The Dell Energy Smart architecture provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance and energy use in new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers - capabilities that are critical to simplifying IT and meeting the power and cooling challenges of enterprise data centers. 

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems. 

Deploying VMware® vSphere™ 4 virtualization with 11th-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage helps IT organizations confidently virtualize mission-critical Microsoft® applications and achieve outstanding performance, simplified management, and granular data protection. 

In 2010, what are your plans for server virtualization? What key feature is most important to you when evaluating virtualization technologies for your organization? Take this survey to contribute your thoughts on server virtualization for SMBs! 

Read this paper for a detailed look into at the challenges associated with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and best practices to overcome them and manage your financial information. 

Accounts payable remains a manual and often inefficient business process. Read this white paper for a discussion of best practices options and a solid approach to implementing solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in the SAP environment. 

Managing privileged accounts requires balancing accessibility and control while ensuring audit capabilities.  Cyber-Ark enables organizations to increase administrator productivity while reducing risk. 

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. 

The new privileged access management solutions available on the market today provide highly efficient and effective alternatives to sudo. Using these modern approaches, you will be able to reduce the risk of insider fraud, streamline regulatory compliance, and greatly reduce the effort required to administer your server estates. 

In this white paper, learn best practices for automating workflow and AP to increase accuracy, overall business efficiency, and decrease costs to improve your AP operations. 

A significant number of younger employees today blur the boundaries between their business and private email accounts out of frustration with their corporate IT infrastructure. This white paper reveals the key findings of a work habits report centering on email communication, and reveals how you can encourage your users to communicate responsibly. 

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.