operations
RSS operationsZurich inks $2.9bn outsourcing megadeal with CSC
News The deal, worth $2.9bn, will cover Zurich's operations in Europe and the US. Zurich Financial Services has announced an outsourcing megadeal. The company said yesterday is has signed a 10 and a half year deal with CSC to... [27 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News A large part of the savings is derived from the economies of scale that Atos Origin's operations can provide. Outsourcing deals typically promise to deliver cost savings and increased efficiency - but all too often the... [24 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment But biggest of all would be the advantage afforded by rolling fibre into the local-loop - which can be made self-funding by streamlining overall operations. Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to... [23 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Peter Raettig, IT operations manager at Trinity Mirror, says the most important issue to consider when approaching virtualisation is to realise that not every system can be virtualised. Adoption rates of virtualisation... [20 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News For example, we looked at how much 24/7 support we needed across all of our IT infrastructure and whether we could remove it from low-criticality operations," he said. How does a business pay less for its IT services... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that has largely been for personal use. [19 Nov 2009]
Ingersoll Rand Increases Business Agility With Microsoft Online Services
White Paper The company conducts manufacturing and assembly operations in 29 plants in the United States; 31 plants in Europe; 14 plants in Asia; 6 plants in Latin America and 1 plant in Canada. Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited is a... [16 Nov 2009]
Take action based on deep process insight with business process management
White Paper Business process management (BPM) powered by the IBM Smart SOAÂ portfolio makes it possible by enabling you to monitor, manage and improve business operations. This white paper shows how your business can not only... [16 Nov 2009]
CIBER's RFID Solutions
White Paper RFID is the next evolution in technology to impact the Supply Chain, with the capability to drive impressive levels of accuracy, efficiency and visibility from Supply Chain operations. RFID is also highly complex -... [14 Nov 2009]
Firewall Operations Management
White Paper Managing network security for a large organization has become a highly complex operation involving dozens or even hundreds of firewalls. Multiple sites and teams, different hardware and software vendors - all of these factors make it... [13 Nov 2009]
Aligning Risk Management, Finance, and Operations: Senior Executives on Governance, Uncertainty, and Performance Amid a Global Banking Crisis
White Paper The world financial system has weathered several major financial crises in the past several decades: the U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis in the late l9Sos and early 19905 and the Asian Financial Crisis in igj followed in short order by the... [13 Nov 2009]
The Power of Information Availability: What Every Healthcare IT Manager Needs to Know - How to Solve Downtime Challenges to Patient Care, Operations and HIPAA Compliance
White Paper Public and private healthcare and life sciences enterprises, like all organizations, must manage costs and revenues. But unlike other organizations, responsibilities extend much further than ensuring r own fiscal health and profitability. [13 Nov 2009]
Maximizing Data Center Uptime With Business Continuity Planning
White Paper Next to ensuring the safety of employees, the next most important business continuity task is resuming business critical operations. However, having a co-location and planning for the smallest interruption of business... [13 Nov 2009]
Tracking File Access for Auditing and Compliance
White Paper If that data is lost or compromised, this can disrupt operations or even jeopardize jobs at the company. For that purpose, file server operations and security configuration should be constantly audited,... [13 Nov 2009]
A Practical Approach to Controlling Privileged Accounts
White Paper Organizations must prove that privileged and root operations are suitably controlled, but delegating and managing privileges is not straightforward. Sharing privileged account passwords is a security and compliance... [13 Nov 2009]
