May 01, 2008 - In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
November 02, 2009 - Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
November 02, 2009 - Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking.
December 30, 2008 - View this webcast to learn how to treat your network as a business asset and get more out of your network. This webcast highlights a solution to increase visibility and network assessment which will help contain costs.
April 01, 2007 - Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives.
March 06, 2009 - From a manufacturing executive's perspective, focusing on an open and flexible Manufacturing Operations Management platform creates a competitive weapon. This research provides a roadmap for creating such a platform in a cost effective way that still delivers benefits, such as higher levels of profitability.
September 30, 2008 - Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
October 21, 2009 - This white paper outlines a sound, process-based approach to protecting the critical privileged accounts found in most applications, databases, and infrastructure devices throughout the enterprise. This approach integrates features like automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system.
October 10, 2008 - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
February 12, 2009 - Before you can analyze your data, you must prepare it for analysis. SPSS Statistics Base offers an array of techniques and features to help users validate data in order to ensure complete, effective, and accurate analysis. This webinar will show you some of these techniques so you can be certain you are getting the best information from your data.
September 23, 2009 - This online assessment tool designed specifically for organizations seeking to improve their Green IT capabilities, performance and ROI.
January 01, 2007 - Enterprises that employ advanced sourcing strategies are positively impacting product development cycles and building stronger supplier relationships by making better, more informed decisions. Get the details in the results of this Aberdeen Group survey.
October 18, 2008 - Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.
June 01, 2008 - 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.
January 23, 2009 - Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
October 05, 2009 - This paper will illustrate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops can help organizations comply with specific GLBA mandates while increasing overall efficiency and agility.
June 02, 2009 - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.
October 13, 2009 - Find out how Acxiom, specializing in providing customer and information management solutions for companies around the world, uses SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to transform consumer data into actionable BI.
October 01, 2008 - This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.
December 05, 2008 - The need for customer insight and responsiveness to that insight is the foundation and driving rationale for the emerging CRM concept of continuous customer dialogue through multi-channel touchpoints.
March 11, 2009 - Whether the economy is doing well or not, business leaders are always looking for the technological edge to bump up productivity and get more out of their workers. But new innovations always introduce new risks. The hallmark of a good C-level executive is the ability to balance the benefit of innovation with solid risk mitigation.
January 28, 2009 - Guardianship Program is involved in all decisions like paying bills, medical treatments, rent for each person in its system and to manage this they implemented an Oracle Database and Oracle Developer Tool.
October 19, 2009 - As a salesforce.com customer, you understand gathering data is only the first step towards success. Reports from Salesforce still require a lot of hands-on manipulation to get to the level of insight you and your executives need to make effective decisions.
July 01, 2008 - Learn more about this integrated portfolio and client relationship management system: an end-to-end solution for accounting and reporting, client servicing and marketing.
April 14, 2008 - The goal of South African Tourism's global employees is to increase tourism to the nation to help enhance the nation's economy. To address this issue they utilized the research of a tier-one customer relationship management consultancy and selected Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 4.0.
September 26, 2008 - This white paper presents the key characteristics of successful agile managers as they introduce and scale agile methods. Learn what agile managers can do to help their teams and organizations adopt agile development practices to deliver real...
November 04, 2009 - IBM Rational® software has helped thousands of companies worldwide improve their agility with software best practices, tools and services. This evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.
February 20, 2009 - To overcome the challenges of increased customer data, American Airlines deployed SPSS for Windows to replace its mainframe based analytics system, increasing productivity of its customer research team and improving decision making while reducing ongoing costs.
November 12, 2009 - An intriguing triple-play is emerging - the combination of video communications, managed services and unified communications - to create a new approach to inter- and intra-company collaboration and operational excellence.
January 28, 2009 - Analytics Partners choosed to work exclusively with Oracle because of the strength and superiority of its product line, as well as confidence in Oracle's commitment to the emerging and mid-market as well as to its channel partners.
February 25, 2009 - Join William Jewell College and SPSS Inc. to learn how you can be incorporating data mining into your annual fund operations and focusing your limited resources on those most likely to give. This presentation is designed to give you a roadmap for getting started with data mining.
March 04, 2009 - SOA, governance and application development are paramount to the growing application performance validation market. Read this white paper and learn how performance validation solutions evolved from application load testing to currently include enterprise load testing and application performance lifecycle management.
April 25, 2008 - Application development professionals have better platform options to choose from than they might think. In this Forrester Research report, you'll learn about factors you should consider as application platforms evolve, four criteria that application development professionals should examine when selecting application server products, and more...
November 04, 2009 - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
November 05, 2009 - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
November 02, 2009 - Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
September 03, 2009 - In this webcast, learn ways to combat the malicious code of malware and trojans from McAfee's Stuart McClure. Gain insight into how application whitelisting, a means of providing security with less overhead without negative performance impact, can aid your compliance initiatives while not raising operational costs.
October 27, 2009 - This paper examines the concept that preparing for economic recovery is not something that can wait; it is something that businesses should plan for now. It will introduce enterprise application migration strategies that can be considered within any organization and also emphasize the importance of forward thinking and planning in down economy.
September 24, 2009 - The constant growth of data presents businesses with information management headaches and storage concerns. Check out this informative webcast for expert advice on how to choose the right data deduplication solution for your organization's needs.
November 09, 2009 - After comparing several different software- and hardware-based solutions (including biometrics), reviewing industry-trusted research reports (such as Gartner), and talking to existing customers and technical staff of various other vendors, Associated Banc-Corp selected SafeWord for Citrix® a strong authentication solution.
January 28, 2009 - In this Lumension Security audiocast Paul Henry explains why removable media devices are the top security threat, why insiders pose the greatest risk to your information and 5 key steps to safeguarding vital information from loss or theft.
August 25, 2009 - This white paper discusses the current state of authentication and trends that Osterman Research sees as shaping the future of authentication.
September 30, 2009 - Blue Rain commissioned Humanity Online to create an avatar for their character "Marcus OneNote" that could act, react, and interact with visitors to the OneNote Ad and landing page of the community site for OneNote. Read on to learn how avatars are increasing advertising effectiveness.
September 10, 2009 - Read case study to learn how Vonage selected the Five9 Virtual Call Center Suite to launch an ambitious campaign to win back over 70,000 customers. Read on to learn how Five9 Virtual Call Center Suite offers superior-quality VoIP, predictive dialer, inbound call capabilities, comprehensive management and customer tracking tools, and more.
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