Essentials of CRM for Wealth Management - Empower Advisors with Client-Centric Tools [ Source: CDC Software ]

November 2010- A monumental shift is currently underway in wealth management, as transactional "brokers" make the transition to being true "advisors" and the service model transforms from a static traditional approach to a dynamic one driven by client needs. To make this change about more than just terminology, however, wealth management firms need to embrace client-centric strategies at a profound level, re-engineering their processes, embedding consistent best practices within their systems, and empowering advisors to build deeper, ...

Bringing the power of IBM Lotus software to help you get more out of the software investments you have already made [ Source: IBM ]

October 2010- You already have software that keeps you connected with your coworkers and customers. But your organization is always looking for ways to increase productivity, get better business results and cut costs. And you want an easier way to find information, share ideas, and locate who or what you need—instantly.

Sybase-HP ASE Migration to HP-UX Solution Brief [ Source: Sybase ]

January 2010- For customers running Sybase ASE 12.5 on Solaris 8, the long-planned end of support for that platform, by Sun as of March 2009, and by Sybase effective December 2009, means that they must move their workloads to a new environment or face special support contracts. For many customers, the resources and changes required to upgrade both the operating system and database server prompt a consideration of whether other alternatives can reduce costs and uncertainty for a comparable migration effort. ...

How Bar Codes and RFID Deliver Value to Manufacturing and Distribution [ Source: Zebra Technologies ]

June 2010- Manufacturers depend on a well-coordinated chain of events to make their operations work effectively. In addition, mail order fulfillment and distribution companies unable to provide information with their products increasingly find themselves at a disadvantage versus their competitors. Today’s business software packages, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), materials management, production control, and supply chain visibility applications depend on real-time data collection and identification systems to provide information crucial for optimizing processes, productivity, and ...

Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 [ Source: Oracle ]

October 2010- Advanced Compression with Database 11g Release 2 helps you manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications.

Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

Sustainability Matters Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the needs of all stakeholders [ Source: Oracle ]

June 2010- This white paper highlights how organizations can derive strategic advantage by embracing sustainability as part of their business.

There are three ways in which companies can embrace sustainability:
- Through philanthropy
- As part of a risk management strategy
- By integrating sustainable practices into the business model

Benefits of becoming a sustainable company include:
- Cost savings by limiting waste and consumption of natural resources
...

Four Keys for Monitoring Cloud Services [ Source: ManageEngine ]

March 2010- The white paper discusses with the challenges faced by organizations who look to make the transition from the traditional IT infrastructure to cloud services. It talks about management challenges they face, the type of capabilities that are required for monitoring cloud services, and their business benefit. In the end, it details how Applications Manager address those concerns and how organizations can move from the traditional systems to cloud services without a hitch.

Seven Ways to Gain Control Licensing and Spending [ Source: Flexera ]

April 2010- This white paper describes seven methods through which Basis and Procurement management teams can more efficiently manage the lifecycle of their SAP® Business Suite licenses and make more informed software planning and purchasing decisions.

While there are established processes to manage just about every other IT asset, software, which represents 20% of an IT organization’s spending, is often managed in a manual and fragmented way. Knowing what an organization is entitled to use ...

Stretching the Software Budget: A Practical Guide to Enterprise License Optimization [ Source: Flexera ]

April 2010- Software is of tremendous importance to today’s IT-intensive organizations. In fact, the appetite of organizations for software is growing at a faster pace than software budgets—especially in light of current economic conditions.

It is therefore more critical than ever for software buyers to get maximum value out of every dollar they spend on software. To successfully stretch their budgets, software buyers have to:

• Eliminate spending on unnecessary “shelfware” ...

Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition A Technical Overview [ Source: Oracle ]

February 2009- Integrating data and applications throughout the enterprise and presenting them in a unified view is a complex proposition. Not only are there broad disparities in technologies, data structures, and application functionality, but there are also fundamental differences in integration architectures. Many organizations address these diverse needs with a broad palette of tools and technologies, resulting in disjointed integration projects with no leverage or unity between them. This white paper provides a technical overview of a ...

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability [ Source: Oracle ]

April 2010- These days, there is tremendous pressure on organizations to develop, integrate and deploy enterprise Web applications at an almost breakneck pace. As a result, many go live and deliver unsatisfactory results to internal and external end-users. For internal users, this means lost productivity and frustration. For external users, frustration quickly leads to lost business. A new survey of 526 managers and professionals by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., in partnership with Oracle Corporation, ...

Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 [ Source: Oracle ]

April 2010- In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications [ Source: Oracle ]

April 2010- As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility. Typically, these benefits are delivered to application developers by the framework vendors, using proprietary or standards-based protocols. This flexibility for users usually results in complex multitier environments, and the responsibility of managing this complexity ...