Applications White Papers

Establishing a Strategy for Database Security is No Longer Optional

As databases continue to grow in size, complexity and importance, enterprises struggle to identify the most appropriate controls regarding their use and misuse. The most effective database security implementations will leverage controls across administrative, preventive and detective controls. The report identifies best practices, including: Implementing database activity monitoring to mitigate the high levels of risk from database vulnerabilities, and address audit findings in areas such as database segregation of duties and change management; using data security measures, such as data masking and data encryption; and monitoring privileged-user access and access to critical data.

Sponsor: IBM

Driving Secure Enterprise File Sharing and Syncing in the Enterprise

GroupLogic's new activEcho is the industry's only secure Enterprise File Sharing and Synching solution that balances the need for simplicity for the end user, and the security, management and flexibility required by the enterprise. This paper provided an in-depth view into the security features and benefits of activEcho.

Sponsor: GroupLogic

The Enterprise File Sharing Option

Enterprises and IT departments need to address several critical security issues when considering file sharing and syncing products. Many of today's solutions do not meet Enterprise requirements. However, there is a new class of Enterprise File Sharing and Syncing solutions emerging that provide the simplicity of consumer solutions for the enduser without compromising security and IT control.

Sponsor: GroupLogic

Activities Streams Base An Integrated Social Layer

The enterprise social software market is exploding thanks to converging trends of consumerization, cloud, and mobile. In this must-read report, "The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams, Q2 2012", Forrester Research Inc. evaluated five social software vendors with core strengths in the stream based on the overall strength of vendors' current offerings, a clear product strategy, and vendor market presence. In a detailed look at the space, Forrester named Yammer as a leader.

Sponsor: Yammer

Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.

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Sponsor: HP & Intel

Enabling Remote Employees with High Quality Video

In this paper, we analyze the delivery of live and on-demand mobile video content. It focuses on specific ways in which organizations can follow best practices to ensure the experience of video communication is maximized for viewers, while keeping corporate networks running smoothly.

Sponsor: Qumu

Switching Schedulers - Not As Complicated As You Think

Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms.

Sponsor: BMC Software

A "YouTube-like" Experience For Employees

Leading research firms are predicting that video is becoming a key component of workplace collaboration. More and more, employees are creating and sharing video in the workplace to increase productivity. At the same time, business leaders are seeking to increase productivity and reduce costs.

Sponsor: Qumu

The CFO Guide to Budgeting Software

A mid-sized business needs the same financial performance control and measurement capabilities as a large corporation, but in a solution that's affordable, easy to implement and scalable. This guide simplifies the search by helping CFOs understand the 10 must-have characteristics of today's best financial performance management solutions.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets to Packaged Application

This white paper details the problems that go with spreadsheet-based budgeting as well as the advantages of packaged applications. It also proposes a road map to help start the transition of your budgeting from a spreadsheet platform to an enterprise packaged application. The goal is to help SMBs plan their transition to a budgeting solution that delivers more collaboration but with more control, accountability, and budget compliance.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Better Cash Flow Management: Recession-Proof Your Business

Cash is the lifeblood of most small to mid-sized organizations. So why rely on error-prone spreadsheets for forecasting cash flow and risk making the wrong decisions? This white paper explores what a best-in-class budgeting and planning application could offer in the spreadsheet's place.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Capture-Enabled Business Process Management

Organizations today must deal with a vast amount of incoming information from many different sources. Efficient, automated business processes are critical to managing it, improving productivity and serving customer needs. But getting there can be a challenge. Each step may contain internally and externally generated information, combined with human interactions and decisions that can cause processing delays, introduce potential for error and pose a compliance risk. This Kofax whitepaper shows how these challenges can be resolved through capture-enabled business process management.

Sponsor: Kofax

Using Case Management to Empower Employees and transform Customer Service

Despite being aware of the business benefits of improved customer service, public and private organizations globally are struggling to step up to the mark and in some cases are getting punished by regulators and their customers, putting the very future of their businesses at risk.

This Kofax paper shows how successful customer service organizations have transformed customer service by empowering their employees. We will see how Dynamic Case Management applications are best placed to deliver employee empowerment and transform customer service, delivering benefits to all three stakeholders in the customer relationship; the customer, the business and the employee.

Sponsor: Kofax

Case Study: Audi-Volkswagen Improves Procurement Control

Audi-Volkswagen required a user-friendly, easy-to-use Business Process Management system that did not require programming skills or high levels of technical expertise in-house. This case study looks at the decision making process that Audi-Volkswagen went through, including a tender involving six companies, and describes why they choose to work with Kofax to supply a Business Process Management system.

Sponsor: Kofax

AIIM Market Intelligence: The paper-free office, dream or reality?

Since the invention of the typewriter, offices have been drowning in paper. Thankfully, in the email, internet and socially connected world of today, the paper letter is at last falling away. But the favourite tool of administrators the world over has always been the form. We use it to collect data, to carry signatures, to drive the business process, and to provide an auditable record of the outcome.

In this Aiim Market Intelligence report, produced in association with Kofax, we look at the success of paper-elimination projects, where and why paper is still leaking into the business, the features and success of scanning and capture investments, forward plans for document process outsourcing (DPO), and the potential impact of mobile devices.

Sponsor: Kofax

5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation

A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.

Sponsor: BMC

Switching Schedulers - Not As Complicated As You Think

Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms.

Sponsor: BMC

Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities

IDC research reveals that by 2013, 61% of organizations with more than 500 employees will use private clouds. Workload automation addresses the challenges and complexities of this environment by optimizing and dynamically mapping resources to workloads while ensuring SLAs and security.

Sponsor: BMC

Six Characteristics of an Effective Solution

Most organizations have automated batch process with workload automation, but they are still managing file transfer separately. Without integration, the scheduler is not aware of the true status of file transfers. Overcome this error-prone situation with unified workload automation that enables staff to create, automate, monitor and manage end-to-end batch processes, including file transfers.

Sponsor: BMC

Optimizing Business Processes in Today's Enterprises

Deliver more control of workloads in the hands of selected end users with workload automation capabilities that:
-Allow business users to request IT workload services without specialized knowledge
-Make workload automaton easier to install, configure and administer
-Offload IT from operational tasks and reduce help desk tickets

Sponsor: BMC

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