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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.
Spurring Innovation and Increasing Customer Satisfaction in the Finance Industry
[ Source: Magnolia Americas, Inc. ]
July 2010-
Internet banking continues to grow, spurred by competitive pressures and rising customer expectations. In support of their online banking businesses, financial institutions must build and manage rich consumer and business Web sites. Further, industry deregulation and the financial meltdown of 2008 have led to a complex and somewhat unique set of challenges at financial institutions. In essence, it is especially critical to have the right CMS tools for the job that comply with industry standards.
Magnolia's ...
Forrester Research: Member Experience for Health Plans
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
September 2008-
Health plans can’t afford to deliver subpar member experiences any longer. With a growing individual market, increased cost shifting, and a rising focus on disease and wellness management, strong member experience practices are the price of entry, and exceptional experiences are critical for differentiation. To rise above today’s poor performance, health plan customer experience professionals must master the disciplines of strategic healthcare communication: Pave the way for lifestyle support by getting the basics ...
Spurring Innovation and Increasing Customer Satisfaction in the Finance Industry
[ Source: Magnolia Americas, Inc. ]
July 2010-
Internet banking continues to grow, spurred by competitive pressures and rising customer expectations. In support of their online banking businesses, financial institutions must build and manage rich consumer and business Web sites. Further, industry deregulation and the financial meltdown of 2008 have led to a complex and somewhat unique set of challenges at financial institutions. In essence, it is especially critical to have the right CMS tools for the job that comply with industry standards.
Magnolia's ...
M&A: Leveraging Composite Applications to Drive Merger Integration Strategy
[ Source: Roundarch ]
June 2010-
David Vanslette, Vice President of Roundarch provides an up-close look at how merging companies can build and utilize composite applications during the M&A technology integration process to improve efficiency and drive down costs. The integration process is extremely important to the business especially in regards to technology, but unfortunately this process is slow and extremely costly as IT professionals decide which IT systems will remain or if similar systems are to be combined. With ...
Best Practices for Succeeding with SOA
[ Source: Progress Software ]
June 2010-
Information services are the foundation of the successful enterprise architecture. A mature architecture will manage an appropriate level of consistency and diversity of business information; it will be agile enough to evolve while maintaining high levels of data integrity.
This doesn’t happen by accident. A reference architecture, policy and process framework is required together with appropriate tools and platforms that enable the essential automation and life cycle governance.
This report ...
15-Minute Guide to Best Practices in Multichannel Correspondence Management for Insurance
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
May 2009-
This guide examines various types of customer correspondence, the migration to electronic formats, challenges and best practices, capabilities for a multichannel communications infrastructure, the means for delivering electronic correspondence, and what to look for in a comprehensive correspondence solution.
BPM Done Right: 15 Ways to Succeed Where Others Have Failed
[ Source: Software AG ]
March 2008-
The rates of adoption of business process management (BPM) technology are increasing dramatically, and with them, the stories of missed expectations and wasted investment also are on the rise. BPM’s promises are real, but the path to success is littered with pitfalls and shortcuts to failure. Best practices can help you avoid them. The good news is that BPM has now reached a stage of maturity that ensures that customers who are just embarking ...
Five Steps for Building the Business Case for SOA Governance
[ Source: Software AG ]
November 2008-
IT architects understand that governance is essential to service-oriented architecture (SOA) success, but they need to get the business to understand this as well. With SOA, financial services firms gain a flexible architecture that slashes maintenance demands, improves quality and reusability, speeds the development of new systems, and reduces time to market. But in order to achieve these benefits SOA development must begin with SOA governance. Without governance SOA can turn into chaos. Too often, ...
Taking a Bite Out of Integration Costs with Software AG
[ Source: Software AG ]
January 2009-
Apple decided to implement the webMethods Integration Platform to solve existing bottlenecks, and also serve as a platform for integrating new applications and services going forward. According to Dhinu, factors in favor of the webMethods technology were the adoption of industry-accepted standards and emerging Web services standards, and the platform’s demonstrated record for reliability, scalability and performance.
Critical Compliance Technologies for the Insurance Industry
[ Source: Siperian, Inc. ]
February 2009-
The compliance challenges insurers face are uniquely complex in that every state in the United States maintains its own distinct insurance regulations, and these laws and policies vary widely across different insurance lines of business. Additionally, most states impose strict reporting requirements by which insurers must regularly document their compliance with the various statutes. Depending on the policy type—life, home, auto, health coverage, etc.—reporting guidelines can require a confusing array of quarterly and ...
Getting the Most from System z: Redefining Mainframe Economics with the Specialty Engines
[ Source: DataDirect Technologies ]
November 2008-
One sure thing in the current market is that insurers--and all companies--are looking for ways to cut costs and to be more efficient. For IT, this may mean attempting to do more with existing hardware, or it might mean replacing inefficient systems with more modern ones that can drive down expenses. In the case of the System z specialty engines, it might be a combination of both.
By adding a zIIP, zAAP, or ...
Forrester Research: Member Experience for Health Plans
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
September 2008-
Health plans can’t afford to deliver subpar member experiences any longer. With a growing individual market, increased cost shifting, and a rising focus on disease and wellness management, strong member experience practices are the price of entry, and exceptional experiences are critical for differentiation. To rise above today’s poor performance, health plan customer experience professionals must master the disciplines of strategic healthcare communication: Pave the way for lifestyle support by getting the basics ...
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