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RSS pacificCliffs 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]
Chartered Cuts Time to Report a Bill of Materials From One Hour to Less Than One Minute
White Paper To improve productivity, provide better visibility of the development lifecycle, and assist customers with production-ready standardized products, Chartered engaged Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle... [02 Oct 2009]
Integrated IT System Optimises Flexibility for Retailer
White Paper Central Pacific Investments plc (CPI) operates a network of branded retail outlets for Chicco children's goods and, under the Gild trademark, a network of outlets for Loap and Columbia clothing. The company previously... [01 Oct 2009]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM - High 5 Sportswear Case Study
White Paper High 5 Sportswear is an athletic apparel distributor based in the Pacific NW that faces the challenge of customer service reps having to blindly make decisions without having the right customer and sales data to guide... [21 Sep 2009]
Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
News Ben Treynor, vice president of engineering and site reliability czar said in the blog: "At about 12:30pm Pacific [time] a few of the request routers became overloaded and in effect told the rest of the system 'stop... [02 Sep 2009]
Hawaii Pacific Health Delivers Better Care, for Less: Merged Hospitals and Clinics Operate as One
White Paper When Hawaii Pacific Health was created by merging Wilcox Health, Kapi'olani Health, and Straub Clinic & Hospital, it became the largest private healthcare provider in the state. It needed to consolidate IT and business... [02 Sep 2009]
San Francisco PUC Gets Better Data for Capital Planning With IBM Maximo Asset Management Solution
White Paper Surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay, the city of San Francisco lives in close proximity to water. Thanks to the efforts of the 1,800 employees and the facilities of the San Francisco... [01 Sep 2009]
Symantec APJ Internet Security Threat Report Trends for 2008
White Paper The Symantec APJ Internet Security Threat Report provides an annual overview and analysis of Internet threat activity, a review of known vulnerabilities, and highlights of malicious code in the Asia-Pacific/Japan (APJ)... [29 Aug 2009]
Pacific Lutheran University Makes the Smart Choice: HP Integrity Servers to Run SunGard Banner
White Paper Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) wanted to strengthen and modernize the computing environment to accommodate upcoming software upgrades, including the critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system used throughout... [28 Aug 2009]
Availability and More: End-to-End Monitoring Helps IT Add Value From the Business User's Point of View
White Paper Comprising mainframes and about 15,000 distributed servers, the bank's infrastructure spans three major data centers and 14 regional server installations in North America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Africa. [28 Aug 2009]
Target Apple's weak spots, mobile's old boys warned
News However, in the Asia-Pacific region, iPhone fever appears not to have set in. The numerous players in the smartphone market are quickly gaining ground in innovation and shipment numbers, but this has been mainly at... [20 Aug 2009]
Optimistic CEOs must not neglect IT security
News Nariman Karimi, senior vice president and CIO of DHL Express Asia-Pacific, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia in an email interview that the fundamental roles of the CEO and board executives make it difficult for IT... [03 Aug 2009]
Chartered Semiconductor Avoids Expensive Audit and Remediation, Resolves Segregation-of-Duty Conflicts
White Paper Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Deloitte & Touche Enterprise Risk Services Pte Ltd to deploy Oracle Application Access Controls Governor, the first successful implementation of the... [30 Jul 2009]
Chemical Manufacturer Streamlines Financial Reporting and Speeds Up Decision Making
White Paper Founded in 1960, The DoveChem Group is Asia Pacific's leading chemical solvent distributor, offering more than 130 types of chemicals and chemical-related services. To meet the pressures of managing raw materials,... [25 Jul 2009]
Hardware-hungry techies pack more than five PCs each
News Some regions are more hardware-hungry than others, the market watchers found: while the US and Asia Pacific showed some evidence of a buying rebound, Europe was dogged by "ongoing weakness" in PC shipments. [21 Jul 2009]
