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- Configuration Management and Engineering Change Control
- This paper will provide practical approaches to implementing and managing engineering changes and explore Product Data Management PDM or Product Information Management PIM and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP can be used as a tool to support configuration management and engineering change control. A company may evaluate and process many thousands...
- Tags: Change Control, Configuration Management, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security
- White papers
- Reducing the Cost of SOx Compliance - Learning From ISO9000 Implementation
- CFOs looking to reduce the cost of sustaining SOx compliance look no further than their Quality Management organization. The techniques that helped a manufacturer reduce the cost of staying compliant with ISO9000 will also enable a CFO to sustain SOx 404 compliance at significantly lower costs. When US manufacturers started...
- Tags: Cost, Change Control, Quality Management, Compliance, MetricStream Inc., Quality, Business Operations
- White papers
- Smith & Nephew Streamlines Engineering Change Control Process to Shorten Review Cycle
- In the medical devices world, Smith & Nephew is synonymous with high standards of performance, innovation and trust. The company's orthopedic reconstruction unit began searching for an enterprise visualization solution to replace a previously discontinued viewer. One major requirement for the new visualization solution was its ability to integrate with...
- Tags: Smith & Nephew Plc., Oracle Corp., Change Control, Healthcare, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Reduce repetitive formatting for Access objects
- If you find yourself constantly making formatting adjustments to Access objects on the fly, you're bogging yourself down unnecessarily. As Access expert Susan Harkins explains, a couple of tricks can save you tons of time: Either change control defaults for a particular form or report or customize a form or...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Change Control, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Download resources 2007-05-07
- Track Database Changes with Imperva's ADC Change Management
- Having a change control process in effect for your IT infrastructure is a daunting task. Change Management helps to relieve the chaos in an IT infrastructure by having documented processes with how to deal with patches, updates, new equipment requests, audits, and potential issues that arise on a daily basis....
- Tags: security, change management
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Reduce repetitive formatting for Access objects
- If you find yourself constantly making formatting adjustments to Access objects on the fly, you're bogging yourself down unnecessarily. A couple of tricks can save you tons of time: Either change control defaults for a particular form or report or customize a form or report and turn it into a...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Access Objects, Microsoft Access, change control, adjustment
- Image galleries 2007-05-07
- SharePoint Services v3 - Change Control / Mgmt
- What are the best practices for controlling changes to SharePoint Services v3?Here are a few questions: Do you recommend keeping Dev, QA, UAT and Prod in synch? Do you recommend a mirrored prod environment?Do you recommend doing changes directly in Prod? Do you recommend having one test environment instead...
- Tags: Groupware, selbaum@..., Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Services V3, UAT, Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services, change control
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Getting the Most Out of Your Change Control System Measuring Software Quality
- Configuration Management CM tools are often cited as the first process automation implemented when establishing a software development environment. The only other tool more commonly found is the editor/compiler. CM tools that support the entire CM process will have two components, one for a file and configuration control part and...
- Tags: Software, Change Control, Configuration Management, Tool, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-07-26
- Addressing the Insider Threat with NetIQ Operational Change Control Solutions
- Organisations typically grant IT administrators more access than is required to make simple changes to their production servers and applications. In order to comply with regulations and ensure the integrity of their IT infrastructure, organisations need to more tightly control changes. This white paper looks at how NetIQ can...
- Tags: NetIQ Corp., Change Control
- White papers 2006-07-20
- Sample directory structure helps manage project documentation
- Alternatively, use change control systems.Instead of storing your project documents in folders, store them in you change management/change control systems, along with your software, database designs, data dictionary, and everything else. Then, everything the project produces is managed in the same way.Design documents, project reports, all project documentation should...
- Tags: stephen.burns@..., change control
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
- Is change control getting out of hand?
- I have been working network support for about 15 years now. The move to a change control system was something I regarded as a smart move. What I discovered was that it started a whole new empire staffed people with an accountant mentality. The work flow has...
- Tags: markross@..., change control
- Discussion threads 2006-09-21
- Keep track of worksheet changes with Excel's shared worksheet feature
- However, you need to beware …This all sounds great in this age of accountability and auditability, however the user needs to be very careful – all is not as it appears. Once tracking is enabled, no charts, images, controls (such as handy drop-downs), hyperlinks or pivot tables can be...
- Tags: sarah.seddon@..., compliance, spreadsheet, change control, version control, hardware, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Quickly change controls in an Access form
- Are you tired of creating a control on a Microsoft Access form, only to delete it because it's not the control you really need? The good news is that you don't have to delete the unwanted control—you can simply convert it to the control that you want. Learn how easy...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Mary Ann Richardson, change control, new control, Microsoft Office Suite Access Tips Newsletter, Box, Control, News, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Technical articles 2005-06-28
- Requirements management best practices
- Requirements management best practicesI work for a large company with a fairly informal software development process, especially in the area of requirement gathering/management. I would like to hear how others perform their requirements management. I would appreciate any information about how you gather requirements, how they are maintained...
- Tags: Requirements Management, it management, requirements, project development lifecycle, hoghat@..., programming, simple Access database, change control
- Discussion threads 2006-05-20
- Change Control in a tight times
- Change Control in a tight timesChange Control management for Windows Servers environment. I'd like to hear from my peers out there: how do you do it?Let me draw a picture of my environment: 3 Sys Admins for approx 130 production Windows Servers. Needless to say our weeks can be very...
- Tags: Servers, change control, server
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
- Preparing to use Windows Server 2003 Group Policies
- Change control and distributed security are two issues thataffect not only large organizations but also small ones. In some respects, theycan be even more important in a small organization than in a larger one. If youallow a key employee to change settings at will, the result could be a toastedsystem...
- Tags: change control, Diana Huggins, group policy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, security
- Technical articles 2006-01-04
- Quickly change controls in an Access form
- Very handyI have developed so much in Access and have often been frustrated by having to delete a control to change it to another type. I never knew this context-sensitive item was avialable! A nice little time saver.
- Tags: Access Form, change control, changing controls, hardware, Microsoft Access, ms access, tim@...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-20
- Auditing and Change Control
- Any good products out there for auditing the configuration of my servers and monitoring for changes? I need something that has alerting and ease of use.OS?What OS are you using?
- Tags: Auditing, auditing windows change control tracking, change control, colesky@..., security
- Discussion threads 2005-08-12
- Download this network change request form
- Learn how a change management system can result in fewer change requests and a reduction in conflicting changesAn important part of maintaining a stable network environment is establishing a change control process. For enterprises with larger IT staffs and multiple sites, change management is critical. Changes to routers, servers, or...
- Tags: Change management, NETWORKING, Ray Geroski, IT Paul Osterhus, network, change control
- Technical articles 2002-10-17
- Get IT Done: Preparing to use Windows 2000 group policies
- A guide to preparing Windows 2000 group policiesChange control and distributed security are two issues that affect not only large organizations but also small ones. In some respects, they can be even more important in a small organization than in a larger one. If you allow a key employee to...
- Tags: Fax, Jim Boyce, Get IT Done, Microsoft Windows, change control, group policy, server, Microsoft Windows 2000
- Technical articles 2001-01-26
