Tapping into the Information Pipeline in Real-Time: Creating new levels of visibility and control for the Oil and Gas Industry [ Source: Progress Software ]
August 2009 -
From production to distribution, the oil and gas industry has a rich flow of information coming from applications, devices and personnel. If you can identify important patterns of events that flow in real-time, visibility, optimization and control strategies can have an immediate impact. View this Webinar to learn how the Oil & Gas industry is using complex event processing as a competitive advantage by allowing you to monitor and analyze information in real-time.
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Applying Remote Support Technology for Maximum Impact [ Source: Citrix ]
August 2009 - Remote-support technology is a powerful tool for support delivery. By using remote support, technicians can access the users’ desktop to effectively diagnose and resolve the issues. But to yield maximum advantage the remote-support technology must be applied to the right type of problems. This ServiceXRG white paper explores 5 strategic applications of remote support that yield maximum benefit and how to measure their business impact.
MavenWire Case Study [ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
July 2009 - Read how MavenWire, a provider of independent Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) services, implemented Atlantic Global OnDemand to automate the capture of time and expenditure for its international consultancy operation, which is in a number of countries across the EMEA and North America regions.
Nucleus Research: NetSuite ROI Evaluation Report [ Source: NetSuite ]
July 2009 -
Nucleus Research reports that NetSuite, the leading integrated web-based business software suite, can deliver a positive return on investment in fewer than nine months, by significantly automating processes, boosting sales, increasing productivity, reducing or avoiding headcount, increasing data visibility, and retiring costly legacy systems.
Discover how business management software provides a positive return on investment to businesses.
Uniform Platform For Test Automation [ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
July 2009 - This paper describes several approaches used for Test Automation and its advantages and disadvantages. It also explains how the qLabs Uniform Platform has changed the entire spectrum of automation testing and has reduced the dependency on automation engineers by a significant measure. This framework supports a wide variety of popular commercial and Open Source tools to meet various technical and budgetary requirements. It encourages applying standard software development processes to test automation.
Improving Customer Retention and Satisfaction [ Source: Citrix ]
July 2009 - It is 5 times more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain an old one. Good customer support is crucial when it comes to retaining customers and driving more sales, but how do operations deliver exceptional service to ensure 100% satisfaction and loyalty. This white paper explores the relationship between customer retention and the quality of technical support and reveals 12 crucial remote-support tools that enable your team to boost customer satisfaction.
Understanding the Importance of a Disaster Recovery Strategy [ Source: CDW ]
June 2009 -
Read this Tech Specialist interview with CDW's Moosa Matariyeh to understand the importance of having a disaster recovery strategy, and answers to questions like these:
> What can companies do to prepare for disaster recovery effectively, and what are some best-practice examples from medium-sized enterprises?
> How have companies successfully made the case for adequate funding?
> What role does data deduplication technology play in disaster planning and recovery? ....
Pacific Timesheet Just In Time Tracking [ Source: Pacific Timesheet ]
June 2009 - Pacific Timesheet is Web-based timesheet software that provides payroll, project, job costing, time, and attendance features in one system. Other modules include automated approvals, billing and pay rates, time-off scheduling, custom reporting, iPhone timesheet, IVR integration, time clock integration, and DCAA compliance. The software supports all major operating systems and browsers. It is available in license or ASP/online.
The Next Generation Of Static Analysis [ Source: Coverity, Inc. ]
June 2009 - This white paper will provide a brief overview of the history of static analysis and explain how the use of SAT in static analysis is enabling developers to improve the quality and security of their code by identifying a greater number of critical defects in their code with a low rate of false-positive results.
How To Migrate 10,000 Users A Week Fom Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange [ Source: Binary Tree ]
May 2009 - Binary Tree's patent-pending "Migration Factory" process enables large organizations to migrate up to 10,000 users a week from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. This process uses Binary Tree's CMT for Exchange software and a field-proven migration methodology to migrate more than 10 TB of messaging data and up to 10,000 users a week from geographically dispersed locations.
Pacific Timesheet On Demand System Security [ Source: Pacific Timesheet ]
May 2009 - Pacific Timesheet is Web-based timesheet software that provides payroll, project, job costing, time, and attendance features in one system. Other modules include automated approvals, billing and pay rates, time-off scheduling, custom reporting, iPhone timesheet, IVR integration, time clock integration and DCAA compliant. The company says it supports all major operating systems and browsers. The software is available in license or ASP/online.
Application Release Management: The Path to Production [ Source: Serena Software ]
May 2009 - A well-executed Release Management solution will save you money and avoid unplanned downtime. Once code is built, an application development team's work is largely done, but it's just beginning for IT Operations. IT Operations strives to ensure that the production environment is stable and secure, whereas Application Development wants to be agile and business focused, delivering new functionality at a rapid pace. So it is not surprising that there may be conflicts between IT Operations ....
