Back Office Outsourcing and Investment Reporting - A Guide for Investment Advisors  by Advent Software, Inc

January 01, 2006 - In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors.

Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server - Data Domain Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide  by Data Domain

May 08, 2009 - In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Become a Service Provider CEO. Transform the World. Play Cisco myPlanNet.  by Cisco Systems, Inc.

October 19, 2009 - Cisco myPlanNet 1.0 is a simulation game that puts you into the shoes of a service provider CEO. You manage your business as it evolves from the stone age of dial-up, through the broadband and mobile connected eras, and into the dawning of the medianet age. Play now.

Best Practices and State of the Art Tools for Modern GUI Creation  by Instantiations

February 04, 2009 - GUI building tools allow developers to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run.

Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g  by Oracle Corporation

January 19, 2009 - In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.

Best Practices for Cost Effective Mainframe Management and Upgrading  by BMC Software, Inc

July 17, 2009 - In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications.

Best Practices for Deploying an SAP Landscape Using the c3000 Blade Enclosure and the EVA4400  by Avnet, HP and Partners

September 18, 2008 - Discover best practices for deploying a 250-user/250-GB three-tiered SAP ERP landscape in an HP BladeSystem c3000 blade enclosure with HP ProLiant BL460c blade servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 disk array, and an Ultrium 448c tape blade with HP Data Protector software.

Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing  by Hewlett-Packard Company

April 01, 2007 - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.

Best Practices for SAP Upgrades & Migrations with HP and Novell  by Hewlett-Packard Company

October 02, 2009 - Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.

Best Practices Guide - Intel® Xeon® Edition: VMware Reference Configurations for Midsize Companies  by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation

September 01, 2009 - This white paper proposes a spectrum of reference configurations using Sun servers based on Intel processors, the broad range of Sun storage systems and appliances, and the VMware suite of virtualization products to configure cost-effective information systems for these businesses.

Best Practices: VMware Monitoring with Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005  by Veeam Software

November 10, 2009 - This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff.

Beyond the PCI ‘Check list’ – A Path to Achieve Higher Levels of IT Security and Compliance  by Skybox Security

September 18, 2009 - PCI DSS is an opportunity for security professionals to leverage compliance initiatives to improve security and risk management. The webcast illustrates how organizations must go beyond 'checklist' compliance to improve security and IT efficiency - through automation, prioritization, and focused attention on the most critical issues.

BeyondTrust PowerBroker: Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise  by BeyondTrust Corporation

January 01, 2009 - Businesses must invest in threat control to address security threats and compliance requirements. In this paper, analysts examine a more comprehensive solution designed to close gaps for the enterprise with provable control.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Business Intelligence  by Bitpipe

November 22, 2006 - Business Intelligence systems allow you to uncover, analyze, and forecast the trends that drive your business.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Network Design and Management  by Bitpipe

November 16, 2006 - This research guide will help you select the best Network Design and Management solution for your company. It provides Network Design and Management information on Network Design and Management products.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Storage  by Bitpipe

November 30, 2006 - Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.

Bloor InDetail: Talend Open Studio - an independent analyst review  by Talend

February 10, 2009 - Talend is an open source provider of data integration products or, in traditional parlance, ETL (extract, transform and load), although the product also supports an ELT approach.

Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy  by IBM

December 11, 2008 - In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.

Blue Coat and SAP: Network Infrastructure Enhancements for Successful Enterprise SOA Deployments  by Blue Coat

May 01, 2008 - This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape.

Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure  by Blue Coat

May 14, 2009 - IT organizations like yours are under pressure to deliver fast and responsive applications to users wherever they are. But you also have to protect data, systems and applications from malicious threats to ensure all your users can confidently transact business across your distributed network.

BMC Service Automation: The next step in the evolution of Business Service Management  by BMC Software, Inc

November 03, 2009 - As you know, automation is a critical component in achieving long-term IT savings. We've compiled a few resources to give you an overview of the benefits of service automation and the technology behind our comprehensive solution.

Bridging the Gap Between Change Activity and Change Management: Real Time Accountability and Change Prevention  by McAfee, Inc.

August 17, 2009 - Check out this paper to learn about McAfee Change Control, an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. McAfee Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.

Build Effective and Highly Available Disaster Recovery Solutions Using Microsoft Virtualization  by Microsoft

November 05, 2009 - Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This webcast explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back.

Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture  by Infosys Technologies Limited

September 01, 2008 - We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

Building the Efficient Enterprise with Dell, Intel, and VMware vSphere 4  by Dell, Inc.

September 23, 2009 - With the emergence of standards-based architectures, virtualization, and ubiquitous high-speed connectivity, cloud computing technology is primed to form the basis for a new, highly efficient enterprise IT infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more.

Business Case for IBM Virtualization Solutions: Bottom Line Impact for Enterprise Infrastructures  by IBM

July 09, 2009 - The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure initiative is a combination of programs, products and services designed to improve service to users, reduce costs and more effectively manage risk across all components of organizational IT infrastructures.

Business Intelligence - Now More Than Ever  by SAP BusinessObjects

December 19, 2008 - The goal of this white paper is to explain why business intelligence is a sound investment for any IT manager to make, especially now. Budgets are tighter and demands from executives to see immediate results from IT implementations are increasing. This paper outlines the benefits of a BI solution and its impact on a company. Read on to learn more.

Business Intelligence Standardization  by SAP BusinessObjects

June 19, 2009 - This paper gives an overview of the advantages of implementing business intelligence (BI) standards. Learn how successful organizations have standardized on, and benefited from BI solutions from SAP - and why you should join them.

Business IP Telephony Cost Savings are Driving Unified Communications Beyond the Office Walls  by Sprint

November 13, 2009 - Mobile unified communications can take many forms, but it is essentially defined by the ability to deliver all the communication options of the office desk to workers outside the office. This pocket E-Guide details how to alleviate cost pain points of communications by implementing various aspects of mobile and unified communications.

Business Process Management Best Practices  by PointSource

October 01, 2009 - The roles that business and IT play in BPM are significantly different and understanding those roles is critical to the success of a BPM Solution. This Pocket E-Guide will identify the role each side plays, why the combined roles are important and the effect that implementing a Center of Excellence (COE) plays in the process.

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization with Dell™ Poweredge™ Blade Servers, Dell Equallogic™ Storage, and VMware Infrastructure™  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

May 24, 2009 - This white paper provides an overview of recommended servers, storage, software, and services. It can be used to plan, scope, and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.

Business Ready Virtualization for the Data Center  by Dell, Inc.

June 09, 2009 - Dell is committed to driving the cost and complexity out of virtualization, helping you accelerate adoption and achieve cost savings sooner without sacrificing productivity. Read this solution guide to learn about Dell's Business Ready Virtualization Configurations.

Business Success in a Dark Market: An Inside Look at How the Fraud Underground Operates  by RSA, The Security Division of EMC

September 08, 2009 - The fraud underground is a sophisticated criminal enterprise that operates much like a real-world business. This white paper examines how the fraudster underground operates, the intricate supply chain that supports it, and how it continues to evolve.

Business Value of Sterling Commerce Managed Services for B2B Integration  by Sterling Commerce

September 01, 2009 - Increasing cost controls and unpredictable cost increases are leading many enterprises to rethink how they support their business-to-business (B2B) operations. As a result, many enterprises are choosing to outsource B2B integration by partnering with a managed services provider.

Business-Ready Security: Information Protection Solution  by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

November 25, 2009 - The Information Protection solution automatically discovers, protects, and manages confidential information throughout your organization by integrating with your existing platforms and applications.

Business-Ready Security: Secure Messaging Solution  by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

November 23, 2009 - The Secure Messaging solution enables more secure business communications from virtually any location or device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information.

Buyer's Guide for User Provisioning and Role Management  by Oracle Corporation

April 01, 2009 - Download this informative whitepaper to learn how to leverage identity administration solutions like user provisioning and role management to automate user administration for maximizing and accelerating return-on-investment while enforcing unfragmented, cost-effective compliance and control across your entire IT infrastructure.

Buyer’s Guide for Compliance Solutions  by Oracle Corporation

February 13, 2009 - This document presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA). It then translates these mandates into identity management requirements and challenges; defines and describes the reference model, and applies the reference model to the mandates.

Buyer’s Guide to SIMS and Log Management  by LogRhythm, Inc.

September 09, 2009 - Security information management systems are effective platforms for the collection, analysis and storage of events from a broad range of systems and devoces. This Buyer’s guide will outline the six key criteria that you should look for to get the most relevant data from SIMS.

Buying your BI solution from your ERP vendor: Strategic Business Enabler or IT Convenience?  by IBM

September 30, 2009 - This webcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.