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You’ve asked your System Administrator for a Security Report. You are concerned with 3 issues:
·As an executive, you are personally responsible for the security of your corporate financial data and your customers' privacy.
·You want a fully functioning, responsive computer system, available at all times.
·You need to maintain a security posture that is more than defensive.
Your security solution’s swift and effective response to security events as they emerge cannot be overestimated.
TNT Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a leader in providing centralized monitoring solutions for Windows. From easy installation to flexible reports, TNT Software gives IT professionals the power-to-see™ the health and status of their systems at a single glance.
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Few investment opportunities rival the track record of pricing analytics software, shown to increase profits by 50% or more. Most companies don’t realize how much money they are leaving on the table because they don’t have the tools to understand what their data is telling them. Although companies generally store a significant amount of data, most do not yet have specialized tools to analyze the data in a meaningful way, especially to support educated pricing decisions.
PROS is the world leader in Pricing Analytics and Optimization software solutions with over 250 solutions implemented in 13 industries. We help companies forecast demand, model elasticity, and monitor transaction profitability. Visit us at our Pricing Summit May 1-3, 2005 or at www.prospricing.com.
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Knowledge automation systems are proving themselves effective in handling a variety of regulatory compliance requirements. These interactive, web enabled systems emulate consultations with top compliance experts, simplify capturing complex decision making logic, assure consistency, greatly reduce the need for training and automatically generate compliance documentation. Learn where this technology has proven itself effective in solving environmental, safety, policy and legal compliance issues.
Since 1983 thousands of businesses and organizations have used EXSYS software and consulting services to capture and disseminate decision-making expertise. Proven ROI for effective decision support projects, task automation, product selection, data analysis, customer support, and policy compliance.
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Reverse Direct Marketing, icrossing’s term for how marketers connect with the customers looking for them, represents a dramatic shift, one that’s affecting businesses in every single vertical. Learn how to harness it using technological and creative strategies.
Search engine marketing agency icrossing has been connecting businesses with qualified customers through since 1998. With its dedicated focus on search engine marketing, icrossing continuously pioneers new and better ways to help clients meet and surpass their goals through customized solutions.
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How to you know what people are saying about your product? Your industry? Before you make a business call, do you Google your contact's name to learn more than you can from reading their business card?
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Information Technology Industry seems to have lost sight of the fact that businesses developing or improving their core ‘line of business’ application(s) need simplicity, scalability, flexibility and a real return on investment that can only come from dramatic improvements in programmer productivity. Improving programmer productivity has for many years been the Holy Grail of IT departments.
Four J’s provides rapid application development and deployment tools designed to meet the needs of small, medium and large enterprises wishing a rapid return on investment for high-performance, transaction-oriented business applications.
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Remote Office Components provide a means for remote users to login to an online portal through a secure single sign-on and have access to key accounting processes. Companies now have an option for a flexible accounting solution where users adhere to the security and controls implemented in the corporate ERP solution.
FlexiInternational Software, Inc. is a leading provider of "Financial Accounting Solutions that Power Business(tm)." The FlexiFinancials Enterprise Suite consists of a wide-range of scalable, flexible accounting applications and components that are sold directly and through partnership programs.
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Targeted security attacks carried on e-mail are an emerging security threat. Criminals use these e-mail attacks to steal personal information from networks and sell it on the electronic black market. These attacks result in embarrassment or penalties imposed on companies by stricter legislation governing information security. Avinti's iSolation Server protects networks from targeted e-mail attacks by testing messages in a virtual environment prior to end-user delivery.
Avinti provides e-mail outbreak protection for targeted e-mail threats. The company's iSolation Server is the first enterprise e-mail security solution using virtual-machine technology to test threat-bearing e-mail in a secure, virtual replica of the target user’s desktop prior to actual delivery.
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Readers will learn several ways that telecom carriers systematically overcharge customers costing businesses tens of millions of dollars in unnecessary spending each year and how to address them. The issues are much more complex than simply negotiating rates per minute and requires a unique, focused expertise to achieve optimum results.
The ProfiTel Group is comprised of telecom insiders who offer businesses a variety of risk-free services in the areas of cost recovery, contract negotiation and billing optimization. ProfiTel Group’s services are risk-free! If we don’t secure a refund or reduce spending, then we are paid nothing.
