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HR Outsourcing Buyer's Guide

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:01 -0800

Receive their FREE “HR Outsourcing” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent HR Outsourcing providers.

Whether you have five employees or 500, an HRO (Human Resources Outsourcing) provider can supply experienced professionals to handle your company's staff management needs from payroll and employee recruitment to benefits and policy manuals. This HR Outsourcing Buyer's Guide will explain the full range of solutions HRO providers offer, how to find the right vendor, and the various costs involved.

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PEO Services & Employee Leasing

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:01 -0800

Receive this FREE “PEO/Employee Leasing” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent PEO Services & Employee Leasing providers.

Managing employees can be a costly and time-consuming job. More importantly, if you operate a business without an experienced HR professional on staff, you could put the company at risk. A Professional Employer Organization (PEO) can provide employee leasing services to relieve your company of its administrative and legal burdens and becoming a co-employer of your personnel. This PEO/Employee Leasing Buyer's Guide will explain the full range of services a PEO provides, how the co-employer agreement works, the benefits and disadvantages, and how to choose the right PEO vendor.

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Understanding Application Whitelisting

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Blacklisting undesirable applications still has its uses. However, with today's more dynamic computing environments, rapidly evolving threat landscape, and rigorous compliance mandates, blacklisting has reached its limits. Its heavy signature requirements make it unwieldy, the need for systems to regularly call home for signature updates make it inconvenient. Not to mention, it's also reactive: Blacklisting requires having advanced knowledge of the application (signature) and an unbeatable sensory method for reading signs of malicious activity.

Because of these inconveniences, application whitelisting (allowing only approved applications to run and blocking all others) is making its way into IT organizations to achieve compliance and protect systems from malicious applications executing on them.

This white paper defines why application whitelisting is important, differentiates the two approaches to application control (whitelist vs. blacklist), and discusses where the adoption of application whitelisting is most applicable. It discusses the applicability of application whitelisting on dedicated systems and in enterprise cases, while examining compliance implications and offering best practices.

Written by: SANS Institute

Sponsored by: McAfee

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Key to Reducing Risk from Unauthorized Applications

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Companies often have a difficult time preventing endpoints and servers from deviating from corporate standards. Users may install unauthorized applications while on or off the corporate network that may introduce malware, present support issues, or create software licensing risks. With its industry-leading whitelisting technology, McAfee® Application Control ensures that only trusted applications run on servers and endpoints while permitting software updates from authorized sources. This provides IT with the greatest degree of visibility and control over endpoints and also helps enforce software license compliance. Additionally, as companies strive to extend the viability of fixed function systems (Microsoft Windows NT legacy or low footprint), Application Control also extends an extra layer of protection without impacting system performance.

Learn how to achieve:

Greater visibility and control of applications on endpoints and servers
Extends the business viability of fixed function systems
Low cost of ownership because dynamic whitelisting eliminates manual effort of maintaining databases, rules, and updates
Low overhead software solution that runs transparently on endpoints
Increased business availability and continuity
Well suited for point-of-sale terminals in retail environments, imaging devices in healthcare, and legacy, fixed-function Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems

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Key to Preventing Unauthorized IT Change

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Most IT organizations today recognize the centrality of change to their operational effectiveness. Many have invested in process automation tools such as a Change Management system or a Service Desk. Yet, a gap persists between actual change activity and the documented Change Management process. This change control gap results in manual activity by IT departments to control and minimize the costs of change. Change Control bridges this gap by adding control to change management. This is accomplished by providing customers with real-time detection of changes being made, accountability to validate change activity and real-time change prevention to block unwanted changes. Change Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption.

Change Control is an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.

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HR Information Systems Buyer's Guide

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Receive this FREE “HR Information Systems” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent HR Information Systems providers.

This HR Information Systems Buyer's Guide will explain:

Assess your HRIS needs
Understand which features to look for
Determine how to choose among multiple providers
Know how much you can expect to pay

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Get Closer to Your Best Customers

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

Find out what changes to make to customer strategy; how to align your organization to best support a winning approach; and how to drive excellence in execution to achieve results in today's economy.

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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

No longer the province of global giants, business intelligence is now both accessible and affordable even for nontechnical people who can use it to improve overall performance.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. More than 43,400 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP(r) applications - addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.

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The Alignment-Focused Organization: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

Most companies have a well-defined strategy that is intended to align the actions of all individuals, teams, and business units to achieve corporate goals. But when it comes time to execute, they can run into trouble. To close the gap between strategy and execution, companies need to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities across the organization.

