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- Digital Media Management Solution Offers Scalability, Reliability for Entertainment Industry
- Agnostic Media develops software that helps media and entertainment companies manipulate and manage digital media assets. From the beginning, the company sought to develop its products on flexible, cost-effective technology that would scale easily to meet the changing demands of media asset management. Agnostic Media chose to build its digital...
- Tags: Asset, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Agnostic Media, Asset Management, Digital Media, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- VigilantMinds Supports All Aspects of CSA Deployment
- The Cisco Security Agent is the host-based Intrusion Prevention Solution (IPS) from Cisco Systems that analyzes network traffic behavior for potential threats, including worms, spyware, and zero-day attacks. In synergy with VigilantMinds' proactive security intelligence approach, the Cisco Security Agent monitors network endpoints, such as Web servers and laptops, identifying...
- Tags: VigilantMinds, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Security Agent, Real Estate, Networking, Security, Business Operations
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- Integrated, Easy-to-Manage Security and Monitoring Solution Boosts IT Productivity
- Guardian Management LLC (Guardian), a real estate investment and management firm, had a firewall that kept locking up and a PC antivirus solution that failed to detect all malware, required manual configuration, and offered only limited reporting. To address those issues, Guardian deployed a comprehensive solution consisting of the Microsoft...
- Tags: Solution, Information Technology, Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Real Estate, Strategy, Security, Viruses And Worms, Business Operations, Management
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- Standards Organization Releases Modern, Interoperable Process Automation Standards
- Since the 1990s, the OPC Foundation has been establishing standards for process automation based on Microsoft DCOM. The OPC standard served the industry well for many years, but technology changes created a need for a new protocol based on open standards. To build the new OPC Unified Architecture and software...
- Tags: Process Automation, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Quality, Business Operations
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- Electronic Procurement Is Helping Swindon Borough Council Meet Its Operational Efficiency Targets
- Swindon Borough Council provides local government services, such as health and social care, education, housing, transport, and leisure, to 80,000 people in central southwest England. The council wanted to deliver bottom line cost savings of £3.75 million (US$7 million) in three years through professional procurement and use of electronic procurement...
- Tags: Council, Procurement, Swindon Borough Council, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- Logistics Management Firm Carries Information Load With NetApp Storage
- Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation (Cardinal) is one of the country's leading third-party logistics, transportation, and supply chain solutions providers. The company wanted to scale storage easily to accommodate rapid growth in information and improve reliability of backups. The company also wanted to reduce time needed to restore lost or corrupt...
- Tags: Logistics, NetApp, Storage, Supply Chain, Hardware, Business Operations
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- Maytas Properties Achieves More Effective Cost Reporting and Better Credit Control
- Maytas Group is a leading infrastructure development, construction, and project management company. The challenge was to install an integrated Web-based business management system to enable around-the-clock access to information and to provide real-time visibility into project costs and revenues to help the management team make effective decisions. The company selected...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, Maytas Group, Real Estate, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
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- Aviva Life Insurance Relies on the NetApp Unified Storage Approach
- Aviva Life Insurance Company India Pvt. Ltd., one of India's leading private life insurance companies, serves customers from 106 offices across the country. The company wanted to consolidate MS SQL applications to improve operational efficiency and ensure scalability for rapid growth. The company also wanted to improve storage utilization and...
- Tags: Aviva Plc., Life Insurance, NetApp, Aviva Life Insurance, Insurance, Storage, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Hardware, Finance
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- Findim Group S.A. Standardizes and Integrates Financial Processes to Optimize Performance
- Findim Group S.A. is the financial holding corporation for a group of companies in the real estate, agriculture, and finance sectors. The best-known member of the group is STAR Alimentare, a consumer goods manufacturer. Findim invests profits from its holdings in financial services and real estate ventures - including residential...
- Tags: Asset, Oracle Corp., Financial, Performance, Findim Group S.A., Asset Management, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
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- Merichem Chemicals and Refinery Services, LLC Automates Business Process and Reduces Costs
- From its beginnings more than 55 years ago in the specialty chemical business, Merichem Company has grown to be a world leader in innovative process technology as well as the production of high specification chemical intermediates. The challenge was to create an IT infrastructure that can support present operations and...
