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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.
Combating Insurance Claims Fraud: How to recognize and reduce opportunistic and organized claims fraud
[ Source: SAS ]
September 2009-
Many insurers still believe that it is too expensive to detect fraud, and they simply accept a certain amount of fraud loss as a standard cost of doing business. With the increased focus on customer satisfaction, insurers also are understandably reluctant to stall claims processing to investigate a hunch – or worse, to mistakenly target a legitimate claim and an honest policyholder for investigation. However, insurers that have invested in automated fraud prevention systems have been ...
Anti-Money Laundering: Helping Life Insurance Companies Mitigate Regulatory Risk
[ Source: SAS ]
June 2008-
The U.S. Department of Treasury released in October 2005 the final ruling that life insurance and annuity companies must implement money laundering-prevention programs and comply with Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) guidelines by May 2006. This white paper takes a brief look at ways SAS Anti-Money Laundering is designed to help these companies comply with regulations. You will learn about SAS' ability to detect a variety of suspicious activities. Anti-Money Laundering helps life insurance and annuity companies ...
MARKET LIQUIDITY RISK: A SCENARIO BASED APPROACH
[ Source: StatPro Inc. ]
January 2010-
This paper explains the StatPro approach for measuring Liquidity Risk. The traditional problem of Liquidity Risk is that the data needed for calibrating these models is only available for liquid instruments, trading on a regular basis and for which books of bid/ask and volumes are available. For this reason the current approaches to measuring Liquidity Risk fail providing any indication for the most opaque and illiquid instruments, or where the measurement of Liquidity Risk ...
Combating Insurance Claims Fraud: How to recognize and reduce opportunistic and organized claims fraud
[ Source: SAS ]
September 2009-
Many insurers still believe that it is too expensive to detect fraud, and they simply accept a certain amount of fraud loss as a standard cost of doing business. With the increased focus on customer satisfaction, insurers also are understandably reluctant to stall claims processing to investigate a hunch – or worse, to mistakenly target a legitimate claim and an honest policyholder for investigation. However, insurers that have invested in automated fraud prevention systems have been ...
Ease and Speed of Implementation Are Key Factors in Royal Liver's Selection of Axios Systems Solutions (Case Study)
[ Source: Axios Systems ]
May 2006-
Royal Liver Assurance formed a selection and evaluation team to choose the best product based on three key selection criteria:
Compliance with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-- Royal Liver required a product purpose-built to support ITIL, rather than one that had been adapted from a Help Desk
tool.
Integration -- Configuration, Incident, Problem and Change Management had to be integrated from a single source to allow comprehensive reporting and incident life-cycle
management.
Ease and ...
Managing Risk Intelligently: How to Leverage Business Intelligence to Improve Risk Management and Boost the Bottom Line
[ Source: Insurance & Technology ]
March 2009-
As the global economic crisis continues to batter the financial services industry, insurers’ very survival increasingly depends on their ability to manage risk. By weaving analytics into the fabrics of their organizations, innovative carriers are turning their massive stores of data into actionable intelligence, gaining a more complete view of their risk exposure and driving greater profitability to the bottom line.
The Optimized Insurer: Using Analytics to Optimize Business Performance
[ Source: SAS ]
August 2008-
The fiercely competitive insurance industry faces spiraling operational costs, increasing regulatory pressures and rising claim settlement costs against a background of economic uncertainty. This white paper explores how SAS Analytics can help insurance companies use their data proactively to better understand their businesses, detect areas for improvement and take remedial action, as well as forecast ahead and plan more proactively for the future in order to protect and grow their market share, despite difficult conditions.
Anti-Money Laundering: Helping Life Insurance Companies Mitigate Regulatory Risk
[ Source: SAS ]
June 2008-
The U.S. Department of Treasury released in October 2005 the final ruling that life insurance and annuity companies must implement money laundering-prevention programs and comply with Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) guidelines by May 2006. This white paper takes a brief look at ways SAS Anti-Money Laundering is designed to help these companies comply with regulations. You will learn about SAS' ability to detect a variety of suspicious activities. Anti-Money Laundering helps life insurance and annuity companies ...
Excel That Scales - Flash Demo
[ Source: GigaSpaces Technologies ]
February 2008-
An 8min flash demo of the joint Microsoft-GigaSpaces Excel solution for high end users in financial services.
Excel That Scales™ is a joint Microsoft-GigaSpaces solution designed to improve availability, reliability and performance for high-end Excel users.
GigaSpaces-Excel integration involves two phases:
1. Leverages the GigaSpaces’ In-Memory-Data-Grid to move
the data from the Traders’ desktop to the data center and
access it at in-memory speeds.
2. Similarly, moves the logic from the worksheets to run (in
parallel) closer ...
High Performance Excel-Based Applications in Financial Services
[ Source: GigaSpaces Technologies ]
August 2007-
This paper describes a comprehensive solution based on Microsoft and GigaSpaces
technologies that addresses scalability and performance challenges with Excel-based applications in
securities and capital markets industry. The solution combines the latest Microsoft technologies,
including Office Excel, Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, User Defined Functions, and
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform to deliver
unparalleled usability, performance, and scalability.
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