Workforce Management Technologies Increase Profitability
[ Source: Kronos ]
May 2010-
IDC Financial Insight’s Analyst Connection discusses how an increase in innovation throughout financial services organizations will drive future success in 2010 and beyond. One key area of focus for financial institutions is the exploration of workforce management. Employees remain a key but often underutilized resource for all financial institutions.
Utilizing workforce management tools and technologies allows institutions to optimize the untapped opportunity their employees represent, not only to reduce cost and increase profitability, ...
Enterprise Architecture With SOA
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
February 2010-
In today’s challenging and globalized business, drastic IT technology growth has enabled organizations to do business around the globe in a virtual boundary less environment. Enterprise Architecture, along with SOA, re-models a global organization views as a set of business process and services that has wide scalability and adaptability in terms of re-use of the business processes and services. With this SOA approach, Enterprise Architecture can transform a global organization to achieve high agility ...
Industrial Network Security With OPC Tunneling
[ Source: Integration Objects ]
September 2009-
OPC tunneling software allows the secure transfer of process data, even across multiple firewalls, Network Address Translators (NAT) and WAN networks. By not securely transmitting process data, companies expose process control networks to potential cyber attacks which can disrupt production, compromise safety, and cause significant financial losses for companies. This paper addresses the issues and challenges of using DCOM when deploying OPC technology and presents an alternative solution that addresses the industrial end-user requirements.
New Enterprise Integration System At Abqaiq Plants
[ Source: Integration Objects ]
July 2009-
This case study examines the system integration solution provided by Integration Objects for Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq Plants. Saudi Aramco was having difficulties with a complex IT architecture that was cumbersome and a challenge to maintain. A solution from Integration Objects was able to provide a more simple IT architecture that was also more secure and ultimately helped Saudi Aramco optimize its operations.
Open Architectures To Improve Plant Visibility And Performances
[ Source: Integration Objects ]
February 2009-
Manufacturing companies have invested large amounts of money in industrial automation infrastructures, but many have yet to realize the full value from their investment as many of these infrastructures remain islands of automation; information silos disconnected from other systems, including business systems. This paper will discuss some of the options available for integrating automation islands and for distributing information at any level in the organization. In particular, two main players in the system integration arena ...
Migrating Visual Basic Applications to VB.NET
[ Source: NewCode ]
January 2001-
The problem with Visual Basic legacy migration tools today is that a line-by-line conversion will not be able to create the object-oriented style of programming that is at the heart of .NET programming. The convential approach to legacy migration is now changing. In this whitepaper, NewCode introduces an architected approach to VB migration, empowering users to re-engineer application structures on models and target frameworks, prior to .NET code generation.
4 Myths Of Outsourcing for Project Managers
[ Source: S5 Systems ]
May 2008-
This paper outlines the common myths related to outsourcing as it related to project managers. Reviewing these myths will help in making informed decision for the next outsourced project.
Collaboration Services Rising
[ Source: Cisco ]
May 2009-
Collaboration solutions are quickly becoming
embedded in enterprise environments,
spurring a new outlook on how to extend their
utility to make a greater impact on the organization.
Such solutions are also spotlighting
the role of managed service providers in securing,
maintaining and driving business value
and the overall cost savings and operational
efficiencies created by the current class of
collaborative tools and technologies. In the
report, we detail current perceptions of managed
collaboration services and ...
The Case for Consolidated IT Operations
[ Source: HP ]
October 2008-
To achieve the business results needed, IT operations
must work smarter. This paper explores the problems
IT operations can encounter in coordinating the
activities of multiple application and infrastructure
specialist teams, and it proposes an approach - consolidated operations -designed to get incidents
to the right person with the right information fast so
problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication
of effort and at an appropriate level of expertise.
What's the most cost-effective route to a unified IT cloud computing solution? Ask a calculator. Run some ROI.
[ Source: External IT ]
February 2012-
This paper offers a detailed guide to help any company calculate both the initial, transitional hard costs associated with moving to a unified cloud IT solution, and the ongoing management costs. <br><br>
It offers an objective way of assessing whether your financial needs will be best served in building a unified cloud solution in-house, or teaming with a cloud unifying specialty firm.