Streamlining Investment Portfolio Management and Control
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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2011-
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). <br><br>
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. <br><br>
You discover why changing to ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
November 2011-
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.<br><br>
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.
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.<br><br>
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge. <br><...
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.<br><br>
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 ...
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 ...
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
Read this paper and ...
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. <br><br>
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.
Building Effective Business and IT Operations in a New Economy
[ Source: CSC ]
January 2012-
New modernization opportunities can help insurers cost-effectively transform existing technology and reduce operational costs with minimal risk. Read about four key modernization strategies that will help you retain business, grow market share and improve profitability: <br><br>
• Process Innovation<br>
• Operational intelligence<br>
• System modernization<br>
• Multisourcing<br><br>
See what CSC has seen work in the insurance industry, and draw ...
The Green Data Center
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2008-
After an intensive study of server and data center energy efficiency for Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that the U.S. data center industry is in the midst of a major expansion period spurred by increased demand for IT capacity to support busi-ness growth. The Agency listed several trends that are stimulating this demand, including:
• Increased use of online banking and electronic stock trading
• Adoption of Internet-based communications and ...
EcoTech Research: Climate Change
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2008-
TechWeb asked subscribers of Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology about energy-saving computing practices, paperless processing and other environmentally aware business practices in their organizations.
From more than 600 responses, we were able to make several observations about the financial services industry’s response to the threat of climate change. Overall, the green message is getting through, and financial services executives have demonstrated a high level of concern and awareness of green issues. However, ...
Cutting the Carbon Footprint of IT
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2008-
Experience shows that wasted energy can cost tens of millions of pounds: environmental awareness goes with a keen eye for the bottom line. Combined with the financial impact of energy efficiency, in the current political climate, the responsible use of energy has serious implications for an organisation’s public image.
This paper explores how an organisation can sustainably reduce its carbon footprint and its costs at the same time. It is a practical ...
Danish Re Enters Global Reinsurance Market and Lloyd’s, with SICS/nt P&C
[ Source: CSC ]
October 2003-
Entering the key London market via a Lloyd’s syndicate meant newcomer Danish Re had to find an administration system that could cope with the demands of a growing global reinsurance business and comply with the strict self-regulatory requirements imposed by Lloyd's of London. It found the solution in CSC’s SICS/nt P&C. The solution enabled entry into both the global and Lloyd’s insurance markets; avoided business duplication with a real-time system; ...
Virtusa Helps Financial Services Giant Maintain Competitive Edge through Faster Regulatory Compliance
[ Source: Virtusa Corporation ]
March 2007-
Virtusa helped the client respond to regulatory changes in a quick, efficient and cost-effective manner, enabling it to focus on its core business--product management and branding of insurance products. Timely completion of this project was a key driver for our client to maintain its competitive advantage. Our client required consultancy and application development services to address key time-critical changes needed for it core 403(b) applications.
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