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What is a PLC? How many PLCs is your bottom line depending on? Do you have an up to date list of all PLC model types, part availability, program copies, and details for your company? Do you have at least one trained person per shift, to maintain and troubleshoot your plant PLCs? Does your maintenance personnel work with PLCs following written company or corporate policy, and procedures?
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In a PDF file, and this is doubly true for LiveCycle forms, all the fancy features (and some of the ordinary ones) are implemented with custom scripts. The most popular way to acquire these fancy features for your own PDFs is to copy a script from another PDF. If you see a PDF with something you like, or someone publishes a script in a forum or an article, you just copy the script, paste it into your PDF, and you’re off to the races. No pain, no sweat, just instant success.
Unhappily, it ...
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Discover the power of e-learning! RFID systems for pharmaceutical distributors to meet the new FDA regulations on drugs.
Abstract : The US FDA has decided to implement the “Pedigree provisions” of the Prescription Drugs Marketing Act after December 2006, when the current stay on it expires. There is a lot of concern that many pharma supply chain participants, may not be able to meet this deadline and hence risk non compliance with the provisions of the act. This White Paper attempts to present ...
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Despite tremendous advances in electronic forms technologies, forms remain mostly inaccessible to the vast majority of people who use assistive technologies. This paper will introduce you to some of the problems and offer insights into what may well be the most powerful and cost effective accessible forms solution available today.
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One of the biggest issues that PDF newcomers face is understanding the relationship between Acrobat, PDF, and scripts. It’s not just you, this really is a confusing issue. It turns out that scripting is unbelievably useful for all kinds of stuff. Since its introduction in Acrobat 3, Adobe has continued to find new ways to use scripts in the Acrobat/PDF environment, stuffing them into the most unlikely places.
Copying functionality from a sample PDF to your own document almost always means ...
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A PDF Document is a many layered thing, that is, it has many layers of abstraction. You can look at one from many different perspectives, each with its' own advantages and disadvantages. At the lowest level, the PDF File contains the raw document data. Next up, the COS Layer organizes this data into a tree of simple objects. At the PD layer, these simple objects are put together to implement useful intermediate level structures like Fonts and Images. These are in turn organized into higher ...
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Intelligence Emerges from Enterprise Education Platform
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The purpose of this whitepaper is to look at the; revenue, cost and customer service benefits of a web based client support, knowledge, and /or return handling system, such as are provided with FrontLines Returns or FrontLines Global Support. As well, the discussion will include how clients can be won through effective client, distributor, and partner support.
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The role of the corporate librarian is changing. With the dependence that organizations have built on information, there is also a paradoxical shift in how employees find information. The role of the corporate librarian has moved from one of knowledge expert, to one of controlling budgets and negotiating the purchase and management of various information sources.
At the same time, organizations are becoming more and more global, employees are working remotely, and resources are moving toward ...
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The job of compensation teams and other HR professionals has become considerably more difficult, and that trend will apparently continue for the foreseeable future. Simply stated, how do you effectively attract, motivate, reward and retain key talent when (according to a March 2009 Human Capital Institute Study entitled “Where We Stand …”) 60% of 300+ companies surveyed have frozen or reduced salaries, 40% are cutting jobs, 1 out of 5 will be laying off entire departments or divisions, and ...
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Consumer electronics and applications are proliferating in corporate IT environments, significantly increasing the threat of lost and stolen data. Personal devices such as Smartphones and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) are now commonly brought to work and used for business purposes.
This consumerization of corporate IT is predicted to accelerate in coming years1 as Digital Natives2 - those raised playing computer games - penetrate corporate ranks. This generation not only has a great ...
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! 70% of porn is downloaded between 9am and 5pm SexTracker ! The number of hacking sites grew 45% in the past year Websense Survey ! 1 in 3 companies have detected spyware on their network UK Survey ! 80% of network security managers claim their biggest security threat comes from their own employees Gartner ! 5 billion music files were downloaded from P2P networks - Yankee group
17th August 2001, Perth, Western Australia:
Figures recently released by The Computer Security Institute (CSI) ...
