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. 

This is a summary of  Part Two  of Cebr’s report, The Cloud Dividend. The research involved an independent study to quantify the economic benefits of cloud computing to business and to Europe’s five largest economies’ (in alphabetical order, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK). 

Read this white paper and trace the steps to a successful converged network infrastructure. By identifying today's most important IT trend - virtualization - you'll be on your way to implementing HP supported technologies to enhance your virtualized computer networks. 

This brief guide demonstrates sets out to prove why organizations' concerns surrounding the arrival of voluminous amounts of data sets, the inclusion of many more users and the addition of variable data types are vastly over exaggerated. It also offers vast insight on how companies have extended analytics deep into their operations. 

This paper from the Open Group reveals how banks can benefit from combining complementary industry frameworks on enterprise architecture. 

This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. 

Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why. 

<p>Application portfolio management (APM) can help your organization in its quest to trim unwanted applications and modernize its portfolio. Read this paper now and learn about the need for an APM solution, including examples on how it can help your business optimize its IT investments.</p> 

Today’s data centres lack an established system for classifying software management tools, causing many IT pros to struggle with identifying which tools are necessary to ensure secure and efficient data centre operations. This resource divides the realm of data centre management tools into four distinct subsets and provides examples of each. 

This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements. 

See this demo spotlight from IBM Business Partners. View demos on planning, profitability analysis, interactive dashboards and more. Look at real-world examples of how your midsize company can improve performance with IBM Cognos Express.