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Governance and control: Focus risk management on multiple levers of control by IBM April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Written by Jeremy Hope from Beyond Budgeting Round Table, this paper describes how CFOs should set the highest standards of ethical reporting and behavior.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Enabling Continuous Compliance Across the Enterprise by IBM June 30, 2011 - (Free Research) Today's innovative enterprises are transforming compliance into a continuous action that is woven into the fabric of both their IT security and business environments. Learn how this transformation can significantly improve compliance results with fewer resources, while providing valuable insights to drive strategic business decisions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Inter-Process Communications: The Next Leap in Business Productivity by LEGACY - DO NOT USE - Insight April 2008 - (Free Research) Inter-Process Communications (IPC) makes up the infrastructure that merges voice, data and video applications over a single network by enhancing IP telephony (VoIP) with technology such as conferencing, call transfers and forwarding.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

7 Tips for AD Compliance by Quest Software January 2012 - (Free Research) In this paper, Microsoft MVP Darren Mar-Elia provides best practices for leveraging native AD auditing. Then, he’ll discuss what auditors and compliance officers look for when it comes to examining your AD environment. He’ll also explore third-party alternatives to native auditing that greatly enhance AD auditing. Read this paper today.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Applied Database Auditing and Oracle Audit Vault by Oracle Corporation September 2011 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security by Centrify Corporation September 2011 - (Free Research) View this paper to describe how Centrify DirectAudit can solve the security, compliance and third-party access challenges organizations face when auditing and monitoring UNIX, Linux and Windows systems and discover why traditional approaches cannot address the requirements of today's changing environment.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to tackle IT audit and compliance by ComputerWeekly.com November 2010 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

SearchManufacturingERP.com Tip Guide: E-Sourcing tools to help turn strategic suppliers into partners by Ariba, Inc. February 2012 - (Free Research) Read this guide to learn best practices to become strategic partners with your suppliers and understand how a sourcing strategy can make or break a company.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Syslog Effectively for Security Troubleshooting by Global Knowledge January 2010 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to manage emerging technology in IT by ComputerWeekly.com February 2011 - (Free Research) Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Three Steps To Strategic Planning Excellence In Wholesale Distribution Companies by SAP America, Inc. January 2012 - (Free Research) This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler-distributors.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IT in the UK SMB (Small and Medium sized Business) Sector by ComputerWeekly.com January 2012 - (Free Research) This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.  (IT BRIEFING) READ ABSTRACT |

IT Value Transformation Roadmap - Cloud Strategy Brief by VMware, Inc. February 2011 - (Free Research) IT organizations are perceived by the business in two ways - as a cost center or a center of strategic value.  This paper provides a virtualization and private cloud centric road map for IT value transformation, highlighting the objectives, challenges, required competencies, success factors and success measures at each stage.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

Strategic Profitability Management by SAP America, Inc. December 2011 - (Free Research) Very few of today's companies have a reliable way to achieve the widest profitability margins consistent with other strategic objectives, largely because no one person or organization is responsible for it. Read this white paper to find out what Ventana Research recommends as part of an effective profitability management strategy.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

HR Best Practices: Delivering Strategic Value to the Enterprise by SAP America, Inc. December 2009 - (Free Research) To be a true strategic partner to management, human resources (HR) requires process and systems excellence. HR needs to know the business — the drivers, mission, and challenges. Read this IDC white paper to learn how to achieve excellence in HR by focusing consistency, integration, insight, responsiveness, and agility.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 as a Strategic Virtualization Alternative by Red Hat. January 2012 - (Free Research) Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 not only offers the performance and management features that virtualization customers require for their data center workloads, but also provides a strategic alternative to proprietary virtualization to enable organizations to accelerate their innovation, increase manageability, and reduce costs.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Strategic technologies that will improve your business in 2012 by Dell and VMware August 2011 - (Free Research) Learn about the most strategic technologies for SMBs going into 2012. The video will focus on the business benefits of SSDs, virtualization, BI, mobility and video conferencing.  (VIDEO) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) September 2007 - (Free Research) The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Your Cloud, Your Business: Perspectives from Verizon and VMware by VMware, Inc. April 2011 - (Free Research) 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.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Personal vs. Strategic E-mail Archiving with Exchange 2010 by CommVault Systems, Inc. July 2011 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to successfully consolidate your Windows environment by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2010 - (Free Research) HP's Operations Manager 9.00 for Windows allows your organization to spend more time on strategic initiatives by using consolidated infrastructure monitoring tools. Download this evaluation copy and get a hands-on example of how this software works.  (TRIAL SOFTWARE) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: MWD Strategic Insight: Understanding your requirements: online communities and team workspaces by ComputerWeekly.com September 2010 - (Free Research) An increasing number of organisations are considering how online communities and team workspaces can help them be more collaborative both internally and externally with customers and partners. If you’re thinking about, or have already started developing a strategy for an online community.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IT in the Electronic Hospital by SearchHealthIT.com August 2009 - (Free Research) 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.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Station Casinos uses workload automation solution to deliver smoother audits and increase customer loyalty by Cisco Systems, Inc. January 2012 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Virtualizing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by Dell and VMware February 2012 - (Free Research) Natural disasters, attacks by hackers, a new application gone bad - any or all of these could result in costly disruptions and missed opportunities. Yet many businesses overlook business continuity planning. Learn how savvy enterprises are employing virtualization to strengthen disaster recovery plans.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

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