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Universities, private and public colleges, research facilities, and other higher education institutions share many of the same challenges as private sector businesses, especially the challenge of doing more with fewer resources. Educational institutions need to find creative and effective ways to control costs, work within budget constraints and meet the diverse needs of an active campus. The ability to plan, manage and monitor the productivity, performance and costs associated with creating a ...
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Industry initiatives to improve the customer experience and drive out cost from account opening and maintenance are still at a relatively early stage. Specifically, incorporating an easy to use EBAM standard to streamline these activities is lagging. But there is plentiful pent-up demand among corporate treasurers to streamline these processes and add new channels by which they can engage their banking provider. Banks that move quickly to build EBAM capability while aligning themselves with ...
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As most businesses are well aware, the proliferation of wireless devices has resulted in both significant benefits and major struggles. Managing these services is challenging due to the multitude of choices available. With the evolution of cellular technology, we have migrated from phones the size of bowling bags to, more recently, multimedia devices not much larger than a credit card! Our goal in this whitepaper is to review the evolution of the wireless industry, define what makes these ...
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Over the past decade, seven best practices studies in the arena of HR development have documented the growing professionalism of corporate efforts in leadership development. In APQC's most recent study, we found fewer new concepts and tools but much more alignment and consistent use of the basics than we saw in previous projects. The distinctive quality of our best‐practice partners was more in their mastery of the basics than in their discovery of truly new tools or practices. We hope that ...
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Report Mining An Easier Way to Access Corporate Information
A Datawa tch W hite Pape r — © Copyright 2007 , Datawatc h Corporation
HARDCOPY REPORTS Pros: · An existing informational asset: no new programming work required · Very easy to re-produce anytime Cons: · Enormous waste of paper · Seemingly no way to interactively work with the data · Incurs many costs beyond paper, including storage costs, manhours lost re- keying data from reports into spreadsheets, etc · Even delivering “softcopy” ...
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With corporate desktop customers indicating they expect to increase their spending allocations during the next year, the OEMs are preparing next-generation solutions to match the mood of optimism. Customer experiences with renewed offerings will establish a new set of expectations for Dell, HP and Lenovo. Mid-2010 will be a critical time for this customer satisfaction and loyalty competition.
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Optimal Storage Virtualization The Key to Effective Information Management
The term “storage virtualization” has been around for awhile, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualiza- tion actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic.
This paper is directed toward all levels of IT professionals—anyone who is interested in ...
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EMC and Microsoft® have a unique, multi-level executive relationship and a global, customer-centric alliance that is committed to helping our mutual customers achieve a faster return on their IT investments with lower risk and improved access to information across their Microsoft application environments. EMC and Microsoft are working together to create comprehensive solutions for enterprise content management that leverages the power of EMC® My Documentum® and the Documentum Content Server to ...
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Internet Monitoring Versus Web Filtering
If you want to block employees from accessing web sites and/or record the names of the web sites they visit, then a filtering software solution is appropriate for you.
Caution: Many businesses think filtering software is their Internet
monitoring solution. They think if they block access to certain web sites or certain types of web sites, they have solved all the problems associated with Internet Abuse. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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IBM Cognos 8 BI is a single, integrated, enterprise-class Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) product constructed around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The integrated nature of the platform simplifies deployment and increases visibility of key elements of performance management within the application environment and, as a result, within the organisations. It provides ad hoc query, reporting, dashboarding, analytics, scorecarding, event management, and ...
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An Internet Acceptable Use Policy (IAUP)... also known as an Acceptable Use Policy or Use Policy ... is a written, legally binding agreement that is signed by employees with the intent of identifying the permissible workplace uses of the Internet.
An IAUP should specifically set out prohibited uses, rules of online behavior, and access privileges. Penalties for violations of the policy, including security violations and vandalism of the system, should also be covered. Anyone using a company’s ...
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If a company is considering the purchase of software to conduct a focused investigation of an employee suspected of unethical or illegal activity using company PCs and the Internet, it will benefit by first reviewing the advantages of centrally managed, company-wide monitoring. This monitoring philosophy is becoming the norm for many companies of all sizes worldwide because properly implemented, such a plan increases productivity, minimizes liability, plus the industry’s leading software is ...
