Joydeep Das to gain Sybase's perspective on Text Analytics. Joydeep is a Director of Analytics Product Management with Sybase. 33 Minutes Data Loss Prevention   Protecting sensitive information as it transforms and moves across the globe is mission critical to today's multinational enterprises. That collaboration and support for mobile devices provides easier access and broader sharing of enterprise information. Keeping sensitive data well-protected requires preventing data loss where end-users collaborate, such as file shares, email and the Web. To meet this challenge, you need security solutions that can help manage information risk by proactively locating and controlling sensitive information as it moves through the IT environment. Specifically, you need better visibility into high areas of risk, and help improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your ongoing security operations. We interview Sam Curry to gain EMC's perspective on Data Loss Prevention. Sam is Chief Technologist of RSA which is the security division of EMC.  23 Minutes  Data Quality   You probably already know that you have data quality issues, and efficiently reaching every customer and qualified prospect is critical. So, your challenge is looking for, identifying, and correcting bad data. To meet that challenge, you need quick insight into the types of bad contact data in your systems, like invalid street addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, which often result in lost marketing and sales opportunities, waste associated with undeliverable mail, and costly return shipping fees. Those data quality issues and the need to integrate increasingly complex enterprise data requires that you select a solution that offers a single, comprehensive view of your critical information assets. We interview Greg Brown to gain Melissa Data's perspective on Data Quality. Greg is the Director of Marketing for Melissa Data. 27 Minutes IMDB Drives Extreme Performance   In Memory Databases IMDB enable data virtualization and scaling which are critical to meeting the needs of high data volume and high concurrent user organizations, whether deployed in public cloud or private data center environments. Leveraging a fully integrated in memory database eliminates the need for application changes and provides the flexibility that allows IMDB to be configured to meet application requirements. In data centers, the IT challenge is to increase efficiency and availability while lowering data center costs. At the same time, application deployments in grid and cloud computing environments are increasing the requirements of transaction processing systems to support large volumes of concurrent users with high transaction rates. We interview Raj Rathee to gain Sybase's perspective on in memory databases. Raj is a product manager for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. 24 Minutes Cash Management with CDARS   Traditional cash management options, such as auction/adjustable rate preferreds, CMOs, commercial paper, money market funds, and Agencies, are not FDIC-insured and may carry undesirable risks. Recently, the US Securities and Exchange Commission charged Robert Allen Stanford and three of his companies for orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme centering on an $8 billion CD program. In that case, Antiguan-based Stanford International Bank issued promissory notes not CDs. CDs are issued by a US bank and are insured by the U.S. government. Clearly, designing a cash management strategy that includes the full faith and credit of the Unites States is critical. So, how can you obtain multi million dollar FDIC insurance with the ease of working through one trusted relationship? We interview Steve Kinner to gain Promontory Interfinancial Network's perspective on Cash Management. 8 Minutes Better Business Outcomes with PPM   The need to bring order out of chaos is nothing new to organizations. Technical complexity, increasing demand for new applications and services, and proliferating systems crowding the data center floor are routine. So is the need to juggle ever-changing management priorities—and deal with the vagaries of the quarterly budget. What’s new is the fact that project and portfolio management (PPM) now impacts business success in a visceral way. The efficiency and effectiveness of PPM are directly related to bottom-line financial results—and poor PPM practices are not an option for business leaders. Equally important, new trends and business conditions are increasing the pressure to implement better PPM practices. We interview Bruce Randall to gain HP's perspective IT financial management. Bruce is Director of Product Marketing for HP.  24 Minutes EA Modeling   Achieving alignment between an organization’s core goals and the IT infrastructure that supports an enterprise’s strategic direction is an ongoing challenge. So, you need to find ways that business processes and the data for information systems can be used to align business needs and information technology. Furthermore, aligning business processes with data from information systems enables the development of a model-driven approach that ultimately leads to heightened agility and greater productivity across the enterprise. Data modelers, analysts and information resource managers will appreciate the ways that different data flows can be used to visualize, understand and contribute to effective business processes when business models and data models meet. We interview David Dichmann to gain Sybase's perspective on EA Modeling. David is a Product Line Manager for Design Tools at Sybase. 44 Minutes Microsoft Project 2010   In today’s challenging environment, teams and organizations of all sizes must select and deliver the right projects on time and on budget. Furthermore, reducing costs by enabling smarter and more informed decisions about budgeting and resource allocation is critical. Consequently, more and more companies are relying on project and portfolio management tools to analyze their current and future project performance. Also, it is important to leverage flexible work management solutions and the right collaboration tools for occasional and professional project managers, but you also need a pathway to more advanced project and portfolio management capabilities as your business needs evolve. We interview Seth Patton to gain Microsoft's perspective Project and Portfolio Management. Seth is a Senior Director with Microsoft. 30 Minutes Customer Intimacy   A wealth of data is in applications for order management, accounting and sales force automation. That data contains valuable customer insights, and more CIOs are looking to predictive analytics to uncover those insights. Furthermore, you cannot rely on selling and marketing to mass audiences the way you have in the past. Customers are asserting their individuality, and they want to engage in personal relationships that extend beyond the point of purchase, however and wherever those interactions occur. Today, a lot of digital noise is outside your organizations control. Few of those conversations are useful, but a few voices might determine the success or failure of your marketing campaigns, product development or operational efficiencies. We interview Erick Brethenoux to gain SPSS an IBM Company's perspective on customer intimacy. Erick is the VP of Corporate Development for SPSS an IBM Company. 47 Minutes In – Database Analytics   Smart enterprises are driving risk management, fraud detection, business process management and investment strategies, as well as competitive product, marketing and customer relationship strategies with In –Database Business Analytics. In –Database Business Analytics removes application barriers to perform critical drill-downs that were previously impossible or impractical using outside the database approaches. In traditional approaches, end-users must transport data out of the database for processing. This activity often accounts for up to 75 percent of the cycle time and imposes severe constraints on throughput and timely delivery of results. We interview Joydeep Das to gain Sybase's perspective on In –Database Business Analytics. Joydeep is a Senior Product Manager with Sybase. 44 Minutes  Improve ROI with Uplift Modeling   Identifying waste in your marketing campaign budget and hidden incremental revenue are key to improving marketing campaign ROI. Achieve that mission, and you could realize a potential reduction of costs of up to 40 percent while simultaneously improving response by up to 35 percent. You can enjoy that kind of result by leveraging a statistical technique that can identify customers that will respond anyway, without the need for a campaign, as well as those who could be negatively affected by the marketing action. Moreover, Uplift Modeling can deliver higher response and incremental revenue simply by targeting fewer customers, effectively reducing campaign costs. We interview Dr. Mark Smith to gain Portrait Software's perspective on predictive analytics. Mark is the EVP of Sales and Marketing for Portrait Software. 36 Minutes Better Decision Management   One of the biggest challenges facing businesses is to make sure they can manage decisions with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency, all while driving down costs. To meet the challenge, Decision Management Platforms tightly integrate their capabilities with a company’s existing IT architecture. Moreover, DM builds on your modern IT architecture and allows you to manage decisions as a true corporate asset. Managing decisions as assets empowers business users, accelerates the time to value for business changes and helps build a new partnership between the business and IT. Furthermore, when it comes to making decisions in the face of uncertainty, it is critical to leverage analytics for more effective risk management. We interview Carole Ann Matignon to gain FICO's perspective on decision management. Carole Ann is VP Product Management at FICO. 43 Minutes End to End Encryption   Today’s bankcard networks are generally considered to be highly reliable and secure. However, cardholder data is typically unencrypted – visible in clear text – as it leaves a merchant’s terminal and makes its way through the payments network. At certain points in its journey, the data is potentially exposed – making it valuable prey for professional hackers who have developed increasingly sophisticated methods of hijacking it. The numerous systems that have been compromised over the last several years are stark testimony to the success of these criminals. Protecting sensitive cardholder and payment account information throughout the lifecycle of a transaction from card swipe through transmission to the card brands is the ultimate goal of end-to-end encryption. We interview Steve Elefant to gain Heartland Payment Systems' perspective on end to end encryption. Steve is the CIO for Heartland Payment Systems. 23 Minutes Work Intelligence with PPM   To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to leverage real-time insight into the everyday work that’s going on across projects and teams, and to ensure that work is fully aligned with business priorities. Furthermore, companies need to be able to efficiently capture a portfolio view of their organization so that they can make smart, informed decisions on-the-fly. In particular, increasing visibility is crucial when you are developing new projects by collaborating across multiple international offices. Also, it is often best to keep on eye on your bottom line by leveraging an on-demand solution that provides the ability to easily conduct a pilot and then quickly scale it up and roll it out company-wide. We interview Timothy Low to gain Daptiv's perspective on on-demand project management and collaboration software. Timothy is the Vice President of Marketing with Daptiv. 