The Future Of Application Delivery [ Source: Interop ]
May 2009 - A couple of years ago, it was common to equate application delivery to network and application optimization. However, ensuring successful application delivery requires that IT organizations do more than just implement optimization techniques. It also involves planning, management, and control that extends to a wide range of IT disciplines, not just networks. As a result, most of the application delivery vendors have begun to develop expertise in other areas including security, storage, and management. In ....
The Future Of App Delivery [ Source: Interop ]
May 2009 - A couple of years ago, it was common to equate application delivery to network and application optimization. However, ensuring successful application delivery requires that IT organizations do more than just implement optimization techniques. It also involves planning, management, and control that extends to a wide range of IT disciplines, not just networks. As Akamai’s Neil Cohen illustrates, using the flexibility and accessibility of cloud computing puts mission-critical applications only one hop away from 90 percent ....
What SOA And Web 2.0 Mean To The Network [ Source: Interop ]
May 2009 - In the past couple of years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services have been overhyped. Currently, Web 2.0 is beginning to suffer the same fate. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. Both of these architectures are only in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications built using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists at ....
Cost-Effective Application Delivery: Today And In The Future [ Source: Interop ]
May 2009 - In recessionary times, balancing increasing application infrastructure needs against the opposing demand for cost reduction presents IT departments with a significant challenge. In this session, hosted by Radware’s Nir Ilani, you’ll learn how to reduce CAPEX and OPEX associated with data center initiatives (consolidation, virtualization, SOA, business continuity, etc.) via a “scale-as-you-grow” approach to application delivery.
Ibsecad Case Study [ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
May 2009 - Ibsecad is a successful and expanding international company, supplying the construction industry with design, installation, and as-built drawings. Read how Ibsecad replaced spreadsheets for recording time and expenses and resource planning for dozens of high-profile projects for 75 CAD designers and project managers.
Seven Warning Signs Your ERP System Is Extinct [ Source: Plex Systems, Inc. ]
May 2009 - Adapt or die. That’s the bottom line when it comes time to surviving in today’s competitive manufacturing landscape. Today’s manufacturing enterprise is challenged by rising material costs, increasing competition, and ever-changing customer requirements. If a manufacturer is using an extinct Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution from a legacy provider, they face dizzying levels of complexity, duplication of effort, and in the worse cases, poor quality and customer service. This paper describes the warning signs that ....
Rethinking Application Delivery In The Age Of Complexity [ Source: rPath ]
April 2009 - Today's application delivery model must support today's complex IT reality. Developers have access to a wide array of languages, components, and frameworks. And IT operations staff can deploy applications into a variety of execution environments—including traditional, virtual, and cloud-based target environments—internally and externally, distributed around the world. Faced with such complexity, traditional application delivery breaks down. IT operations personnel are forced to manually configure and align each of the layers in a general-purpose stack to ....
What's New in Terminal Services for Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services [ Source: Global Knowledge ]
April 2009 - Ever since Microsoft rolled out Terminal Services for the Windows NT platform, changes to the basic design have been relatively unnoticed. Enhancements to this popular and long-running feature have taken place mostly in the background build addressing security and authentication. Not until now has the product undergone so much change gearing towards the needs of an enterprising environment. This white paper discusses how Microsoft has addressed the transparency of Remote Desktop Services, the new name ....
Amazon's EC2 Cloud Building: HPC Clusters in the Cloud [ Source: Univa UD ]
April 2009 -
Find out how Pathwork Diagnostics leveraged UniCloud to meet peak processing needs – saving on CAPEX and OPEX while increasing the capacity to innovate.
A few highlights from the case study:
•"Our challenge was a perfect fit for cloud computing."
•"Without UniCloud, some of our most advanced research would simply not be feasible."
•"We're getting exactly what we need. We pay for HPC power only when we use it, ....
Benefits of a Virtualized Data Center [ Source: Peak 10, Inc. ]
April 2009 - One of the hottest trends in the IT industry today, server virtualization has its roots in the IBM mainframe world of the 1960s, had a rebirth in the late '90s, and finally came of age in 2007. Since that coming of age, the market penetration of server virtualization is staggering. On one end of the spectrum, nearly 100 percent of Fortune 1000 companies are using virtualization technologies on production systems. On the opposite end of ....
Create and Run Any Application in the Cloud [ Source: Salesforce.com ]
March 2009 - Cloud Computing is changing the landscape of IT. Building and running business apps with traditional software is complex and expensive. Cloud Computing enables IT to quickly reduce costs, decrease backlogs, and add greater value to the business.
The State of Real-World SOA [ Source: CA ]
March 2009 - This study was designed to understand where technology executives stand on their journey to SOA, the success organizations have achieved with SOA applications, and how companies measure the effectiveness of SOA applications and Web performance.
The Role of Service Level Agreements in Successful SOA Deployments [ Source: CA ]
March 2009 - Making sure SOA applications live up to expectations takes more than hope and hype. It takes the right kind of SLA based on the right kinds of application performance metrics.