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Governance, Risk and Compliance for Life Sciences Companies by SAP America, Inc. November 01, 2008 - (Free Research) To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Insurance by DataFlux Corporation November 02, 2009 - (Free Research) Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Nota Fiscal Compliance in Brazil : On Demand Service Lowers Risk and Costs by Crossgate February 23, 2010 - (Free Research) According to a new law, Brazilian companies must now comply with Nota Fiscal Eletronica (NF-e). This will gradually replace hard-copy nota fiscals with an electronic counterpart. Since most systems were not designed for such extensive regulation, many companies find it best to leverage a service provider to manage this as an outsourced service.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Manufacturing by DataFlux Corporation November 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Control and Compliance Considerations for Client Application Virtualization  by InstallFree Inc. February 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Application virtualization technology is an important IT strategy to consider for Windows 7 migration.  This virtualization approach offers a better balance of central IT control and user flexibility. This paper outlines virtualization control and compliance considerations for OS migration, discovery, change control, and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP America, Inc. May 01, 2008 - (Free Research) In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Working Smart in IT Operations: The Case for Consolidated Operations by Hewlett-Packard Company October 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Reconciliation: A Practical Guide for Asset Managers by Advent Software, Inc July 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed.  (WHITE PAPER)

Visibility and Control with Proxy Appliances by Blue Coat December 2007 - (Free Research) This paper explores a high-performance solution that can provide total visibility and control of all network users during Web-based communications with zero impact on firewall operations and network bandwidth.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Top Five SIM Pitfalls: Ensuring Successful Security Information Management by SecureWorks June 2009 - (Free Research) This paper was designed to help Security, IT and Compliance professionals in deploying Security Information Management (SIM) tools. It explores the pitfalls that have led to failed projects for other and provides organizations in need of SIM with guidance for ensuring a successful SIM Project.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset by SAP America, Inc. January 2007 - (Free Research) Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc. January 2009 - (Free Research) the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Role Based Access Governance and HIPAA Compliance: A Pragmatic Approach by Aveksa July 2009 - (Free Research) Forward thinking organizations should use the passage of HITECH as an opportunity to take a more risk oriented approach by implementing an access governance framework and modernizing patient information in electronic health records (EHR). Read on to learn about utilizing role based access governance to proactively insure HIPAA compliance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Automating Data Flows to Your Business Intelligence System by Tidal Software December 2009 - (Free Research) This paper discusses Bad data, or data that is not current, has another, broader impact in leading to distrust of the system. And when the BI system cannot be fully relied on, its uses rapidly become limited. Read on to learn how to achieve trustworthy BI with complete, in-depth visibility and full control over the fragile dataflow processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

From Development to Production: Streamlining SharePoint Deployment with DocAve® Deployment Manager by AvePoint, Inc. June 2009 - (Free Research) This document examines the capabilities of DocAve Deployment Manager and offers tips and guidance to help streamline the SharePoint deployment process while maintaining the integrity of all SharePoint staging instances.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Efficiency and Cost Control in Managing Network and Application Management by Fluke Networks June 2009 - (Free Research) Read industry analyst Enterprise Management Associate's white paper and you'll learn key strategies to make the transition from reactive to proactive operations, how taking a "lifecycle approach" reduces costs and improves performance, and how to reduce "time to repair", prevent problems and optimize your existing infrastructure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

DAM 2.0: Collaboration & Project Management Control: Learn how digital asset management has evolved to address the needs of today’s sophisticated workflows. by Canto Software Inc. March 2010 - (Free Research) Learn how digital asset management (DAM) has evolved to address the needs of today’s complex workflows. DAM must support the needs of organizations that collaborate on project development. Read this paper to find out how Canto enables companies to easily organize, find, share and track their ever-increasing numbers of digital files, in any format.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Expanding Requirements of DLP Featuring Forrester’s Andrew Jaquith by CA March 2010 - (Free Research) View this webcast to learn about the importance of unstructured information analysis, DLP within the context of information management, and the multiple pats of adoption for DLP.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

For PCI, the Future is Now by Tripwire, Inc. January 2010 - (Free Research) As the PCI DSS and its sister standards continue to evolve and gain momentum, organizations will have to bake compliance into their everyday operations in order to eliminate fire drills, contain costs, keep current customers, and attract new ones. Read this paper to learn how to comply with the global standard without breaking the bank  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Complying with Brazil’s Nota Fiscal Electronica (NF-e) by Crossgate February 2010 - (Free Research) According to a new law, Brazilian companies must now comply with Nota Fiscal Eletronica (NF-e). This will gradually replace hard-copy nota fiscals with an electronic counterpart. Since most systems were not designed for such extensive regulation, many companies find it best to leverage a service provider to manage this as an outsourced service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Turning Virtual Sprawl into a Good Thing by Hewlett-Packard Company December 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping can be the key to the effective management of your virtual infrastructure, helping to make sure that you can gain the benefits of virtualization without increasing costs and risks.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Solution Brief: Top 5 Myths on WAN Optimization by Blue Coat January 2007 - (Free Research) A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to unneeded and costly IT investments, not to mention downtime, data loss, and resource waste. This paper examines five common WAN misperceptions and how to better address them.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities by Information Builders June 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Enterprise WAN Optimization: Delivering faster applications to any user, anywhere by Blue Coat March 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how important acceleration technologies such as bandwidth management, compression, protocol optimization, byte caching, and object caching can optimize key enterprise applications.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America, Inc. June 2008 - (Free Research) This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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