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. 

While some individual users are experimenting with cloud processing, other users have already fully committed to the cloud as an important part of their enterprise architecture and operation. Read this white paper to learn about the evolution of cloud processing and whether or not the cloud processing boom will continue. 

Individuals and organizations often want to retain as much e-mail as possible. Reasons range from convenience to compliance to organizational policy. Some are also the result of court action and legal hold orders. The most common is the individual’s own requirement to keep e-mail as long as possible in a readily accessible log for collaboration. 

This white paper is designed to help companies, large, small, public, and nonpublic, navigate some of the “hype” that sometimes blurs the line between fact and fiction surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 

AIG major business challenge was the rapid access to archive data so to overcome this problem AIG tried Quantum backup solutions that combined data de-duplication disk, tape, due to which the company is now able to enhance compliance. 

In this report the Taneja Group will first review the current barriers to wider adoption of VDI, and examine how Dell's EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays can help customers with these problems. They will then validate these claims via benchmark performance tests and interviews, and finally test performance claims under additional scenarios. 

Check out this white paper to learn about two network protocol models, TCP/IP and OSI. 

In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification. 

This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

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 Bloomberg Businessweek case study to learn how Israeli auto importer Colmobil Corp. changed its entire organizational structure and business processes, and, as part of the transformation, overhauled its legacy technology infrastructure to improve its customers' experiences and create business growth. 

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.