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In business, a common misconception is that it is nearly impossible to accurately measure workforce productivity outside of revenue and profit analysis. In addition, it is often the case that when a company is performing well, an acceptable level of productivity is assumed, and spending money to more closely determine productivity rates becomes less of a concern. But to remain competitive and maximize revenue and profit in today’s global economy -- where China, India, and the Baltic States ...
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Why is it So Hard to Make Content Management Easy?
10 Mistakes that Cause CMS Initiatives to Fail — and What You Can Do to Avoid Them
By Steve Van Lieshout & Jignesh Jain Niteo Partners, an NEC Company
10 MISTAKES THAT CAUSE CONTENT MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES TO FAIL
The explosive growth in corporate Websites, document systems and enterprise portals has been acompanied by an even greater growth in the content packed into those assets. As companies scramble to get a handle on this rapidly ...
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While some of the more recent trends have likely been a function of reduced spending on newer notebook systems, the more far-reaching effects of a long-term lack of enthusiasm with notebook innovation suggest that customers are disappointed with the leading OEMs offerings.
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The Reality of Native Format Production and Redaction
By Christine Musil Director of Marketing Informative Graphics Corporation
The issue of production format in eDiscovery has long been discussed, argued and downright misunderstood. Historically, attorneys produced documents in paper form or electronically in TIFF or Adobe® PDF format. Even documents that origi- nated electronically were often either printed and re-scanned or batch-converted to TIFF or PDF. The December 1, 2006 amendments to ...
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From mid-2007 through the end of 2008, the general pattern of satisfaction with server management tools, as measured by TBR’s study panel, showed a general increase in the customer experience. Beginning in 2Q09, satisfaction levels have declined at accelerating rates, reaching precipitous levels of decline by late 2009 and into early 2010. None of the OEMs have been immune to this trend.
Customer experiences with renewed offerings will establish a new set of expectations for Dell, HP and ...
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Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) CASE STUDY: Education
Too many SSL Certificates, Not Enough Time
Large, thriving enterprises have more sensitive information on their computers than ever before. Customers and regulations require that the information be simultaneously accessible and secure.
To control information, enterprises use SSL certificates to encrypt data. For small organizations, users or user groups can administer their own certificates. Larger organizations, however, find that with ...
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NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY STREAMLINES BACKUPS WITH QUALSTAR'S XLS ENTERPRISE LIBRARY SYSTEM
Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona University (NAU) has built a strong reputation in education that now encompasses roughly 20,000 students at its main campus, its 35 sites throughout the state and its growing curriculum of online education offerings. With a firm commitment to student success, NAU offers strong undergraduate, graduate and research programs that extend from forest health to ...
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The ongoing war between humans and disease takes place in medical research laboratories where the analysis of enormous quantities of data means the difference between continued suffering and a long-awaited cure.
Rated among the top 10 US medical schools in the country by US News and World Report Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, is one of the main battlefields in this war. It is the only private medical school in the Southwest, and is recognized nationally for excellence in ...
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Whether you are a manufacturer, a fabricator, a food processor, or even a raw materials provider, there is a good possibility that you either already are, or soon will be, required to provide product traceability information to your customers. Product liability and risk management are now a corporate reality spreading rapidly across industries.
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Unless real results are achieved, all the planning, process development and technology investments that go into a major corporate initiative may be wasted. That’s where enterprise planning comes in. By combining target-setting, planning, measurement, analysis and forecasting, IBM Cognos® enterprise planning can achieve dramatic results and improve the operation of any organization.
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HP and Oracle have recently announced the HP Oracle We assume in this paper that the reader is familiar with Database Machine. This has been positioned by Oracle as a Oracle database technology (10g, 11g et al) as we will not be competitor to Netezza and in this paper we examine the discussing this in any detail. We do not make that extent to which this is true and, if it is, where and when it assumption with respect to Netezza but, nevertheless, we might make sense to use the HP Oracle ...
