EaglePicher management turned to Plex Systems of Auburn Hills, MI to help initiate a manufacturing-based ERP system for its manufacturing facilities. Its new lean manufacturing abilities have enabled it to accurately determine cost and profitability by part, allowing it to become increasingly competitive, especially against offshore competitors. 

Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting. 

IT audit is about the formal verification and validation of the quality and effectiveness of ITcontrols to support the overall business control objectives. From a security controlperspective the residual IT security risks are relatively well understood in a networkperimeter protected environment. 

This paper examines the numerous ways that syslog messages can be used to enhance the secure deployment of an infrastructure of equipment from Cisco®. Syslog can not only be an essential auditing tool for network and administrative events, but also can be an effective troubleshooting tool. 

Ensuring your warehouse management software (WMS) allows for adaptability and control is pivotal. If your current system does not allow for this, it could be time for an upgrade. In this tip guide, you will learn best practices for determining the return on investment (ROI) of a WMS upgrade, tips for customizing your WMS and building a process. 

This paper offers information on rapidly developing a cross-channel strategy that reflects current customer trends and priorities, assesses a company’s Channel Capability Maturity, and helps to determine optimal future maturity needed to support the channel strategy. 

Like the idea of cloud computing but seek a provider that supports the applications you already have? How can you be sure you get the needed security with an external cloud? Learn how IT organizations can extend their virtualized environment to the secure Enterprise Cloud to improve business agility, ensure security and manage costs. 

This chapter download, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, provides an introduction to Hyper-V, highlighting information essential for building your own small environment using only native Windows software. 

The federal government’s push for electronic healthcare records has made compliance and data security even more pressing. This e-guide offers a look at where healthcare IT leaders should begin, and what they should watch out for as they move to embrace the HITECH Act, HIPAA and other initiatives. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

In this edition of The Exchange Insider, explore the next steps for your email messaging platform with the following Exchange topics: Evaluating Office 365, auditing Exchange 2010 and troubleshooting virtualized Exchange Servers. 

This white paper describes an improved method for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies.