With nearly 90% of companies operating a virtual workplace and large percentages of employees working away from home office or the primary data center, IT must support ever-increasing numbers of remote and virtualized workers. This E-Guide details the security and optimization best practices for various types of branch offices. 

This E-Guide explains how companies can leverage communications, collaboration and business applications to build a UC solution that produces short- and long-term ROI. 

In this case study you will learn how Catalyst's expertise in SAP and process improvement was integral in helping Blount decrease order fulfillment time, increase pick process visibility, remove pack station bottleneck, eliminate pack station disorder, reduce packing and shipping errors, increase inventory accuracy and more. 

PortalGuard is an authentication and password security solution that allows end-users to securely authenticate and self-manage passwords directly from a Web browser, while providing administrators with functionality to meet or exceed their security objectives and achieve compliance with government and industry regulations. 

This whitepaper examines the business implications of the SaaS movement, the escalating performance and security expectations, and how a growing number of companies are safeguarding and accelerating these ondemand applications with proxy-based wide-area network (WAN) application delivery solutions. 

Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm with five locations throughout the state sought to consolidate legacy servers, improve availability for remote users, increase storage capacity and implement a new disaster recovery DR/BC strategy. In this case study you'll learn about their new Dell and VMware solutions. 

Quebec organizations, compared to others in Canada, display much higher satisfaction with their IT effectiveness. They continually place a high priority on IT process improvement and the establishment of procedures for management and oversight of IT operations. 

This study looks at what senior executives think about the value of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. It is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information. 

This paper is designed to provide a blueprint for evaluating software solutions that have the potential to assist organizations in meeting their returns objectives. This model can also serve as a useful tool in objectively identifying compelling yet rudimentary products. 

When the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was first introduced in SQL Server 2005, it received mixed reviews. With the launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has succeeded in transforming the SSMS into a much more useful tool set. This whitepaper will list and discuss each of these improvements of SSMS 2008. 

Human capital management (HCM) is becoming a priority for high-tech senior executives. The workforce is not only a source of competitive differentiation, but also the key to accomplishing a number of strategic goals such as product and service innovation and process improvements. This SAP Executive Insight addresses key questions. 

Although Microsoft will continue supporting Windows XP through 2014, enterprises should begin migrating to Windows 7 soon to avoid losing support for their environments from independent software vendors.