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New research from Aberdeen Group validates what many business and IT lead- ers have discovered for themselves: accel- erating process improvement efforts through business process management (BPM) is yielding significant returns as or- ganizations continue to grapple with the unstable global economy. The new report, called BPM Accelerated: Slashing Cost and Time with Agile Business Processes, uses Aberdeen's methodology of “Best-in- Class,” “Industry Average” and “Laggard” to show that ...
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A business process management (bpm) center of Excellence (coE) helps accelerate bpm implementations while avoiding past mistakes by centrally coordinating and leveraging the core functions of skills, governance, artifact repository and bpm community. however, establishing a coE need not be a huge initial undertaking. For example, an informal coE with only the key roles populated can emerge concurrently with an initial bpm project, and then gradually build to include the full set of skills and ...
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Business process management (BPM) has been a critical part of the enterprise technology market for over three decades.
Traditional on-premise BPM has helped organizations respond to business challenges, support key business processes, and generate competitive advantages through execution. As business processes change, it is imperative that BPM transforms accordingly.
A successful contemporary BPM suite should be able to provide end-to-end support and customization for processes, many of ...
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For a single business intelligence solution to fulfill the full promise of BI, it must access all pertinent performance data, regardless of platform, and deliver the resulting information and analysis to all appropriate users, regardless of location. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence achieves this. It can access virtually any corporate data source. And it provides detailed, understandable views of that data for all users, from executives to analysts to casual BI users, with innovative tools ...
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TUPPERWARE BOOSTS BACKUP SPEED AND RELIABILITY WITH QUALSTAR'S COST EFFECTIVE XLS TAPE LIBRARY
Bill Slaughter IT Architect, Tupperware Brands Corporation
While the word “Tupperware” might naturally bring to mind one of the company's popular air and liquid tight plastic food containers, Tupperware Brands Corporation has evolved significantly since it's early start in the post-World War II boom. Today, the Orlando- based company boasts an independent sales force of 2.3 million who now offer ...
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Virtualization introduces significant new challenges and opportunities for managing and automating configuration, change, and compliance processes within IT. This white paper describes best practices for making changes to your IT processes and implementing compliance and change management tools to take advantage of virtualization. It also provides guidance on using EMC® Ionix™ and VMware vCenter solutions to support these best practices. October 2009
Copyright © 2009 EMC Corporation. All ...
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EMC Data Domain Boost for Symantec NetBackup and NetBackup Storage Unit Group Failover
Abstract Service interruptions that result in failed or suspended backups can be detrimental in a backup environment. However, many commercially available backup applications are designed to accommodate service interruptions and can automate failover using policy-based algorithms. This white paper explores how to leverage Storage Unit Group failover to achieve N+1 redundancy when using EMC® Data Domain® ...
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Below is TBR’s commentary on the 1Q10 performance of Unisys Corporation (UIS). Please feel free to use the below content, or call/email for additional commentary.
OUT OF THE FIRE AND INTO THE FRYING PAN! Revenue continues to suffer but a reversal of fortune may be in sight. While overall demand for IT services appears to be improving in United States, Unisys suffered a setback in 1Q10 as revenue declined following three consecutive quarters of growth. However, profit rose four-fold, as the ...
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Business Intelligence (BI) and its supporting infrastructure have undergone a significant evolution in the past 15 years. BI began as a nice-to-have strategic and tactical decision-making environment, used by analysts who had little or no interaction with the day-to-day business transaction (BTx) systems. These analysts performed trend analysis, determined patterns of behavior, carried out comparisons from one time period to another, and executed other similar forms of BI in their own isolated ...
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An often overlooked challenge of increasingly complex business applications is the impact on data entry requirements. Without the timely and accurate input of data, the value and integrity of any business application decreases dramatically. These applications include sup- ply chain management, inventory management, purchasing, quality systems, process control, shop floor control, manufacturing execution shipping/distribution, warehouse management, maintenance management, etc. There are many ...
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Managing IT Resourses in Educational Institute
Whether we like it or not, computers and the Internet have become a part of our life and are now widely used at school, libraries, homes, work,...
