Southern Company

Learn how this leading energy provider, with 4.4 million customers and 28,000 employees, uses Dell Crisis Management & Alerting services to enable enterprise-wide communication to manage through any incident to accelerate recovery.

Defending Against the Storm

Adams and Reese LLP needed a way to communicate with employees and clients in the event of a disaster in order to secure employee safety and conduct business when email and BlackBerry service were down. Learn how Adams and Reese ensures communications with dispersed employees and clients after Hurricane Katrina with help from Dell.

Share our Strength

With Dell Email Management Services, Share Our Strength® effectively eliminates email downtime, protects its IT environment from unwanted spam and viruses, and significantly reduces data stores.

Why Email Fails: Dell MessageOne Survey of Email Outages

Dell conducted this survey to understand the frequency and causes of email outages in North American corporations using Microsoft® Exchange Server. This research shows that enterprise email systems are prone to a variety of potential breakdowns including configuration errors, loss of network access, database corruption, SAN (Storage Area Network) failures, and viruses. Data from the survey shows that in any given 12-month time period, there is a 72% likelihood of an unplanned email outage and a 24% likelihood of a planned email outage for any given company. This research report analyzes the leading causes of failure with enterprise email systems and provides preventative guidance to lower the probability of unplanned email outages.

Top 10 Things to Know about Data Protection

Data protection is fast becoming part of the IT arsenal to combat data loss/theft. It can significantly reduce the amount of damage done by the above and their associated costs. Download this white paper to learn the top 10 things you should know about data protection.

Top 10 Actions a CIO Can Take to Prepare for a Hurricane

Each year hurricane season unleashes erratic, dangerous, and damaging storms on coastlines around the globe. Hurricanes and other natural disasters impose an unwelcome set of challenges for businesses and CIOs. Immediate concerns include the safety and security of employees as well as the prevention of damage to physical facilities. However, CIOs must also prepare to successfully overcome the challenge of maintaining business continuity in the event of a hurricane. Short and long-term impacts on customers, suppliers, partners, and employees can arise if communications and critical IT systems are lost or down for even a short period of time as the result of a storm. Business continuity and business viability are closely linked. This white paper discusses the ten key actions CIOs can take as help achieve communications and business continuity to protect against the unpredictable.

Ponemon Study: The Business Risk of a Lost Laptop

When an employee loses a computer, the information on it is typically more valuable than the hardware, according to this survey of 3,100 IT security professionals. Learn how employees can unwittingly compromise customer information, financial records and intellectual property, and read the seven steps you can take today to reduce the business risk of lost laptops.

Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops

Companies are dependent upon on a mobile workforce with access to information no matter where they travel. However, this mobility is putting companies at risk of having a data breach if a laptop containing sensitive information is lost or stolen. The findings of this study are important in helping companies understand what they should be doing to protect the information on their employees remote systems.

Essential Archive Requirements for E-Discovery

When companies are sued, opposing counsel uses eDiscovery to obtain electronic data -- especially email. Check out this whitepaper to learn about today's best practice approaches to quickly and effectively respond to a litigation event. Also: how to save time and money by building out repeatable technical processes.

CIO Strategies for the Retention and Deletion of Email

How do you develop a retention strategy for email and other Electronically Stored Information that stores, protects and enables the recovery of documents needed for litigation? This white paper sheds light on litigation issues affecting ESI, as well as on how to define and implement a retention and deletion strategy. Also: an overview of Dell's on-demand EMS email archiving services.

Mitigating Litigation Risk with Email Management Tools

Does your company have an email retention policy that protects it when litigation occurs? The risk of being unprepared for electronic discovery is high. IDC's research manager of Compliance Infrastructure discusses how to create and manage an effective email retention policy and the role hosted message archiving can play.

3 Minutes with Free Tool Can Save Thousands!

The EBS ROI Tool quickly points out the benefits of upgrading to EBS R12 on IBM hardware. Uncover improved productivity and better value. See how you can improve decision-making while reducing your total cost of ownership through process efficiencies and technology simplification.

Looking for a fast payback?

Spend 10 minutes with free JDE ROI Tool and save thousands! Learn how you can boost ROI and productivity with a JDE technology refresh. Included is a user-friendly video tutorial that shows how you can tailor the parameters to meet your specific needs and business scenarios.

Keeping hold of your customers, especially in tough economic conditions

You know as much as anyone about the challenges faced by midsize organizations. There are always competitors with deeper pockets, customers demanding more for less, and suppliers giving preferential terms to larger organizations. How can you sharpen your competitive edge? Read this white paper to learn how Oracle can help you.

Analytics Partners - Delivering Faster and More Strategic BI

Analytics Partners choose to work exclusively with Oracle because of the strength and superiority of its product line, as well as confidence in Oracle's commitment to the emerging midmarket, as well as to its channel partners. Read this case study to learn more about this successful partnership.

Business Continuity - Are You Always Open for Business?

Business continuity with low administration and maintenance costs. Can you make it happen? This Oracle business brief explains how mid-sized can improve performance by creating an IT infrastructure that makes working faster, easier and more effective.

From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game

This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy-to-use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company. Learn how Oracle Application Express delivers an easy, fast, and free way to manage your business information.

Optimizing Information Insight: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data

This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business decisions is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data.

Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely

Ovum has been following Oracle's Accelerate program over the last couple of years because they thought it is a smart strategy for penetrating the upper mid-market. Although Oracle developed Accelerate largely in response to slowing growth in its core large-enterprise market, the program seems prescient as the global business climate worsens and places new urgency on cost-effective sales strategies.

Why BI is Ripe - Now! - For Businesses of Any Size

Oracle's range of offerings to mid-size and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes.