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Understanding Advanced Backup Reporting

whitepaper Backup administration and reporting continue to be a major pain point for today's enterprises. Many of these organizations rely on manual processes and batch scripts, which are costly and inefficient and prone to error.

Tags: back-up

[17 May 2008]

Find and Replace Text or Other Items

whitepaper Use Microsoft Office Word 2007 to find and replace text, formatting, paragraph breaks, page breaks (page break: The point at which one page ends and another begins. Microsoft Word inserts an "Automatic" (or soft) page break for the user, or the...

Tags: word processing

[03 May 2008]

Integrating Automated Cash Collection with ERP Solutions

whitepaper Each step in a process involving a manual touch point causes friction that costs time and money. Research by a leading IT analyst has found that companies with the fastest-growing profits in their industry sectors are addressing document processes...

Tags: back-office

[30 Apr 2008]

Building Queries Visually

whitepaper This column takes the user through examples of the point-and-click, drag-and-drop, and query builder approaches, to illustrate their advantages over manual query construction. Using point-and-click actions in the Connections Navigator display, one...

Tags: programming languages, query, sql developer, queries

[28 Mar 2008]

Biometrics the future for flying bliss?

News Finn added: "At that point 99 per cent of people will only face manual checks by exception rather than by rule. It gets to the point where it can almost be carried out as you walk. By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost...

Tags: biometrics, travel, airport, automated

[21 Feb 2008]

Insurance Firm Boosts Efficiency Ten-Fold With a Claims and Sales-Management Solution

whitepaper Consisting of an insurance and claims administration back office system, a point-of-sale solution, and an online portal, the new system has helped IF Latvia successfully expand its business. To cope with anticipated growth due to a decision to...

Tags: back-office

[19 Feb 2008]

Integrating Automated Cash Collection with SAP Solutions

whitepaper Each step in a process involving a manual touch point causes friction that costs time and money. Many business processes run on input to and output from SAP software. Esker DeliveryWare reduces this friction, helping companies maximize...

Tags: back-office, money, friction, output

[18 Dec 2007]

Windows XP: The Missing Manual - Security, Firewalls and Service Pack 2

whitepaper But the central idea behind Internet security for Windows (and most of the point of Service Pack 2) is that everyone should install and maintain three pieces of software for protection: a firewall, antivirus software and anti-spyware software.

Tags: firewalls, pack, install, anti

[10 Oct 2007]

Seagate Technology Improves Data Consistency and Eliminates Manual Coding With Human Resources Data Hub Based on Informatica Data Integration Platform

whitepaper The company wanted to replace a complex legacy point-to-point Human Resources (HR) data infrastructure supplying data to more than 100 downstream applications with a streamlined HR data hub to reduce the time and cost of custom SQL integration...

Tags: knowledge and data management, point, human resources, informatica powercenter

[14 Sep 2007]

IT Services Company Improves Supply Chain Management With Mobility Solution

whitepaper Now companies make decisions faster with immediate access to data from any point in the supply chain. Anglia Business Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, wanted to improve supply chain management for businesses in the fresh-produce...

Tags: application servers, supply chain, chain, supply

[05 Sep 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation

Cheat Sheet But what's the point in having a virtual version instead of an actual one? There can be benefits from a disaster recovery point of view, too. What's the point of that? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated landscape...

Tags: virtualisation

[04 Jun 2007]

Backtracking Intrusions

whitepaper Starting with a single detection point (e.g.a suspicious file), BackTracker identifies files and processes that could have affected that detection point and displays chains of events in a dependency graph.

Tags: linux - open source, component, attack, detection

[18 Apr 2007]

Finding Time: SAS and Data Warehouse Solutions for Determining Last Day of the Month

whitepaper The goal is to run programs and create data sets for each month with minimal program changes and no manual intervention: taking a point in time and going back months, quarters, and fiscal or calendar years for historical data, adjusting for leap...

Tags: sas, automate, date, warehouse

[31 Jan 2007]

Emerging Security Threats Demand Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring

whitepaper To stay ahead of the rise in targeted attacks, IT managers need a comprehensive view of point security solutions and infrastructure monitoring tools without the cost prohibitive man hours involved in manual log analysis or proprietary aggregation...

Tags: monitoring systems, view, threats, corporate data

[03 Jan 2007]

Achieving the Optimum Balance Between Lockdown and Flexibility With Closed-Loop Client Management

whitepaper As a result, the IT staff has to grapple with a patchwork of multiple point solutions from multiple vendors, loosely tied together with manual procedures. One of the major problems with traditional desktop management tools is that they have...

Tags: infrastructure management, policies, client, infrastructure library

[07 Nov 2006]

An eGovernment Platform Based on Service-Oriented Architecture

whitepaper BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 was deployed to create a single point of access through which the general public could find the information they need, using simple, transparent and structured procedures.

Tags: infrastructure management, weblogic, citizens, point

[21 Sep 2006]

Rule Your Data With the Link King (a SAS/AF Application for Record Linkage and Unduplication)

whitepaper The Link King features a data importing and formatting wizard, artificial intelligence to insure appropriate linking protocols are used, a powerful interface for manual review of "Uncertain" linkages, an ability to generate random samples of links...

Tags: knowledge and data management, king, links, records

[13 Sep 2006]

Spending on credit derivates IT rockets to $500m

News The report said: "The increased use of electronic messaging, automated confirmation generation, affirmation at the point-of-trade and electronic matching will be large factors in not only lowering processing costs but minimisng operational risks...

Tags: aite group, credit derivatives

[17 Aug 2006]

Deployment Issues in Enterprise Wireless LANs

whitepaper This paper attempts to clarify three of the core deployment problems - RF propagation modeling, access point positioning and cell dimensioning, and channel allocation. From manual site survey process to ensure signal coverage at all locations, to...

Tags: network security, deployments, lans, deployment

[30 Jun 2006]

Improving IT Service Levels: An Evaluation of the Benefits of Integrated Management Systems

whitepaper It also looks at the differences in Return On Investment (ROI) between so-called 'point products' which handle only a specific function such as applying patch updates, and integrated management suites that offer several automated functions within...

Tags: itil, face, undertake, handle

[26 May 2006]

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