Internet access to students is becoming an essential part of the learning environment. In addition, it also brings the serious problem of inappropriate content on the Internet.
The Internet is like a vast playground, with a lot of potential for fun and enrichment, but also potential for problems. It ...
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Password practices that improve security are by their nature burdensome to the user. Industry analysts find that 30% of all IT help desk calls are about password issues, at a cost averaging $30 to $60 per call. The solution that has evolved for this problem is called the Self-service Password Reset. The white paper below describes the common benefits and must-have features of the self-service password management solutions available on the market today.
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On the one hand, account lockouts provide a good base for implementing secure password policies. On the other hand, they cause a lot of burden to the IT help desk. The white paper covers the account lockout management process and introduces new cost-effective workflows of account lockout resolution, describing what significant ROI enterprises can achieve through the use of the automated management solutions.
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As manufacturers and distributors come under rising pressure for faster fulfillment of product orders and outstanding customer service, they increasingly ask the question, “Would a warehouse management system1 (WMS) help us better manage and automate our warehouse and fulfillment operations?” Often, they are finding that a WMS would, indeed, provide the benefits they seek. Your company may be coming to the same conclusion.
As you begin to examine the various WMS offerings, you encounter the ...
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By Christine Musil Director of Marketing Informative Graphics Corp.
How to Properly Redact Documents IGC White Paper
Electronic redaction is a relatively simple process. Why then, have so many agencies and companies—including Whole Foods, SCO, the U.S. military (repeatedly), law firms and, most recently, Facebook—released improperly redacted documents that landed them in scandalous headlines?
Improper redaction is any attempt at blocking sensitive content using a method that only blocks the ...
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In the sixty-plus years since business computing began, there have been two major trends: first there was mainframe computing, followed by client-server. Now we have a new paradigm. Cloud computing is the third generation IT model and the next phase in the evolution of distributed computing and the data center.
Whatever the model, IT departments have always been challenged to quickly and cost-effectively deliver IT resources to support user applications. Client-server architecture greatly ...
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Cloud computing has the potential to become a major tool for scientists and engineers to access high performance computing resources. In fact, it is becoming an important tool that enables efficient high performance computing while reducing the associated cost of building dedicated high performance computing systems. New developments are driving this evolution of computing resourses across many application segments. In the paper we demonstrate the concept of High Performance Computing in a ...
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The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today’s economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this environment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up-and-coming management is very worthwhile. This document provides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), ...
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The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today’s economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this envi- ronment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up- and-coming management is very worthwhile. This document pro- vides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture ...
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It is a performance-driven world. Customers demand it. Shareholders demand it. Business analysts demand it. Company executives demand it. Managers demand it. There is no question that lack of performance has serious ramifications. As competitive pressures escalate, costs of doing business increase, regulatory requirements become more stringent, and expectations for doing more with less become standard business mantra. Successful companies cannot afford to underperform.
In a world obsessed with ...
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The idea that Telecom Providers need to offer business clients higher value, industry-specific “solutions” to succeed in competitive and commoditized communications markets is not novel. Telecom Providers know this. Traditional carriers, wireless and Internet service providers, independent solution vendors, virtual network operators and other resellers of telecom products and services have been working for years to combine voice, data, and Internet connectivity services with differentiated ...
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Managing the books in any company is increasingly challenging in the face of GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The complexity increases for entrepreneurs who start and manage multiple companies, and for growing businesses that include subsidiaries in other countries. But the challenge in managing several separate entities isn't just in closing the books — it is also in the everyday issues of managing a diverse sales force, with forecasts, quotes, ...
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Security is at the top of the corporate agenda and at the heart of agency missions. The impact of effective security on brand protection, corporate governance, accountability to shareholders is measured in good will and dollars spent to repair damages. The drive to “be secure” is a mandate for doing business today. Most organizations can look back to 2005 and attest to the improvements made: policy and process maturity, staff development and education and awareness of all employees. Today ...
