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Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today ' s Economy

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service.

Striking a Balance: Controlling E-Discovery by Combining In-House Resources with Outsourced ...

FTI Technology — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Increasingly, corporations are taking control of their e-discovery process and striking a balance between in-house and outsourced resources. This whitepaper is a best practices guide on the mechanics of effectively and efficiently balancing in-house control with outsourced execution.

Postgres Plus Training Classes For Developers

EnterpriseDB Corporation — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This data sheet gives a brief overview of the Postgres Plus training classes for developers by EnterpriseDB. Read this data sheet to learn how these training classes can improve your Postgres knowledge and enhance your professional growth.

Task and Resource Management - Optimizing Your Warehouse Operations with SAP & reg; R/3 & ...

CDC Global Services - Catalyst — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's Task and Resource Management (TRM) application. It presents an overview of TRM and its unique capabilities and benefits to provide key insight into which organizations will reap the highest value from TRM.

Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

On the Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, you will find storage resources from leading industry experts exploring the technologies, problems and solutions available around Open Storage and SSD.

Introduction to Virtualization E-book, Chapter 6: How Virtual Infrastructures Change Security

SearchServerVirtualization — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Protecting the virtual data center doesn't need to be any more difficult than protecting a physical network. The key is to remain vigilant. In this chapter, you'll learn how to mitigate potential security risks to your resource pool and virtual machines without over-allocating administration.

Research Report on Virtualization and Cloud Computing in Test/Dev Environments

Platform Computing Corporation — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this report to learn the research findings of this study, which examined the challenges of managing Test/Dev environments and the opportunity for server virtualization and cloud computing to address them. This paper includes several graphs and an in-depth discussion of the advantages of private cloud computing.

Chapter 3: SaaS on the Rise, but Does It Deliver?

SearchCRM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The emergence of Software as a Service-based applications has enabled organizations to get new applications up and running quickly and cheaply, saving resources for mission-critical tasks.

Top Eight Do ' s and Don ' ts of Managing Access Control in the Windows/AD Environment

Quest Software — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This tech brief presents eight recommendations to help you proactively address the difficulties of access control in a Microsoft-centric environment, and avoid the common pitfalls, risks and costs.

Data Center Lifecycle Management with Sun™ Ops Center

Sun Ops Center — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Sun Ops Center cuts through the complexity of today’s datacenters with single-pane-of-glass management. It is a single, comprehensive, end-to-end system management tool that integrates physical and virtual management across the hardware/software stack and the entire system lifecycle.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere & #153; 4

Global Knowledge — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.

Customer perspectives on the benefits of a collaborative process to deliver software quality

IBM — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This Hurwitz and Associates whitepaper shares the successes, challenges and future plans of three companies - Sogeti Group, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Scotiabank.

Eliminating Waste in Supply Chain Network Collaboration

Sterling Commerce — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The focus of this white paper is to highlight how IT can support the kind of agile, rapid response that is needed to drive out costs and delays in their company's business collaboration networks.

Portfolio Resource Management

AtTask — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This podcast will review the steps CIOs can take to select top projects with the most value to the business, map resources and finally fill in the gaps.

Ensuring Reliable Inbound Supply Integration

Sterling Commerce — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper will enumerate the critical business challenges, as well as specific opportunities and benefits of working aggressively to achieve inbound supply integration.

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning

EnterpriseDB Corporation — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This presentation covers every aspect of performance: server settings, caching, sizing operating system resources, optimizer processing, problem queries, storage efficiency, and some hardware selection details.

Windows Server and Storage eBook, Ch 3 - Assess Your Data Center Storage Needs

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.

What Is New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage

HP, Intel, & VMware — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With the launch of vSphere 4, VMware introduces a new version of the hypervisor, ESX 4.0 and the management interface, vCenter. Some key benefits offered by this release are greater resource efficiency, management control and freedom of choice for virtual datacenter storage resources and connectivity options.

Achieving Cost and Resource Savings with Unified Communications

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Enterprises are always seeking to cut costs and optimize resource utilization. Now, in this harsh economic climate, the need is more compelling than ever. This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations.

Using an Archiving Strategy to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Datalink and Symantec — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Unstructured data is the largest growing data segment today. Some IT groups are turning to archiving solutions to lower cost, reduce risk, and make better use of resources. This podcast will explain how archiving strategies can help drive efficiency in the data center.

How To Optimize Resource Utilization and Increase VM Densities on Your Existing Hardware

VKernel — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

View this VKernel webcast to learn how to best optimize resource utilization in your current ESX environment. During this 30 minute presentation, we'll discuss how capacity planning is different in an ESX environment, resource alignment, and many other aspects of capacity planning within your current environment.

VKernel Chargeback & #45; Automated Chargeback Solution

VKernel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Many organizations understand they need cost-visibility or a more formal chargeback process in order to further expand their virtual data centers. The challenge is where to begin and how to implement an automated solution.

VKernel Case Study: Proactive Capacity Optimization for Hershey Entertainment & Resorts

VKernel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

In its VMware server environment, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (HE&R) needed to get more proactive visibility into its resource utilization and allocations to plan for future growth.