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The volume of data that needs to be processed by security applications is increasing exponentially due to the ever-increasing complexity of network traffic & the bandwidth of network connections. Additionally, due to the growing number & sophistication of attacks, network security applications are growing both in their complexity & also in their processing demands. This report covers the failings of traditional network security appliances, & demonstrates how the problem is easily addressed.
Sensory Networks is a leading provider of higher performance, more accurate, deep coverage network security technologies. The company is an OEM licensor producing a range of high throughput, high accuracy security platforms & accelerators, based on the company’s patent pending NodalCore™ technology.
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A “Knowledge Revolution” in business is underway with retiring Boomers, worker shortages, and a new generation that thinks and learns differently. Combat the revolution while improving business performance by addressing the core factor: human error variance (40% of inefficiencies, even after Six SigmaSM and Lean Manufacturing). Support your business strategy by identifying and transferring knowledge to eliminate knowledge gaps which cause mistakes, lost productivity, and corporate liability.
EduNeering improves business performance and assures compliance by providing customized knowledge solutions. For 25 years, EduNeering has pioneered technology-based innovations that drive employee comprehension of critical information. EduNeering is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.
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Today’s businesses risk huge financial and legal repercussions if they do not protect internal, partner and customer data. Direct hard drive access enables attackers to bypass an operating system or even the boot record used at start up. WinMagic’s SecureDoc ensures protection of all data stored on desktops, laptops and PDAs by encrypting the entire drive and can seamlessly integrate with authentication technology from passwords to hardware tokens, biometrics and PKI right at pre-boot time.
WinMagic’s (www.winmagic.com) SecureDoc full-disk encryption software ensures protection of all data stored on desktops, laptops and PDAs by encrypting the entire drive, and seamlessly integrates with authentication technology from passwords to hardware tokens, biometrics and PKI right at pre-boot.
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Expense management automation is rapidly growing due to technological advances, cost reduction requirements, SEC and IRS regulatory compliance, and increased need to negotiate with vendors. By automating the travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management process, companies can better manage the business function and eliminate most operational costs, stay in compliance with SEC and IRS regulations, and better negotiate with airlines, hotels, and entertainment facilities to reduce costs.
Gelco is the worldwide leader in providing solutions to help organizations manage costs associated with processing travel expenses. Gelco manages the entire process – web-based expense report creation, employee reimbursement, corporate card payment, receipt image and audit services, and reporting.
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Providing new managers quickly is crucial to achieving investor business plans. Interim managers provide an immediate solution. Telecom Expert Group has a roster of experienced managers ready to go, and also takes responsibility for replacing them as they rotate out of the assignment.
Telecom Expert Group provides international telecom consulting and management services with worldwide experience covering all aspects of leading and managing wireless or wireline telecom operators. Services include due diligence, operations reviews, projects, and interim management.
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Outsourcing can be a risky proposition – at the very least, a process that involves a lot of unknowns. If a company is looking for an outsourcing service, one sure way to gauge their level of expertise and process maturity (and overall capabilities) is to submit them to an automated software audit or code quality audit. The reader will learn that there is a way to quickly weed out unqualified outsourcing services and better ensure the success of any outsourcing venture.
Parasoft provides automated software test and analysis solutions that help companies ensure the security, reliability and performance of the software systems their business depend and establish a practice of Automated Error Prevention throughout the software development lifecycle.
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Easy to build and implement, knowledge automation systems bring interactive decision-making expertise to Web sites. Emulating consultations with a company’s top experts, here’s proven technology that goes beyond pages of information to provide customized, specific recommendations and answers to prospects, customers and employees. From product selection to customer support, Web sites can now deliver knowledge rather than just data.
EXSYS Inc is the world leader in building and fielding knowledge automation expert systems. EXSYS software and consulting is widely used in government and multi-industries, including over half of the Fortune 100 for complex and mission critical systems.
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Connecting with business partners, whether customers, suppliers, or peers, is the best method to gain market intelligence and efficiencies to improve financial performance. However, when considering the number of business partners, as well as the disparate legacy systems and technologies used, it can seem a daunting task. Integrative technology offers a flexible, agile, and cost-effective means for firms to connect with their business partners to improve profitability.
