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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.
Eight Steps to Exceptional Customer Experiences for Property and Casualty Insurers
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
June 2011-
This white paper outlines the eight steps and explains how they are being applied by P&C insurance carriers to meet today's difficult customer-experience challenges. By adapting these best practices to their own specific situations, insurers can fulfill rising customer expectations, comply with internal mandates, improve staff morale and gain deeper insight into conditions that impact the insurer's mission-as they increase revenues and reduce costs.
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision ...
Customer Analytics in Insurance
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2010-
Growth and profitability in the insurance business means delivering the right products and services to your customers at the right time and at the right price. But how do you understand what is ‘right’?
Customer analytics help mine your huge stores of data for useful insight, predict customer behavior and responses to marketing offers and enable you to easily visualize and analyze customer information to gain trustworthy, actionable insight.
Read this ...
Watch Now: Save millions in claims loss dollars, increase customer retention
[ Source: Trillium Software ]
February 2013-
Every time your company contacts a customer is an opportunity to solidify a relationship, or drive them to a competitor.
By analyzing the cycle time and quality of all customer touch points, from FNOL to settlement, you can fundamentally shift the way you interact with the people critical to your future growth and profitability.
• Save millions in claims loss dollars
• Grow revenue through increased client retention
• ...
IT Influencer Brief: Automating Producer Lifecycle Management, A Roadmap for IT Success
[ Source: Vertafore ]
November 2012-
This brief helps IT influencers quickly identify how they can best support their business users, and remove typical IT pushback hot buttons like “we can build it ourselves” and “this is yet another add-on system that’s going to take way too much of our time and money to support”, by making the case for SaaS-based, automated PLM application that seamlessly integrates with and breathes new life and up-to-date producer data into entrenched legacy systems
ESG Performance Validation on HP VirtualSystem for VMware 2.0, optimized for VMware vSphere 5
[ Source: HP ]
November 2012-
This ESG Lab Validation documents the hands-on testing of HP VirtualSystem for VMware 2.0, optimized for VMware vSphere 5. HP VirtualSystem is designed to provide holistic management for both physical components and virtual environments. ESG Lab tested with a goal of validating virtualization of business-critical workloads, providing businesses a fast, simple path to virtualization as well as a cloud-ready platform.
HP VirtualSystem architecture, optimized for mixed workloads and highly scalable in multiple dimensions (compute, network, ...
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 ...
Four Trends Driving Document Automation
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2012-
This paper will describe four trends influencing EDA that help improve customer satisfaction, reduce cost and drive efficiency:
1. Empowerment: Giving customers real time web and mobile self-service options, while enabling business users to create dynamic communications
2. Leveraging analytics and business intelligence to improve efficiency and speed to market
3. Automating the document lifecycle to optimize processing and support high-volume printing
4. Consolidating EDA systems with the goal of reducing costs and centralizing ...
Claims Service Differentiates Insurers
[ Source: Fineos ]
January 2012-
Delivering outstanding claims service centered on policyholders' needs changes customer perceptions in a positive way and boosts the brand. While claims is a "people" business, technology plays a key role in achieving this coveted objective.
Customer-centric claims service can grow your company image with every fulfillment of the promise you made when you wrote the policy. Growing the image also grows the business by retaining good customers and attracting new customers who demand ...
The Business Value of Great Communications: A Strategy Meets Action (SMA) Perspective
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
December 2011-
The insurance industry sells promises - promises that are fulfilled by people. Unlike other industries that manufacture and deliver physical products, the value experienced by an insurance customer is a result of the interaction they have with the insurer, and the perception of how well the insurer has delivered on the promise of the insurance contract. For insurance companies, customer communications play a key role in shaping value.
The quality of customer communications ...
Eight Steps to Exceptional Customer Experiences for Property and Casualty Insurers
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
June 2011-
This white paper outlines the eight steps and explains how they are being applied by P&C insurance carriers to meet today's difficult customer-experience challenges. By adapting these best practices to their own specific situations, insurers can fulfill rising customer expectations, comply with internal mandates, improve staff morale and gain deeper insight into conditions that impact the insurer's mission-as they increase revenues and reduce costs.
Workforce Optimization in Insurance Claims Operations: Adding People to the Productivity Equation
[ Source: Verint ]
May 2011-
In this eBook, Verint Systems takes a closer look at the opportunities for improved efficiencies left on the table by current technology and practices. Verint explains workforce optimization- a software solution for improving staff productivity and performance in the back office, as well as in other parts of the organization. Back-office workforce optimization solutions are now available to help insurers process more customer transactions with fewer resources, reduce turnaround times and costs, improve bottom-line profitability ...
Retain and Grow your Customer Base with IBM Business Analytics
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2010-
In the highly competitive insurance industry, customers are less loyal, more price conscious and have higher service expectations. For insurers and producers to retain customers, attract new ones and offer differentiated service - they need to understand customer needs, behaviors and preferences. But how do you know what customers want?
IBM Business Analytics can help you combine the power of business intelligence, predictive analytics and decision optimization to improve customer retention and wallet ...
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