Best practices include:

Define strategy & align initiatives with corporate goals
Clearly communicate strategies and plans
Use incentives to drive employee behaviors needed to meet objectives
Measure performance using key performance indicators

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Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations require a new generation of business intelligence tools that will allow cross-enterprise, inter-enterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed. Companies that are able to harness the copious amounts of information IT systems generate will have the inside track on the competition: gaining better understanding of customer needs, identifying trends earlier, and using the resulting lead time to capitalize on opportunities. In the years to come, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.

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Managing Cash Flow in Times of Crisis

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

Get answers to these key questions:

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Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

Maintaining a robust customer database in a CRM tool not only provides your sellers and sales managers with actionable intelligence but it can provide significant value to your company.

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Case Study: Pay Per Click Success Story

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:52 -0800

Cancer.Net a healthcare non-profit patient information web site with an underperforming Pay Per Click account is optimized by Intrapromote to realize:

200% increase in targeted traffic
54% decrease in cost per click

As a Sales/Marketing Professional, learn more about the PPC strategies leveraged in order to exceed objectives for driving more traffic in the most efficient and most cost effective way possible for your mid/large sized company.

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5 Big Improvements in Just 5 Months

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Enterprise system implementations can be invasive, disruptive, and even counter-productive, causing considerable expense, possibilities of wrenching business-process change, and gnawing uncertainty in the minds of employees. But while no magic pill guarantees an implementation will be quick, painless, and successful, there are steps manufacturers can take to secure ERP value without risk of catastrophic failure.

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CRM Without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Build a synergistic ecosystem with employees, customers, and partners to deliver customer value – where customer demand drives the supply chain and customer insight inspires innovation. Quickly respond to sustain competitive advantage and profitability.

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Video Conferencing Best Practices

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:20:01 -0800

This white paper examines the value of a total video conferencing solution, one that is built on a scalable, secure platform that supports all needed features and endpoints. The paper also highlights two case studies to illustrate how deploying a total solution can lead to a successful video conferencing implementation.

Written by: Frost & Sullivan Presented by: Tandberg

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An Emerging Triple Play

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:20:01 -0800

This intriguing report discusses an emerging "triple-play" – the combination of video communications, managed services and unified communications – which create a new approach to inter- and intra-company collaboration and operational excellence.

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Open Source Security Myths Dispelled (Note: Spanish Title: Descubriendo la Verdad Detrás de los Mitos de la Seguridad del Código Abierto)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0800

When choosing between proprietary and open source security solutions, many organizations are misled by open source myths. As a result, they ask the wrong questions when evaluating their options and unnecessarily limit their IT solutions. Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT infrastructure? These questions all arise from open source myths that this Spanish language white paper will explain and dispel, allowing IT decision makers to focus on more important organizational issues: return-on-investment, ease-of-use, agility, reliability, and control.

Special Note: This paper is presented in Spanish

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4 Ways to Unlock Your Employees' Performance Potential

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0800

More and more, small- and mid-sized businesses have discovered that strategic HR is the key to ensuring their company reaches its full potential in performance, productivity -- and profits.

Now it's your turn: download this exclusive eGuide to discover 4 proven ways you can tap into - and manage - the full potential of every employee. You'll learn how you can:

Keep employees' daily efforts focused on key business objectives
Retain top performers and help those in need of a "performance boost"
Provide meaningful motivation and job satisfaction
Simplify your performance management process

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Mobile Device Management for Dummies

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0800

Your frontline workers may have a variety of skills but they're rarely IT savvy and certainly not security experts. Yet more than 75% of enterprises leave responsibility for security in the hands of the user – literally. With the increase in the use of mobile devices, you likely have questions that are left unanswered when it comes to managing and securing those devices. Well, now your answers are just a page away with Mobile Device Management for Dummies®. Use Mobile Device Management for Dummies® to discover how to:

Manage your mobile devices and applications
Secure your mobile data
Unleash your workforce's mobile potential
And much more

Please click here to view the Dummies End User Agreement.

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Talent Management in a Down Economy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0800

Talent management in a low growth economy offers new opportunities—especially internal mobility, performance management, and quality of hire—to deliver significant business performance benefits in the midst of financial constraints. Citing historical data and demographic trends, this paper dispels misconceptions that HR's focus is narrowed when markets decline.

Learn how you can use talent management to cut costs and boost productivity while you:

Redeploy existing resources to expand into new markets.
Align employee performance to corporate goals.
Focus on bringing new skills in-house.
Implement development and retention programs.

