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ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine Drives Business for the Insurance Industry [ Source: ABBYY ]

December 2012- Insurance companies deal with millions of hand-written insurance application forms annually, so converting them into actionable data is often very challenging. To help ease the headaches associated with getting customer application forms into back-end systems, companies are adopting automated form conversion strategies. These systems are capable of a high degree of accuracy despite a huge range of diversity in application forms.

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From Structured to Usefully Structured: How ABBYY's FlexiCapture Engine Learns from Humans and Machines [ Source: ABBYY ]

December 2012- All your senses grasp the physical world wonderfully - but eyes dominate by far, for both biological and cultural reasons.

Human eyesight does something computers do, too: both eye-position and retina structure developed to direct the information-firehose very deliberately toward a carefully chosen, relatively narrow field.

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Deliver the Cloud Network: Take a walk in the CLOUD with scalable network [ Source: HP ]

December 2012- Successful cloud computing depends on an agile and scalable network that's built on open standards and orchestrated to handle the demands of virtualization, with its intensive traffic among servers. Today's networks must be fast and flexible to meet the needs of diverse mobile users, host a constantly changing array of applications, and maintain a security perimeter.

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Realizing the Power of SDN [ Source: HP ]

December 2012- Is your company's aging network stifling business innovation? A software-defined network (SDN) enables IT to orchestrate and automatically control the network according to high-level policies, thereby simplifying managing and provisioning the network. SDN enables business systems to request services from the network directly, rather than trusting the network to guesswork.

This white paper explains how IT agility is achieved via SDN's ability to dynamically apply business logic to network behavior. Extra bonus: a ...

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Automating Accounts Payable for a Global Health Equipment Company [ Source: IBM ]

December 2012- Challenge
Invacare manually processed up to one thousand paper invoices per day and vendor inquiries were slowed by multiple phone calls and retrieval of documents from storage.

Solution
The company implemented IBM Datacap Taskmaster Accounts Payable Capture software, which identifies each vendor's invoice and locates the data fields to be captured on the fly.

Benefits
Reduced accounts payable headcount while increasing volumes; improved customer service; reduced paperwork.

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Get The Message: How WebSphere MQ Can Connect Your Business [ Source: IBM ]

December 2012- Today's business environment is proliferated with thousands of millions of customer endpoints. This large number of endpoints can cause unpredictable usage spikes when you offer special promotions or when you attempt to extend the global reach of your business through market expansion. Back-end transaction processing systems must support business integrity - secure, reliable and synchronized customer experience over multiple transaction channels - and must sustain accessibility with infrastructure that can support bursts of activity. And ...

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Top 5 Considerations for Cost-Effective Computer Lifecycle Management [ Source: Dell ]

December 2012- Many mid-sized businesses are locked into refresh cycles for their desktop and laptop computers that are more a reflection of past experience than current opportunities. So how do you develop a cost-effective strategy for managing computer lifecycles? Find out how you can maximize investment and enhance business agility with some key considerations.

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Testing the Bounds of Data Governance: 2012 IOUG Test Deployment and Quality Assurance (QA) Survey [ Source: IBM ]

December 2012- Thanks to relentless global competition and an unforgiving economy, organizations have been under non-stop pressure to deliver products and services. For many, the lifeblood, and opportunity, has been to mine the data assets being gathered from all corners of their enterprise and beyond? transactions, customer data, employee input, and information about market conditions. However, in the rush to deliver results, many IT and development departments take shortcuts within the testing process, taking live data right ...

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Manage Test Data to Accelerate and Enhance Data Integration Projects [ Source: IBM ]

December 2012- How can organizations accelerate business analytics projects while also establishing an operational, trusted platform of information? The answer lies with a powerful combination of data integration solutions and enhanced test data management. Before deploying new data warehouses or other analytics platforms, organizations need a way to integrate data across disparate sources and accurately test the solution. Effective and efficient testing strategies help organizations identify problems quickly and reduce risk. Testing in production is no longer ...

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Deploying Enterprise Changes with Confidence [ Source: IBM ]

December 2012- Leverage workload capture and replay capabilities during testing to improve customer satisfaction, help reduce costs and meet SLAs.