GCommerce is a leading provider of cost-effective, non-invasive, integrative technology solutions designed to share information between incompatible business systems and technologies regardless of the legacy applications, databases, operating systems, communication protocols, or formats.
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Monitoring, understanding and analyzing Internet discussion about a
company and its brands has become one of the most important new areas of marketing investment for Fortune 1000 companies. This report will discuss how blogs have changed the entire communications model for reaching internal and external audiences, especially consumers.
Cymfony is an award-winning market intelligence and media analysis
company that helps PR and Marketing professionals guide communications strategies, track global coverage, benchmark communications performance, monitor corporate reputation and compare company brands against competitors.
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Global services provider and BSI ISO 17799 Associate Consultancy Idea Integration (NYSE:MPS) leads Fortune 1000 companies through pre-registration consulting for BS7799 standard.
Idea Integration, a $70M IT Consulting Services company, specializes in security consulting for Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. A subsidiary of MPS Group (NYSE:MPS), Idea Integration clients include Hewlett-Packard, Sony, and Microsoft. The company has offices across the US.
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Although the jobless rate remains high, some see an impending and severe labor shortage on the horizon. Though the timeframe and impact of this shortfall is debatable, leaders in recruiting and human resources management agree that good people are a critical competitive advantage regardless of the business climate. Finding the right person for a key position can have an enormous impact on the success of an organization. It can also be a daunting task, whatever the jobless rate.
Webhire, Inc. delivers powerful, yet easy-to-use solutions that help companies become more strategic—and efficient— in finding and hiring the people they need to succeed.
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Biometrics offers the highest level of security for user authentication and data integrity and control. Unlike password generating tokens and password security procedures, biometrics offer the utmost security and ease of use. Biometrics is on track to become the de facto standard for user authentication in the next few years. One very visible example of this is Microsoft’s integration of biometrics into the next generation of Windows™.
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SOA enables upgrading individual services or services consumers, it is not necessary to completely rewrite an application or keep an existing system that no longer addresses the new business requirements. SOA provides enterprises better flexibility in building applications and business processes in an agile manner by leveraging existing application infrastructure to compose new services.
ObjectWin Technology, Inc. is a leading Business integration partner capable of delivering turnkey end-to-end solutions. ObjectWin is about management, consulting, information technology, services to our clients and effecting change and more.
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To manage their corporate reputation and brand performance, forward-thinking companies combine advanced techniques and new software to dissect the process by which business is won or lost by analyzing the combined efforts of marketing and public relations.
They rely on new analytical tools, proven metrics and methodologies to calculate PR’s ROI and find that positive PR delivers among the best values of any marketing agent and it provides a low-cost lift to other forms of marketing.
Bacon's helps marketing and PR professionals maximize results in media relations. Bacon's provides integrated service solutions designed to give clients the ability to target their messages efficiently, customize distribution of information, monitor media coverage and evaluate results of campaigns.
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In this paper we will discuss some key components of a “Universal Regulatory Compliance Evaluation” to help determine if there are some potential “Compliance Vulnerabilities” you are facing right now and how technology, process and education are used to combat them.
Helio Solutions is a premier technology integrator and data center solutions provider for all-sized companies, ranging from technology-centric small businesses to Fortune 1000 companies.
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Managing IT risks in a world of configuration drift requires a strategic approach: comprehensive compliance management. It starts with having the right information. IT risks can be managed when you know what you want, you know what you have, and can detect and deviations. This proactive, information-based approach addresses the concerns of both IT Security and IT Operations – from the bottom-up.
Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, serving eight of the 25 world’s largest computing environments. Configuresoft offers Enterprise Configuration Manager, an enterprise configuration, policy compliance and remediation product that spans both operations and IT security.
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Currently available accounting/ERP packages for SMB do not do what they are supposed to do - give business owners managerial control of the business at a cost they can afford. That simple fact goes a long way to explaining why accounting/mini-ERP systems are the number 1 software need for SMB and why no company has yet successfully penetrated this market.
VBS Software is the provider of Visual Business Suite (VBS), a mini-ERP package for Value Added Resellers as well as the broader SMB market. VBS’s unique, built-in business intelligence capability gives business owners immediate access to up-to-the minute information.