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Enrollment management, as a concept for higher education, is just barely into its second generation. Around 1975-1980, the higher education industry projected a decline in high school graduation cohorts, meaning fewer students of traditional college age would enroll in postsecondary education. Colleges scrambled to find ways to fill seats, meet revenue and budget expectations, and remain viable.
Higher education was, and remains, concerned with rising energy costs and inflation, increased ...
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There are lots of consultative sales methods around. You may have been trained in one, or read a book about one, that you particularly like.
Each has its unique strengths and techniques. But they all have at least one thing in common. They try to get sales people to focus on what matters to the customer. You build sales momentum by demonstrating that you are delivering an important solution to an important problem. That is the essence of all these consultative methodologies.
To be able ...
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Determining which eLearning solution is the right fit for your organization starts with an assessment of learning program requirements. A traditional learning management system (LMS) is a substantial investment that provides sophisticated but complex learning features to an organization – including delivering, tracking, and managing training. The traditional LMS offers “asynchronous” or on-demand capabilities, allowing participants to take courses at the time of their choosing.
While an LMS ...
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By using proposal automation software, you create consistent winning proposals in minutes. If you're thinking about automating your proposal process, here are ten critical success keys you should keep in mind. If you're not thinking about it...well, maybe you should.
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In today's economy, sales people have to write more proposals, and better proposals, than ever before. As the industry has become more competitive and complex, customers have become both more confused and more demanding. As a result, they are likely to listen to a presentation, nod their heads, and mutter those dreaded words, "Sounds good! Why don't you put that in writing for me?"
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As organizations today drive to make business intelligence more operational, they are extending access to business intelligence analytics and data across the enterprise – to front-line staff, partners and customers – in addition to more traditional data warehouse users. The goal is to integrate business intelligence analytics within business processes to improve intraday decision making. As a result, data warehouse environments are increasingly called upon to support hundreds or even thousands ...
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In 2004, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), launched a comprehensive effort to improve care on hospital medical-surgical units. Through an initiative, called Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), IHI and RWJF created a framework for change built around improvements in four main categories: Safety and reliability Care team vitality Patient-centeredness Increased value As the most highly trained professionals regularly ...
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Arguably, contact centers measure themselves in more ways than virtually any other group. Every day, they assess their operational performance against a broad range of objectives. The results of these measurements can pave the way for continual performance improvements in diverse areas from customer service quality to agent efficiency – even to overall operational efficiency.
And, every day, customers call in to contact centers. They call with problems and questions, they call because they ...
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For the past 30 years, managers have implemented technologies and processes aimed at reducing contact center costs and improving the customer experience. From the earliest Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) systems to the dialer to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, managers have worked in earnest to improve efficiency.
The result of these efforts has been a shift in contact center costs. At one point in time, the larger cost buckets of labor, telephony, and infrastructure were ...
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Standardizing business intelligence tools across an entire organization has obvious benefits in terms of simplification and cost-savings. But for standardization to be truly effective, it must revolve around the right solution, one that addresses the organization’s exact business intelligence (BI) needs at a relatively low total cost. IBM Cognos® products— from IBM Cognos ReportNet for enterprise reporting to IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for complete BI capabilities— have a proven record ...
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Cerner and Interoperability: Expertise from the inside out Our perspective on building a better-connected world
Notice: What you are about to read is not a standard white paper. It is not an academic dissertation written from 10,000 feet. Instead, HIMSS has given us an opportunity to share some success stories, and explain some of the connectivity strategies that Cerner has followed with our client partners on the path toward interoperability. And while we’re gratified by our collective ...
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Simplified Storage Provisioning and Management for VMware Environments
Shared storage in virtual server environments provides a wealth of benefits, but provisioning and managing this storage can become complex and time-consum- ing as the virtual infrastructure grows. Xiotech’s ICON Manager interface with Virtual View eliminates the complexity and guesswork from this process.
This paper is intended for IT professionals with at least a basic understanding of storage provisioning with VMware ESX ...
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When you purchase capacity for your data storage system, you may expect to use the entire amount. Unfortunatly, this is not usually the case. Usable capacity is limited by a number of factors—from the common use of RAID to the practice of vendors holding back capacity for better performance or to enable certain storage system features. This paper looks at several of those factors and how they contribute to the true cost of storage.
