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Dell, Intel, & Microsoft Deliver Groundbreaking Efficiency and Productivity

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Dell systems with Intel® vPro™ technology running Microsoft® Windows® 7 can enhance your user experience and help optimize your IT resources helping to save time and money.

Thriving in the Ecosystem: How Web Application Interdependencies are Transforming the ...

Webmetrics, a Neustar service — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper, based on unique, primary research, will provide you with a window into these new Web ecosystem dynamics - what they are, what are the trends, who is impacted most, and what strategies are most likely to help to minimize business risk and optimize growth opportunities.

The Total Economic Impact & trade; of Microsoft Exchange 2010

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

This study illustrates the financial impact of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 for a retail and distribution organization of 1,500 employees and $450 million in annual revenue.

Business-Ready Security: Secure Endpoint Solution

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Microsoft Forefront™ has combined essential capabilities to provide an integrated solution that helps secure corporate endpoints. The Secure Endpoint solution helps protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling more secure access from virtually anywhere.

Improve Operational Performance by Visualizing and Analyzing Relevant KPI and KPD Metrics: ...

myDIALS Inc. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement.

Deploying Oracle & reg; Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.

Zenith ARCA: Advanced Recovery and Continuity Appliance

Zenith Infotech — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Learn how Freeland Community School District in Freeland, MI. used Zenith ARCA (Advanced Recovery & Continuity Appliance) to reduce management overheads, reduce RPO from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

Case Study: DaimlerChrysler South Africa - Migrating Mission Critical Application Achieving ...

Micro Focus, Ltd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved.

HCL Insurance BPO Services Transforms Its Mainframe Environment to Reduce Costs by 75% and ...

Micro Focus, Ltd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Following a Business Process Outsourcing agreement for the administration of Life and Pension products, HCL Insurance BPO Services, undertook a full analysis of the inherited infrastructure. A risk was identified with the third party mainframe used to host its CAPSIL insurance application.

Scandinavian Airlines Modernize Business Intelligence Capabilities While Lowering Costs by ...

Micro Focus, Ltd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is the largest airline in Scandinavia. SAS need to provide better business intelligence reporting and improved adhoc analysis capabilities by providing real time data access while reducing costs.

Intel & reg; Core & trade;2 Processor with vPro & trade; Technology and Windows & reg; 7: ...

Intel Technology Provider — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Technical decision makers are faced with many challenges in today's economy: help users get more work done faster and with fewer difficulties, protect the network and individual systems from attacks or malicious code, and much more. Find out how the Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology complements the new Windows 7 operating system.

Case Study: Welch’s & reg; Improves its Warehouse and Inventory Management Operations

TAKE Supply Chain — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Welch's selected the TAKE Supply Chain Gemini™ for OPM mobile software solution and Compliance Label Manager (CLM), a barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) label management solution to improve the speed, visibility, accuracy and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains. Read on to learn more.

Blue Bell Creameries & reg; Improves its Inventory Management and Standardizes Procedures ...

TAKE Supply Chain — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

To improve inventory management and standardize procedures, Blue Bell turned to TAKE Supply Chain's Gemini Series™ for OPM mobile software solution. Read this case study to learn more about the benefits Blue Bell experienced from switching to TAKE Supply Chain’s Gemini Series™, and learn how your company can do the same.

Sun and Pentaho: Achieving enterprise business intelligence success with integrated, open, ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions.

A Feature and Performance Analysis of the Intel vPro Technology-Based Dell Latitude E6400 ...

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to analyze the features and performance of the Dell Latitude E6400 notebook system running Windows 7. This system and several comparison systems were tested. In this analyst report, you'll learn more about this Dell solution and discover key findings as a result of testing these systems.

Leading VC Firm Keeps Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server " ...

Marathon Technologies — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Find out how Argo Global Capital utilized server virualization to simplify, consolidate and reduce operating costs in their data center. Since implementing XenServer with everRun, Argo has had zero downtime, even during a significant hardware failure.

2009 Top 10 in Investment Management

Actuate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The investment management business in 2009 will be dominated by the ramifications of the events of 2008. In this report, TowerGroup has compiled a list of the top 10 business drivers and the resulting major strategic responses and technology initiatives.

Leaner and Greener Because of Intel & reg; Core & trade;2 Processors with vPro & trade; ...

Intel Technology Provider — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Recently, the University of Plymouth, located in the U.K., completed a refresh of their 4,800 desktop PCs, upgrading the systems to PCs with Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology in order to offer students the latest in IT services. The following paper provides an ROI analysis of this PC deployment.

Managing Linux Server Sprawl with Red Hat Satellite

Red Hat — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast addresses the challenges of server sprawl and introduces a new tool to help overcome them. Discover how this technology enables simplified management of your Linux environment and reduces administrative costs.

Sterling Commerce: Managed Services

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

Sterling Commerce Managed Services include Business-to-Business (B2B) integration solutions, allowing trading organizations to interact with each other across a secure network. Long considered as only appropriate for large organizations, Sterling Commerce Managed Services provide organizations of all sizes with the ability to trade and collaborate.

Client Systems Management - Take Control of your Environment

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Dell simplifies systems management. Dell's approach delivers systems management solutions that integrate and interoperate to help ease deployment, speed problem resolution, and enable you to manage smarter.

Process Manufacturing Companies Going Global: GTM Challenges and Solutions

SAP America Inc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper focuses on Global Trade Management (GTM) trends in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on the challenges and solutions for Global Trade Compliance (GTC).

