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Laws, regulations and compliance: Top tips for keeping your data under your Control sponsored by Sophos UK WHITE PAPER: The challenges of complying with government, industry and internal regulations designed to protect data is becoming harder and more expensive to manage. This paper outlines the rules, looks at the main threats to security compliance and highlights how a well-defined strategy, backed up by powerful technology can provide the solution. Posted: 20 Mar 2009 \| Published: 01 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Data Governance \| Data Security \| Information Security \| Loss Prevention \| Security Management \| Security Spending \| Security Threats

3 Key Components of a Risk-Based Security Plan sponsored by Foundstone, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper takes a look at the different components of an effective security plan, and provides a perspective on how enterprises that are serious about their information security budgets should rethink their security plan. Posted: 02 Jun 2008 \| Published: 02 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Information Security \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| ROI \| Security Spending \| Training \| Vulnerability Assessments

Strengthening Web Application Security: Charting a Robust Strategy That Starts at Development. sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the current dilemma that security auditors face with the bottleneck for Web application deployment. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Budgeting \| Software Development Methodologies \| Testing \| Web Application Security \| Web Development \| Web Services

Enhancing Business with Smarter, More Effective Communication sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To enable effective mobile communication, organizations are increasingly spending to ensure productivity and availability. Discover cost-effective applications that improve communications, connect workers, enable collaboration and streamline processes. Posted: 27 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| IP Networks \| IP Telephony \| IT Spending \| Mobile Workers \| Network Convergence \| Productivity \| Telecommuting \| Unified Messaging \| Unified Messaging Systems \| Wireless Computing

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Metrics \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance

Using Master Data in Business Intelligence sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Improve planning, building, and deploying a master data management (MDM) environment. Consider an evolutionary – rather than revolutionary – approach to MDM, and examine how to use MDM with business intelligence applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve decision making. Posted: 18 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Master Data Management

The CIO's Role in Driving Business Performance sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Explore the changing role of the CIO, and the blurring of the line between IT and finance, as CIOs begin to function as strategic advisors to the executive team. Posted: 06 Aug 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Budgeting \| Business Performance Management \| Risk Management \| SOA

Making Business Relevant Information Instantly Available to More Users sponsored by SAP WHITE PAPER: Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs. Posted: 19 Jun 2009 \| Published: 19 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Management \| Data Management \| Decision Support Systems \| Information Management \| Knowledge Management

ePlus Technology IT Sourcing, Services, Support & Solutions sponsored by ePlus Technology WHITE PAPER: ePlus Technology helps you develop cost-effective strategies that meet your immediate IT needs as well as your long-term business objectives - letting you focus on your core business. When combined with our suite of on-demand supply chain and financing solutions, ePlus IT services will help you improve asset utilization across your organization. Posted: 24 Apr 2009 \| Published: 28 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| IT Departments \| IT Management \| ROI \| TCO \| Telephony Systems

Improving Intercompany Reconciliation for a Faster Close sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects Posted: 08 Jun 2009 \| Published: 02 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Accounting \| Accounting Software \| Compliance (Finance) \| Financial Applications Software \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Regulatory Compliance \| SAP (Product) \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance