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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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Assuming data is secure with employees inadvertently creates opportunities for data theft. Typical security measures will not detect or stop the pilfering of information. Organizations inherently trust users, but verifying noble intentions is more challenging. A successful information and database risk management solution requires understanding people, process, and technology while monitoring for inappropriate use of the data.
IPLocks provides a comprehensive software solution for information and database security that protects against the compromise of confidential information from business policy violations, information attacks, structural integrity and information theft, which other security solutions fail to detect.
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The push to make more high quality tools available to individual investors thorough the web suffered a setback with the demise of the dot-coms. Most individual investors still do not have access to high-end data display and analytical tools that professional investors do. One key step financial institutions can take to level the playing field is to make investor tools more broadly available to the average investor.
ComStock, a subsidiary of Interactive Data Corporation, is a leading provider of real-time global financial information to financial institutions, financial information re-distributors and online media portals. Services range from real-time datafeed, to customized and hosted market data solutions.
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Location intelligence is about deriving business value from the location information found in all organizations. More than 80 percent of data has a geographic reference and yet it is not utilized. Virtually every market sector can gain significant benefits from greater utilization of location data: enhance profitability; improve operational efficiencies and become more competitive. Location intelligence combined with business intelligence creates the ultimate decision-making solution.
MapInfo integrates software, data & services to help organizations realize greater value from location intelligence & drive more insightful decisions. More than 7,000 organizations in virtually every industry around the world use MapInfo solutions to be more competitive, profitable and efficient.
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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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Donnelley Marketing offers its clients first class tools, methods and information products to create value from their highly dynamic customer files. To that end, Donnelley Marketing integrates into its Premier Marketing Database Solution, MarketZone® Platinum its CBAT engine. This latest generation column-based analytical technology produces a turbocharged horsepower that accommodates the geometric growth rate of data capture as well as the increasingly complex nature of querying and analysis.
Donnelley Marketing (an infoUSA company) offers the most accurate and complete business and consumer marketing information and a full array of database marketing tools. For consultation, contact Sal Pecoraro, VP Database Marketing Solutions: Sal.Pecoraro@dblink.com or 201-476-2465. www.dblink.com.
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Large retailers are mandating that all product data conform to new global standards – and this can be costly and onerous. But an informed approach to these new requirements can actually save you time and money - while improving your customer service as well.
Amphire is a leader in eCommerce, with extensive experience in saving time and money for trading partners all along the supply chain. Amphire's web-based solutions have improved all aspects of eCommerce - from inventory management to supply chain visibility to forecasting.
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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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"Celatro," a smart system of customizable software that contains sophisticated pattern matching and data mining technologies, has been used for 15 years by federal agencies to identify terrorists, and is now available from TAC. These software tools provide accurate screening and identification of individuals, concepts, and in short, any type of alphanumeric subject chosen, by rank ordering results based on their similarity to a specified pattern and contains language-specific plug-ins.
TAC provides "Celatro," suites of pattern matching and data mining software used for 15 years by the federal government, for users to find data anywhere. Celatro runs on all major operating systems, handles inexact matches using Fuzzy Finder, and has plug-ins for Arabic, Russian and other languages.
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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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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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Finding a message broker that fits your enterprise can be daunting. Through explanations and conceptual diagrams, this brief paper points out areas you should consider. It introduces deployment considerations and the importance of co-engineering. It discusses interaction options between the components of messaging and translation, as well as important characteristics of these components. And it summarizes how a message broker interacts with internal and external trading partners.
BCE Emergis Systems is the developer of MessageWay. MessageWay provides users with XML/EDI messaging and data translation/transformation specifically co-engineered for evolving requirements. MessageWay combines powerful rules and content based routing with single pass, “any to any” translation.
