High-performance analytic databases are receiving increasing interest by end-user organizations. This is understandable, given the ever-increasing amount of data that organizations are accumulating -- causing a data glut that is, quite simply, putting a strain on organizations' data warehousing and BI activities. Our most recent survey on high-performance analytic databases uncovers some interesting findings regarding their adoption and use.

This Executive Report focuses on the roles that social media can play in the execution of your business strategies and the improvement of your business processes and models. The report describes a process that should lead to the optimization of social media in your company. It recognizes the role that social media can play in improving conventional processes such as marketing, branding, customer service, innovation, training, and R&D, as well as how social media can fundamentally refine old processes for business value. The report also provides a social media optimization blueprint consisting of strategy, architecture, skills assessments, and project slates. Special emphasis is placed on the value of "listening" to internal and external social media. Ultimately, the report argues that social media is a relentless trend that all companies must understand and exploit. There's no hiding from the social media tsunami.

If your organization has a lot of disparate operational systems that require integration for day-to-day tactical reporting, auditing, monitoring, and feeding of other applications, what do you build? An operational data store (ODS).

Learning management systems (LMS) are fast becoming standard business applications, a strategic solution for planning, delivering, and managing all learning events within an organization, including online, virtual classroom, and instructor-led courses. Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), which enable just-in-time content creation to meet the needs of individual learners or groups of learners are also quickly becoming a companion standard business app. Spend an hour with Lance Dublin and learn how your IT organization can ensure your enterprise truly maximizes the return on its LMS/LCMS investment.