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SHARE Research SHARE values itself by staying current with industry trends and member needs. See below for our latest research initiative. SHARE and GUIDE SHARE EUROPE Mobile Computing Survey February 2013 Mobile devices including BYOD, corporate-provided smart phones, and now media tablets are rapidly becoming a primary device for access to more than just email and texting. Mobile application users are presenting new challenges to in-house IT departments, as they demand access to business-critical data and processes from mobile devices. Mobile device proliferation and application development and management, represents a paradigm shift in both enterprise and personal computing. Information technology departments are struggling to provide comprehensive enterprise security, mobile device management, and access for employees, consultants, and partners to business-critical enterprise information. View the Executive Summary, which is available for public viewing. Members only may click here to download the complete findings report. Site login and password required for access.* Thank you to IBM Corporation for sponsoring the survey and to our partner IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe Edition and its readers for their contribution to the survey.
Social Media & Business Intelligence Survey Results and Analysis March 2012 Social media networks and peer groups are creating large data sets that are now enabling companies and organizations to gain competitive advantage and improve performance. These data sets provide important insights into customer behavior, brand reputation, and the overall customer experience. Intelligent early adopter organizations are beginning to monitor and collect the data from propriety and open social media networks. This benchmark survey, perhaps the first of its kind, explores how small, medium, and large organizations are leveraging business intelligence tools and platforms to harvest, manage, and analyze social media data and what their future plans are to leverage it for business initiatives. The study, conducted among the members of the SHARE users group and GUIDE SHARE EUROPE, was fielded during a month-long period starting in early January and ending in early February, 2012. The research was sponsored by IBM and Marist College and conducted by Unisphere Research. All respondents were volunteers and none were paid to take the survey. View the Executive Summary, which is available for public viewing. Members only may click here to download the complete findings report. Site login and password required for access.*
Closing the IT Skills Gap: 2011 SHARE Survey for Guiding University & College IT Agendas February 2011 In a new survey of 376 employers, a majority report that they depend on the educational sector—universities and colleges—to provide graduates with specific IT skills in enterprise programming languages and mainframe administration skills, as well as business skills such as problem-solving and communications abilities. However, few companies are entirely satisfied with the readiness of graduates coming out of campuses. View the Executive Summary, which is available for public viewing. Members only may click here to download the complete findings report. Site login and password required for access.* Total Enterprise Virtualization January 2009 A survey of 388 IT professionals, ranging from CIOs to individual practitioners, found that a majority recognize the advantages total enterprise virtualization can deliver, and are preparing to move forward with TEV within their organizations. Total Enterprise Virtualization extends the advantages of virtualization - greater availability, scalability and capacity with greater resource utilization - across the enterprise. Already, many companies have moved to server virtualization and are moving to storage virtualization. Download the findings report. Site login and password required for access.* The New Mainframe: Data Integration and Service-Oriented Architecture, Big Iron Style July/August 2007 By various industry estimates, at least 70 percent of the world’s mission-critical business information is stored on mainframes. Unlocking this data in an efficient and cost-effective manner is a challenge faced by many organizations, especially at a time when many are seeking to leverage their data assets to better understand customers and market opportunities. A survey among members of SHARE, conducted by Unisphere Research during July and August of 2007, revealed that many mainframe systems are at the center of efforts to achieve enterprise data integration, as well as to extend applications into service-oriented architectures. Download the findings report. Site login and password required for access.* Compliance Management: All Roads Lead to the Data Center 2005 SHARE Compliance Issues Survey New reporting requirements have been thrust upon business in recent years. By some estimates, there are now more than 150 laws and regulations from federal, state, international, and industry oversight bodies that impose some set of requirements on IT infrastructures. In an effort to assess the impact of compliance mandates on data center operations, SHARE, in cooperation with its 2005 Alliance Vendors, recently surveyed 111 IT executives and managers with compliance oversight responsibility in their organizations. SHARE’s 2005 Alliance Vendors include: American Power Conversion, Computer Associates, EMC Corporation, Innovation Data Processing, Isogon: An IBM Company, ISPW BenchMark Technologies Ltd., Luminex Software, Inc., Mainstar Software Corporation, and Siemon. The survey was conducted by Unisphere Media, publishers of Database Trends & Applications and SHARE’s Data Center newsletter. Download the findings report. Site login and password required for access.* The complete Compliance Survey Results report (19 comprehensive pages of results) is available to purchase for $750.**
**To purchase the complete Compliance Survey Results report, please send an e-mail request to SHAREhq@SHARE.org. Please include “Full Compliance Survey Results Report” in the subject line, and include your name, company, job title and address. A representative from SHARE Headquarters will respond to your inquiry to complete the purchase.
*The Findings Report is FREE to SHARE members. Non-members interested in obtaining the Report, please send an e-mail request to SHAREhq@SHARE.org. Please include “SHARE Research” in the subject line, and include your name, company, job title and address. A representative from SHARE Headquarters will respond to your inquiry. Research conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc.
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