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The Tangled Web of Google Health - Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies

whitepaper Several prominent web cornerstone firms, like Google and Microsoft, are pushing a system that would allow consumers' access to Personal Health Records. If anyone has picked up a newspaper - or more likely read one online - in the last month, he or...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[17 May 2008]

Compliance: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

whitepaper The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, was enacted in part to protect consumers' private financial information. It allows consumers to control the use of their private information and to...

Tags: electronic data interchange

[17 May 2008]

Why Do Developers Need an Enterprise Service Bus?

whitepaper It helps consumers find providers and handles the details of communication between them. An Enterprise Service Bus is a broker that supports synchronous and asynchronous service invocation. It also enables data transfer and event notification...

Tags: web services

[17 May 2008]

Symantec's Mobile Center of Excellence: Advanced Protection for Mobile Endpoints

whitepaper As a result, lost phones are a real problem for companies and consumers alike, exposing both to data disclosure on multiple levels. Mobile devices play an increasingly vital role in today's business, and they frequently contain a wealth of...

Tags: cellular equipment

[17 May 2008]

Curses or Cures: State Regulations, Hospital Creditors, and the ARM Industry

whitepaper Consumers' rising out-of-pocket healthcare expenses and the more than 40 million uninsured citizens in the United States almost certainly have contributed to predictions that for-profit hospitals' bad debt expense could grow to $12.5 billion in 2007.

Tags: business management

[17 May 2008]

SQL Server Compact 3.5

whitepaper A new generation of applications is on the horizon for businesses and consumers. This is driven by market changes such as a growing mobile workforce and its need for productivity even when not "Connected" and an explosive growth of new devices such...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: The Safeguards Rule

whitepaper Gramm-Leach-Bliley is a Congressional Act that prohibits an institution that provides financial products or services from sharing a customer's "nonpublic personal information" with non-affiliated third parties unless the institution first...

Tags: institution, leach, bliley, integrity

[16 May 2008]

Connecting to External Information Sources With WebSphere MQ

whitepaper IBM WebSphere MQ (hereafter called "MQ") is often used to provide a secure, reliable, and scaleable connection between information providers and information consumers. This paper shows how to use WebSphere MQ to connect internal business...

Tags: voice - data integration

[15 May 2008]

Directory Publisher Provides Access to White and Yellow Pages on the Desktop

whitepaper Customer Profile SEAT Pagine Gialle is an international group operating in the telephone directories marketplace offering telephonic assistance and multimedia communication for businesses and consumers.

Tags: customer support services

[13 May 2008]

Working With the Enterprise Service Bus and Mediations, Part 1: A Guide to Create, Deploy, and Test Mediations

whitepaper Mediations are part of the smart infrastructure that enables better application integration by processing in-flight messages as they are being delivered from producers to consumers. This paper introduces the concept of mediation in the context of...

Tags: systems integration

[10 May 2008]

The Merchant-Acquiring Side of the Payment Card Industry: Structure, Operations, and Challenges

whitepaper In addition, the presenter discussed two recent developments: the emergence of data security standards and the new public structure of payment networks, which have drawn the focus of lawmakers, policymakers, and consumers to the merchant-acquiring...

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

Hewlett Packard Connects With the MSN Video Audience

whitepaper HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. Study showed simultaneously serving two HP ads on MSN Video Player did well to support HP as "Unique" in the minds of...

Tags: streaming media

[03 May 2008]

More Than 3,000 Users Migrate to New IT Landscape in Seamless, Rapid Transition

whitepaper Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) provides life assurance, banking, mortgage, and investment services to consumers and businesses in Ireland. The company has grown through a number of mergers and acquisitions, resulting in a fragmented IT landscape.

Tags: customer support services

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Customer Story: Nissan

whitepaper Companies like Nissan are betting that while eye-catching graphics are generally a great way to get consumers' attention, they can go beyond the flash to provide a service. Nissan is the third largest japanese automobile manufacturer.

Tags: gps - gis

[02 May 2008]

Lab Service Helps Banking Solutions Provider Surpass Key Benchmark Results

whitepaper Corillian provides online banking solutions to major financial institutions across the United States, helping them offer services that consumers can use to pay bills, check account balances, transfer funds, and more.

Tags: customer support services

[24 Apr 2008]

Lucent Converged Voice for Consumers Solution for Fixed Mobile Convergence

whitepaper These advancements will forever change the nature of how communication services are offered to subscribers as well as how consumers communicate. A Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution proves to be an excellent opportunity for combating...

Tags: voice - data integration, enabled, consumers, subscribers

[17 Apr 2008]

Italian Energy Provider Sparks Employee Productivity With New Operating System

whitepaper Edipower - one of the largest power suppliers in Italy, supplying consumers with approximately 25 billion kilowatt-hours of power per year is constantly seeking ways to maximize productivity while maintaining rigorous security standards and...

Tags: security management

[14 Apr 2008]

Indonesian Bank Champions Platform for the Future, Bolsters Branch Office Security

whitepaper With nearly 800 branches and 5,500 automatic tellers across Indonesia, Bank of Central Asia (BCA) is a regional leader in financial services for businesses and consumers. Restricted by physical security concerns and the high cost of bandwidth, BCA...

Tags: application servers

[14 Apr 2008]

Help Desk Renaissance: A New Understanding of the Importance of Technical Support Services

whitepaper These issues include an increase in technological frustration by American consumers, a back lash of American consumers against companies using foreign call centers, a reduction of experienced workers as the "Baby boomers" retire, and an...

Tags: help desk

[11 Apr 2008]

RadioShack.com Builds Their 2nd Generation Site on Commerce Server 2000 and .NET

whitepaper Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 gives RadioShack.com the tools to sell to business customers and consumers, as well as powerful site management tools. The newest version of the site, built on Microsoft Commerce Server 2000, SQL Server 2000, BizTalk...

Tags: microsoft .net, commerce, commerce server, radioshack

[11 Apr 2008]

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