Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction. 

In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors. 

In this E-Guide, independent security expert Shon Harris reviews SLAs, their purpose, and recommended requirements. Also included is a 14 point checklist which outlines core items that must be understood, communicated and agreed upon before signing a contract with any MSSP. Read on to learn more about writing a solid SLA. 

Communications service providers are increasingly looking at vendors as partners to help them provide a new generation of managed services. This new trend has advantages for customers, service providers, and vendors that have the expertise on staff to handle increasingly complex network services. Read this eGuide to learn more. 

More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more. 

CIOs are increasingly approaching information management responsibilities with a risk management lens. This eGuide will look at how to take a strategic approach to risk management and compliance and mitigate operational risks of outsourcing services. Plus, how to define risks, core assets, and establish acceptable levels of risk will be discussed. 

This white paper describes why and how any organization can implement secure Internet single sign-on, which provides for the portability and interoperability of identity information across organizational boundaries. Read this white paper to learn the five steps to secure internet single sign-on. 

As the use of tactical and data mart solutions expands toward strategic and enterprise data warehouse use, Analytic Appliances offer customers a lower total cost of ownership, reduced maintenance and high performance to address business analytics on growing data volumes. 

This video white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems. 

For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data. 

The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more. 

The combination of Sun Open Storage and the commercial open-source Infobright data warehousing and Pentaho business intelligence and ETL software packages dramatically lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure.