Financial Services White Papers

Boost Business Agility for IBM WebSphere

IBM's WebSphere software is one of the most successful middleware software suites for SOA business applications in e-Commerce, Financial Services, Telco and other industries. It includes the entire middleware infrastructure, including servers, services, and tools, needed to create, deploy, run, and monitor round-the-clock, enterprise-wide Web applications and crossplatform, cross-product solutions.

By reducing problem hotspots within WebSphere before they occur in the development process or by diagnosing and repairing them when they occur in test and production can improve the time-to-value and ROI for a WebSphere implementation by as much as 50% or more. It can also ensure that users are more satisfied with the performance of new or updated WebSphere applications, when deployed.

Sponsor: Compuware

Why You Need An APM Platform To Unify The Entire Application Performance Lifecycle

With the formation of DevOps, it's more important than ever to utilize a common Application Performance Management (APM) platform throughout the lifecycle, from concept to retirement, from end-to-end to provide the foundation for proactive problem resolution and prevention. APM platforms provide the foundation for proactive problem resolution and prevention in a DevOps environment, with the promise of substantially reducing total cost of ownership of an application over its 5 to 10+ year life.

This paper discusses the selection requirements and benefits for a common APM platform to be used for proactive lifecyclebased performance management across development, test and production.

Sponsor: Compuware

Create a World-class Online Experience

It takes only a few seconds for an unsatisfied e-commerce customer to switch to a competitor's website, impacting both loyalty and revenue. To attract and retain customers, e-commerce businesses need to create a world-class online experience.

This white paper outlines the top 10 questions to ask when optimizing your e-commerce applications, and how the right answers can significantly improve your e-commerce application performance.

Sponsor: Compuware

Continuous Application Performance Management

This whitepaper discusses the new requirements for application performance management (APM) in the face of accelerating complexity in application development, architectural design, and production environments. There is no question that applications continue to become more business critical. They are weapons upon which we rely to compete in our given marketplace. They are more externally focused than ever before, touching customers, business partners and supply chain and driving more and more of our business. These business critical applications must not just be "available" 24x7, but they must perform optimally at all times for all users. They must scale further than ever before, supporting more and more users driving more and more transactions. And we are tweaking them, changing them, enhancing them more and more often than ever before. All this is going on while we fold in more 3rd party code including open source, distribute our applications globally, and shift from physical to virtual production environments.

Sponsor: Compuware

Meeting the PCI-DSS Compliance Challenge

One of the toughest challenges facing organizations focused on enterprise fraud management and trying to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) comes from section 10.2.1. This section requires them to "implement automated audit trails for all system components to reconstruct all individual user accesses to cardholder data." In addition, section 10.2.2 requires that "all actions taken by any individual with root or administrative privileges" must be included in the audit trail.
But reconstructing all user access to cardholder data is difficult, if not impossible, for most organizations. This solution brief describes the four technical challenges you face and tells you how Luminet can help you overcome them.

Sponsor: Attachmate

The Bad Guys Inside Your Bank

When millions of credit card records are stolen, it's big news. But actually, this headline-grabbing type of theft is not the most common type of fraud. Rather, it's the small crimes of opportunity that occur quietly, steadily, and repeatedly at the hands of your most trusted insiders-your employees, vendors, consultants, and contractors.
This solution brief tells how Attachmate Luminet fraud management software helps banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions see the big picture, identify fraudulent activity upfront, and gather the intelligence needed to take informed action.

Sponsor: Attachmate

Winning the Regulatory Compliance Game

Your biggest compliance risk may be sitting right down the hall from you. With legitimate access to business systems and inside knowledge of critical operations, your employees commit more compliance violations than anyone else.
Governments and industry groups worldwide have responded accordingly-by enacting regulations designed to protect public and shareholder interests. These regulations-Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GBLA), HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxlely Act, and Basel II, for example-have one thing in common: They all require that you generate a complete and accurate trail of user access to confidential information.
But creating the perfect audit trail is difficult, if not impossible, for most organizations. This solution brief describes the technical challenges you face and tells you how to overcome them.

Sponsor: Attachmate