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Countdown: Selling security in the SDLC

Ounce Labs, an IBM Company — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Building security into the software development lifecycle takes more than just a plan. You need the support of both the development and security/audit organizations to make it work. This podcast, featuring Diana Kelley, presents a plan for selling the value of security to all of the constituencies who matter in your organization.

Enabling Total Spend Analysis in the Enterprise

TIBCO Spotfire Division — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Hear TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan discuss how you can perform total spend analysis, drive supplier consolidation, identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment and address a range of KPI's.

Extend SAP Warehouse Management Capabilities: Kubota Tractors Implements SAP & reg; Console

CDC Global Services - Catalyst — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This case study explains how Kubota turned to Catalyst to implement SAP® Console Technology and extend SAP warehouse management capabilities. Read on to learn how Catalyst was able to deliver this inside four months, ensuring no loss of business and driving significant benefits throughout the business.

How to Set Up and Track Small Parcel Shipments Via a Single Point of Access

CDC Global Services - Catalyst — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This Webcast will demonstrate a new application that delivers seamless integration between SAP and leading global parcel carriers, including FedEx, UPS, DHL, TNT, Purolator and more, without middleware. You will also be able to understand how to track your shipment without accessing multiple systems, from any PC or terminal with access to SAP.

Driving Better, Faster Decision Making through Finance

SAP AG — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In order to work effectively, the CFO needs a single unified view that integrates data from multiple data sources and key performance indicators (KPIs), and places them in the context of strategic goals and financial plans.

Optimizing the Order-to-Cash Process: Managing Documents throughout the Process

Dolphin Corporation — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper examines an array of solutions for SAP customers to optimize the Order-to-Cash processes in ways that contain costs and achieve optimum organizational efficiency, high customer retention and successful cash management.

Ensuring The Availability of Blackberry Enterprise Server

Double-Take Software — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In order to implement a plan for protecting and backing up BlackBerry handhelds, it's important to understand how the Blackberry Enterprise Server solution works within an existing email environment. This paper gives a quick lessong to that end, then concentrates on ensuring the availability of the Blackberry Enterprise Server

Improve Synchronization with Streamlined Order Management and Communication: Petmate & reg ...

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

Petmate enlisted the help of TAKE Supply Chain's X.PC to not only streamline the administration of contract manufacturing for Petmate. Read this case study to learn how X.PC transformed Petmate's manual approach to working with manufacturers through a Web-based collaborative environment that improved shared communications.

Leveraging A Demand-Driven Manufacturing Model To Enhance Profitability

SYSPRO — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand-driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures.

Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World

Gomez — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The browser wars bring fresh challenges for web designers and developers. This session enables you to understand JavaScript behavior and performance across browsers, as well as consider object load order differences.

Overcoming the challenges of fax orders to drive customer satisfaction

Esker Inc. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This case study examines how a global healthcare products company turned to the Esker SaaS document processing automation solution to streamline to help eliminate the challenges associated with manual data entry and paper routing.

Enterprise, Back-Office Applications Propel our Business: An order management system, ...

IBM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With Oracle Applications Extension for Rational Performance you no longer have to jeopardize your business engine during an upgrade. You’ll eliminate risk, increase testing productivity, speedy delivery, and ensure the quality and scalability of your business systems.

Best Practices for Managing Data Center Costs via Application and Server Consolidation

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.

Oracle AppCast: Aligning Finance and Operations with Business Strategy

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Complexity, uncertainty, global competition and shrinking cycle times are all challenges organizations face today. As a result, finance needs to take on the role of a business partner and work with operations to accommodate the business plan. In order to do this, the proper tools need to be in place.

Automated Requisition Verification and Handling in SAP & reg; ERP

ReadSoft — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper presents how to implement a simple automated requisition solution in a SAP ERP system, and what you need to know before doing so. Read this paper to learn the benefits of this solution that will compliment the invoice verification process.

Accounts Payable Automation in Oracle - An Investment in the Future

ReadSoft — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Document process automation is an investment that can help turn accounts payable around to become a very efficient and money saving process by getting rid of all the paper and manual processing. Read this paper to learn how document process automation can help save your company money and time, overall adding to your company's bottom line.

Accounts Payable Automation in SAP - An Investment in the Future

ReadSoft — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this paper to learn how document process automation can speed up accounts payable processes, add to the company’s bottom line by cutting costs, reduce cycle times, and allow for faster financial statements and fewer late payment fees.

Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games - Part 3

Intel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this 3rd part of the Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture.

PharmaCorr: Filling the Bill for High-Volume Order Processing

Esker Inc. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this case study to learn how PharmaCorr turned to Esker DeliveryWare to transition to a less paper-centric process and read all the benefits PharmaCorr reaped from implementing Esker DeliveryWare, including better accessibility, visibility, lower costs and higher ROI.

Sea Star Line, LLC: Clear Sailing for Inbound Document Workflow

Esker Inc. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this case study to learn how Sea Star Line worked with Esker Professional Services to help implement Esker DeliveryWare as their solution and the benefits that resulted from Sea Stars decision to use Esker DeliveryWare, which includes better visibility, productivity, and time and cost savings.

Leveraging Automation to Cut SAP Accounts Payable Costs

Esker Inc. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Watch this webcast to learn a variety of methods Esker can help your company with to cut the use of paper in your company today. Not only will you be helping the environment but you will also experience many benefits including better visibility, accessibility and productivity.

