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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 ...
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.
Sponsored by:<...
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.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
PolicyWriter Overview: Changing the Economics of P&C Insurance Policy Administration
[ Source: Adaptik Corporation ]
May 2010-
The Adaptik Challenge: Your insurance product. Our software. Six weeks. See how quickly PolicyWriter can help your business thrive. PolicyWriter fundamentally changes the economics of P&C insurance policy administration. Our rapid implementation gives you unprecedented competitive advantage.
Business Platform Transformation Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Today’s CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the Business Platform (the group of applications and services that implement the Business Value Chain). The business perceives technology innovation as a business differentiator, demands application portfolio stability, requires change requests to be handled promptly, experiences growth rates that are often unpredictable and exponential, and exerts continuous pressure to reduce product time to market. Complicating this, these challenges are being made to IT ...
Virtual Office for Insurance Carriers Creates Cost Savings
[ Source: CGI ]
March 2011-
Today more and more insurance companies are demanding systems that support, or enhance, their virtualization strategy. Systems must not only enable “work from home” or telecommuting programs, but are expected to be available anywhere and anytime.
The insurance agent expects to be able to connect to a system in the office, at home, at a coffee shop, or even on the golf course. As technology advances enable our ability to access information anywhere, ...
Guidelines for Claims Management Systems Selection
[ Source: Systema Software ]
January 2009-
Selecting a new claims system can be an intimidating task due to the risks involved in going with the wrong choice. The complexity of the evaluation process requires an understanding of technology, change management, licensing and support options among others. The purpose of this white paper is to help you simplify this effort by focusing on what really matters and avoiding getting caught up in the technical and vendor jargon.
How Leading IT Executives Cut Costs
[ Source: CAST ]
May 2009-
CAST recently caught up with Kelly Cannon, former Vice President, Shared Application Services at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest health care insurers in the U.S. Kelly tells us about the current state of IT in the insurance sector, and how senior IT executives are responding to the tough economic conditions by rapidly delivering business benefits.
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• How IT is transforming the insurance value chain
• How to identify ...
Next-Generation Affinity Insurance Marketing via the Web
[ Source: IdeaStar, Inc. ]
September 2008-
The Affinity insurance distribution model illustrates the ways in which rather complex go-to-market systems can be simplified utilizing technology solutions and the Web. Moreover, Web-enabled technology solutions can be highly effective for the sale of insurance products and services to association members and affinity groups. The solution is robust. however, and requires a great deal of marketing savvy and technological capability.
As with any affinity and member-driven organization, the goal is to provide valuable benefits ...
Loads Better Delivering reliable applications with confidence
[ Source: Micro Focus ]
May 2013-
Imagine you were designing and constructing a racing car – it’s not so far from developing apps. Both
must be powerful and quick. They cannot crash, whatever the conditions. They must outperform their
rivals. New technology can either create a competitive advantage or a fatal flaw.
It’s a fast-moving
environment where winners grab the headlines and underperformers fail. Would you enter a grand prix
without putting it through its paces on the ...
Designing a defense for mobile applications
[ Source: HP ]
April 2013-
It wasn't long ago that being on the cutting edge of business meant having a website where customers could purchase your products, but that quickly changed. Soon, it wasn't enough just to have an eCommerce presence: you had to offer an interactive and engaging customer experience (see Web 2.0).
Now the standard has shifted once again: in order to truly compete in the modern economy, your business needs to have a mobile storefront on ...
Mobile application monitoring breeds business possibilities
[ Source: HP ]
April 2013-
Mobile applications are radically altering the way businesses operate and how they interact with their employees and customers. The way applications are managed is going to have to change as well. The challenge this poses for IT organisations can be summed up in a single word – performance. The systems and practices most organisations have in place are oriented to the hard-wired infrastructure.
While IT organisations may be able to monitor and manage their ...
Benefits of Application Rationalization: Reduce Costs and Improve Service with a Systematic Approach
[ Source: Oracle ]
March 2013-
In this whitepaper, learn about the benefits and challenges of getting an application rationalization effort started and implementing a strategic plan to quickly demonstrate results.
Three challenges driving the future of functional testing
[ Source: HP ]
March 2013-
The growing complexity of modern applications, the emergence of mobile and other technologies, and the need for development speed and agility are all putting new pressures on application testing teams. Unfortunately, current tools and processes can't overcome testing challenges quickly enough.
This resource explains how automated capabilities can help you accelerate the testing process and drive development efficiency - read on to learn more now.
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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.
Access this case study to read about how a creative development team ...
Mobile Field Service Applications Toolkit
[ Source: Antenna Software ]
December 2012-
Download a wealth of information specific to helping you think differently about the development of your next mobile application for field service. Find real-world case studies, project approaches and product information.
ESG: How to Expand and Accelerate Virtualization Value
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
November 2012-
As many have discovered in recent years, virtualization is a key strategy for infrastructure optimization and a requirement for converged infrastructure. By separating physical devices from the computing, storage, and networking services they deliver, organizations are able to make much more efficient use of these resources. As a result, IT organizations are looking to invest in virtualization-optimized solutions that enable consolidation, mission-critical resiliency, disaster recovery, and faster application deployment.
When built-in properly, virtualization ...
IDC Tech Spotlight: Benefits of Unified Endpoint Data Management in Embracing BYOD
[ Source: Druva ]
November 2012-
End users now access critical corporate data on personal devices and use consumer-grade web applications for work-related tasks, making it difficult for IT to fulfill one of their most important responsibilities: keep enterprise data secure.
Download the full IDC report to learn the impacts of this trend, as well as the benefits of unifying the often discreet IT functions of data protection, security, storage, and collaboration.
Company's Annuity Operations Increases Scale and Gains Efficiencies Using Straight Through Process (STP) and Best of Breed platforms
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2012-
The "Company" examined in this White Paper is a major financial services firm offering Variable and Fixed Annuity products through six insurance manufacturers, including its own. The Company recognized
the need to improve the services they provide to their advisors to spur continued growth, increase annuity product offerings, and simplify the sales process.
The distributor and their insurance partners made a commitment to move toward an automated environment. Together, they improved operations without ...
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