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Business Continuity Planning: Old Concept, New Imperative in Financial Services
White Paper Continuous high performance is now a standard expectation of the marketplace regardless of the natural, technical, or human failures that can beset a Financial Services Institution (FSI). Business continuity is no longer... [05 Oct 2009]
Tripwire Helps Meet FFIEC Requirements
White Paper Today, with the passage of legislation such as the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the subsequent GLBA Security rule that took affect in 2001, information security and technology risk management are subjects upon which the board... [05 Oct 2009]
Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting
White Paper Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team has time to review... [02 Oct 2009]
Major U.S. Gas Company Boosts, Refines Information Access, Increasing Risk Avoidance
White Paper Southern Union, one of the largest diversified natural gas companies in the United States, faced a challenge familiar to most large, fast-growing companies: the need to use information to support growth rather than put... [02 Oct 2009]
Disaster Recovery with Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA)
White Paper In recent years, growing occurrences of natural and man-made catastrophes have emerged and businesses face major repercussions if precautionary steps are not taken. Since the turn of the new millennium, disaster recovery... [01 Oct 2009]
Conflict Resolution and the Project Manager
White Paper It's a natural consequence of being human and occurs in relationships of every kind. Project managers deal with conflict. If you are a project manager, and you have not yet experienced conflict in your project, don't be... [01 Oct 2009]
ERP Solution Helps Global Distributor Manage Environmental Performance
White Paper A pioneer in socially responsible business practices, Seventh Generation is the leading distributor of home cleaning, personal care, and baby products made from natural, recycled, or renewable materials. [01 Oct 2009]
Bouncing Back From Disaster... Getting Your IT Environment Running Quickly and Efficiently
White Paper This could be anything from a natural disaster to a power failure. It is almost inevitable that a company at one or another will face the unfortunate task of recovering from some type of unforeseen downtime. [01 Oct 2009]
Google's $10m change-the-world prize: 16 themes chosen
News Create real-time natural-crisis tracking system: "Make rapid-response crisis-mapping data available to help policymakers better coordinate response efforts during hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other... [28 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Online Services Delivers Enterprise-Class Communications to Growing Retail Business Business
White Paper But with that expansion came natural growing pains. Archiver's had established 45 retail outlets across the United States in less than eight years. The company's POP3-based e-mail system no longer suited the enterprise... [22 Sep 2009]
Autonomous Mental Development: A New Interdisciplinary Transactions for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
White Paper Although some baby animals can get up and walk within hours after birth, what a human child learns during the first two years of life easily exceeds what those animals learn in their entire lifetime. Furthermore, besides the explosive... [16 Sep 2009]
Compress Compound Images in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC by Fully Exploiting Spatial Correlation
White Paper Compound images consist of text, graphics and natural images, which present strong anisotropic features. It makes existing image coding standards inefficient on compressing them. To solve the problem, this paper proposes... [16 Sep 2009]
Partial Synchrony Based on Set Timeliness
White Paper This model is based on the notion of set timeliness - a natural and straightforward generalization of the seminal concept of timeliness in the partially synchrony model of Dwork, Lynch and Stockmeyer. [16 Sep 2009]
A New Dimension in Risk: Spreadsheet Risk - How to Optimize and Better Manage the Shortcomings of This New Risk Type
White Paper It constitutes an analytical platform and architecture in which spreadsheet programs take their natural place as a building block. The present day is unimaginable without spreadsheets. The concerns that are expressed... [16 Sep 2009]
DebugAdvisor: A Recommender System for Debugging
White Paper The context of a bug includes all the information a programmer has about the bug, including natural language text, textual rendering of core dumps, debugger output etc. In large software development projects, when a... [16 Sep 2009]