Friday, July 31, 2009

Top 5 Tips for Email and Web Security

The Internet and Email brings many advantages, however the ever increasing number of Internet based security threats such as viruses, spyware and spam pose significant danger to your organization. Failure to protect your business can result in costly downtime, lost productivity, financial losses and worse. Learn the top 5 tips to protecting your business.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Enterprise Information Management - Strategia

Di fronte ai problemi relativi alla gestione delle informazioni, in particolare in ambienti multifunzionali, molti utenti di business e professionisti IT cercano, spesso inconsapevolmente, la soluzione nei sistemi di Enterprise Information Management (EIM). I prodotti EIM hanno lo scopo di raggiungere tutti i dati e le applicazioni contenuti nell'infrastruttura operativa di un'azienda e di unirli in un solo ambiente di gestione delle informazioni efficiente, capace di offrire le informazioni alla persona che le richiede nel momento e nel modo più appropriato. I sistemi di Enterprise Information Management coprono l'intera azienda indipendentemente dalle dimensioni, che si tratti di un piccolo produttore tessile o di una multinazionale con oltre 50.000 dipendenti. L'agilità, la precisione e la completezza nella fornitura dei dati sono i tre obiettivi principali.

Le soluzioni EIM vengono spesso messe in atto successivamente all'implementazione di infrastrutture aziendali composite costituite da applicazioni e repository diversi, con la tardiva presa di coscienza del fatto che l'integrazione dei dati va ben oltre i singoli sistemi e le singole aziende. L'agilità, la precisione e la completezza nella fornitura dei dati sono i tre obiettivi principali. Le soluzioni EIM vengono spesso messe in atto successivamente all'implementazione di infrastrutture aziendali composite costituite da applicazioni e repository diversi, con la tardiva presa di coscienza del fatto che l'integrazione dei dati va ben oltre i singoli sistemi e le singole aziende. Con l'evoluzione e l'adozione delle soluzioni di gestione dei dati nelle aziende, diventa evidente che l'efficienza nell'uso delle informazioni aziendali migliorerebbe con un'architettura globale delle informazioni di livello più avanzato in cui applicazioni ed i repository diversi e separati fossero invece pianificati e progettati per interagire e fornire le informazioni in modo rapido, completo e nel contesto appropriato.

Per illustrare in modo completo e approfondito il concetto di EIM sarebbe necessario un libro intero. Lo scopo di questo documento è quello di offrire una panoramica dei sistemi EIM, descrivendone i componenti con particolare attenzione all'importanza di una strategia EIM ad ampio raggio focalizzata sugli obiettivi aziendali e, al contempo, in grado di fornire un supporto multifunzionale. Riconoscere l'esistenza dell'EIM è il primo passo per capire come i problemi aziendali si collocano all'interno del quadro delle informazioni. Grazie a questa visione globale, gli utenti di business e l'IT avranno a disposizione i mezzi necessari per analizzare, definire i requisiti e delineare il progetto di un ambiente moderno di gestione delle informazioni. Data la vastità del concetto di EIM, che include essenzialmente ogni procedura, strategia o tecnologia di gestione delle informazioni, in questo documento verranno approfonditi due argomenti di valore immediato per il lettore: lo sviluppo della strategia EIM e l'implementazione della tecnologia di gestione delle informazioni. La comprensione di queste due aree è cruciale per avviare, pianificare e mettere in atto un'iniziativa EIM. La strategia delinea il piano dell'iniziativa EIM, definendone la visione, gli obiettivi e i progetti prioritari.

Benché vi siano altri concetti importanti relativi alla tecnologia dei sistemi EIM, quali il data warehousing e la sicurezza dei dati, solo una visione della gestione dei dati a livello aziendale è in grado di riunire origini di dati diverse ed eterogenee in una struttura che ne consenta l'accesso e la condivisione. Si tratta di un obiettivo fondamentale del sistema EIM. Per questo motivo, in questo documento verranno illustrate la gestione dei metadati e dei master data, la qualità dei dati e la loro migrazione, tutti argomenti che hanno un ruolo essenziale nell'integrazione e nella gestione dei dati.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Quick Reference Guide to Improving Fleet Management using GPS

Rising fleet operation costs and increasing management pressures have made real-time visibility and optimized productivity more important than ever. With a mobility solution with GPS, you can improve fleet management and control costs through real-time access to driver and vehicle performance data anytime, anywhere. When it comes to equipping your mobile workforce with cost-cutting, productivity-boosting tools, visibility is crucial. From vehicle maintenance and telematics, to fuel, driver and safety management, mobility solutions with GPS provide the real-time data access you need to run highly adaptable and cost-efficient fleets. By tracking and managing your fleet with a using GPS, you can:
  • Improve productivity with precise driver scheduling
  • Increase fuel efficiency and reduce costs by planning the most efficient routes
  • Enhance customer service with on-time deliveries and on-the-spot transactions
  • Achieve more stops per day
  • Gain agility to quickly change driver priorities and respond to unexpected events