MEDRAD: Automating the Flow of Inbound Sales Orders into SAP Applications, while ...

Esker Inc. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This case study explains how MEDRAD implemented Esker DeliveryWare for their SAP solution and documents the benefits they reaped from it. Read this case study to learn how your company can experience the same benefits as MEDRAD with Esker DeliveryWare.

Samsung Electronics France Reduced DSO and Improved Invoice Tracking with Esker DeliveryWare

Esker Inc. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

When Samsung Electronics France needed an automated solution for processing and sending 250,000 invoices per year from its SAP solution, they chose Esker DeliveryWare. This project, carried out by Esker Certified Partner, Aegis, reduced time involved in collecting customer payments by over 10% and enabled invoice tracking.

Retaining Customers in Today ' s Economic Landscape: Improving SAP Order Management

Esker Inc. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper will present the challenges businesses face in implementing effective order management and will help in overcoming these challenges. You will learn the benefits of the Esker Platform over its competitors and be presented with a case study documenting companies that implemented the Esker platform to beat their order management problems.

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.

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.

Internet Gambling Sites: Expose Fraud Rings and Stop Repeat Offenders with Device Reputation

iovation, Inc. — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper will help you understand what new and innovative techniques can be used to combat online fraud and abuse, and how online casinos can realize a true return on investment by reducing losses from fraud exposure and increasing operational efficiency within the fraud detection process.

10 Ways To Use ERP To Lean The Manufacturing Supply Chain

IFS — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper gives four tips to help you bring lean supply chain improvements to your manufacturing operation. Additionally, it discusses six technology tools that help automate these lean supply chain practices.

It ' s Time to " Go Commando "

Birst — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Commando teams carefully plan and execute to reduce risk and achieve success. Read this sales survival guide to learn how to - and why you should - adopt this philosophy and the main factors to focus on that will ensure your sales organization not only survives 2009 but comes out of it successfully.

Online Dating: Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators

iovation, Inc. — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper will help you understand what new and innovative techniques can be used to protect the reputation of your business, keep your members in a safe and trusted environment, while keeping the fraudsters out. Device fingerprinting helps identify the bad guys so sites can eliminate their accounts from the network once and for all.

Making Virtual Infrastructures Highly Available

Dell and Microsoft — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed.

American Tire Distributors Successfully Faxes XMLP Documents via AventX

STR Software — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read the sterling results ATD replaced their homegrown solution with the industry's gold standard ERP solution, Oracle's E- Business Suite, operating on the HP Unix Hardware.

Minnkota Power: Power Cooperative Streamlines Printing from Oracle eAM

STR Software — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Eager to increase efficiencies and automate their work order printing process, Minnkota installed STR Software's new AventX Oracle Attachment Printer product. Read this case study for their complete experience and see if the AventX Oracle Attachment Printer is right for your organization.

Texas Petrochemicals Automatically Prints Work Order Attachments from Oracle eAM

STR Software — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

As an STR Software customer since 2004, Texas Petrochemicals was excited about the opportunity to leverage its existing AventX investment and automate another manual process - the printing of work order database attachments from Oracle E-Business Suite. This case study has the details.

Preparing for the 2.0 World: How Enterprises Need to Think About Emergent Social Technologies

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Social technologies, commonly called Web 2.0, were originally used to describe consumer technologies that enable groups to organize and share information and media. But enterprises quickly caught on to the value of these easy-to-use tools for capturing and sharing ad hoc information that may otherwise not be documented.

4 Stages of Integrated Document Delivery from SAP

STR Software — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using SAP, on the efficiencies gained from an integrated, automated document delivery system.

A Tour of HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans.

Oracle eAM ' s Best Friend - Automated Work Order Attachment Printing

STR Software — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Check out this paper to learn how Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) successfully automates the printing of Oracle eAM documents such as work orders and accompanying attachments into company business processes.

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.

De-Duplication Is Physical & #45; Storage Management Is Logical

Northern Parklife — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

This whitepaper will provide an overview of the benefits of Storage Resource Management as a "front end" to data deduplication. We will demonstrate how an SRM tool such as Northern Storage Suite can work in concert with data de-duplication technologies to efficiently streamline data and assure optimal performance of an organization's storage inf...

Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance

Tripwire, Inc. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.

Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the ...

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

This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence - Drive Efficiency And Growth With Integrated Solutions

SAP America Inc — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.

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.

Case Study: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Assuring improvements in business continuity with Fax on Demand

Esker Inc. — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

Read this brief case study to learn how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM faced the challenge to implement the next stage of a strategy for faxed order communications to accommodate key seasonal spikes in demand while avoiding unnecessary capacity expenditures.

Worst Practices in SOA Implementation: Why Service-Oriented Architectures Fail

Information Builders Inc. — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices.

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.

Process-Driven Business Intelligence: Building Smarter Business Processes

Information Builders Inc. — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Most organizations strive for efficiency because it ties to cost savings and better performance, while helping to anchor competitive advantages. However, improving efficiency requires organizations to continually seek new methods of managing increasingly complex business processes.

How to Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation

Global Knowledge — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Discover the Six Laws of Persuasion and learn how to use them to conduct more effective negotiations.

Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk

SAP America Inc — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.