Companies should consider investments in time and attendance applications as a low-risk, low-cost way to reduce payroll costs and improve productivity.  Companies that already have time and attendance applications should consider maximizing the breadth of their deployment or extending it to other workforce-related functions. 

On 22 November 2010, Attachmate, a privately held software company based in Houston, announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Waltham, Massachusetts-based technology provider Novell. 

This month's Information Security Magazine Online cover story highlights the importance for an updated security game plan due to the influx of personal smartphones and other computing devices making their way into the enterprise. Also, learn how to focus your SIM solution to avoid information overload and explore FISMA challenges. 

Access this white paper to uncover the benefits of video conferencing in today’s highly mobile business environment. Discover the key-elements that make up a business-grade video conferencing system, how video conferencing adds to collaboration, and the ROI of video conferencing. 

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free! 

In a recently-released State of Software Security featured supplement, Veracode examines the software security posture of public companies and the material risks they face due to the weaknesses in their software applications. This webinar uses Veracode data to examine how public companies manage the risks inherited from software. 

<p>Gaining visibility into your applications is essential to overcoming the challenge of aligning business with IT. Watch this webcast featuring Manger of Global Applications and Architecture from The Hersey Company, Philip Buckley, to learn how Hersey improved their accessible information for manufacturing.</p> 

Companies need to take their customer experience to the next level. This means being more responsive and proactive, delivering consistently on brand promises, listening to customers and acting on that insight. Read on to learn why customer trust is critical to your business and how to successfully build your customer's trust. 

<p><strong>High-tech companies face challenges keeping pace with new</strong> <strong>cloud-based business models, this study from Accenture reveals.</strong></p> 

This paper highlights the results of a study commissioned to derive what business execution practices are actually driving shareholder value. Read this now and learn why companies that aligned its goals, rated users on the achievement of them and leveraged business execution software to increase their execution achieved elevated stock returns. 

The Miami Herald Media Company used the DataFlux data quality and data integration platform to improve and enhance the data that drives its Database Marketing division. 

This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit examines how their practices are evolving and offers examples of data use at some highly successful companies.