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- The Data Quality Business Case: Projecting Return on Investment
- The purpose of this white paper is to outline the importance of data quality in today's business environment. It describes how an organization should tackle a data quality improvement process and how the right data quality software solutions fit into that process. There is little doubt that the need...
- Tags: Data Quality, ROI, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-06-01
- A Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Program That Saves Cash: Link Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements to Business Improvement
- Successful quality - and compliance - is a continuous improvement process that demands a closed-loop control structure. Technology-enabled quality in the "Financial data factory" provides a significant ROI. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance becomes a dimension of overall quality. Continuous inspection solutions from Oversight Systems provide precise results and a leveraged environment for...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2006-07-25
- BI: Information Quality - Improving Information Value Through Measurement and Improvement
- In this webcast the presenter describes how a person can measure information quality and improve the processes that create, update and deliver information to create business process performance excellence. The presenter also describes how organizations have implemented information quality processes to improve the effectiveness of their information quality function.
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Information Quality
- Webcasts
- Better Application Quality Through Collaboration
- Application quality is a team effort, and requires a complex combination of IT skills and roles. Ensuring that level of collaboration is a key IT management challenge. Software productivity tools and well-defined processes can help create an environment that facilitates collaboration. This white paper describes the vision in more detail....
- Tags: Collaboration, Application Quality, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Data Quality: Standardize, Validate and Improve your Information Assets
- As companies search for more consistent, accurate, and reliable data, they realize that you need to have a solid combination of data quality technology along with quality improvement processes. This white paper, co-authored with Larry English from Information Impact International, provides an overview of the processes and technology that can...
- Tags: Asset, Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Asset Management, Databases, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2004-02-01
- The CIO's Guide to Taking Data Asset Metrics to the Boardroom
- Data quality and data integration can affect all aspects of an organization. Without consistent, accurate and reliable data, companies cannot respond to trends and meet customer expectations. This white paper explains how reports on data quality initiatives can help executives understand the impact of data quality - and what CIOs...
- Tags: Asset, Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-09
- MSF Process Template for CMMI Process Improvement (exe)
- Choose the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process for projects with longer life cycles and that require a record of decisions made. Choose MSF for CMMI Process Improvement over MSF for Agile Software Development, if your organization is undertaking a broad quality assurance and process improvement initiative or your team...
- Tags: Process Improvement, Software Development, Quality, Business Operations, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
- CMMi for Software Development Projects: Initiating a Process Improvement Program
- Continuous Process Improvement is the underlying principle behind most modern quality and process standards. In order to stay competitive in a global economy, organizations must systematically strive to improve their processes through sustained and disciplined efforts. This paper presents the fundamental steps leading to process improvement and suggests some practical...
- Tags: Software, Continuous Process Improvement, Software Development, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-04-30
- Putting Quality Process in Place to Exploit Technology
- Part of the increased interest in data and information quality in business is because of the growing role of data quality technology used to address faulty or nonquality data. Through this software, businesses can indeed build better data sources, which can then drive enterprise applications such as Customer Relationship Management...
- Tags: Data Quality, Information Quality, SAS Institute, ERP, CRM, Process Improvement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Databases, Quality, Business Operations, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Improving the Information Technology Service Management With Six Sigma
- Over the last few years, the number of organizations that deliver Information Technology IT services is increased. There are some frameworks such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL for IT Service Management that consists of a set of guidelines that specify what an IT organization should do. However, they don't...
- Tags: Information Technology, Iran Telecommunication Research Cente, Six Sigma, Strategy, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Service Level Agreements: A Framework for the Quality Management and Improvement of Central Support Services
- Service Level Agreements SLAs are becoming an increasingly popular way to manage the quality of services within organisations. Monash University is developing SLA's between central support services and faculties for support services including human resources, student services and information technology services. The potential benefits of this process include increased internal...
- Tags: Monash University, SLA, Support Services, Quality Management, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-04-28
- Combining ITIL and Six Sigma to Improve Information Technology Service Management at General Electric
- ITIL defines the "what" of service management and Six Sigma defines the "how" of quality improvement. Together, they make a great combination for improving the quality of IT service delivery and support. This paper presents a description of ITIL and Six Sigma, and discusses how they can be used together...
- Tags: General Electric Co., Information Technology, ITIL, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, It Services, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
- White papers 2004-10-19
- Quality Improvement in Volunteer Free Software Projects: Exploring the Impact of Release Management
- Even though free software has achieved great popularity and success in recent years, there are a number of product quality challenges facing the open source development model. There is significant room for further quality improvement and one area that deserves special attention is release management. The research in this paper...
- Tags: Software, Quality Improvement, University Of Cambridge, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2005-07-11
- Software Quality Assurance of Management Processes Using Core Measures
- Software Quality Assurance SQA without measures is like a jet with no fuel. Everyone is ready to go but not much happens. This paper deals with the SQA activities to ensure the right fuel is available to reach the destination, namely high quality. There are three processes, common to both...
- Tags: Software, Software Quality Assurance, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2001-09-19
- Improving Quality by Systems Integration: Streamlining the New Student Processes
- The aim of this paper is to analyse a systems integration development project undertaken in the University of Tampere and its effects in the organisational processes. The focus of the analysis is in giving insight on the type of quality improvement resulting directly in developing the interoperability of the systems...
- Tags: Systems Integration, ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Quality, Business Operations, Software
- White papers 2005-05-15
- SBS Quality Database (zip)
- The Quality Database is a simple, inexpensive ISO 9000 compliant program that allows small businesses to efficiency manage the Quality System. The database tracks corrective and preventive actions, internal audit tracking, safety improvement, supplier corrective actions, continual improvement projects. Compile and analyze Customer Survey results. Document QMS review meetings and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Database, Audit, Small Business, Quality Database, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-12-04
- Recalibrating Lean: Enterprise Mobility and Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing
- The goal of this white paper is to detail the benefits of integrating enterprise mobility into your lean environment, especially when it comes to the fundamental components of calibrating, operating and improving. Enterprise mobility technology enables you to enhance your lean efforts without it becoming burdensome to continuous improvement processes....
- Tags: Mobility, Symbol Technologies Inc., Manufacturing, Enterprise Mobility Technology
- White papers
- EnhanceMovie (exe)
- EnhanceMovie is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use video quality improvement tool. Using EnhanceMovie, you can solve many common problems: noisy and interlacing video, insufficient brightness and/or contrast, blurred image and others by applying video filters, such as: Denoise, Deinterlace, Brightness, Auto Contrast, Sharpen and more. Or you can make home videos...
- Tags: MOVAVI, video, home video, MPEG, GUI, tool, movie
- Software downloads 2006-10-09
- Monitoring Data Quality Performance Using Data Quality Metrics
- Organizational data quality management is often introduced in reaction to acute problems traceable to how some data failure adversely affected the business. This reactive approach may be typified by a rush to identify, evaluate, and purchase technical solutions that may or may not address the manifestation of problems, as opposed...
- Tags: Data Quality, Monitoring, Data Quality Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
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