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The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0800

Congress recently passed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 intended to fuel the United States economy through tax incentives aimed at encouraging businesses to increase investments in equipment, software, and other qualifying assets in 2008.

Tax code changes under the Act allow businesses to write off up to $250,000 of qualifying Section 179 property in 2008. In addition, businesses will be able to deduct an additional 50% off the cost of certain investments with an expected life of 20 years or less.

With the return of bonus depreciation benefits, nearly double the Section 179 expensing limits, and increased investment limits, this year's Economic Stimulus Act is expected to encourage more businesses to accelerate capital investments into their 2008 budgets allowing them (and our economy!) to keep growing into the future. This document explains:

Key components of the Act
How these changes affect your business
How to take full advantage of these benefits, including opportunities for:
- Maximizing Section 179 expense increases by carefully choosing longer-life assets and placing them in service at the appropriate time
- Using Bonus Depreciation to quickly recover the cost of equipment, software, and other qualifying asset purchases made in 2008
- Managing complex tax code changes through the use of software

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Oracle Magazine

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:50:01 -0800

Oracle Magazine contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.

For more information about Oracle, please visit their Web site at http://www.oracle.com. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Target Marketing

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:50:01 -0800

Target Marketing covers all direct response media, including direct mail, telemarketing, space advertising, the Web and direct response TV. Readers get insight into such subjects as using databases and lists effectively, acquiring new customers, upselling and cross-selling existing customers, fulfillment strategies and more.

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Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

In the last several years, the manufacturing sector has moved from vertically organized structures to horizontal organizations; that is, a single company no longer controls its product from, let's say, the mine to the store shelf. Instead, today's companies control only pieces of the supply chain, and the companies and divisions controlling those various components may be located just about anywhere in the world.

This model enables companies to concentrate on what they do best, but as a result the supply chain has become longer and more complex. The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean.

This white paper was written by Ventana Research, Sponsored by Epicor Software.

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A Guide to Selecting the Right ERP Partner

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Although a challenging economy has caused many organizations to reduce overall IT spending, several continue to invest in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Such systems enable organizations to reduce costs, improve customer response time, become easier for customers to do business with and manage growth expectations.

As organizations determine their ERP strategy, they need to choose the right ERP vendor partner. This guide explores the "pros and cons" of the four types of ERP partners:

Partner ecosystems
Frameworks
Best-of-breed packages
End-to-end integrated solutions

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Achieving Efficient Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) for Financial Services through Process and Automation

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Now more than ever, financial institutions are struggling to comply with regulations and manage the risks and penalties of failing to operate within the rules. Establishing, maintaining and proving compliance requires both money and time that executives would rather invest in top-line growth. The myriad of procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet financial institutions that can master the management all of these activities—and demonstrate that they have done it—operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands and good names in the marketplace. Fortunately, newly available software platforms that have become known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) technologies can help. This white paper discusses the drivers behind the growing awareness of GRC information technology and introduces the elements of an effective automated GRC system.

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Smooth Transition: Preparing for IFRS

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The SEC proposes that 2014 will be the first year for US registered companies to file their financial statements in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) format. This executive brief covers how to effectively manage this upcoming transition to IFRS. You will learn how to:

Form your IFRS transition team
Set the roles of the team members
Use your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to manage this transition

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Key Strategies for IT Success in Today's Distribution Environment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today's economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this environment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up-and-coming management is very worthwhile. This white paper provides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability. It is a foundation for becoming more valuable to an organization by being able to generate a Return on Investment when applying the latest capabilities to the real world.

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ERP in Manufacturing: Expanding Beyond Traditional Boundaries - Aberdeen Group

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes – while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise. This year Aberdeen looks beyond their annual assessment of ERP usage by module and explore the preferences and decisions between point solutions and an end-to-end integrated suite and assess the overall business value ERP brings to manufacturing.

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Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier 2-Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies - Gartner Report

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier 2-Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies addresses the needs of product-centric companies or divisions of enterprises with between 100-999 employees, and with annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion. These enterprises have limited IT resources and seek ERP systems that support their differentiating business processes well with deep functionality, but do not require significant overhead in the non-differentiating business areas (meaning the systems must minimize Total Cost of Ownership [TCO] and complexity). Although some see this market as large and mature, Gartner see this market as undergoing a "change of the guard," with older, established systems with deep functionality being displaced by more modern and agile systems.

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Evaluating Logistics Outsourcing: Look Before You Leap!