May 01, 2008 - In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
November 02, 2009 - Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
November 02, 2009 - This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. Defining the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in retail banking, it offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data, and shows how you can get started in making trusted data available to improve marketing, customer service, risk management and more.
December 30, 2008 - View this webcast to learn how to treat your network as a business asset and get more out of your network. This webcast highlights a solution to increase visibility and network assessment which will help contain costs.
January 16, 2009 - This paper discusses best practices for identifying legacy applications that are of little or no value to an organization and provides details on removing/retiring them while keeping application data accessible for reporting and compliance purposes. The processes contained here are designed to save your company money, time, and resources.
October 31, 2009 - This paper discusses some of the new approaches to power distribution including modular distribution and overhead power busway, and shows their advantages when compared to the legacy approach.
February 01, 2009 - Common problems with interdepartmental handling of customer issues include a mismatch of priorities, no shared understanding of customer impact, and overall communication problems between teams. The solution is to create enterprise-wide workflow and visibility..
December 01, 2008 - For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications.
December 05, 2008 - The need for customer insight and responsiveness to that insight is the foundation and driving rationale for the emerging CRM concept of continuous customer dialogue through multi-channel touchpoints.
January 15, 2009 - Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.
October 10, 2009 - Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.
March 01, 2009 - This white paper asserts that the common thread that must run through all phases of project manufacturing is a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system. A PPM system will constantly examine resources, supplies and schedules to ensure that every phase of the project's lifecycle is on time and within budget.
January 22, 2009 - The potential benefits of reducing labor and increasing sales from deploying an item-level RFID operation are clear. Read about current capabilities of RFID, including accuracy, performance and adaptability.
August 28, 2009 - The information presented in this white paper discusses various approaches to cryptography and key management, and can be used as a starting point for developing an effective policy-based key management solution. Taking a proactive approach to data protection results in a smoother implementation and a positive return on investment.
January 01, 2007 - This white paper provides an introduction to System i high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy.
March 11, 2010 - As IT infrastructures grow more complex there is a need for data to be synchronized, integrated, consolidated, and migrated. Watch this webcast to learn about the critical issue of data integration environments in the enterprise and how Sybase can help your organization meet its data replication, data movement and real-time reporting needs.
January 08, 2009 - How can server consolidation, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), moving applications to a web-based interface, and video and TelePresence collaboration projects all be supported at a reasonable cost? Check out this report to see how application acceleration is the answer.
February 12, 2010 - This video explains how to achieve full application security. Learn how to overcome the "Application Security Divide" and how to prevent exploitation of application-layer vulnerabilities.
April 25, 2008 - Application development professionals have better platform options to choose from than they might think. In this Forrester Research report, you'll learn about factors you should consider as application platforms evolve, four criteria that application development professionals should examine when selecting application server products, and more...
June 01, 2009 - There is a growing, interdisciplinary field known as knowledge management that is dedicated to how we acquire, organize, manage, share, and utilize knowledge and information. This white paper will discuss what knowledge management is, why it is important, and how you can apply knowledge management to project management.
March 01, 2010 - Securing cardholder data is not just about passing annual PCI DSS audits. Depending on your key management architecture, you could be spending too much time maintaining compliance or not even meeting the PCI DSS requirements for scope reduction. View this webcast to learn more about where encryption and tokenization fit in a merchant architecture.
February 22, 2010 - A recent survey of CIOs found that over 75% want to develop an overall information strategy in the next three years, yet over 85% are not close to implementing an enterprise-wide content management strategy. Read this paper to find out more about comprehensive archiving solutions in SAP environments and how they can help manage enterprise content.
January 19, 2010 - Carnation auto needed to establish a centralized IT system that would consolidate information across the entire Indian automobile industry landscape to provide their customers with a wide array of services. Read this case study to see how they used applications in the SAP Business Suite on Enterprise Linux to help them.
May 22, 2009 - This paper delves into the complexity of managing Web applications and evaluates ASG's ability to deliver deep, broad, and accurate insight into application performance.
March 02, 2010 - Market research leader TNS conducted a total cost of ownership (TCO) study for HP to determine how its BladeSystem c-Class offering compared with rack-based offerings from Sun Microsystems. This white paper re-examines the issues around rack-vs.-blade TCO in the context of recent changes on the processor front.
October 27, 2009 - Videoconferencing, training, surveillance, and executive communications are leading use cases for enterprise video. In this webcast, IDC Analyst Melissa Webster discusses the "operationalization" of video in organizations and AT&T's Ethan Fox explains how to manage its distribution across the corporate network.
January 20, 2010 - Tight budgets and complex IT environments mean that IT operations teams must operate as efficiently as possible. Read this Q&A session with Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service, to better understand how integrated, automated management tools can improve IT productivity.
February 15, 2010 - This paper highlights both positive developments and challenges the industry faces in the year ahead. More technological and advanced thinking in terms of PCI scope is clearly welcome news for merchants, and the hope is that it can begin to help merchants tackle the ever-increasing PCI compliance budget challenges they face.
January 06, 2010 - Most projects involve data integration these days due to multiple applications and databases usage. It is necessary to plan and design the data integration parts of your projects to avoid a data integration tar pit. Read this paper to learn how Agile integration can help IT projects avoid this tangled mess of point-to point integrations.
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