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Comparing Secure Mobile Workforce Solutions: Research in Motion BlackBerry vs. Microsoft ActiveSync
[ Source: Microsoft ]
October 2009-In today's mobile work culture, corporate staff - from executive to individual contributor - work beyond the boundaries of the traditional office environment. To support this concept, many organizations are adopting mobile solutions for these employees, who expect not only access to information, but full participation in business from any location whenever it is required. What is the best solution for your company? What options are there?
This paper analyzes key user experience features ....
Role-Based Access Governance And HIPAA Compliance: A Pragmatic Approach
[ Source: Aveksa ]
July 2009-The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) imposed more stringent regulatory and security requirements to the privacy rules of HIPAA. Compliance with the letter of the guideline can be difficult for organizations without strong access governance processes and policies.
Healthcare organizations often struggle to maintain a consistent approach to govern user access across information resource, and as a result, may have an incomplete or fragmented posture of compliance throughout the ....
Solutions for 21st Century Healthcare
[ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009-To significantly improve the delivery of healthcare, an impressive arrange of new technology solutions are being introduced daily. 3Com designs solutions that deliver unique price/performance value, reduce complexity to facilitate healthcare delivery and ensure security to protect investments, resources and information.
In this case study, learn how 3Com can help you enhance patient care by maximizing business continuity, security, and productivity.
Virtualization for midsize businesses: reduce cost, improve service and manage risk
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2009-As data mounts, small and midsize businesses cope with a sprawling and often costly infrastructure. This paper shows how these businesses can benefit by implementing a virtualization strategy. A well-executed strategy can result in fewer, better-utilized servers, rapid provisioning of servers, affordable business continuity, and more streamlined, efficient management.
2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
[ Source: InformationWeek ]
April 2009-Raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and the pay shifts track the industries and regions hardest hit during this recession. Job security’s shrinking, and concerns are rising again about the IT career path. In all, though, IT careers are looking safer than many others in this economic downturn. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's comprehensive, annual IT Salary Survey.
Cloud Connect: Charting the Course of On-Demand Computing
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
October 2009-Cloud Computing represents the biggest shift in computing of the last
decade. It's as fundamental as the move from client-server computing to
web-centric computing, and in many ways more disruptive. Learn the latest about cloud computing models, technologies and migration in this whitepaper by Cloud expert and Cloud Connect 2010 Conference Chair, Alistair Croll.
From Trust to Process: Closing the Risk Gap in Privileged Access Control
[ Source: BeyondTrust ]
October 2009-In this whitepaper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines this critical issue in IT security administration in light of the BeyondTrust approach to helping businesses move from a trust-based system to a secure, auditable process in order to provide a higher standard of control and better support for regulatory compliance.
Tips and Tools for Automating Excel Spreadsheets
[ Source: Actuate ]
October 2009-Over 250 million people know how to use Microsoft Excel. Because so many end users are comfortable with using Excel for reviewing data and for conducting "what-if" analysis, delivering reports in spreadsheet format is a common requirement for reporting projects.
Download this whitepaper to learn key tips and tools for deploying a fast and cost-effective method of automating Excel spreadsheet manipulation, thereby, reducing potential costly mistakes.
Business Information Management Blueprinting
[ Source: Capgemini ]
November 2009-Organizations continue to invest millions of dollars in technology and solutions to create, manage and store business data and yet, despite these investments, many organizations are “data-rich” and “information-poor.” In addition to navigating the changes and consolidation in the Business Intelligence market, it has become increasingly difficult for companies to know if they are properly positioned in this important arena. How do you know if your Business Intelligence investment is on track? Capgemini has developed ....
Meet the Content Tsunami Head On: Leveraging Classification for Compliance Information Management
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2009-The world is awash in information. Exponential growth in the creation and storage of e-mail and other unstructured electronic business content has engulfed workers and swamped information systems, resulting in data and productivity losses, security breaches, and bloated infrastructures. Organizations are struggling to manage their business records amid increasingly complex legal and regulatory compliance pressures. This white paper is an urgent call for the promulgation of enterprise standards, strategically developed information ....
