The pressure on organizations to protect and manage data keeps intensifying, especially thanks to email. Many companies now consider email to be mission critical. In fact, according to recent studies: Email and other messaging applications store as much as 75 percent of a company's intellectual property; 79 percent of companies accept email as written confirmation of transactions; and 75 percent of Fortune 500 litigation involves discovery of email communication. In this webcast, trusted advisors from Gartner and Symantec look at the challenges companies face with storing, managing and discovering critical company information, and more importantly, the solutions you can use to conquer those challenges.

Sponsored by: Symantec
Speakers: Carolyn DiCenzo, Nick Mehta
Type: Video (31 minutes)

Today, information is critical to sustaining a strong competitive edge. For companies to survive they must be able to use and manage their information. Join experts from Gartner and Hewlett-Packard as they examine the challenges in building better business intelligence solutions.

Sponsored by: HP
Speakers: Donald Feinberg, Ben C. Barnes, Jonathan Wu
Type: Video (24 minutes)

Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) is all about harnessing customer insights to drive strategic and operational improvements. It's about cultivating a customer-centric culture within your business. In fact, Gartner projects that by 2008, 40 percent of total feedback system deployments will be done through EFM solutions.In this webcast, trusted advisors from Gartner, Microsoft, SPSS and TARP Worldwide examine the drivers behind this trend and, more importantly, the solutions companies are using today to turn their customer insights into profitable actions.

Sponsored by: SPSS
Speakers: Ed Thompson, James Corriveau, Karl Dittman, Dennis Gonier
Type: Video (34 minutes)

Accurate and up-to-date data forms the foundation for flawless electronic business. A successful master data management (MDM) program requires the commitment of empowered people, effective processes, and well placed technology. The program you are about to see will look at the key components of a MDM program as well as the importance of planning to optimize your return on investment.

Sponsored by: Liaison Technologies
Speakers: Bob Renner, Bill Stolte, Andrew White
Type: Video (26 minutes)

In today's competitive environment, diverse technologies are coming together to help organizations boost overall productivity, provide better customer service, and enable compliance. FileNet, an IBM Company, delivers a broad range of tightly integrated compliance, process and content management solutions to empower organizations to foster innovation and accelerate business performance.

Sponsored by: FileNet
Speakers: Toby Bell, Martyn Christian
Type: Video (17 minutes)

Effective enterprise search means far more than finding information fast: It makes an organization more efficient, improves compliance efforts and keeps you out of legal trouble. And it encompasses not just internal documents but external data and audio and video files as well. In this webcast, trusted advisors from Gartner and Coveo help you determine the right enterprise search solution for your needs.

Sponsored by: Coveo
Speakers: Whit Andrews, Laurent Simoneau
Type: Video (22 minutes)

Critical business initiatives such as single view of a customer, business intelligence, supply chain management, and Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance require consistent, complete, and trustworthy information. Watch this program now to learn how IBM Information Server helps companies to integrate information in order to deliver business results within these initiatives faster and with higher quality results.

Sponsored by: IBM
Speakers: Ted Friedman, Peter Fiore
Type: Video (17 minutes)

During this session, you'll hear from Gartner, EchoStar, and EMC on how to find common ground between business and IT.

Sponsored by: EMC
Speakers: Paul Goetz, Michael Gerrard
Type: Video (10 minutes)

How do you evaluate a remote management solution and its provider? How do you cost justify the investment? And what are remote management adopters saying about this technology? The program you're about to see provides comprehensive answers to these questions and more.

Sponsored by: Esprida
Speakers: Micael Maoz, J.C. Raby, Tom Weston, Tom Chiarella
Type: Video (27 minutes)

Whether you are a business professional seeking new insights into profitability, a service provider seeking to better understand client problems, or an IT manager needing to deliver information to your organization, the discipline of business intelligence is vital. From the world's first commercial database, through the invention of the relational model, to today's latest integrated platforms for data warehousing, IBM has been the critical innovator in information management. Innovation that matters.

Sponsored by: IBM
Speakers: Bill Hostmann, Karen Parrish
Type: Video (16 minutes)

The plethora of business intelligence products makes it hard to choose and implement the right ones to support business needs. Avanade is helping customers take advantage of a range of technology, from Microsoft SQL Server to Microsoft CRM, to carry out business process-related initiatives and more. Join Gartner Research VP, Bill Hostmann and Avanade VP of Applications & Integration, Eric Blankenburg for their insight into strategies for analytics and the future of BI.

Sponsored by: Avanade
Speakers: Bill Hostmann, Eric Blankenburg
Type: Video (22 minutes)