Application Integration

This paper is written to provide guidance for teams new to continuous integration or wanting to explore ways to improve their implementations.

Smartphone, tablet computer and ultrabook purchases number in the hundreds of millions per year. This onslaught of devices underscores the move to mobility in many organizations. Read on to learn how CDW helps in building end to end mobile strategy.

Business management software can provide improvements in business functions all around. But, making a decision for implementing new software can be a big task. This paper gives key reasons software drives growth in construction and contracting firms.

Did you know that most companies underutilize services that can improve the performance of Web and mobile architectures, focusing mistakenly on more costly and complex solutions?

In this whitepaper, you will see that the financial benefits of cloud computing are very real, the payback period is characteristically very short and the action steps to obtain these savings are very well defined.

The What, Why and How to Employ NAC to Apply Guest Networking, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and Endpoint Security Policies. Many of today's endpoints are neither known nor protected. According to Gartner, enterprises are only aware of 80 percent of the devices on their network. Those 20 percent of unknown devices are inside the perimeter of the network, are unmanaged and provide users with access. They are small, varied and highly mobile, and they are loaded with their own applications, can act as WAPs, and often contain outdated firmware or are jailbroken. Even as the devices are accessing personal applications on the web, they are also accessing corporate resources such as e-mail-all from the very same unmanaged devices, which have not been vetted by the security organization. Smartphones, notebooks, netbooks, iPads, e-readers, gaming consoles and more-the list of personal devices attempting access to employer networks seems to grow every day in what's come to be known as the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) era in networking.

Whether your business is involved with it yet or not, cloud computing will play a significant role in the future of IT: it has already been enthusiastically embraced by small and medium sized businesses and its potential is also being accepted and exploited by larger enterprises.

Bar-coded shipping labels are essential to sophisticated tracking and material-handling systems, and thus so are label printers. This white paper identifies the features of shipping-label printers that will return the greatest value for long-term, low-cost reliable operations, from features that save time to those that simplify integration and management.

Tablet computing is one of the fastest growing categories of consumer electronics, led by the Apple iPad. This buzz is leading many businesses to explore new uses for tablet computers, and some devices are finding their way into evaluation trials on forklifts and other vehicle applications in the distribution center. This white paper compares ruggedized enterprise tablets to purpose-built vehicle mount computers, and addresses mounting, survivability, power, compatibility, and cost considerations between the two product categories.

In today's competitive business landscape, users' needs are continuously changing. Employees want access to their data and applications anytime, anywhere, from any device. The journey to seamlessly integrate data and applications across all devices begins with desktop modernization.

Read more of this whitepaper to explore critical elements in which strong authentication solutions can be applied with SaaS applications to help drive adoption and improve user experience.

Is data changing the way you do business?Is it inventory sitting in your warehouse? The good news is data-driven applications enhance online customer experiences, leading to higher customer satisfaction and retention, and increased purchasing.

Cloud computing has a lot of appeal, from auto-scaling to lower costs, and it's all just a few clicks away. Thus, the big question is not "why cloud?" but rather "how cloud?"

Technology trends are converging to create a perfect storm in the world of commerce-empowering customers while raising the bar for companies to meet new, more demanding customer expectations. Read this report to learn about solutions and services delivered by IBM and its Business Partners to help midsize companies market and sell more effectively.

Virtualization has moved to the forefront of many organizations' IT agendas, because it reduces both the number of physical servers required and the associated costs. This independent study by the International Technology group found IBM PowerVM more cost-competitive over time, compared to VMware, in terms of IT costs and the costs of downtime.

IBM Cognos BI offers complete perspectives on business intelligence and analytics through a single, unified workspace. Read the white paper and see how Power Systems runs Cognos BI applications-on distributed or consolidated servers-for greater business value as well as improved availability, virtualization, performance and energy efficiency.

Organizations of all sizes also get a host of dynamic features that take productivity to dizzying heights - without complicated installs, headaches for your IT department, or long turnaround times.

Business intelligence technology must meet the demands of tomorrow's "digital natives"; integrate seamlessly with cloud data and platforms; align people, conversations, and data with business strategy; and make the most of the infrastructures we have today.

Is turning data into information still a challenge for your company? If so, you are not alone. View this on-demand Webinar with SAP and HP to learn how you can manage ever-increasing amounts of data; provide this data to business users to make critical decisions in a timely fashion; and enable true self-service business intelligence (BI) for business users.

Featured in SharePoint Pro magazine online, the OpenText white paper Extending SharePoint Across Your Information Architecture, by leading SharePoint consultant Colin Spence, offers valuable insights and best practices for integrating SharePoint with your full enterprise application environment.

The Vornado company is a legend in their industry as the "Leader in Air Flow Technology." Consumer interaction is important to the Vornado brand, so including chat on their website, where consumers can have not just a quick dialogue with a Vornado product specialist, but a live conversation, was a necessity. Using BoldChat Enterprise gave Vornado the opportunity to meet this communication need and to solve an increasing email management need too.

In this white paper, Solar Winds outlines the differences between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V as well as introduces key features in the products and expose the feature deltas that may exist.

Easily compare ERP solutions for Mid-Market and Enterprise sized businesses in our new Buyer's Guide.

Are you currently in the process of making line-of-business applications accessible from mobile devices or do you have plans to deploy custom mobile applications in the near future? "The Rise of the Mobile Workforce: Gain Control of End User Experience" will provide you and your team with the use cases, insight, and best practices you need for gaining control of end user experience of mobile applications.

Read the informational story now and learn why companies like MasterBrand Cabinets chose Steelhead® WAN optimization appliances for superior performance.