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A substantial number of businesses are adopting online payment systems in order to improve cash flow and save time by reducing paperwork. Read this whitepaper to understand some of the benefits of this sort of collections method.
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The business value of reporting is simple: it communicates and helps you understand your company’s performance. It leads you to take action on recent information. It creates a common context for decision-making across every department and at every level. At its best, reporting is an integral part of performance management. IT departments can be challenged in delivering these simple values to a wide variety of users with different needs, and from a wide variety of different data sources. The ...
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Key strategies for measuring the true value of storage solutions
In today’s challenging economic climate, it is of utmost importance that you get the best value from everything you buy. To help you make an informed decision when considering various storage solutions, Xiotech has developed the Storage Value Index, which takes into account not only purchase price, but actual usable capacity, performance efficiency, and operating expenses.
This paper describes the methodology used to design the ...
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This white paper presents detailed information regarding the compliance options and features offered by EMC Centera, the differences between the Governance Edition and Compliance Edition Plus models, as well as a comprehensive view of the more advanced retention management capabilities: Event Based Retention, Litigation Hold, and Min/Max Governor. Finally, it provides a summary of the remote management options available per model, and references to sources of additional information.
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High-level abstraction is the key
Time is money, and today’s IT organizations have less of both. Even so, the explosion of customer-facing applications and the high expectations of technically savvy customers leave them no choice. They must give partners and customers instant access to high-demand information and services. And they must somehow do so with the existing skills of their dwindling staffs.
There’s also a significant technical challenge: The majority of business logic and data ...
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The process of implementing a new enterprise resource of minute detail to be addressed during this process, it is planning (ERP) solution is challenging, sending your all too easy to lose sight of the larger goals of a successful organization down a long road of beneficial, although systems implementation and a positive organizational sometimes demanding, change. The good news is, if it is change. The key to doing it“right”is staying focused on done right, you’ll gain lasting benefits for your ...
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The purpose of this white paper is to provide the reader with general guidance for some common use cases and to describe the capabilities of the VMware integration within ControlCenter. The reader should come away with an understanding of what is possible within ControlCenter and how to benefit from this integration within their data center. The following high-level topics will be covered: • Installation of the ControlCenter VMware agent and discovery of the ESX servers • Allocation of storage ...
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StorageScope 6.0 has been significantly redesigned and enhanced from previous releases. It now provides a more flexible range of reporting options, including standard, predefined views and reports for the novice user, as well as fully customizable reports and open access to the StorageScope Repository for expert users. This white paper provides examples of the various features and functionality that are new for StorageScope 6.0. It also provides a practical example of utilizing Query Builder ...
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TCO is always an important consideration when you are looking to buy a storage system, but it is even more critical in challenging economic times. When determining a potential storage system's TCO, you must include both capital and operating expenditures, some which are easy to calculate and others which are less obvious. Xiotech has identified five targets to help you calculate storage TCO and lower your storage costs.
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Cost Savings In Digital Video Archive Systems
By Christopher A. Stone, Brillig Consulting
The Problem Legacy analog video archives are no longer cost-effective. Limited access, inefficient and expensive duplication and real-time operation can no longer be tolerated. Digital Video Archive Systems (VAS) leverage the latest storage technologies to address legacy archive shortcomings. This white paper explains the dramatic savings in money, time and resources that implementing a Qualstar VAS can ...
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The IBM Cognos® 8 platform meets all the criteria needed to effectively enable enterprise-scale business intelligence: It considers the diverse information needs of all users; it keeps maintenance costs down, and it leverages existing assets without duplicating existing infrastructure. Backed by an industry leader and featuring an open data strategy, the IBM Cognos 8 platform provides an ideal foundation to easily deploy, use, and integrate a BI solution.
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As television and broadcast facilities change over to digital broadcasting the need for a digital video archive becomes apparent. Data rates for video are increasing dramatically as more stations move towards broadcasting in Digital Video 25 standard definition (DV25 SD) and High Definition (HD). Many studio cameras no longer have tape cartridges in them, instead they use 1394 fire wire for a direct connection or store recorded video on a hard disk, flash memory or optical media. Many stations ...