This white paper describes the pitfalls associated with poor change execution, outlines the benefits of capture and replay capabilities during testing, and details how IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Capture and Replay helps organizations create realistic testing environments based on actual workloads so they can capture, customize and replay scenarios to ferret out potential problems before ...

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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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Making Confident Decisions with the Full Spectrum of Analysis Capabilities [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- This paper covers how IBM analysis software can help the people in your organization compile the facts and trends needed to make better and smarter decisions.

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Business Intelligence Strategy - A Practical Guide for Achieving BI Excellence [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- BI can yield valuable insight that increases performance. For some, BI programs can be derailed by factors beyond technology-by people and process. Learn how to prepare a BI strategy that will help you achieve excellence in your initiative.

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Business Intelligence for Business Users [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- Learn how important it is to address the different BI needs of your business constituents, so they have insight when and where they need it.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics Fundamentals [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- The demands of business in todays economically challenging environment are forcing organizations to become smarter and more efficient about the use of their information. This paper from looks Ovum Research examines the key criteria and considerations you need to be aware of when evaluating your organizations BI and analytics strategy.

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Email Management in the Cloud Enables NBA Championship Team to Reduce Complexity & Administrative Burden and Cost [ Source: mimecast ]

November 2012- More than 2,000 companies around the world have replaced multiple, on-premise point solutions with Mimecast subscriptions in order to significantly reduce the risk, complexity and overall cost of email management.

Read why the Celtic's Vice President of Technology chose to do the same.

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Audio and Web Conferencing Services: Give Workers Powerful Collaboration Tools While Reducing Demands on IT [ Source: ReadyTalk Audio and Web Conferencing ]

November 2012- Collaboration and web conferencing are among the hottest technologies in today's marketplace. Nearly 40 percent of executives in the 2012 InformationWeek Global CIO Survey said they were planning a major implementation to support collaboration this year, and they indicated that it's the most important project among 14 other types of initiatives.

Not surprisingly, there is a plethora of SaaS vendors competing for your business. ReadyTalk is a right-sized company that is large enough to deliver a ...

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Mimecast Research Generation Gmail: How businesses can bring them back into the fold [ Source: mimecast ]

November 2012- Mimecast has identified a new demographic of email users known as Generation Gmail. These are workers who work around your corporate email infrastructure in an effort to simply get their job done. This whitepaper aims to identify those users, the reasons they exist and to outline what your organization can do about them.

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Email As Evidence: 12 steps to ensuring good evidential quality of email [ Source: mimecast ]

November 2012- This White Paper summarizes why potential litigants are always best advised to gain control of their email systems. Email is a technological issue and therefore, requires a technological solutions.

This White Paper also identifies some key regulations that require the retention of documentary records and their production to regulators

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The Growing Email Archiving Dilemma [ Source: mimecast ]

November 2012- Read this white paper to find out why SaaS email solutions built on the latest grid technology and from the right vendor can satisfy new archiving demands reliably and cost-effectively in ways that an on-premise solution cannot, with pay-as-you-go pricing, robust technology and expertise to help you meet emerging regulatory, legal and other requirements.

These solutions must also be considered in the context of overall organizational email needs: the right archiving solution can ...

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Advantages of Wire-Free Power Monitoring [ Source: Raritan ]

November 2012- Today's data centers measure power consumption and rack environments to minimize power usage. This white paper describes the use of intelligent rack PDUs with a wire-free sensor solution to monitor, in real time, the power consumption of specific devices and the environmental conditions at the rack.

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Predictive Maintenance for Manufacturing - How to improve productivity, minimize downtime and reduce costs [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- Your goal is clear produce high-quality goods while optimizing resources at every step of production. And in today's uncertain economy, cost-control efforts may never have been more important. Unscheduled downtime because of equipment failure can have a serious impact on your organization's bottom line.

Download this white paper from IBM, and learn the basics of predictive maintenance, the benefits it provides manufacturing operations and the underlying technologies that make it possible. Predictive analytics ...

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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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Decisions that Drive Success [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- Every day, people in your organization are struggling to make the right decisions - working with customers, partners, and each other - because they simply can't use all available data. There's too much of it for humans to internalize, understand, and apply in real time. That's why organizations that automate and optimize decisions informed by predictive analytics have a significant advantage over competitors.

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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.

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