25 Minutes  Business Process Mobilization   We have only just scratched the surface of the productivity gains that are likely to grow from the development of mobile technology. Furthermore, the paradigm is shifting from portable voice transmission and email delivery to a complete pocket office and control center that can replicate every function available at company headquarters. Companies that embrace the new technology will enhance their existing IT investments, increase their workforce productivity and put themselves at the forefront of the new business mobility that can help companies manage their business more effectively and more profitably. Moreover, you can now leverage a new level of access to information and management control of processes and operations than has previously been thought possible. We interview Bryan Whitmarsh to gain Sybase's perspective on business process mobilization. Bryan is a senior product manager with Sybase. 26 Minutes Smarter Analytics with Sybase IQ 15   For more than 40 years, businesses have been using information technology to automate front office and back office operational systems. Throughout that time, businesses have made tremendous gains in productivity, but the technology has consistently failed to meet the needs of decision-makers throughout the enterprise. Meanwhile, the volume and complexity of transactional data has grown exponentially. In today’s environment, operational excellence is not enough to propel your business forward. Winners (and losers) are now determined by the quality of the decisions and predictions enabled by getting the answers you need. We interview Dan Lahl to gain Sybase's perspective on how to get smarter answers with column based analytical servers. Dan is the Director of Marketing for Sybase IQ. 52 Minutes Business & IT Alignment with PPM   It’s easy to tell when your business is overcommitted, over budget and overwhelmed. It’s not so easy to prevent it from happening. Step one is to gain insight into your business activities and ask the hard question, are they translating into business results? With multiple operational and strategic activities under evaluation or underway at any given moment, you need the ability to step back to see which ones are truly aligned with business objectives. The question is, how? How will you get a better view of what’s going on, put better controls in place, prioritize investments and implement consistent quality practices—without breaking the budget or further burdening the staff? We interview Ken Cheney to gain HP's perspective on Project and Portfolio Management. Ken is HP Software's Director of Product Marketing. 30 Minutes  Portfolio Management for All Efforts   Most organizations lack the resources to effectively deal with the work at hand. To get ahead of the curve, you need to prioritize work, control how new initiatives are evaluated against current efforts, assign resources efficiently, and accurately track progress and performance. However, your best strategy may not produce optimal results unless you leverage an integrated approach to planning, tracking and managing ALL your efforts, including support, projects, and new initiatives. Furthermore, just good project management won’t cut it when your resources are involved in day to day operational and support efforts. We interview Rich Murphy to gain the EPK Group's perspective on IT Project and Portfolio Management. Rich is a founding partner of the EPK Group.  55 Minutes  Semantics Battles Fraud   The perpetrators of financial crime are constantly modifying their tactics, and centralizing case management is an effective way to deal with them. Furthermore, by automating the case management process, you can monitor cases in near-real time and in-flight. This ensures that fraud cases don’t fall through the cracks, and that you are more efficient. Gaining greater business knowledge from existing fraud databases and legacy systems should be a key component of your strategy. Particularly, semantics can facilitate better trend analysis, and make it available immediately to fraud analysts. By leveraging semantics, fraud risk  managers get the upper hand by obtain a contextual view of the fraud and risk exposure across your enterprise. We interview Jeff Dickerson to gain Metatomix's perspective on the role of semantics in financial services. Jeff is the CEO of Metatomix. 30 Minutes T & E Expense Management   The high cost business travel is an important concern. Getting on top of theses expenses can be achieved by strengthening your business travel guidelines and automating your expense management process. But, there is more to automating travel and expense management then just digitizing receipt review and storage, and electronically feeding charge card data into an expense system. To really meet this challenge, select an end-to-end solution driven by expense management software with complete back-office services to ensure compliance with company T&E policies. Moreover, a total end-to-end business expense management solution – includes expense reporting software and receipt imaging services, all the way to discrepancy resolution and expense reimbursement. We interview Chuck Buckner gain InterplX's perspective on automated travel & expense management. Chuck is is the President and CEO of InterplX. 22 Minutes Higher Business Performance   Enterprise BI solutions need to be efficient, reliable, and agile. To meet that requirement, leaders must leverage an architecture that is open and standards-based, platform neutral, location transparent, and that features peer-to-peer services that are loosely coupled, interface based, and coarsely grained. SOA, on the other hand, is ideal. Furthermore, with the right information-enabling technology and leadership, decision-makers can become performance managers. Reporting is key to catalyzing your performance management effort. We interview Meg Dussault, and Leah MacMillan to gain Cognos' perspective on turning information into higher business performance. Meg is the Director of corporate positioning, and Leah is the VP of product marketing both are with Cognos.  39 Minutes

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