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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
Sponsored by:<...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
Managing Reference Data Risk -- A Best Practice Approach
[ Source: Patni Computers ]
October 2010-
In recent years, the twin pressures of achieving regulatory compliance and straight-through processing (STP) have highlighted substantial redundancy and duplication of effort in the area of reference data management. Many buy-side and sell-side firms are uncomfortably aware of both the time and cost they devote to purchasing, cleansing, and distributing reference data, as well as the risks that arise when these tasks are not performed effectively, among them failed trades and lost revenue opportunities.
Firms ...
Advent® Back Office Service
[ Source: Advent Software ]
March 2008-
A performance measurement expert, Steve Riordan, Riordan Consulting, LLC, talks about how outsourcing to Advent? Back Office Service helps produce timely and accurate reporting.
Broyhill Family Office Builds Platform for Growth
[ Source: Advent Software ]
May 2008-
Read about how this firm uses Advent Portfolio Exchange® through Advent® Back Office Service to outsource their back office and free up time to focus on more value-added activities such as account maintenance and reconciliation.
Managing Reference Data Risk -- A Best Practice Approach
[ Source: Patni Computers ]
October 2010-
In recent years, the twin pressures of achieving regulatory compliance and straight-through processing (STP) have highlighted substantial redundancy and duplication of effort in the area of reference data management. Many buy-side and sell-side firms are uncomfortably aware of both the time and cost they devote to purchasing, cleansing, and distributing reference data, as well as the risks that arise when these tasks are not performed effectively, among them failed trades and lost revenue opportunities.
Firms ...
Outsourcing to Advent Enables Wislar to Achieve Goals of Independence
[ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2010-
APX through Advent OnDemand offers the convenience and cost savings associated with outsourcing without compromising any functionality. Users get: Fast and easy access to portfolio data for decision making, Automated generation of a wide range of reports, Performance measurement and analytical capabilities, “I’m actually trying to outsource everything, which I think makes total sense,” says Mr. Wislar citing two other key advantages of outsourcing: Disaster preparedness: “With outsourcing, if my office were to burn ...
Advent OnDemand Takes the IT and Staffing Burden Off Atwill Financial Consulting
[ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2010-
“After doing some research, Advent’s outsourcing solution made a lot of sense. It had a good track record. It was a company that had been around and had a strong reputation.”
For Atwill Financial Consulting Group, the key advantages to outsourcing are: No need for operations and IT staff: “For me it was a question of having to hire people, train them and pay them. For a young and growing RIA, it made more ...
With Advent OnDemand, Alpha Fiduciary is Free to Focus on Clients
[ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2010-
Alpha Fiduciary offers a unique investment concept Mr. Doglione calls the Modified Endowment Model. “It’s based on the successful endowments at elite universities,” he explains. “We’ve taken their approach to asset management and modified it to be applicable to high-net-worth individuals. The benefits are much more significant
diversification, non-correlated returns, and using non-traditional asset classes that protect funds on the downside while still generating growth over time.”
Ten questions to ask before choosing an outsourcing investment performance reporting provider.
[ Source: Advent Software ]
January 2010-
Look before you leap.
Ten questions to ask before choosing an outsourcing provider for investment
performance reporting.
There are many reasons why outsourcing may be the right answer for your firm. These are just ten of them.
Q: What’s the real quality of their performance reporting?
Q: Do they offer you a flexible range of options?
Q: How good is their service and support?
Outsourcing can be complicated, but it need not be. Here ...
Business Process Outsourcing -- An Effective Solution for Managing Producer Licensing
[ Source: Kaplan Compliance Solutions ]
May 2008-
Insurance organizations and other financial services companies increasingly are seeking efficiencies through Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), the end-to-end outsourcing of a business line or process. Business Process Outsourcing clearly enhances control over business performance, whether by reducing costs, increasing the quality of processes, accelerating transformation throughout a business, creating a more flexible response to sudden external stresses, or through a combination of several benefits.
In today’s environment, senior managers face growing pressure ...
Business Insight Podcast: Understanding Business Process Utility
[ Source: WNS Global Services ]
February 2009-
In this podcast, we discuss with Manish Vora the latest trends in finance and accounting outsourcing, clearly one of the fastest-growing areas in the outsourcing scene. We also talk to Manish about business process utility. With contradicting reports about demand for F&A services either increasing or declining -- hear from someone who is front and center selling these services to clients, and who can discuss what's really being seen out there.
Extended Enterprise Data Managment
[ Source: SimCorp ]
March 2009-
Many buy-side asset management organizations have chosen an operating mode1 based on outsourcing. To support their operating model they often have an enterprise architecture which is based on feeds of core data from one or more third party administrators (TPA’s) to a range of best of breed systems.
Recent events in the financial markets have highlighted the weakness with this architecture since it often lacks the ability to deliver enough transparency. Today’s market ...
Surviving the Crisis: Tools for the Modern IT Organization
[ Source: Wall Street & Technology ]
April 2009-
As the global financial crisis continues to upend the capital markets, Wall Street IT organizations increasingly are looking for ways to improve efficiency while remaining in position to capitalize on opportunities when the business environment improves. To boost agility and cut costs, many financial services technology organizations are exploring tools such as cloud computing, virtualization, software as a service and outsourcing.
Advent® Back Office Service
[ Source: Advent Software ]
March 2008-
A performance measurement expert, Steve Riordan, Riordan Consulting, LLC, talks about how outsourcing to Advent? Back Office Service helps produce timely and accurate reporting.
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