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision of ....
More Profitable Decisions
[ Source: QlikView ]
September 2009-
Business Intelligence is not a “one-size-fits-all” category. Different approaches, including reporting, modeling and dashboarding, have been used to address the various challenges that exist across large organizations. Reporting-based technology was originally intended to answer questions that are known in advance — in a predictive fashion — with predefined views of information. But over time, a gap has emerged in addressing questions that are hard to predict and ad hoc in nature. And this is an ....
5 Steps to Cost Cutting for Insurers: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
[ Source: CSC ]
April 2009-
It’s been in the headlines for months now—companies in general and financial service providers in particular have moved almost overnight from surplus assets to survival mode. And while insurers are arguably better off than other financial sectors, the industry certainly has not been immune to the financial meltdown. Cost control is certainly a priority for all companies, how can you sensibly control expense now and stay on track with your long-term goals? Download this ....
Standard Bank Seeks to Reap Benefits of Integrated Asset Management (Case Study)
[ Source: Axios Systems ]
October 2006-
The IT team at Standard Bank was concerned about a lack of asset information in the organization, due to the rapid growth and expansion of the bank. They wanted to know exactly what hardware had been bought and what software was installed on this throughout the company. Realizing the benefits that integrated asset management would bring, they looked for the optimum way of achieving this. Altiris was already used as the internal software deployment tool, ....
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision of ....
Visual Business Intelligence Tools Improve Sales & Profitability of Enterprise Software Applications
[ Source: Panopticon Software ]
May 2008-
Businesses suffer when their people are unable to make effective use of the data in their Process Support systems. This is a common challenge for firms since their existing BI tools are unable to provide executives and line managers with the ability to comprehend the big picture, identify problem areas, and then drill down into the details in a reasonabale amount of time. Corporations have spent enormous amounts of money over ....
The Optimized Insurer: Using Analytics to Optimize Business Performance
[ Source: SAS ]
August 2008-
The fiercely competitive insurance industry faces spiraling operational costs, increasing regulatory pressures and rising claim settlement costs against a background of economic uncertainty. This white paper explores how SAS Analytics can help insurance companies use their data proactively to better understand their businesses, detect areas for improvement and take remedial action, as well as forecast ahead and plan more proactively for the future in order to protect and grow their market share, despite difficult conditions. ....
Don't Waste a Crisis: Emerge a Winner by Applying Lessons from the Last Recession
[ Source: Diamond Management & Technology Consultants ]
October 2008-
Competitive executives should welcome recessions. In the heat of a downturn, superior companies pull away from the competition and aspiring companies can dart ahead. In order to find patterns of success and failure, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants studied more than 400 companies and their performance (relative and absolute) before, during, and after the last recession (1998–2004).
Successfully Navigate the Consolidation Trend
[ Source: CGI ]
October 2006-
The driving forces behind consolidation are to expand offerings and reduce expenses and to ultimately achieve new levels of earnings growth. To succeed, there are five basic steps companies should follow:
1. Assess
2. Build the vision
3. Plan
4. Execute
5. Review and refine
A Leading Insurance Provider Shortens Time to Market through Rules-based Testing
[ Source: Virtusa Corporation ]
January 2007-
Virtusa conceived an architecture and platform methodology to meet its rapidly-evolving needs and used our software testing methodology to transform the testing of rules-based applications with automated tools. As a result, our client was able to deliver high quality services 30% faster combined with cost efficiencies, by leveraging our global delivery model. Virtusa is now a strategic partner to the company, in recognition of our thought leadership, innovation and outstanding performance.
Virtusa’s Insurance Practice Helps Clients Address Inflexible Systems
[ Source: Virtusa Corporation ]
March 2007-
Virtusa’s Insurance Practice concentrates on helping clients address inflexible and redundant systems, poor IT reuse, complex operational support, inefficient projects and highly-complex testing. Virtusa helps leading insurance companies achieve faster time-to-market through a broad range of IT consulting, application development, legacy application modernization, software quality assurance and business process management services.
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