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While relational databases have become critically important in business applications and web services, they have played a relatively minor role in scientific computing, which has generally been concerned with modeling and simulation activities. However, massively parallel database architectures are beginning to offer the ability to quickly search through terabytes of data with hundred-fold or even thousand-fold speedup over server-based architectures. These new machines may enable an entirely ...
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Traditionally, companies looked to a single vendor for complete integrated network solutions to keep their systems up and running. Companies believed that limiting the number of technology vendors whose products sit in their network infrastructure would simplify installation, management and support as well as reduce the potential for finger-pointing.
However, in recent years, CIOs have developed an intuitive understanding that adopting a best-of- breed approach provides their business a far ...
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Accelerating the Path to Demand Intelligence with a Demand Signal Repository
WHITE PAPER Sponsored by: Netezza and Market6
Demand intelligence is about leveraging data/information for more efficient and effective business decision making. Utilizing demand intelligence improves the precision of pricing, product assortments, channel/store placement, and promotion, which are all essential for sustainable revenue management performance.
The benefits of demand intelligence are magnified when used ...
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While the macroeconomic outlook may remain challenging, digital signage providers face a wide range of market opportunities. These opportunities arise from a variety of factors, including the falling price of flat-panel displays and the proven business value of communicating in a visually compelling way with customers and other target audiences on-site in real time.
Signage providers tend to be quite diligent about selecting the right playout management systems and display devices for their ...
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In today’s world, every company is attempting to do more while minimizing investments in new technology. This is known as the “do more with less” principal. Virtualization is the vehicle that many companies have adopted as the leading strategy for achieving this goal. Virtualization has many forms, but the primary forms used by companies are Server Virtualization and Storage Virtualization.
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This report documents ESG Lab hands-on testing of Emulex OneConnect Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) and explores how a converged infrastructure can enable users to realign traditional technology silos into adaptive pools that can be shared, optimized and managed as a service.
Organizations are in the process of transforming their data centers into environments that are able to better handle rapidly changing business requirements and unanticipated ...
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Table of contents 1 The current situation 3 What firms need to do 4 Adobe solutions for account enrollment 8 The bottom line
Improving account enrollment processes to increase customer loyalty
Whenever a customer opens a consumer or commercial account at a bank or a brokerage house, the company has an excellent opportunity to cross-sell and upsell additional products and services to increase share of wallet. However, most financial institutions are not currently able to benefit from this ...
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Today’s I.T helpdesk serves a complex and varied set of responsibilities. Helpdesk technicians are expected to address issues ranging from simple tasks such as showing users how to format documents in Microsoft Word to solving involved SAP reporting issues. Many helpdesks are setup as the “single and first point of contact” for all internal customer service issues. This presents a growing challenge on how to both utilize your helpdesk staff in the best way and how to employ technology to make ...
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Moving to the Cloud Important Things to Consider Before Migrating Your Messaging Infrastructure to the Cloud Fallback MTA External
App Mail Backbone Corporate GUI Server Mail SMD Master Backbone
Overview Over the past several years“cloud computing”has been a hot topic on the minds of most IT executives because of the potential benefits cloud computing promises to deliver to enterprise organizations.The promises of: • Lower costs • Increased storage • Higher automation (fewer IT personnel) • ...
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Productivity gains through continuous process improvement can contribute to profitability by supporting both revenue growth and cost reduction. In this context, leading organizations increasingly emphasize continuous process improvement through “data driven decision-making” to achieve these benefits.
This white paper focuses on three specific management systems at the core of process optimization initiatives, each with their own jargon, methodologies and tools:
-Key Performance Indicators ...
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Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) enables carriers to deliver more services over their existing optical fiber infrastructure by combining multiple wavelengths on a single fiber. Each service is carried over a separate wavelength, thus increasing the capacity of the fiber by the number of wavelengths transmitted. Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) are both mature WDM technologies, using standardized ITU-T wavelengths. CWDM and ...
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