- Tags: Business Process, Chemicals, Oracle Corp., Decision-making, Operational Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management
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- CA Unifies and Simplifies Software Development With CA Clarity
- CA (NASDAQ: CA) is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. CA needs to manage over 5,000 developers scattered around the world - ensuring they work on the right projects, communicate effectively and efficiently share deliverables. Besides having to drive best practices across multiple development teams, the Business...
- Tags: Software, Computer Associates International Inc., Research & Development, Team Management, Software Development, Business Operations, Management, Software/Web Development
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- The VoIP Vision
- Today's enterprise contact center strategy can include multiple in-house agent sites, multiple outsourced call centers and a diversity of home-based remote agents. Traditional IT infrastructures, however, were never designed to support this distributed strategy. Newer, VoIP contact center technology addresses these challenges by enabling all sites and agents to share...
- Tags: VoIP, Agent, Contact Center, Call Centers, Real Estate, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Oglethorpe Power Corporation Chooses NewEnergy Associates' IMPACT to Optimize Their Financial Forecasting Process
- Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) is a power supplier serving 38 of Georgia's 42 customer-owned Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs). OPC's management needed more frequent and complex scenario analysis and financial forecasts, while at the same time needing faster turn-around times. Their previous planning software and spreadsheets could not support these critical...
- Tags: Financial, OPC, Research & Development, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
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- World Class Financial Planning for a Diversified Holding Company
- Allegheny Energy, situated in Hagerstown, MD, U.S., a diversified holding Company with Regulated and Unregulated Operations, performs forecasts, budgets, and other financial planning. As part of its continuing efforts to create value for shareholders as it grows, Allegheny Energy required sophisticated modeling for its numerous business units, potential acquisitions, and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Financial, Financial Accounting, Research & Development, Finance, Business Operations
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- Unisys Australia Leverages Nortel Networks Alteon Technology to Power Rugby World Cup 2003 Tournament Views/Information System and Global Website
- In more than 100 countries, Unisys delivers IT services, including systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, server technology and consulting. With 20 nations competing in 48 matches in 11 locations around Australia over six weeks, as many as 4.5 billion television viewers expected, and 10,000 accredited users expecting reliable, secure and instant...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Nortel Networks Corp., Alteon Networks, Web Site, Systems Integration, It Services, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Servers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Hardware
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- MarineCFO Creates a Shipshape Solution for the Maritime Transport Industry
- Marine transportation companies must optimize every aspect of their operations to ensure a return on the millions of dollars invested in vessels, shore-side facilities and manpower. Regulatory mandates require them to continually track and report compliance. And a shortage of skilled labor, sharply rising insurance premiums and increased litigation require...
- Tags: Industry, MarineCFO, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management
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- Shared Service Implementation - Success or Stalemate
- Successful implementations integrate people, processes, and technology to deliver an efficient, responsive business process. This webcast highlights a number of recurring themes that, have made Shared Services implementations successful at some of the most well respected companies - Reader's Digest, Reuters and Marsh. You will learn what it takes to...
- Tags: Implementation, Operational Planning, Benefits, Digital Media, Business Operations, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Certification Raises Confidence, Skills, and Salaries at International Law Firm
- International law firm Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP offers its Orange County, California, legal secretaries and word-processing staff the confidence and salary-building opportunity to earn Microsoft Office Specialist certifications. A Certiport Center, Gibson Dunn now retains highly skilled, productive employees who are enthusiastic and competent users of Microsoft programs. The...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Word-processing, Certification, Microsoft Corp., Salary, Quality, Litigation, Business Operations
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- Security Solution Helps Shipbuilder Optimize IT Environment, Collaborate More Safely
- Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, a leading global shipbuilder, lacked effective protection against intellectual property theft by rival companies. Information exchanged through Web-based applications was particularly vulnerable. To strengthen data security, the company implemented a solution based on Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 and Citrix MetaFrame. ISA Server 2004...
- Tags: Hyundai, IT Environment, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., ISA Server 2004, Intellectual Property, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations
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- The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) in the Application Development Lifecycle
- This webcast looks at best practices in IT Service Management utilizing the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process framework. The webcast will discuss the changing work practices and compliance requirements that are driving new behaviors and the use of ITIL. The role of application lifecycle management in providing a link between...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Application Development, Information Technology, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
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