The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources.. 

The City of Monroe posted its employees' and elected officials' email addresses on its web site (without a spam filter) - to disastrous results. In this case study, you'll learn how Google Message Security solution immediately reduced the number of offensive and often pornographic, spam that reached the City's email servers by 95 percent. 

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. 

To provide relief and encourage continued growth, the U.S. Congress recently passed the Recovery Act-legislation that offers economic help to small businesses to help them to survive and thrive. Read the following Q+A to learn how businesses can take advantage of stimulus funds. 

This whitepaper will help you understand what new and innovative techniques can be used to protect the reputation of your business, keep your members in a safe and trusted environment, while keeping the fraudsters out. Device fingerprinting helps identify the bad guys so sites can eliminate their accounts from the network once and for all. 

Given the dramatic events in the capital markets, everyone is wondering what will happen next - and what the implications are for the wider economy. This paper will discuss challenges facing companies and how to respond. 

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

This SAP Executive Insight examines specific concerns that confront utility executives in today's economy. Further, it describes how gaining greater business visibility and transparency can enable organizations to execute decisively and effectively in this challenging climate. 

The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms. 

Telepresence is the best video conferencing available. This Pocket E-Guide explains how telepresence looks, feels and works; identifies key telepresence providers; and provides information to help you determine if an investment in telepresence is right for your organization. 

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. 

How does a firm or fund manager assess his/her research management needs and choose the best solution? This document helps by identifying pain points in the research workflow that RMS must address, describing how RMS supports investment process and decision making, and highlighting key features to consider when evaluating RMS solutions.