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Quick Reference Guide to Improving Inventory Accuracy for Perfect Orders

In a competitive marketplace, order accuracy is crucial to customer satisfaction. Mobile solutions provide the tools your workers need to ensure that customer orders are error-free and delivered on time and in full. Many factors can contribute to imperfect orders: out-of-stocks, error-prone manual processes and picking methodsâ€"even negative employee attitudes. Mobile solutions effectively address these issues by opening a virtual window to warehouse inventory and customer demands. By arming workers with mobile technologies like hands-free wearable computers, voice recognition software, RFID and more, you can significantly impact your accuracy rate. They reduce errors, speed picking and give workers the enhanced ability to reach perfect order fulfillment goals.

Learn how you can leverage a mobile solution to:
  • Reduce errors with instant verification
  • Increase worker productivity with handheld and wearable devices
  • Maintain lean inventories through improved demand visibility
  • Achieve up to 99.9% order accuracy
  • Improve customer satisfaction with more accurate, on-time deliveries


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Monday, July 27, 2009

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics

It's no secret that the world has seen an explosion of information in the past 15 years, an explosion that experts predict will continue as the millions of people who use online resources continue to expand their usage, and the millions of people who do not yet have access to such resources gain it. Similarly, information stored as text in both business and government organizations has grown exponentially. This paper briefly discusses:what text analytics isthe various approaches to text analyticsthe natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutionsSPSS Inc.'s solutions for text analytics and their role in predictive analytics

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Sunday, July 26, 2009

B2B Sales Lead Success Checklist

You've spent a great deal of time, effort and money putting together your sales-lead generation program. How you handle those sales leads once you get them makes the difference between happy salespeople and new customers or unhappy salespeople and lost sales.

This checklist by B2B sales and marketing expert Mac McIntosh is designed to help B2B sales and marketing professionals determine if their company is doing all it can and should be doing to turn leads into sales.

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How to Boost Your Company's Sales with Marketing

The primary objective of a successful B2B marketing program is to bring in new business. B2B marketing programs include many elements, ranging from brand building to market research. But no single part of a business-to-business marketing program is more important than generating qualified sales leads.

"Marketing for leads" drives sales. Done correctly, B2B marketing for leads will increase the bottom line and help the company achieve its growth goals. B2B marketing programs that are bottom-line oriented focus on generating, nurturing and qualifying B2B sales leads.

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SY0-201 CompTIA Security+ Special Edition Practice Exam and Study Guide

CompTIA's Security+ exam is a critical step for anyone interested in IT security. It's a key component in the Department of Defense's 8570.1 initiative that mandates federal IT workers and contractors gain security certifications to work with the federal government. The ExamForce SY0-201 CompTIA Security+ practice exam provides a unique triple testing mode to instantly set a baseline of your knowledge and focus your study where you need it most, while the 51 page Study Guide provides high quality reference material â€" a valuable companion to the practice exams.

ExamForce's SY0-201 CompTIA Security+ covers the following CompTIA's recommended objective categories:
  • Systems Security
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Access Control
  • Assessments and Audits
  • Cryptography
  • Organizational Security


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Saturday, July 25, 2009

The Modern Virtualized Data Center

Storage virtualization has been a positive evolutionary step in the data center, driving the consolidation of power and floorspace to maximize utilization and power savings. With all of the benefits of virtualization comes a wholesale change in the way that you must plan for implementation, management, backup, and recovery.

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  • Greatly increase your storage utilization, resulting in better server consolidation, virtual machine performance, and cost savings
  • Dramatically reduce configuration time, support costs, and energy consumption
  • Improve efficiency by consolidating DAS, NAS, SAN, and other disparate storage onto the same network storage pool
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Thin Provisioning: The Secret to Achieving Operational Efficiency in the Data Center

One key area where operational efficiencies can be achieved is in the storage infrastructure. Traditional storage systems are inherently inefficient, with multiple arrays of dedicated storage and various management points. Thin provisioning is now recognized in the industry as a critical approach to simplifying storage management while drastically improving capacity utilization. Additionally, the ability to defer system and capacity purchases results in less frequent and higher utility capital expenditures.

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  • Increase utilization rates - Several applications can draw upon a single pool of physical capacity
  • Ease provisioning and management - New volumes no longer require large amounts of physical space at inception
  • Lower capital expenditures, as incremental system capacity is added to the general storage pool as needed, but without being tied to a single host.
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