The Solvency II Directive was rolled out to protect consumers by promising that insurance companies maintain sufficient funds to meet all claims. Complying with the risk management portion of the initiative can be difficult for insurance companies. This paper details how Unum implemented an operational risk management solution to address this. 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

Following on from the first cycle of research carried out in February 2011, this r e-run of the next generation datacentre research covered 10 regions to identify what progress organisations have made in preparing to adapt to new IT architectures and approaches to computing. 

With new technologies—such as planning and analysis solutions powered by IBM Cognos® software—companies are automating the process, getting faster reports and data that fuel “what is” and “what if” scenarios. Read this paper to learn more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This whitepaper explores new WLAN architectures and deployment models that have emerged which offer more options to help retailers get what they need while sticking to their budgets. 

Despite the progress of the economy, IT budgets are still shrinking on an annual basis. Read this white paper to learn how companies are leveraging the cloud for software development and testing without stretching their budgets. 

This paper details an asset management solution from IBM. This option is designed for the federal government and enables seamless integration and support maintenance of every asset across the enterprise. Read this now and learn how this option can offer complete visibility into every asset, enable elevated risk management and more. 

This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future. 

Technologies such as virtualization and deduplication are getting special attention for their long-term cost saving potential, according to several storage pros on the front lines. Read this e-guide to learn about two organizations’ IT dilemmas and how they are handling them in this tough economic climate.   

When you're planning an upgrade to Windows 7, one major factor is budget planning. This tech brief will discuss the three main - and sometimes overlooked - budget considerations every company should keep in mind: Hardware costs, application compatibility assurance, and deployment costs. 

<p>Despite increased storage budgets, customers are still struggling to manage the proliferation of data. This expert e-guide takes a closer look at the evolving storage landscape and discusses emerging data management tools and predictions for the future.</p> 

Enterprises have successfully controlled their IT budgets and server sprawl issues with the help of virtualization technologies, but what’s next? Increasingly, organizations are turning to storage consolidation for virtualized server environments in order to reduce data center costs and inefficiencies.