Solutions Guide: Business Ready Configurations for Data Center Virtualization

Dell and VMware — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.

Blaze Advisor 6.6 Trial Download

FICO — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

FICO™ Blaze Advisor® is the world's leading business rules management system, maximizing control over high volume operational decisions.

Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs

Dell and Microsoft — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization.

Migrating to the New Dell Management Console

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper to learn how the Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from SymantecTM centralizes multiple aspects of systems management into a single easy-to-use tool.

SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys & trade; 3.0 - Specifications

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Use SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses whether you conduct surveys to support business, education, or government decisions, or for your academic research. No matter your field, you now have a way to combine your qualitative and quantitative analyses using a single advanced but easy-to-use desktop software program.

Deploying Operating System Images on Latitude & trade; and Precision & trade; E-Series ...

Dell, Inc. — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper provides an overview of using the operating systems deployment capabilities of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007™ to deploy a customized OS image on Dell client systems in a heterogeneous environment.

Dell & trade; Reference Architecture Overview for Microsoft & reg; Exchange Server 2007 in ...

Dell, Inc. — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.

Mosaic Technology trims sales cycle by up to 50% and converts 20% of leads into sales with ...

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.

Using Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL & trade; Database With Sun & trade; Storage ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.

Microsoft & reg; Hyper-V & trade; Server 2008 for Dell & trade; PowerEdge & trade; Systems

Dell and Microsoft — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

Networking Best Practices for VMware & reg; Infrastructure 3 on Dell & trade; PowerEdge & ...

Dell and VMware — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.

Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives ...

IBM — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.

Implementing Best Practices: The Dell Management Console and ITIL

Dell and Symantec — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

The Dell™ Management Console Powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™ provides a comprehensive management platform based on standardized IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes—facilitating the adoption of industry best practices and helping streamline and simplify IT management in enterprise data centers.

Boost ROI with Faster, Easier, VISUAL Analytics

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join us at this live webcast and learn how you can:

Use RFM analysis to quickly rank customers for high-return marketing
Use advanced visualization techniques to uncover segments and patterns in your data, and apply these insights to growth, acquisition, and retention planning
and more

Case Study: Brokerage Trades Up to Robust Server Platform

Dell India — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Read this paper to learn how Dell PowerEdge servers with virtualization helped reduce datacenter footprint by over 35 percent at Pune e Stock Broking.

Dell and Microsoft solutions help ServiceU deliver reliable system performance and create a ...

Dell and Microsoft — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

ServiceU Corporation was challenged to deploy reliable hardware to support its Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 environment and virtualize other applications to enhance business flexibility. Read this case study to learn about the benefits that ServiceU achieved through by implementing Dell hardware and Microsoft Hyper-V technology.

Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Syncsort — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.

Portfolio Construction and Trading: Seven Key Factors in Evaluating Order Management ...

Advent Software, Inc — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them.

All Information, All People, One Platform: What ' s New In SAP & reg; BusinessObjects & ...

SAP BusinessObjects — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

BusinessObjects XI 3.1 solutions provide a full spectrum of BI functionality--from reporting, query and analysis, and dashboards and visualization, to intuitive discovery and advanced predictive analytics capabilities--as well as data quality and extract, transform, and load functionality.

LSI SafeStore & trade; Encryption Services

LSI Corporation. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The emergence of self-encrypting drives is timely in mitigating the security vulnerabilities of data-at-rest. LSI is pleased to offer SafeStore™ encryption services which combine local key management with self-encrypting drives.

Bankinter turns to Intel & reg; Core & trade;2 Processor with vPro & trade; technology to ...

Intel Technology Provider — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Bankinter, a multichannel bank, chose to work together with Intel and Infogroup in order to benefit from Intel® Core™ 2 Processor with vPro™ technology which it believed could meet its desktop platform manageability challenge.

With New CRM Solution, Distributor Improves Productivity and Customer Satisfaction

Microsoft — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Noble Trade is a wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating, and industrial materials. The company lacked a comprehensive CRM tool that would allow employees to keep a close eye on business relationships. To address these challenges, managers selected Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM Online as the company's CRM solution.

SUN SPARC & reg; ENTERPRISE T5120, T5220, T5140, AND T5240 SERVER ARCHITECTURE

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors - the industry's first massively threaded Systems on a Chip (SoC) - Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.

Rise of Dark Pools and Rebirth of ECNs: Death to Exchanges?

Advent Software, Inc — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This Impact Report examines some of the key trends within the U.S. ATS market, and provides clear categorizations of some of the platforms vying for market share. This Impact Report also provides U.S. equities market share estimates and future projections.

Forrester Research: The Total Economic Impact & trade; Of Microsoft Unified Communications ...

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Unified communications (UC), offers the promise of converging voice, data, and video communication and of eliminating many roadblocks in communication. In conducting these in-depth interviews with Microsoft UC products customers, Forrester found that organizations can achieve significant productivity improvements and cost savings.

Using Encrypting File System to Protect Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data on a V3c Client Running ...

Microsoft — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper explains how to use Encrypting File System (EFS), a feature that is provided by default in the Windows® operating system, to protect data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook Compatibility Update running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2).

The Buyside and the Three Phase Evolution of Electronic Trading

Advent Software, Inc — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers.

FACTS Electronic Data Interchange System (FACTS EDI) & #45; Advanced Technologies for ...

Ebix Health, Inc. — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

FACTS EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is an industry compliant, electronic data interchange system that allows for the high-speed transaction processing of health information between the FACTS Systems and your trading partners.