Aero and Defense - Streamline, Automate and Accelerate with Project Management

Oracle Corporation — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper asserts that the common thread that must run through all phases of project manufacturing is a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system. A PPM system will constantly examine resources, supplies and schedules to ensure that every phase of the project's lifecycle is on time and within budget.

How to Ensure That Your Employees Will Want to Use CRM

Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper outlines the technology building blocks that enable you to create an information-rich environment that empowers your workforce to perform at its peak. Learn how to use data to its fullest--without having to become IT experts.

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics: Making Unstructured Data Ready for Predictive ...

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.

VKernel Capacity Analyzer

VKernel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

In a virtual server infrastructure where all resources are shared, optimal performance can only be achieved with an adequate amount of properly allocated resource capacity. Not allocating enough resources can cause critical bottlenecks - leading to performance problems and costly downtime events.

Securing Loyalty: Insurance Carrier Strategies for Optimizing Agent Retention and Productivity

CSSI — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Today, technology provides tremendous, previously untapped opportunities for a carrier to enhance the experience of channel members and ensures greater productivity. This paper describes the challenges carriers face in the area of loyalty and the ways technology enables carriers to address common agent frustrations in unprecedented ways.

Virtualize at the Speed of Your Business - The Dell Guide to Virtualization

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Virtualization is changing everything, from how you manage resources to the way you support your business, it addresses many of today's IT challenges - cost, responsiveness, availability, disaster recovery - and is a key element for achieving a more automated, agile infrustructure. Dell helps you virtualize at the speed of your business...

Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

In most organizations, employee compensation and related expenses are the largest line items in the budget. Having control over these expenses is critical to meeting corporate performance objectives. Check out this data sheet to learn more.

VKernel Case Study: Visibility into Resource Utilization for Hasbro Inc.

VKernel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.

Capacity Analyzer: Optimize Capacity, Maximize Performance, Instant ROI

VKernel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems.

Dealing with Specific Types of Difficult People

Global Knowledge — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

One thing you can be sure of: If you don't do something about the "thing" that someone is doing that makes them difficult for you, you'll continue to get more of it.

CIO Decisions Ezine Volume 3

CIO Decisions — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this issue we tackle service-oriented architecture and dive into how Software as a Service can drive flexibility and meet business needs. Also in this issue: MDM's strongest business case and how to navigate the compliance minefield.

Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer & #39;s Guide to ...

SAP America Inc — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.

Securing the Organization: Creating a Partnership between HR and Information Security

ISC2 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The goal of this white paper is to help Human Resource professionals understand the full scope of the growing information security profession and how it affects every aspect of an organization.

VUE Software: Enterprise Incentive Management

CSSI — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

VUE Software solves the complexities of insurance sales commission and incentive compensation plans by delivering flexibility and automation. VUE Software’s web-enabled EIM solution reduces costs while driving accuracy and efficiency into your organization. This comprehensive solution provides the ease of a total solution from one vendor.

VUE Software: Insurance Commission & Incentive Compensation Management

CSSI — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

VUE software delivers flexibility and automation to help solve the complexities of insurance sales commission and incentive compensation plans. VUE’s web-enabled incentive management solution reduces costs while driving accuracy and efficiency into your organization. This comprehensive solution offers the ease of a total solution from one vendor.

Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.

Syberworks Learning Management System Product Suite

SyberWorks, Inc. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This complete product suite is designed to facilitate the development, dissemination, measurement, and management of corporate knowledge to improve productivity and performance.

e & #45;Learning Best Practices as You Begin Your Research into Learning Management Systems

SyberWorks, Inc. — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The e-Learning industry has grown tremendously since the early days of computers and the Internet. This white paper will provide some basic information to help you as you begin your research into e-Learning and learning management systems.

How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in Your VMware ESX Environment

VKernel — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems.

Tackling the Virtualization Chargeback Challenge

VKernel — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Learn how VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance helps companies gain cost visibility and chargeback on resource utilization; recover costs of ESX Infrastructure; and measure resource consumption by applications, resource pools and clusters.

The Business Value of Insurance Compensation Management Systems

CSSI — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper describes some of the problems insurance carriers face regarding compensation and presents the advantages of using an automated system to simplify incentive compensation.

BusinessWeek Research: Talent Management & #45; The New Business Imperative

SAP America Inc — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Read this report to discover the views of senior human resource (HR) and information technology (IT) executives and CEOs at large and midsize companies about the talent shortage and how workforce planning can help executives address this coming crisis.

6 Steps to Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation Success

IFS — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take to manage that complexity.

Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.

Business Value of Compensation Management in the Insurance Industry

CSSI — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Changes in the insurance industry have generated a real need for effective, automated commissions and incentive compensation management solutions. This CSSI white paper describes some of the dilemmas carriers, MGAs, producers and support staff face, and it presents the advantages of using an automated system.

Virtualization - aligning IT supply with business demand

Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Virtualization allows you to dynamically allocate and manage resources in a utility-like way. It helps you break down the rigid IT structures that inhibit business agility. Virtualization also helps you increase utilization of valuable computing resources.

FACTS & #174; PPO & #153;

Ebix Health, Inc. — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 EST

FACTS® PPO™ is a fully automated provider network processing module, this system provides you with a fully integrated database for providers (both practitioners and facilities).