the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices. 

The property tax system for Marin County, California, was increasingly expensive to maintain; furthermore, it was not possible to integrate it with newer modern technologies. Read this case study to learn how they updated and modernized this critical application without losing valuable IT assets embedded in the current system. 

Southern Management Corporation, a financial services company providing tax and loan services, required a tight lockdown of their cache of personal and confidential customer data, while allowing for easy administration from the small IT staff managing a widespread network. WatchGuard provided the perfect solution. Read on to learn how they did it 

Read this white paper for a discussion of the many benefits of virtualization, how it has evolved, and how it intersects with data center optimization strategies. 

Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging. 

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. 

Driven by mounting compliance, security, globalization and competition issues, IT Professionals in midsize businesses are under heavy pressure to increase efficiencies and work within tighter budgets. Services automation is a proven way for addressing these challenges. 

Learn how an Alabama company seeking a replacement tool for their mainframe administration and automation discovered SEGUS’ Smart products that not only delivered better functionality with a good GUI, but would save the company $80,000 over a five year period, while also avoiding future costly upgrade fees. 

Mobile banking is quickly growing in popularity among young, affluent, tech-savvy smartphone users in America and Canada. As a result, financial institutions will have a highly interactive and expandable line of services and devices they can use to engage their customers. 

MKS Toolkit for Developers speeds the software development and administration process and reduces errors by eliminating the time spent on tedious manual tasks. MKS Toolkit dramatically improves the compatibility between Windows and UNIX environments. 

MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers is the ultimate in UNIX to Windows migration. Maintain a single course base across UNIX and Windows saving time and money for years to come, while cutting development time - 70%, 80%, even 90%. 

Pratt & Whitney Canada, poised to begin manufacturing of a new generation of engines, realized that greater speed of production and real-time analysis of parts quality would be necessary to sustain this initiative.