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whitepaper For a brief period in the late 1990s, companies became more efficient at closing their books and reporting their financial information, but compliance regulations such as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the Sarbanes-Oxley...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Aside from being the responsible thing to do, international agreements are beginning to mandate better environmental performance. Ensuring that the workstation components are free of these elements and other toxic compounds while still maintaining...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper In 2000, Visa USA and MasterCard International independently released data security programs. This was due primarily to uncertain penalties and disparate standards from the competing associations. During the past several years, credit card...
[07 May 2008]
News The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's controversial decision to vote for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for Standardization ballot followed a flawed...
[02 May 2008]
whitepaper The presenter also covers best practice standards outlined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), and the International Organization for Standardization...
[01 May 2008]
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document standards...
[21 Apr 2008]
News Mason added that large national bodies, such as Incits (International Committee for Information Technology Standards), are heavily politicised, and that often prevents decisive action. The ISO process continues to deliver voluntary international...
[21 Apr 2008]
News Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, said: "Undoubtedly, the statistics show that 70 per cent of fraud is perpetrated by staff rather than by external people or events.
[17 Apr 2008]
News The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. Last week the ISO committee in charge of document standards, SC 34, met in Oslo to discuss...
[15 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This paper has been prepared to provide those organizations having an interest in compliance with the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA - 1996, revised 2003) Security Standards, especially those in the business of...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In addition, the advent of International Accounting Standards heightened the need for standardized global accounting practices. A German-based company realized that their reporting systems were outdated and inefficient.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This new identification system has the characteristics of interoperability and open standards backed by EPC Global, a partnership of the Uniform Code Council and European Article Numbering International (EAN).
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The leading standards in this area are ITIL, BS15000 and ISO 17799, the global best practice standard for securing business information. As IT environments become more complex companies are turning to standard best practices for help with their...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Best practices in service management operations, especially standards such as those found in ITIL, are having positive effects in improving IT customer support and improving business bottom lines. Join Senior IDC analyst, Fred Broussard as he...
[10 Apr 2008]
News The European Commission's antitrust regulatory body has sent queries to several European countries to investigate how the standards-setting process worked, a spokesperson confirmed this week. In a letter seen by silicon.com sister site CNET News...
[04 Apr 2008]
whitepaper tele.ring, the Austrian telecommunications provider owned by Western Wireless International, extended its Amdocs convergent voice-data customer care and billing to support GPRS in 2001.tele.ring wireline, wireless and Internet services are...
[04 Apr 2008]
News The OpenDoc Society - which had argued Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format was unripe for ratification by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - published the results showing Microsoft's win on its website.
[02 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In 2004, Visa USA, MasterCard International, American Express and Discover aligned their individual data protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS or PCI).
[28 Mar 2008]
News The British Standards Institution (BSI) could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard - having previously voted...
[28 Mar 2008]
News Paul Hibberd, head of Wintel services for investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, said: "As with all major upgrades this will need to be heavily researched and tested and is not included in the plans for the next 12 months.
[28 Feb 2008]
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