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When it comes to dynamic market trends and changing public sentiment toward your company, your products and your competitors, what you don’t know can hurt you. This first report in an upcoming series examines how the CEO as a brand can increase or decrease investor confidence as reflected in stock price. Learn how strategies for controlling the media visibility of a company’s key spokesperson can help support corporate reputation and market valuation goals.
Biz360 helps companies succeed by providing market intelligence that delivers a 360-degree view of their company, their competitors and their market. We deliver real-time insight they can use to be more strategic, more competitive and ultimately more profitable.
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The article will explain how a closed-loop trade promotion software system can maximize the return on the significant trade promotion investment and comply with recent Government legislation.
Synectics Group is a leading provider of a closed-loop trade promotion software solution named Account Review. Synectics Group has been focused for 20 years on providing our clients with a state of the highly functional trade promotion management system.
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The Business Case for Enterprise Loss Prevention (ELP): A focused ELP initiative enabled by IMPACT Enterprise™ accelerates recognition and correction of prevention weaknesses to continuously reduce the costs of losses.
Syntex Management Systems is the creator of the IMPACT Enterprise™ ELP software solution. Syntex designs, develops and delivers software for ultimate Enterprise Loss Prevention in multiple domains, specifically in the area of QHSE.
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It’s estimated the majority of mid-size to large corporations are spending more than they need to on recurring telecom carrier expenses. How can you tell if this is true of your company? If you answer “No” to any of these, you would benefit from taking action.
-Have you recently negotiated new contracts with your carriers?
-Do you have RBOC local service contracts in place?
-Is your telecom services ordering process centralized?
-Do you have a database of all your lines and services?
ICOMM Consulting, Inc. is an independent consulting firm specializing in telecommunications and contact center technologies. ICOMM has provided Cost Reduction & Management consulting services to mid-size to large corporations, resulting in millions of dollars of savings.
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Wireless email is only the beginning. The real ROI comes from access to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and enterprise data from any wireless handheld device. This article outlines the benefits of extending connectivity to enterprise data and provides an overview of iAvenue Wireless features.
Saratoga Systems Inc. provides the most flexible, cost-effective customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for faster ROI, increased revenues, and improved sales, marketing, and service effectiveness. Saratoga Systems serves over 750 corporate customers and more than 10,000 users worldwide.
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Stringent corporate reporting requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raised the standards of corporate governance, yet compliance entails significant investment. New strategies developed to respond to compliance requirements are substantially empowered by new technology that makes implementation easy and rewarding with substantial ROI.
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Fortelligent's advanced analytics identify only most likely buyers. Patented process rapidly identifies best information inside heterogeneous customer data; handles terabytes of data in short periods of time; stress-tests models to ensure accurate prediction; produces many highly accurate models in hours instead of weeks or months with embedded best practices in the model development process. Result is increased share-of-wallet for aggressive, sophisticated marketing organizations.
Fortelligent's United States Patents pending eliminate trade-off of speed over accuracy; marketing organizations obtain competitive advantages yielding much higher, profitable revenue. Serves domestic and international clients in telecommunications, financial services, retailing, catalog sales.
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Adaptable application systems bridge the gap between the cost-effectiveness of packaged solutions and the functionality of custom software. This is accomplished by providing easy-to-use tools to customize a fully-functional, installation-ready application system.
Genesistems, Inc. develops adaptable application system products under the TOM Software® brand and distributes them through its international dealer network. These local dealers have provided customized solutions for businesses using the adaptable application system technology for over 28 years.
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As organizations increasingly demand real-time instantaneous results, replatforming is a viable solution. It is a real effort for CIO and CEOs to make an informed decision that takes their enterprise architecture – and their mission-critical data – to the next level. The level where it will be cost-effective and strategically-significant at least for the next 18 months to 5 years before even newer 21st Century architectures are introduced.
COMPUTER CONSULTANTS INTERNATIONAL, INC is a Management Consulting/Technology Services Company committed to delivering innovation with vast industry expertise, global resources and proven experience in consulting and outsourcing. CCI can mobilize the right people, skills, alliances and technologies.
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Application acceleration is a means to an end; increased productivity is what businesses seek. As such, application acceleration cannot be discussed in isolation; instead a more holistic view must be taken to ensure successful application deployment. A fast end-user experience, though important, is just one deployment criteria. Equally important, if not more so, is that applications be secure and available when and where they are needed the most.
