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- Airlines Approaching RFID Technology
- Radio Frequency IDentification RFID tags have long had the potential to make airline operations much more efficient, improve security and cut costs, but that potential has been delayed by technology standards questions and the cost of the individual tags. Capable of storing many identifying and tracking pieces of information on...
- Tags: Penton Media Inc., RFID, Supply Chain, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- Business Continuity Planning: Becoming the Resilient Enterprise
- What happens to a company when a disruption occurs? When an earthquake hits its primary contract manufacturer? When labor strikes shut down a critical port? When a severe flu pandemic strikes? Regulatory and corporate boards are pressing executive teams to expand and strengthen their organization's resiliency. This webcast will explore...
- Tags: Business Continuity Planning, Disruption, Penton Media Inc., Business Continuity, Business Security, Corporate Governance, Strategy, It Services, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management
- Webcasts
- Security Best Practices for the Mobile Enterprise
- Wireless and mobile technologies are enabling enterprises to gain competitive advantage through accelerated responsiveness and increased productivity. But these technologies also mean extending the boundaries of your enterprise, taking your data where it's never been before and over networks well beyond your firewall. This web seminar will identify key security...
- Tags: Security, Mobile, Mobility, Penton Media Inc., Enterprise, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Marketing, Wireless
- Webcasts
- Closing the Fact Gap: The Intersection of Information, Action, and Accountability
- Why is it that a majority of executives in a recent BusinessWeek survey reported making well over half their critical business decisions based on "gut feel"? Are business users not getting what they need to make proactive, strategic decisions? Is there an information deficit? Is data availability putting organizations at...
- Tags: Penton Media Inc., Accountability, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts
- Linking Strategy to Execution With Plan-to-Perform Blueprints
- Effective implementation of best practices in planning, budgeting and forecasting can be a daunting process. Simple, integrated, accurate, and dynamic plans that link strategy to execution shouldn't seem a lot to ask -- yet most organizations remain mired in overly complex and time-consuming planning processes that are of little ultimate...
- Tags: Penton Media Inc., Best Practice, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- New Ways to Cut Costs in '05: Travel and Meeting Management
- Many organizations report they are entering into 2005 with a renewed interest in managing costs. A much-overlooked area for cost management is travel and meeting management. This webcast will examine new survey data that reveals how finance professionals perceive spend management for meetings and hear from experts on how to...
- Tags: Penton Media Inc., Survey, Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Embracing Excel and Improving Your Enterprise Planning Process
- In this webcast you will learn how Cognos Planning engages the enterprise to deliver timely, fact-based plans that connect operational planning and financial planning. In delivering a connected plan across the organization, it is important to deliver driver-based plans that embrace the whole company though a common view of business...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Finance
- Webcasts
- Best Practices in Financial Services: Achieving Excellence in Customer Management, Productivity and Strategic Alignment
- As the financial services needs of customers rapidly change, the banking industry faces significant delivery challenges. Extending customer relationships, making them profitable and delivering service seamlessly across multiple channels and lines of business is essential to succeed in today's market - and can deliver strategic advantage in the banking business....
- Tags: Financial Service, Penton Media Inc., Best Practice, Banking, Financial Services
- 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
- Overcoming "The Fiefdom Syndrome": How to Conquer the Turf Battles That Undermine Companies
- What key disciplines must be instilled to eliminate fiefdoms? Why is information, and how it is analyzed and presented, critically important to an organization's culture? Can high-performance behavior be learned? This webcast will give you new insight into how to break down the biggest barriers to organizational success.
- Tags: High-performance, Penton Media Inc., Leadership, Management
- Webcasts
- ROI on a Global Automated T&E System: Alliance Capital Case Study
- Alliance Capital is a major New York-based asset management firm with offices in 20 countries, overseeing $479 billion in offices in 20 countries. Tasked with processing 20,000 expense reports annually, Alliance was struggling with a lengthy, labor-intensive submission and reimbursement procedure, poor accruals processing, and failure to gain compliance with...
- Tags: Alliance, ROI, Penton Media Inc., Alliance Capital, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Thriving in the Face of Regulation: How to Accommodate the New Corporate Governance Regime and Achieve Optimum Financial Performance
- Business regulation is the bane of US business today; it's public enemy number one for public companies large and small. Although debate continues among government officials, corporate executives, investors and academics about the utility and necessity of business regulation, most everyone agrees the new corporate governance and compliance regime is...
- Tags: Financial, Compliance, Penton Media Inc., Business Regulation, Corporate Governance, Regulations, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Government
- Webcasts
- Providing On-Demand Financial Visibility Throughout the Enterprise
- Organizations see distributed accountability as key to improving financial performance. The delivery of up-to-date, personalized views of accurate financial information is now crucial. This capability allows line managers with fiscal responsibility to monitor and manage their performance. In this webcast, you will learn how to achieve balance between forecasting accuracy...
- Tags: Financial, On-demand, Penton Media Inc., Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
- Webcasts
- Best Practices in Travel & Entertainment Expense Management
- This web seminar will provide corporate executives, from organizations of all sizes, with best practices in T&E expense management and insight into the advantages of automating and streamlining their expense management process. By attending this Web-based seminar, executives with responsibility for financial and T&E management will learn the latest drivers...
- Tags: Web, Penton Media Inc., Management, Best Practice, Entertainment, Channel Management, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Requirements of a 21st Century CFO: Meeting the Challenges of a Complex, Unpredictable Business Environment
- Finance's role is ascendant in organizations today. Unfortunately, up to now, finance's changing and growing workload has been likened to comic book heroes Superman and astronauts ("The Right Stuff"). Flattering perhaps, but when you can't call on supernatural powers or mission control for help, how do you respond to the...
- Tags: Environment, Penton Media Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts
- Windows Vista Review - Part 5: Windows Vista Features
- For many of those interested in Windows Vista, it all boils down to the features: The applications, services, and other embedded functionality that, at a clinical level at least, makes up the whole of the next operating system. Fair enough. This paper provides a complete run-down of Vista's most important...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-11-16
- Windows Vista Review - Part 3: Installing Windows Vista
- While a person will install Windows Vista in ways that are similar to previous Windows versions, under the covers, everything has changed. The DOS mode portion of Windows Setup, present even in the NT-based Windows variants such as Windows XP, is finally gone, exorcised from people's lives for good. But...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-11-09
- It's Gold: Windows Vista Hits RTM
- Microsoft announced that it had released Windows Vista to manufacturing, ending five years of waiting and one of the longest development periods in Windows history. For Microsoft, its partners, and its customers, the lengthy road to Vista concludes with Microsoft shipping the so-called "Golden master" version of the product to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Finance
- White papers 2006-11-08
- Windows Vista's Enthusiastic Licensing Restrictions
- At the heart of this paper is the concept that Windows is bound to a particular 'Device', and not to a particular human owner. This means that when a person buy and install Windows, he is buying it specifically for one fixed PC device, and should that PC change significantly...
- Tags: Device, Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-10-16
- Licensing Changes to Windows Vista
- Every version of Windows is accompanied by a End-User License Agreement EULA. This document is a contract that specifies ones rights with regards to the copy of Windows one just obtained. The thing is, most people - over 90 percent - get Windows with a new PC, according to Microsoft....
- Tags: EULA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-10-14
