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- Insurance Carrier: Portal and Content Management Migration
- A large insurance enterprise engaged LiquidHub to work with its e-business team to define an implementation roadmap to meet an aggressive deliverable timetable. The initiative faced numerous technical, taxonomy/search and regulatory hurdles, including cumbersome search processes, inadequate auditing capabilities, and a need to migrate large amounts of both managed and...
- Tags: Auditing, Migration, Portals, Web Technology, Insurance, Financial Planning, Content Management, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Harbor Federal Bank Relies on Novell Solutions to Get Back to Business After Hurricanes and Maintain Its Reputation as the Safest Bank in Florida
- Harbor Federal Savings Bank is a community-oriented savings institution with approximately $2.6 billion in assets. With some offices up to 200 miles away, deploying applications was a cumbersome process, requiring the IT team to be on the road for up to a week for a large deployment. Security is also...
- Tags: Bank, Security, Novell Inc., Desktop Management, Auditing, Harbor Federal Savings Bank, Desktops, Financial Services, Hardware
- Case studies
- How and What to Look for When Auditing z/OS With eTrust CA-Examine Auditing
- Even with the flurry of new government and industry mandated auditing requirements that literally affect every area of the business, the IT auditing staff is no exception to the "Do more with less" theme that rules today's IT industry. Help is available today for mainframe z/OS installations in the form...
- Tags: CA eTrust, Auditing, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Webcasts
- Crystal Glass Maker Cuts Month-End Closing, Reduces Accounting Costs by 75 Percent
- Crystal glassware manufacturer Zwiesel established an Asian presence in 1999. With expansion and increasing sales, it faced increasing pressure on its back-end IT operations. Additionally, outsourced finance and auditing functions made information access difficult and slow. Zwiesel Asia wanted a flexible system to enhance management visibility, increase operational efficiencies, and...
- Tags: Accounting, Auditing
- Case studies
- ZDNet Video Whiteboard: Simplify Compliance with Auditing
- Audit data commonly resides in silos, making it vulnerable to tampering. Paul Needham, Director of Product Management for Database Security at Oracle, shows how Oracle Audit Vault consolidates audit data in a centralized data warehouse, improving security and reporting capabilities. Note: This premium editorial content is underwritten...
- Tags: Audit, Oracle Corp., Auditing, Compliance, Video, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Presentations
- Auditing Your Disaster Recovery Plan: A Closer Look at High Tech Crime Will This Be Your Most Likely Disaster in the 21st Century?
- Everything is high-tech these days including the minds of the world's criminal element. If they find an opportunity, they won't think twice before breaking into a person's corporate computers and possibly causing the person the biggest 'Front page news' disaster that the person could ever imagine. It has already happened...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Auditing, Disaster, Person, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers
- Does the Structure of Auditing Encourage Aggressive Accounting?
- If management wants to pump up earnings for a particular period, it's easy to slow research and development expenses, defer repair and maintenance or even time purchases so bills are incurred a bit later. Who can judge the way management runs its business? Achieving precision in a company's numbers is...
- Tags: Accounting, R&D, Auditing, SAS Institute, Research & Development, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers
- Updated Application Speeds Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Auditing Functions
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CME is the largest futures exchange in the United States, trading over a record 4.4 million contracts per day in the second quarter of 2005, up 33 percent from the same period a year ago, via CME Globex, its electronic trading platform, and the trading...
- Tags: Auditing, Microsoft Visual Basic, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Financial Statements, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Energy Service Employees Streamline Audit Process With Mobile Solution
- Energy service company Energywise, based in South Africa, advises customers about how they can reduce their power usage. Its engineers visit companies around the country, auditing energy consumption and recommending energy-efficient alternatives. In the past, engineers used paper-based processes to capture data onsite, but they found the process time-consuming and...
- Tags: Audit, Mobile, Streamline, Auditing, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies
- How and What to Look for When Auditing eTrust CA-Top Secret Security
- To help identify potential performance impacts, join this interactive webcast to learn about key areas in which to monitor eTrust CA-Top Secret Security. The listener will learn what to look for and why, as well as how to get the information needed from eTrust CA-Top Secret Security. The webcast will...
