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Maximizing Shareholder Value With SAS Enterprise Risk Management
White Paper Companies who successfully measure and act upon risk-adjusted returns are typically rewarded with higher valuations from financial markets, higher credit ratings and lower costs of capital. Uncertainty in business makes... [16 Sep 2009]
BlackBerry app store echoes Apple with online version
News You see pricing information and minimum requirements, star ratings, and can access user comments. BlackBerry maker RIM, following Apple's iTunes App Store model, has created an online "web store" for its applications. [19 Aug 2009]
UPS Topologies and Standards
White Paper With the vast increase in the number and types of sensitive loads, the term UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) is now used to identify devices with power ratings ranging from a few hundred VA, designed to protect desktop... [14 Aug 2009]
Structural Monitoring: Making Bridges Safer Across the United States
White Paper Their functioning is critical, but opportunities for failure are many, including deteriorating materials, underlying construction issues and improper load ratings. High-Speed Wireless Networks are Helping State and Local... [06 Aug 2009]
Oracle WebCenter 11g Technical White Paper
White Paper This "User participation" architecture of the Internet has further catalyzed information growth at an unprecedented rate by enabling users to easily enhance and extend information via communities, discussions, ratings... [31 Jul 2009]
Bussan Auto Finance India Optimizes Customer Service With End-to-End Loan Management System
White Paper BAF achieved end-to-end control of the loan management process through a workflow-based solution based on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, which enabled staff to process applications, check credit... [30 Jul 2009]
Microsoft: Security patches are beating malware in race to users
News Of 140 ratings in the Microsoft Exploitability Index, also released last year, there has only been one revision that dropped the severity of the vulnerability, the company said. In the 50 security bulletins published... [28 Jul 2009]
The Vector Approach to Data Center Power Planning
White Paper With the volatile rate of change in IT technologies, power demands can quickly exceed established barriers in a legacy distribution system, such as the performance potential of existing amperage/voltage ratings, UPSs,... [15 Jul 2009]
Spam and Popularity Ratings for Combating Link Spam
White Paper This paper presents a new approach for propagating spam scores in web graphs, in order to combat link spam. The resulting spam rating is then used for propagating popularity scores like PageRank. Both propagations work even in presence... [01 Jul 2009]
Market Leading Manufacturer Aligns Individual Goals to Organizational Success
White Paper In response to a company-wide survey that revealed employees were being overrated in their reviews and that ratings themselves lacked meaning and consistency, Brunswick's five divisional human resources vice presidents... [16 May 2009]
S&P Unveils New ERM Rating Criteria
White Paper The rating agency said the potential effect of ERM on ratings will vary by industry and by the nature of the business. While all types of firms may experience extraordinary volatility by making poor risk management... [14 May 2009]
Xerox Office Group Security Patch Criticality Ratings
White Paper Since 2004 Xerox has been providing security patches to the customers to address vulnerabilities found both internally and externally in Xerox Office Group (XOG) products. Xerox has been doing this to provide the customers with the... [01 May 2009]
Southern Ohio Medical Center Achieves Highest Patient Satisfaction Ratings With CDC Respond
White Paper As part of a hospital-wide campaign to improve patient satisfaction, the Patient Relations Department at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC), began searching for a way to automate their labor intensive, manual complaint management process. [30 Apr 2009]
Apple storms to the top of hardware love list
News The University of Michigan conducts a similar survey each summer and usually comes up with similar results: Apple leading the pack, but amid poor ratings for the overall industry. Apple easily outdistanced its peers in a... [20 Apr 2009]
Photos: From wine tasting to choosing a mortgage
Photo The wines that have been tasted are displayed here with their ratings and characteristics. Dave Brown, architectural evangelist at Microsoft's Technology Centre in Reading, demonstrated Microsoft's Surface touchscreen... [19 Mar 2009]