Analytical Applications

Analytics has moved from the specialty of a dedicated few to a necessity for broad groups of business professionals to do their job. This white paper considers the use of analytics and business intelligence in the banking industry for improving decision making and the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this objective across many functions in a banking organization.

This Aberdeen report demonstrates how highly effective financial planning, budgeting and forecasting enables good decision making, even in periods of major change. Dynamic financial planning enabled through five key elements -- process, organisation, knowledge management, technology and performance enhancement -- can give business leaders the tools to take prompt action and emerge even stronger.

FreshDirect found it very challenging to get operational insights from its information systems. In order to improve, it was critical to FreshDirect that they select a BI technology that allows the company to measure and report on operational metrics across departmental applications without requiring the building of IT-intensive data marts. With this requirement as one of the key selection criteria, the company evaluated multiple vendors. Download this case study to learn more.

Explore the Aberdeen e-book "High-Performance Organizations Empower Employees with Real-Time Mobile Analytics" - and see how you can get the edge. Hear from industry experts how to effectively roll out your mobile analytics strategy, and empower your front-line workers with real-time insight and tools. Don't confine intelligent decisions to desktops - be ahead of the mobile analytics curve.

This demo showcases the ease-of-use to replicate data sets, the process of connecting to a data source, defining a mapping, initial synchronization, extraction and finally applying to a destination.

In this whitepaper, we describe how executive and IT management can get and maintain control of their company's data architecture to help meet business objectives. We describe the relationship between data integration projects and data architecture concepts and practices. We describe how the business planning and IT development processes that direct and leverage data integration projects depend on tooling. We describe breakthrough ways in which data architects, business analysts, programmers, and business users can collaborate to address their organization's pressing business challenges.

Read this IDC Executive Brief to see how MPLS facilitates cost-effective and converged wide area networking with a high level of security and flexibility

In this white paper, find out more about Right Channeling and how it can benefit your organization.

In this whitepaper, you'll get an idea of a very different migration strategy -- moving your users and their desktops to Windows 7.

Download this paper to learn about virtual recovery solutions that SMBs need to bring an application back online in a matter of minutes.

Learn how Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top CCCM vendors.

This paper looks at cloud architecture in which the servers and networks in the data center can rapidly respond to changing demands.

Private cloud computing advances the delivery of efficient infrastructure allowing enterprises to plan incremental enhancements to existing infrastructure, and the right SAN.

This American Express® guide helps you streamline FX payments. Includes FX payment provider profile, how to simplify payments, and insightful FAQ.

Global travel specialist STA Travel found that access to its website had slowed and that peaks in web traffic from promotional campaigns had become difficult to manage. The company turned to the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager for support. This cost-effective solution deployed quickly, improved the website's performance and uptime, and provided a superior online experience for its customers.

Online job search site SnagAJob.com needed a quick and reliable online presence. After assessing its web optimization strategy, the company traded its hardware traffic management solution for a virtualized environment that could match anticipated growth. With Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager supporting its new virtual environment, the company is now well on its way to meeting its goal of 99.9 percent uptime.

With 85 percent of its ticket sales made online, See Tickets needed a robust, secure, highly accessible website. The company chose the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to ensure that its site was always online and fast, even during extreme peaks in traffic. Now the company's valued customers receive optimal online service.

Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed® StingrayT Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand. The company's pages now load much faster, and downtime is a thing of the past.

With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction. Real-time traffic views and tracking also make it easy to strategize and plan for the future.

Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager makes it easy to migrate and scale data on demand, and is the only delivery solution available as a deployable VA.

Every two years, one of the biggest events in the UK fundraising calendar is Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. In 2009 the charity implemented the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to make sure its web and donation platforms could scale up to handle vast peaks of website traffic. Thanks in part to this solution, Comic Relief's 2009 fundraising event raised a phenomenal £54.7m.

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Private cloud computing advances the delivery of efficient, agile IT infrastructure allowing enterprises to plan incremental enhancements to existing infrastructure, and the right SAN.

Christian Kane is an Enterprise Mobility Management Research Analyst with Forrester Research, where he helps clients develop and improve their desktop and mobile strategy. His research spans mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, and mobile applications.

Re-pricing products in the store has become a strategic tool that retailers apply to increase traffic and sales. This white paper explains how retailers are profiting from mobile markdown printing and how stores can leverage different printing applications to create more value.