BlueCrest Capital Management Tidal Enterprise Scheduler when they needed to make critical business processes visible to upper management and centralize scheduling and management of nightly data downloads; as well as integrate disaster recovery processes into job scheduling efforts and migrate away from heavily scripted point solutions. 

Read this chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to secure Oracle by checking for weak passwords, configuring failed login policies, preventing DoS attacks with resource limits, and auditing user profiles. 

This paper presents a solution that leverages comprehensive document process automation to deliver the advantages of paperless invoice processing as an on-demand service. It highlights the opportunity to shift ROI from the project level to the document level (capital versus operational expense) and realize automation benefits immediately. 

This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

To address the need for streamlined management, Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers a powerful yet easy-to-use management experience that encompasses both tools and best practices. Read this white paper to learn more. 

An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts. 

This demo shows how IBM Rational Functional Tester can be used to create test automation scripts to validate the functionality of an SAP system. The script generation capability of Functional Tester produces a re-usable test that can be run against all subsequent builds or releases of the SAP system. 

Oracle's Primavera enterprise project portfolio management solutions help organizations effectively and efficiently invest their funds for the good of the public. 

This part of Panorama’s ERP Report outlines the use of ERP software at companies in the hospitality and entertainment industry, including a comparison of ERP results to other industries. This study includes ERP implementation results surrounding average budget, duration, actual costs, and implementation variables. 

ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate ERP software for usability. 

This white paper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget. 

This paper takes a more extensive look at the question ‘when, and how, should a project manager address risk?' and provides multiple answers. 

This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand-driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures.