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SAM Brings Volume Discount, Helps Medial Center Promote Regulation Compliance

whitepaper Results revealed inconsistencies between software and licenses, and because the licenses were complex, the center contacted SMS Inc.for recommendations in managing them more effectively. Based in Redmond, Washington, Software Management Systems Inc.

Tags: asset management

[15 May 2008]

Financial Group Enhances Operations Through Services Engagement

whitepaper The Samba team periodically updated and patched all software using its in-place Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, but the success ratio for desktops and servers remained below internal thresholds due to exceptions and inconsistencies in...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Energizer Taps Into the Power of Microsoft Business Intelligence With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper Disparate systems and applications made revenue and profit data prone to error and inconsistencies, while limitations on how information was organized and analyzed made it difficult for Energizer to create accurate business plans and forecasts...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

FIREMAN: A Toolkit for FIREwall Modeling and ANalysis

whitepaper By treating firewall configurations as specialized programs, FIREMAN applies static analysis techniques to check misconfigurations, such as policy violations, inconsistencies, and inefficiencies, in individual firewalls as well as among...

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

Beware of web 2.0

News Illsley said bloggers should have a flag to warn them of inconsistencies, which they could choose to ignore if they felt it necessary. Illsley said: "Systems can be integrated in a lightweight manner.

Tags: departments, managed, guide, ups

[30 Jan 2008]

CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT

News Rolling out these types of AIR-based apps means hours of mind-numbing testing and re-jigging of code because of huge inconsistencies between Safari, Mozilla, IE etc. We presume the CIOs who think this do not use TCP/IP/HTML/HTTP/Apache/Tomcat/Java...

Tags: women, green, cio, open source

[19 Jun 2007]

Improving Data Cleaning Quality Using a Data Lineage Facility

whitepaper The problem of data cleaning, which consists of removing inconsistencies and errors from original data sets, is well known in the area of decision support systems and data warehouses. However, for some applications, existing ETL (Extraction...

Tags: programs, tune, cleaning, facilities

[01 Feb 2007]

Data Profiling: Minimizing Risk in Data Management Projects

whitepaper Data profiling tools provide insurance against project delays and cost overruns due to be used by business analysts, not IT errors or inconsistencies in the data. Data profiling tools promise to minimize the risks that undermine many data...

Tags: knowledge and data management, analysts, profiling, business analysts

[23 Jan 2007]

Leader: The cure for info overload?

Leader When combined with proper policies, sophisticated analysis of data can flag up inconsistencies and highlight nefarious behaviour. Given the need for today's IT chiefs to prove their business acumen, BI tools can help IT win over the board by...

Tags: business intelligence

[29 Nov 2006]

Adobe Systems Case Study: U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)

whitepaper While regional CDOs worked hard to ensure high-quality training for personnel, duplication of services, inconsistencies, and lack of quality control incurred unwarranted expenses. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) maintains the operational forces...

Tags: training and certification, presentation, learning, training

[13 Jun 2006]

mySAP All-in-One at Sparkice

whitepaper Sales orders and invoices were also a problem, with salespeople forced to hand carry or e-mail documents to the finance department for invoicing purposes - an inefficient process that invariably led to inconsistencies and errors.

Tags: sap, erp, errors, department

[05 Apr 2006]

WINK: A Web-Based System for Collaborative Project Management in Virtual Enterprises

whitepaper This paper presents a collaborative project management system that integrates data coming from aerospace industries with two main goals: avoiding inconsistencies generated by updates at the sources' level and minimizing data replications.

Tags: enterprises, collaborative, scale, projects

[14 Dec 2005]

Benefit cheats face "Robocop" fraud crackdown

News One of the techniques used by the DWP includes scanning data sources such as those held by the Inland Revenue to check for inconsistencies and pinpoint people who falsely claim benefits despite being registered for work.

Tags: pensions, fraud, fraudsters

[03 Oct 2005]

Sealing Devices Boosts Customer Service With Clean, Centralized Data

whitepaper Oracle's customer data management solution resolved the data inconsistencies in the company's list of 10,000 organizations, 25,000 individual contacts, and 19,000 address records. To continue its stellar customer service while managing growth...

Tags: knowledge and data management, customer service, customer data, resolved

[04 Aug 2005]

Popularity won't make Firefox insecure, says Mozilla head

Popularity won't make Firefox insecure, says Mozilla head

News She also said that new forms of public licenses are inevitable, as are conflicts and inconsistencies between different public licenses. Others involved in that effort include browser makers Opera Software and Apple Computer, and plug-in makers Sun...

[23 Mar 2005]

HCA: Risk Mitigation Through Continuous Monitoring

whitepaper HCA auditors have also used ACL to identify costly payroll inconsistencies and isolate vendor-billing errors on more than 16,000 units of medical equipment. It also resulted in preparing continuous monitoring systems to ensure compliance with...

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, monitoring, continuous, acl

[21 Mar 2005]

Executable Modelling of Operational Requirements Documents Within the DoD Architectural Framework (C4ISR)

whitepaper This can lead to very informal representations, ambiguities, contradictions and inconsistencies in the documentation. The resulting document is then used to define specifications for the various nodes, systems and subsystems used to achieve a...

Tags: object-oriented, compliance, views, documentation

[24 Feb 2005]

Semantic Integration and Inconsistency

whitepaper A common approach is to attempt to remove inconsistencies, if necessary by discarding problematic information. The management of inconsistency between multiple viewpoints has become a central problem in the development of large software systems.

Tags: knowledge management, argues, utility, limit

[24 Jan 2005]

System for Computer-Aided Metadata Creation

whitepaper One of the main obstacles to the widespread adoption of systems which make intensive use of metadata (MD) is the time and effort required to apply MD to multiple resources and the inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies in interpretation that arise...

Tags: web services, values, metadata, activity

[13 Jan 2005]

The Woolwich - Banking on Compliance With Unitech Systems

whitepaper ACR/Summary and ACR/Detail control functions automatically detect information errors and inconsistencies, and ensure that a number of processes are completed - identification of duplicates, completion of reconciliations, and notification of...

Tags: finance, bank, sarbanes oxley, summary

[14 Dec 2004]

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