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BPM for Dummies [ Source: IBM ]
August 2012- Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).

Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service.

You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...

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How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center [ Source: HP ]
May 2012- Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.

This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.

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Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration [ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011- The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.

Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.

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Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT [ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011- In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.

The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...

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Advanced Malware Exposed [ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011- This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...

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Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP [ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012- Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.

This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.

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CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats [ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011- Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.

Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...

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8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours [ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011- Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.

Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN [ Source: HP ]
May 2011- Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.

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Are You Giving Metadata Management The Right Attention? [ Source: Tallan ]
June 2009- Metadata Management is a critical but often ignored component in a successful data warehouse implementation. It is a path to establishing common understanding between the business and IT, but not often well understood by either side of the organization. Costs attributable to poor metadata management are often hidden in project development inefficiencies, mistakes made from incorrect assumptions about data, and analysis hours spent doing redundant research. The following illustrative study illustrates how recognizing metadata management ...

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Improve Your Vision and Expand Your Mind with Visual Analytics [ Source: Tableau Software ]
April 2009-

Learn why data visualization is important to overcome the limits of short term memory, and how it can result in finding what’s meaningful in your data and then making sense of it.

You will learn how visual analysis can allow you to:
• Identify what’s meaningful in the data in ways that your eyes can see and brain can understand
• Keep focused on what’s important and not ...

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Multi-Customer ROI Analysis: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Manager Database [ Source: Oracle ]
March 2009-
In this report, discover how to:
• Increase database administrator (DBA) productivity;

• Reduce system downtime and increase availability;

• Reduce capital spending on servers by 20%;

In this whitepaper, Forrester Research initiated work on a research project that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by adopting Oracle Enterprise Manager. This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostic Pack ...

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Moving an MS Access Database Application to the Web with Alpha Five Version 9 [ Source: Alpha Software ]
February 2009- Alpha Software’s latest white paper details how businesses can smoothly transition their Microsoft Access database applications to the Web using Alpha Five Version 9. Alpha Five is an all-in-one integrated tool that allows users to build secure and highly customized database applications with full reporting for the desktop or the Web quickly and easily.

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SAS In-Database Processing: A Roadmap for Deeper Technical Integration With Database Management Systems [ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008- The SAS In-Database technology described relates to a variety of environments, including grid, blade servers, and event management containers. The goal of the SAS In-Database initiative is not only to achieve deeper technical integration with database providers, but to also extend this integration to a unique and differentiated value proposition that blends the best SAS data integration and analytics with the core strengths of databases. This paper outlines the technology areas within the SAS Intelligence ...

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6 Key Benefits of Intelligent File Storage Solutions [ Source: Novell ]
April 2010- Organizations need to better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn how a commercial software tool helps unlock the hidden value in collaborative data—such as presentations, text documents, spreadsheets and videos — the primary output of employee creativity and the fastest consumer of enterprise storage today.

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Sageworks Analyst Provides Commercial Credit Analysis Capabilities [ Source: Sageworks, Inc. ]
January 2005- Sageworks Analyst is a commercial credit analysis technology. View a video demonstration of how community banks around the country use this unique online technology to perform global cash flow analysis, automate narrative write-ups, benchmark clients versus their peer groups, and quickly perform business projections.

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Achieving Better Information Security with Content-Aware Database Monitoring [ Source: NitroSecurity ]
September 2008- Protecting your data is the end goal of most information security efforts. Using a content-aware database monitor, you can build rich logs of database activity, monitor these logs in real time, and provide value-added alerts and reports that can be used for security, compliance or systems management.

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Application Modernization and Retirement Strategies [ Source: Capgemini ]
November 2010- Legacy Applications Are Eating Away Your IT Budget and Future of Your Company. Take Charge Before It is Too Late.

IT has always been in the forefront of innovation and agility. New applications fuel an organization’s growth and productivity, automate key business processes and provide competitive edge. But inevitably, the cutting-edge systems of yesterday become today’s legacy applications, and the once organized landscape of an ‘application city’ becomes outdated and plagued ...

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The State of Data [ Source: SAS ]
November 2009- Harnessing core data issues is essential to your organization’s success, enabling you to gain a 360-degree view of itself, its operations, and its customer base. Tackling the volumes and volumes of unstructured and semistructured data may be the most important decision your company can make. A clearer view enhances better business decisions, customer relations and profitability.

Untold billions of dollars are lost annually due to the errors and workarounds made necessary by ...

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Analyst Report: The new promise of BI realized [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- IBM has redefined BI with an enterprise solution that brings reporting, analysis, modeling, planning and collaboration together for better decision-making cycles and to help remove the barriers to being analytics-driven. This is the new promise of BI realized.

This paper describes how IBM has infused traditional BI with personal analytics and performance management to balance user freedom and IT control. It introduces IBM Cognos Enterprise, the solution that can help your organization take ...

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The Challenge of Effective Master Data Management: Reliable Data Improves the Bottom Line and Reduces Risk [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Master data is a collection of data objects defined uniformly across organizational processes, enabling consistency and accuracy by serving as the single source. This document helps you to initially think about how master data plays an important role in your company and what to do to start maximizing its use for business value.

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Security: Security Enterprise Data and and Ensuring Compliance [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Securing Enterprise Data and Ensuring Compliance In the Face of Multiple Threats, Strategies Must be Comprehensive

Security is an important element of an information integration and governance framework. This research perspective by Ventana Research provides insight to help organizations ensure a centralized, holistic security architecture to prevent breaches and automate compliance.

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Application Consolidation: Consolidating and retiring applications: Effective Management Can Reduce Costs and Modernize IT [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Information, an essential asset in virtually all organizations, requires careful attention and robust processes to ensure it can reliably support business decision-making. Information arising from multiple sources must be integrated and governed to ensure it is a trusted source and in compliance with internal policies and external regulations and legislature. The process of the integration and governance of information provides a framework that incorporates acquisition, organization, control and use of information to create and enhance ...

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Driving Operational Excellence with Predictive Analytics [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Manage physical and virtual assets, maintain your infrastructure and capital equipment and maximize the efficiency of your people, processes and assets with predictive analytics.

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Making Your Enterprise Ready for Optimized Decision-Making [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- IBM Analytical Decision Management revolutionizes how organizations make decisions by optimizing and automating high-volume, operational decisions at the point of impact to drive better business outcomes. In this technical white paper, learn about the architecture, deisgn and execution environments for this leading-edge technology, as well as recommendations on how to manage an implementation of this decision management solution.

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Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- Databases and information management systems let you describe, categorize, store, modify and analyze data. What if you could do the same with decisions? Your systems could learn from previous choices and manipulate them to fit new parameters to intelligently mold future decisions made by executives, everyday business users and even your systems to optimize outcomes.

Read this specially selected excerpt from James Taylor's new book, "Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using ...

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Leveraging Data for Internal and External Threat Detection [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- In this technical white paper from IBM, learn how predictive analytics can be used to detect internal and external threats to your organization. You will learn how techniques including cluster analysis, anomly detection, time series analysis, social network analysis, predictive models and scoring can be used to detect suspicious activity in real-time so your orgnization can take action to minimize risk and increase positive outcomes. As a final step, you will learn how automating model ...

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Conquering the challenges of data center complexity [ Source: HP/Intel® ]
November 2012- Discover eight important features to look for in an external service provider. Learn how a provider can reduce complexity in your data center and simplify overall operations.

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Kettering Health Network and their use of P4800 and VDI [ Source: HP/Intel® Xeon® Processors ]
November 2012- Learn how Kettering Health Network uses HP Client Virtualization with Vmware View so staff can reclaim 62,500 staff hours a year for patient care instead of computer systems.

To make this client virtualization solution possible, Kettering is using Vmware View on HP Converged Infrastructure technologies.

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Business Intelligence : Analytics, Business Process Management, Content management, Dashboards, Data Mining, Performance Management, Databases, Datamarts/Data Warehouses, Information Management, Knowledge Management, Data Quality

Development : Open Source, Windows/.NET, Web Development, Security, Mobility, Java, High Performance Computing, Embedded Systems, Development Tools, Database, Architecture & Design, C/C++

Government : Cloud/SaaS, Leadership, Information Management, Federal, Mobile & Wireless, State & Local, Enterprise Applications, Security, Policy & Regulation, Enterprise Architecture

Hardware : Virtualization Hardware, Windows Servers, Utility/On-demand Computing, Unix/Linux servers, Supercomputers, Peripherals, Macintosh, Handhelds/PDAs, Grid/Cluster Computing, Desktops/PCs, Data centers, Blades, Processors

Healthcare : Interoperability, Administration systems, Clinical information systems, Electronic medical records, The Patient, Security & Privacy, Leadership, Policy & Regulation, Mobile & Wireless

Infrastructure : ATM, Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, Frame relay, IPv6, Traffic Management, Network/Systems Management, PBXs, Printers, Remote Access, Routers, Switches, UPS, VPNs, WAN Optimization/Acceleration, Wide Area File Services

Internet : B2B, B2C, Browsers, E-Business/E-Commerce, E-retail, Google, Web Development, Internet Security, Search, Social Networks, Traffic Reporting/Monitoring, Web 2.0, Internet Policy

Management : Career Development, Training, Small-Medium Business, Salary/Compensation, ROI/TCO, Regulation/Compliance, Recruiting, Personnel Management, Outsourcing, Legal, H-1B, Executive Insights/Interviews, Workplace Trends

Mobility : WLAN, Wireless Security, Wi-Fi/WiMax, Wi-Fi VOIP, Smartphones, 3G Wireless/Broadband, Muni Wireless, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Business, Fixed Mobile Convergence, 802.11x, RFID

Personal Tech : Blackberry, Bluetooth, Bluray, Digital Cameras, Digital Music, Digital Rights Management, Virtual worlds, iPhone, iPod, Peripherals, Smartphones, TVs/Home Theater, Global Positioning Systems

Security : Security Administration, End user/Client Security, Encryption, Cyberterror, Attacks/Breaches, Application Security, Antivirus, NAC, Perimeter Security, Privacy, Vulnerabilities and Threats, Storage Security, Intrusion Prevention

Services : Telecom/Voice Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Business Services, Disaster Recovery, Systems Integration, Hosted Storage, Internet/Data Services, Outsourcing, Software as a Service, Hosted Applications

Software : Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Server Virtualization, Productivity Applications, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux, Hosted Software/Applications, ERP, Development Tools, Databases, Database Applications, CRM, Business Systems Management, Integration, Application Optimization

Storage : Data protection, Disaster Recovery, Removable/Portable Storage, Security, Storage Fabrics, Storage Systems, Virtualization

Telecom : VOIP, Unified Communications, Voice services, PBXs, Internet policy, Presence, Collaboration Systems, Business, Regulation, Call Centers

Windows/Microsoft : Applications, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Company News, Security, Open Source, Operating system, Office Suite

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