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January 23, 2009 - (Free Research) Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
August 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs, and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper will explain why reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical.
November 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper will present you with all the information needed to make an educated decision on whether to commodity coding is right for your organization and it will help with choosing the commodity coding that fits your company.
December 2008 - (Free Research) The key to achieving cost-effective savings in the supply chain is to exchange information accurately and quickly in real-time.
April 2009 - (Free Research) BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper will help you understand what new and innovative techniques can be used to protect the reputation of your business, keep your members in a safe and trusted environment, while keeping the fraudsters out. Device fingerprinting helps identify the bad guys so sites can eliminate their accounts from the network once and for all.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture. It outlines requirements for a software platform for supporting such an architecture, and, as an example, reviews the BusinessObjects Data Services XI Release 3 platform.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.
July 2009 - (Free Research) This article presents an overview of the various Ethernet 10/100/1000 physical layer technologies for the copper medium. It discusses the pros and cons of active versus passive tapping and why active tapping is preferred for Gigabit Ethernet running over the copper medium. The switch-over behavior of active relay-based tapping is also presented.
January 2009 - (Free Research) DataFlux dfPower Studio combines several tools to help standardize incoming data and assist companies in building business rules into their system.
August 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert podcast, find out why many companies are turning to business process management (BPM) to automate processes, optimize workflows and improve operational efficiency and agility.
October 2009 - (Free Research) What makes one intrusion prevention system (IPS) better than another? The best way to answer that question is to assess each vendor's solution on the five building blocks of attack coverage: Knowledge of applications, threat engine performance, breadth and depth of coverage, accuracy, and timeliness.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer. Discover how to get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service with an application grid.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
September 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper presents the key characteristics of successful agile managers as they introduce and scale agile methods. Learn what agile managers can do to help their teams and organizations adopt agile development practices to deliver real...
September 2008 - (Free Research) This paper explains how a common platform can provide the basis for not only managing manufacturing operations, but also quality and inventory across global supplier networks.
December 2008 - (Free Research) In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper describes the HP approach and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop, deliver, and maintain high quality applications.
March 2009 - (Free Research) The CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) is in the process of updating their standards and suggested practices. They are going to be more strict with medical device developers. The purpose of this paper is to present the medical device developer guidelines for complying with the "suggestions" of the CDRH.
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