This site contains educational reports on a wide range of technology topics. Reports were written by leading professionals at technology companies nationwide, to provide readers a practical, hands-on perspective. Condensed versions appeared in BusinessWeek magazine. All reports may be viewed or downloaded without charge, however usage of this site is only permitted only in accordance with the stated terms and conditions.
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FTP is the technology underpinning much of the information transmission conducted in today's corporate enterprise. But security concerns are changing this. FTP offers absolutely no security and is a fundamentally limiting technology; sweeping legislation (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, etc.) will not tolerate its use for the transmission of important or sensitive data. This report details how Managed File Transfer solutions guarantee the security, control, and integrity of corporate information.
Proginet Corporation develops software to enable the controlled integration of data across enterprises of all sizes. Its solutions include managed file transfer, identity management, and password management, and support all major computing platforms, from PCs to mainframes.
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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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Ongoing data management is where compliance lives or dies. While compliance is often presented as an administrative burden with little opportunity for creating value for the corporation, it should not be so easily dismissed. Recognizing the inherent value of information, compliance is more than just following the law; compliance is really about implementing best practices. In this paper, we present a model to help IT management build a checklist of compliance tasks.
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Virtualization is a vital step to becoming a truly adaptive enterprise. Creating a virtualized IT environment by pooling and sharing resources across applications and business processes brings enterprises closer to the vision of an adaptive enterprise. The virtualization function can be executed in a variety of ways. Many storage devices and fabric switch-based approaches have enhanced their ability to virtualize the physical storage they control.
Alliance Technology Group is an independent Professional Services organization offering industry leading Data Storage Solutions with excellent Service & Support to meet the needs of both commercial and government entities. Diversity Certifications: 8(a), SDB, MBE/DBE, WBE, LDBE.
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Many new technologies are available to assure uninterrupted processing of business transactions. One of the more popular of these availability solutions is data mirroring. Although these technologies work well and do exactly what they were designed to do, many organizations assume a false sense of security, believing they're protected form all harm.
21st Century Software provides intelligent data protection and recovery solutions for mainframe and client/server platforms, supporting mirroring as well as all types of removable media.
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A discussion of mobilizing technological resources to extend employment assistance (Career and Outplacement Services) to all levels of job seekers and displaced employees.
Employon, Inc., develops job search and recruiting technology services for the Human Capital Management (HCM) marketplace; providing world-class capabilities across three strategic areas: job content aggregation, concept-based search technology and highly scalable technology components.
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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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Today’s CMMS offers more than a simplified preventive maintenance tracking system by using integration to seamlessly meld Workorder Mangement, Finance and Inventory Control into one cohesive package. The following article offers a tantalizing glimpse of the features available for facility management when using a modern CMMS.
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Multi-agency information sharing is both a business and a technology problem. From a business perspective, the challenges are governance and balancing the need for privacy and confidentiality and the benefits of shared information. From a technology perspective, it is providing a set of flexible, secure technologies, without replacing or fundamentally altering partnering agency systems. Sierra Systems has the expertise and proven experience to meet both of these challenges.
Sierra Systems has proven experience in both the business and the technology of information sharing. Since 1966, we have been integrating business and technology to help our clients across North America achieve practical and measurable improvements in operational performance.
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Today’s large business IT organizations are overcoming their telecommunications and technology challenges, in spite of budget constraints and bandwidth requirements, by utilizing dark fiber optics to connect their business locations. With both cost and operational efficiencies gained, in addition to the increased availability of metro fiber optic networks, there has never been a better time to explore this kind of opportunity to future-proof its business and exceed expectations.
Fibertech Networks has quickly established itself as a leading provider of metro-area fiber optic network capacity in the Northeast. The company has 16 markets operational designed as “open-access” high capacity, high-reliability networks to effectively meet the needs of its customers.
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Over recent years, it has become common for executives to name ‘people’ as their companies' greatest asset. Yet, few of those companies can claim that they effectively track the costs associated with their ‘people’. As a scaleable and affordable solution, employee management software can help control personnel costs. Acroprint is a recognized industry leader of affordable technology and software solutions that automate and report every aspect of human resources within an organization.
Acroprint is a leading manufacturer and distributor of time and attendance products worldwide with more than 1,000 dealers/distributors across the U.S. and 70 foreign countries.
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ICLogistics’ Net-Centric supply chain management solutions are breaking new ground by shifting from a single data standard to the use of multiple standards and the Supply Chain Ontology, allowing business partners to search and to share critical information seamlessly, regardless of software platform, infrastructure or technical sophistication. The impact of the Net-Centric supply chain offers competitive advantage to those with access to the real-time availability of relevant information.
ICLogistics provides Net-Centric supply chain software and services, web-based applications and productivity tools, supply chain consulting, facilitating communication from supplier to supplier and providing technological integration that enables supply chains to function as virtual enterprises.
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A sound backup strategy of frequent backups to disk, combined with offline tape backups and Bare Metal DR ensures that you can recover from almost any logical corruption of your business critical data.
Yosemite Technologies provides data protection solutions that span from a single server to global enterprises with hundreds of servers. Yosemite has key partnerships with leading technology providers including Microsoft, HP, Dell, Gateway, and Novell/SuSE.
