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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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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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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The need to observe governmental regulations and a fresh urgency to implement policies regarding document retention has organizations very focused on compliance and securing email communications. To be compliant, organizations need to ensure they are locating and archiving critical corporate information on ongoing basis. They also need to watch out for the possible transfer of confidential information to external sources, and internal communications that could be deemed inappropriate.
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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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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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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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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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Technology plays an important role in the development of healthcare banking solutions, particularly the recently-introduced Health Savings Account (HSA). This article details the components necessary to build a technologically sound as well as competitive solution.
The BISYS Group, Inc. provides business process outsourcing solutions that enable investment firms, insurance companies, and banks to capitalize on convergence by entering new segments of the financial services industry.
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In the converging telecommunications world, IP has emerged as the low cost and efficient alternative to SS7 for the transport of signaling traffic, enabling operators to manage growth and reduce costs while satisfying consumer demands for new services. However, when migrating from SS7 to IP, operators and equipment manufacturers must consider the impact of several issues to ensure successful IP signaling deployment including: fault tolerance, scalability, flexibility, speed, and reliability.
Specializing in signaling infrastructure since 1982, Adax offers flexible solutions for today's converging networks. Adax high-performance products include network controller boards, protocol software, and signaling gateways for SS7, ATM, and IP protocols in fixed and mobile networks.
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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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This Quickcomm telecommunications expense management report identifies the four keys areas of telecommunications networks where savings can be realized and explains how to capture those savings by taking advantage of advanced software that provides a comprehensive and fully automated approach.
Quickcomm Software Solutions offers the most advanced and comprehensive telecommunications expense management solution on the market today. Our software delivers visibility, savings and control through an elegantly simple solution, which can integrate seamlessly with a current process.
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In today’s global economy, companies must communicate to refine and streamline business processes to the point of out-right eliminating redundancies. Global Straight Through Processing (GSTP) provides the refinement of business workflow to capitalize on business intelligence enabling true enterprise management. Leaders turning a blind eye towards the advent of Straight Through Processing will battle uphill those competitors who grasped GSTP earlier.
Global Straight Through Processing (GSTP) refines business workflow to capitalize on business intelligence, while eliminating manual processes and enabling true enterprise management, in order to speed time-to-market for new products and services.
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From PCs and laptops, to cell phones and memory keys, businesses and consumers are turning to fingerprint biometrics because of the many benefits that biometrics deliver.
AuthenTec is the leader in fingerprint sensors to the PC, wireless and access control markets. The Company's TruePrint technology delivers the most convenient, reliable and cost-effective means available for enabling touch-powered features that extend beyond security.
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What makes a building truly “green”? Many building projects are voluntarily aiming for high levels of environmental sustainability from the inception of design, through construction and operations phases. This paper explores the various design options for innovative mechanical and electrical systems design for environmentally responsive buildings.
Flack + Kurtz is an international consulting engineering firm providing complete planning, design, and construction engineering services for HVAC, electrical, plumbing, life safety, fire protection systems and telecommunications as well as startup and commissioning services for these systems.
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Organizations looking to get “ahead of the curve” with system security need to get proactive with a system security policy and a method of ensuring compliance. A system security audit and compliance tool enables organizations to continuously audit, assess and comply with their system security policy. There are 5 phases of using these applications to implement a system security policy, as well as key considerations when looking at enterprise audit and compliance tools.
Pedestal Software is the leading provider of vulnerability management solutions. The company’s audit and compliance and vulnerability audit solutions are used by enterprises to quickly and cost-effectively assess and enforce a consistent level of system security.
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This report describes the many different ways that revenue agencies have continued to provide and improve their services to the public in an environment of shrinking budgets and fewer resources. Through the strategic use of technology, streamlining process and offering more self-help service they have been able to improve their overall offering.
Fast Enterprises LLC specializes in providing services and products to government revenue agencies. Fast's premier product, GenTax® is the world's first Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) integrated tax processing product.
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Article provides information on the latest advancements in industrial air filtration from the global leader in dust, fume and mist collection—Donaldson Torit. Highlights include new longer life filter bags for baghouse dust collection, advantages of oval-shaped cartridge dust collectors and filters, and advancements in mist control.
Leading global manufacturing of industrial air filtration solutions. Provides dust, mist and fume collectors, ancillary products and aftermarket filters to manufacturers across broad spectrum of industries and applications worldwide.
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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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A call recording system is likely to have paid for itself if it protects a company from a single lawsuit. Today's call recording systems can be configured for a variety of business needs, including selective ("on-demand") recording from pressing a button on the phone while a call is taking place, recording all calls, or recording by any preset call criteria. Call recording is now much less complex to implement than it used to be, and it's more affordable than you might expect.
CallParrotT from TelStratR enables liability protection & quality monitoring in a cost-effective, simple-to-install, and simple-to-use design. Only CallParrot offers Conversation SaveT for on-demand recording. www.telstrat.com.
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This report provides retailers at all levels with information on how smart technology, combined with smart processes, can transform the retail landscape and increase revenue, customer satisfaction, and corporate profitability.
Trax Retail Solutions is a leading provider of business intelligence software for retailers. Its team of over 60 store operations and loss prevention professionals teaches companies and managers to employ smart technology and smarter store management practices to grow profit.
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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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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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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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Your communications infrastructure is the key to your company’s success. How can you be sure your VoIP rollout will deliver the quality, consistency and extensibility required to meet your current and future needs? VoIP verification is an essential part of planning, deploying and maintaining an IP-based communications infrastructure. In this article, we will explore some of the tools and techniques used to ensure a top quality user experience, minimize downtime, and accelerate your ROI.
Touchstone Technologies, Inc has been providing essential communications testing products and services to industry leaders and innovators since 1989. Specializing in standards-based VoIP testing, our mission is to provide the highest quality, most innovative products and services available today.
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The insider threat starts with trusted insiders—employees, business partners, contractors, or developers—who have access to sensitive data. With this access, “insiders” can damage or destroy your business in a variety of ways – accidentally or intentionally – by sending sensitive data out via Webmail or instant message or by posting information to public Websites. Without appropriate enterprise risk management strategies in place to monitor and remediate these risks, your company is exposed.
Reconnex is the leading provider of enterprise risk management (ERM) solutions that reveal and address the insider threat to compliance, competitive advantage, corporate governance, and critical infrastructure. Reconnex protects corporation’s confidential information by revealing risks in 48 hours.
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Integrated agency management systems are critical for advertising and marketing organizations to keep pace in today’s marketing world. Total agency management solutions provide the tools necessary to streamline processes and gain better control leading to productivity and efficiency gains critical for today’s fast paced business environment. How do you select the right agency management solution partner?
The Advantage Software Company, the leading provider of automation tools for mid to large size advertising agencies and marketing services firms has been in the software business for 28 years entirely focused on agency management software solutions.
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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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Do you have employees that tell you that “We’ve got that Security stuff covered”? I hope not, because they need to think again! Let’s say your firm doesn’t even conduct business over the Internet. You don’t need to focus on Security, right? WRONG! Information Security affects ALL companies, regardless of size, line of business, or Internet presence. Security is not a part-time project, it’s an ongoing process. Is your network secure? Read the article above to make sure.
Digital Connections, Inc. is a leading world-wide voice, data and video communications firm. With our comprehensive list of core products and the functional offerings we can apply to them, DCI provides seamlessly-integrated digital communications systems tailored precisely to each client's needs.
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Readers will learn the characteristics of a new server architecture that forms the foundation for utility computing; how traditional server designs prevent utility computing; and a low-risk approach to implementing this model today. All three levels of resource virtualization–processor, server and datacenter–are defined and their roles in enabling utility computing explored. Business benefits, including lower costs, faster application time to market and increased agility, are also highlighted.
Egenera is a leader in computing solutions that simplify datacenter infrastructure. Enterprises worldwide trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their critical business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership.
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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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This report details what happens during new virus outbreaks from the AV industry perspective, and provides an overview how Norman SandBox technology detects new viruses at the very moment of new outbreaks through a revolutionary simulation process.
Norman, headquartered in Norway, leads the AV industry in developing truly proactive virus detection. The Norman SandBox is able to detect new, unknown viruses at the very moment of the outbreak. www.norman.com
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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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Open Source products and CRM applications. How these two technologies have allowed small to medium sized (SMB) companies to excel in the same technical arena of the larger companies, but with TCO much lower than that of the larger application capable of providing the same ROI. With the push towards customer service within SMB companies the need is greater than ever to begin the process of implementing a quality CRM using open source technologies and a full fledged crm application.
CRM24X7 provides comprehensive Solutions for Customer Support, Contracts Management, Knowledge Management, Sales Force Automation and Product Management. CRM24X7 empowers Support & Sales Forces to gain a 360 Degree view of their customers. CRM24X7 is the alternative to ASP Solutions (Why Lease it).
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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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There are many reasons to consider outsourcing your organization’s email versus keeping it in-house. Not only can outsourcing save time and money, it also offers greater security and reliability. For both small business owners and IT managers, moving to an outsourced solution places the responsibility of maintaining and managing the email infrastructure in the hands of a trusted hosting partner. Outsourced email offers a managed hosting solution and can provide enterprise class reliability.
Greatmail offers outsourced email solutions for businesses and organizations. Greatmail uses clustering technologies designed for optimal email performance and uptime. Email hosting and web hosting plans include managed virus protection, firewall security, spam control, and nightly backups.