- Tags: Auditing, Computer Associates International Inc., Security, Viruses And Worms
- Webcasts
- Goldleaf Security Services Case Study: Cumberland Bank
- Cumberland Bank needed a robust, easy to use solution for network security and regulatory audit compliance. After assessing a wide range of competing products, they chose the full suite of Goldleaf Security and Performance Monitors. Cumberland's network is now protected 24/7 by Goldleaf Security's automated agents. In addition to providing...
- Tags: Bank, Network, Auditing, Cumberland, E-mail, Networking, Financial Services, Security, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Bluesocket Case Study: Missouri Southern State University
- While it may appear to be rural, Joplin, MO is the fourth largest metro community in that state and has its feet planted firmly at the crossroads of a diverse four-state region. They needed a WLAN solution that would do authentication, do the tracking and then correlate the user ID,...
- Tags: Auditing, BlueSocket, BlueSecure 5000 Controller, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- Live Demo: Automate and Sustain Compliance With Identity Auditing
- With a year of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 behind you, you no doubt had not expected to spend as much time as you did to comply with the law. With year two in full swing, the focus is to make the process more efficient across departments AND across multiple regulations -...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Auditing, Compliance, Identity, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, It Management, Regulations, Basel II, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, It service Management, Financial Services
- Webcasts
- DiagWin Professional
- With DiagWin Professional, systems management has never been easier. You can monitor and maintain your IT assets to ensure a secure, reliable network environment right from your desk. In seconds, DiagWin collects complete inventory for each system on your network including hardware, software and network & user settings (more than...
- Tags: Software, Network, Auditing, Business Oriented Software Solutions Inc., Patches, Networking
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- International Accounting Certification in the Russian Language: A Case Study
- The 15 former Soviet republics known as the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS all have their own national accounting and auditing certifications. These republics have been evolving in different directions since the break up of the Soviet Union. However, they have at least one thing in common - their certifications...
- Tags: Accounting, Certification, Auditing, Quality, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance
- Case studies
- Automated Invoice Processing Speeds Time, Improves Auditing, Increases Accuracy, and Eliminates Penalties
- One of the ten largest German utilities, Stadtwerke Dusseldorf has served Dusseldorf and its surrounding regions for more than 130 years. Stadtwerke Dusseldorf wanted an automated system that would eliminate the handling of paper invoices and enable them to be processed and stored electronically. The company deployed a solution based...
- Tags: Auditing, Invoice, SAP AG, EMC Corp., Documentum, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act One Year Later: Its Effect on International Corporate Governance Reforms
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was a far reaching legislative effort to address corporate governance issues in the United States. It is considered a milestone in restoring confidence in U.S. markets in the wake of scandals such as Enron and WorldCom. This securities legislation has had major implications for corporate boards, audit...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, World Bank Group, Auditing, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Sarbanes-Oxley, Free Trade, Regulatory Compliance, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Webcasts
- TCP/IP Port and Process Auditing
- Has your system security been compromised? Is your computer running processes for someone other than you? This webcast discusses one approach to answer these questions: auditing processes and TCP/UDP port usage on Microsoft Windows systems.
- Tags: Auditing, Microsoft Corp., Tcp/Ip, Networking
- Webcasts
- The Future of Auditing Standards, and Their Impact on Corporate Governance
- In a recent survey, 76% of CFOs polled by Business Finance believe the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley outweigh the benefits. Although the backlash from the Enron, MCI, and myriad other scandals continues to argue for new regulations to ensure tough auditing, controls and governance standards, finance executives and other corporate constituencies...
- Tags: Auditing, Penton Media Inc., Standards, Quality, Corporate Governance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Finance
- Webcasts
- Mainframe Webcast Updates - eTrust Cleanup and eTrust CA-Examine Auditing - What's New and What's Next
- Computer Associates CA is committed to assuring that eTrust Cleanup and eTrust CA-Examine Auditing be the most flexible, cost effective z/OS security auditing solution on the market. This webcast will highlight the enhancements of eTrust Cleanup and eTrust CA-Examine.
- Tags: CA eTrust, Webcast, Auditing, Mainframe, Computer Associates International Inc., Viruses And Worms, Security
- Webcasts
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