Archive for March, 2009

Are you aware of the drivers for log management scalability and the resulting requirements that should be considered in any log management evaluation?

Are you aware of the drivers for log management scalability and the resulting requirements that should be considered in any log management evaluation?

In the last few years, log management has become increasingly relevant to multiple groups within any organization. Audit teams leverage logs to automate compliance reporting and detect policy breaches. Security teams monitor log data to detect internal and external threats as well as for forensic investigations. Logs are also widely used by IT operations or helpdesk teams for faster troubleshooting and better adherence to service level agreements.

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FierceFinanceIT

Is a free, weekly technology news update on the financial services industry.

Is a free, weekly technology news update on the financial services industry.

FierceFinanceIT provides CIO’s, compliance managers, and senior financial executives the must-know news, trends, and breaking information related to IT issues in the world of financial services. Get key updates on regulatory compliance, data management & security, front and back-office solutions, financial services convergence, and more. Join thousands of industry insiders who depend on FierceFinanceIT for their weekly executive briefing.

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10 Best-Practice tips merchants need to focus on in order to achieve PCI Compliance, protect cardholder data, and establish a successful risk reduction program.

10 Best-Practice tips merchants need to focus on in order to achieve PCI Compliance, protect cardholder data, and establish a successful risk reduction program.
Watch this webcast to learn 10 Tips to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance.

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Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.

Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.

  • 58% of Best-in-Class companies have dedicated resources devoted to social media marketing
  • 61% of Best-in-Class companies have online community platforms (e.g., discussion forums, ratings and reviews, etc.)
  • 68% of Best-in-Class companies increased their investments in social media marketing while 34% are keeping their investment level that same as last year

The global economic recession has put more pressure than ever on chief marketing officers and other senior marketing practitioners to minimize marketing waste and maximize Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI). How can marketers trapped in a vortex of plunging consumer demand and growing budgetary constraints that have made it necessary to curtail or completely eliminate investments in traditional marketing channels and programs hope to attract, retain and increase the value of profitable customers? Aberdeen research indicates that at least part of the answer lies in harnessing the power of social media marketing to drive customer advocacy.

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Reinsurance

Has been recognised as a leading journal and business intelligence service for the reinsurance professional since its launch in 1969.

Has been recognised as a leading journal and business intelligence service for the reinsurance professional since its launch in 1969.
Every month, Reinsurance Magazine provides news analysis with details on the stories impacting the reinsurance industry, along with a more technical insight. Market reports focus on specific regions, including the US, UK, Far East, Middle East and Bermuda to name but a few, and interviews with those who are driving and changing the face of the reinsurance industry.

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Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.

Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.

  • Leaders have achieved a 19% decrease in year-over-year energy costs relative to changes in volume of business.
  • Leaders experienced a 17% decrease in year-over-year waste / disposal costs relative to changes in volume of business.
  • Sustainability / CR initiatives have led to a 15% increase in the customer acquisition rate of Leaders.

Global food production, processing, distribution, and retailing have never been under greater scrutiny by consumers, regulators, and trading partners, than they are today. In the context of one of the world’s largest, most important, and complex supply chains, sustainability offers participants in the food industry unparalleled opportunities for competitive advantage and thought leadership.

Learn how top performing companies leverage sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) initiatives to: increase food safety and quality, dramatically reduce costs and waste; build customer and stakeholder loyalty and awareness, and achieve social and environmental stewardship.

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The idea that businesses of all sizes should have real insight into their operations and their customers - to be able to do their planning, forecasting, modeling and adjusting based on data that is current, accurate, accessible and flexible - is at the core of today's expanding BI and EPM market.

The idea that businesses of all sizes should have real insight into their operations and their customers - to be able to do their planning, forecasting, modeling and adjusting based on data that is current, accurate, accessible and flexible - is at the core of today’s expanding BI and EPM market.
Spearheading and driving this market with its typically aggressive approach is Oracle, a company that has always been a pioneer in developing progressive and industrial strength software solutions for businesses, particularly among the larger global enterprise companies.

Oracle, through acquisitions and its own software development, has turned its attention to the mid-market with a coordinated approach that is powerful, innovative and - most important - highly attuned to the needs and price points demanded by mid-market and emerging companies requiring leading-edge BI and EPM solutions.

Oracle’s range of offerings to midsize and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes. This paper discusses how building BI and EPM solutions is a process. Some companies will necessarily start smaller than others and focus on specific areas of the business where they will be able to see immediate benefits.

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Learn how technological advances in AIX high availability, clustering disaster recovery and continuous operations are ensuring that both planned and unplanned outages  result in minimal data loss.

Learn how technological advances in AIX high availability, clustering disaster recovery and continuous operations are ensuring that both planned and unplanned outages result in minimal data loss.
For IT departments looking to bring their AIX environments to the next step in data protection, IBM’s PowerHA (formerly HACMP) connects multiple servers to shared storage via clustering. This offers automatic recovery of applications and system resources if a failure occurs with the primary server. But clustering only makes the server resilient, not the data storage. In order to be fully resilient, replication of the data store is essential. Learn all about how AIX data replication works and how it benefits PowerHA clusters.

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View a 3 minute overview of Salesforce CRM to learn how you can track your leads, deals, and accounts automatically with an easy-to-use, online, pay-as-you-go solution.

View a 3 minute overview of Salesforce CRM to learn how you can track your leads, deals, and accounts automatically with an easy-to-use, online, pay-as-you-go solution.
Then view a Web demo of Salesforce CRM that best matches your role as a CRM Sales Rep, Sales Manager, Sales & Marketing Alignment, Channel Sales Executive.

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Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.

Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results. Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This 9 Value Offer Expires 5/1/2009.

  • Best-in-Class companies achieved an average 3% decrease in order-to-delivery cycle times from 2006 to 2008.
  • Best-in-Class companies watched as logistics costs dropped an average of 3% from 2006 to 2008.
  • Best-in-Class companies reduced finished goods inventory levels as a percentage of sales by an average of 4% from 2006 to 2008.

The beginning of 2009 proves to be a time that business operations are really tested; many manufacturers face increasingly volatile demand and the need to satisfy customers, whose demands cannot afford to be ignored. But when are customers’ needs too costly because of production, shipping, or inventory holding costs when there is such a tremendous pressure to reduce costs? With this report, Aberdeen describes what some companies are doing to mitigate those unnecessary inventory-related costs.

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