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Featured articles
Software as a Service (SaaS) is an idea whose time has come. Throughout 2007, EMA has published multiple papers and articles on the SaaS phenomenon, discussing why SaaS will be successful while its predecessors, such as application service providers (ASPs), were not.
Knowledge is critical to success in today’s competitive business environment. The management of knowledge in the form of business intelligence (BI) is now a standard component of a successful business strategy.
Part of the appeal of the software as a service (SaaS) model is that it enables a company to leave the management of its IT frameworks to someone else. However, one of the problems with this is that companies can lose control over things like data, source code, planned maintenance windows and uptime.
Businesses of all sizes are increasingly turning to software as a service
(SaaS). And the trend is on the upswing. In a recent report by analyst
fi rm IDC, research shows that companies worldwide and of all sizes are
likely to increase their use of SaaS by at least 27 percent by 2011.
Simplicity is the fundamental step to insight. Not to say that a concept worth learning is ever simple. On the contrary, the most complex notions are not only the most interesting to unravel but can also prove the most rewarding.
A Token-Killing Form Factor for Secure Consumer Online Banking By Bill Nagel
Over the past decade, BI has been adopted by major corporations and government entities around the world. BI delivers essential business information, advanced tools for analyzing complex business situations and structured decision-support techniques.
IDC’s Matt Lawton discusses the benefits of open source software
CA’s Peter Pepiton II discusses eDiscovery
The linkage between eDiscovery and records management is gaining acceptance as organizations look to increase efficiency and comply with the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning the discovery of “electronically stored information” enacted on December 1, 2006. And although they are separate business functions, there is enough similarity and overlap between their inner workings to make a strong case for integrating them.
Podcasts
Alfabet started about 10 years ago, advising
and providing tools to large corporations
in order to assist them with strategic
IT management. We helped the IT organization
develop a methodology to, fi rst of all, provide
transparency into the current state of the enterprise’s
IT; and secondly, to tie together through
well defi ned processes all of the corporate elements
that play a role in planning and managing
IT.
Listen to this podcast.
In this executive podcast panel discussion,
OCEG’s Carole Switzer conducts an intriguing
dialogue with ELT ’s Shanti Atkins and SAI
Global’s Mark Rowe to answer the question
of how much is enough when it comes to
compliance and ethics training.
Listen to this podcast.
AirTight’s David King and Frost & Sullivan’s James Brehm discuss wireless vulnerability management
Listen to this podcast.
SonicWALL’s Patrick Sweeney and EMA’s Scott Crawford discuss the complexities of IT security today
Listen to this podcast.
Opus One’s Joel Snyder asks the questions as Symantec Network Access Control's Patrick Wheeler discusses network access control
Listen to this podcast.
whitepapers
ActiveDocs Opus is the third generation of the ActiveDocs solution. ActiveDocs Opus automates the
design and production of customized business communications across your enterprise.
Documents are the life-blood of many organizations. The information they capture and store is
often vital to many functions – from producing sales quotes, to policy and procedure documents,
to contractual agreements. The list is endless.
The earliest ActiveDocs commercial product, ActiveDocs Desktop, provided a comprehensive set of components
for Template design and document creation.
The purpose of this document is to compare the features and
capabilities of ActiveDocs Opus and Microsoft® Word 2007, with
particular emphasis on Microsoft® Word’s automation potential.
This document provides an overview of the drivers and challenges of
document automation, and explores the solutions that ActiveDocs
Opus provides.
featured research
Forrester Analyst Chris McClean encourages an enterprise-wide approach to risk management, where all areas of the business take and manage risk based on a holistic view of how that risk affects the organization as a whole.
Talk to any security vendor or expert and he or she is bound to have a view on GRC. Interestingly, all these views are divergent and inconsistent. Many view it as a technology play, while others think of it as a business process endeavor.
In April 2008, Enterprise Management Associates released the results of extensive research into virtualization and the IT management implications of various virtualization technologies.
With at least $120 billion per year spent on outsourcing, and much more at stake when considering productivity improvements and savings, ensuring that outsourcing works is the number one responsibility of many sourcing and vendor management professionals.
The use of remote, lower cost or offshore resources is nothing new
in the information technology and business process outsourcing
(ITO/BPO) industry.
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