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Food Company Improves Protection With Easily Managed, Comprehensive Solution

whitepaper California-based Del Monte Foods sells popular branded food and pet products in grocery stores and other outlets across the United States. Recently, the company's work force has grown, which means messaging and collaboration has played an...

Tags: security tools

[13 May 2008]

Retain Talent in Your Organization

whitepaper Estimates differ, but it's clear that the length of job tenure in the United States is declining and that the work force is becoming increasingly mobile. Studies show that companies with high employee retention rates enjoy high customer...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

IBM and Pay by Touch Make Checking Out at Thriftway Supermarkets a Soft Touch

whitepaper In May 2004, Thriftway Supermarkets became the first grocery retailer in the United States to install a payment system using biometrics. Thriftway Supermarkets wanted to provide top level customer service, reduce fraud in electronic payments and...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Food Company Improves IT Security System View and Management Using New Solution

whitepaper Del Monte Foods, based in San Francisco, California, sells popular, premium-quality branded food and pet products throughout the United States. The organization's employees rely heavily on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

Insurance Agency Prepares for New IT Projects, Realizes Savings Through SAM

whitepaper As one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States, Lovitt & Touche realized that outsourcing the IT requirements of the company was no longer effective. The company moved IT resources back to an internally supported model and quickly...

Tags: asset management

[11 May 2008]

Championing Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: An IBM Server Consolidation Analysis

whitepaper Energy efficiency has long been a top priority at a large natural gas and electric utility headquartered in the United States. Many organizations around the globe are looking to reduce power consumption and many are even facing a data center power...

Tags: server consolidation

[11 May 2008]

Ice Cream Shops Serve Up Super Server Reliability With One Directory "Flavor"

whitepaper Since 1935, families in the northeastern United States have visited Friendly's restaurants for delicious hot fudge sundaes, burgers, salads, and sandwiches. The company operates more than 530 company and franchised restaurants and sells its ice...

Tags: netware

[11 May 2008]

Leader in Automotive Auctions Shifts Into Higher Gear With New Desktop Standards

whitepaper Carmel, Indiana-based ADESA Car Auctions is a leading automobile auction provider, employing nearly 11,000 people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. With a variety of computing environments in its geographically dispersed offices, the...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Hospital Chain Unites Doctors, Bettering Productivity and Patient Care

whitepaper Asklepios, a private hospital chain, manages more than a hundred hospitals across Germany and the United States. To allow healthcare professionals to securely share digital patient information, the company wanted to create a connected...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Next Generation Federal Data Center Architectures

whitepaper The United States Government's E-Gov initiative established the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Program to build a business-driven Information Technology (IT) blueprint for the federal government.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Selling Your Job: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions

whitepaper There may be thousands of open job positions available annually in the United States in the company's area of expertise. As a hiring manager, one may have 10 of these openings on one's own team. What is one doing to ensure that the openings stand...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Virgin Megastores Opens Music and Video Vault to Customers With New Digital Kiosk

whitepaper To maintain that reputation at its Virgin Megastores in the United States, Virgin wanted to replace CD listening posts with digital media preview kiosks capable of delivering far more than just music.

Tags: embedded systems

[11 May 2008]

IBM and MarCole Use 21st Century Technology to Speed Sales of Products Handmade in 19th Century Farmhouse

whitepaper For more than 20 years, MacKenzie-Childs has enjoyed an increasing business of creating handmade enamelware, ceramics, glassware, furniture and home accessories sold through its own retail stores and catalogue and at selected upscale retailers...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

The Fast Close: Achieving Quick Wins and Big Wins

whitepaper In the United States, for example, close cycles have slowed down by an average of seven days during each of the past three years. The "fast close," a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and close its...

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

United States Coast Guard Explores Potential to Enhance Training With Digital Note-Taking Solution

whitepaper The United States Coast Guard is known for its impeccable standards and service. To maintain these levels of performance, USCG habitually goes above and beyond the call of duty to seek out new tools and resources that support the ongoing education...

Tags: business management, microsoft office, windows vista, uscg

[09 May 2008]

ISO 17799: A Structured Approach to Securing Your Corporate Data

whitepaper Organizations in the United States have fallen woefully behind in standardizing on a common code of practice for information security, and one finds themselves playing catch-up with the global business community.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Retail Services Provider Deploys 2.2-Terabyte Data Warehouse to Better Serve Clients

whitepaper With offices in more than 60 cities in the United States and Canada, Acosta provides its services throughout North America. Acosta provides retail sales and category management services to more than 1,000 manufacturers, including giants such as...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Cingular (the New AT&T)

whitepaper Cingular, the new AT&T is the largest provider of wireless services in the United States, with more than 62 million subscribers who use the nation's largest digital voice and data network. The intersection between today's consumer and today's...

Tags: voice - data integration

[04 May 2008]

Credit Card Company Runs Its Business With 12-Terabyte Mission Critical BI Solution

whitepaper PREMIER Bankcard, LLC (PREMIER) one of the largest VISA and MasterCard credit providers in the United States, needed to enhance scalability and performance for its Business Intelligence (BI) data warehouse and OnLine Transaction Processing (OLTP...

Tags: data mining - analysis

[03 May 2008]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has made advances in healthcare that have impacted hundreds of thousands of lives.

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

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