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Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Today's Enterprise, 2008 | 2008-05-01 | Proofpoint |
| How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? To find out, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an online survey of technology decision makers at 424 large companies — in the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia — during March 2008.
This report summarizes the findings of Proofpoint's fifth-annual email security and data loss prevention study, including surprising statistics about how large companies manage the risks associated with outbound email, blog postings, media sharing sites, social networking sites, mobile Internet-connected devices and other electronic communications streams. Tags: Email, Security Standards, Security Management, Data Recovery - Security |
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Chinese Taxation Authority Turns to Grid Computing to Improve Data Analysis | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| The State Administration of Taxation (SAT) is responsible for regulating taxation affairs under the State Council of China. Its vast territory and large population make tax administration in China an extremely complex process. The country's economic growth following its admission to the World Trade Organization also necessitated extensive taxation reforms. SAT was faced with the challenge of planning and implementing these reforms and streamlining the taxation regime. SAT selected Oracle to design, develop, and deploy an information management infrastructure based on the vendor's experience implementing tax systems around the world and deep understanding of the Chinese taxation environment.
Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, High Performance Computing |
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Wellcome Achieves Greater Financial Control, Cuts Reporting Time From 12 Hours to 30 Minutes | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Eighty percent of Wellcome stores are open 24 hours, seven days a week. The company receives and must sift through enormous amounts of financial data, and consequently needs a powerful and reliable financial system. Its legacy system had undergone numerous expansions and upgrades and thus required a high productivity system. However, support for the hardware running the system was no longer available. As a result, the company experienced performance issues that threatened to destabilize financial operations. As part of the overhaul, Wellcome replaced its legacy financial system with Oracle Financials. By implementing Oracle Financials, Wellcome ensured easy integration with its existing Oracle Database platform.
Tags: Finance |
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Fujian Unicom Simplifies Database Management With Help From Neusoft Group Limited | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Fujian Unicom is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom, one of the four major telecommunications carriers in China. One of the biggest challenges facing Fujian Unicom was how to better organize, manage, and use its huge volumes of business data. The company's database administrators were spending large amounts of time repartitioning databases and creating tables. This was a costly exercise that also hindered staff from focusing their attention on higher value tasks. In 2003, Fujian Unicom engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Neusoft Group Limited to simplify the management of its database environment based on Oracle Database and utilizing Oracle Partitioning.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing |
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Biocel Paskov Enhances Revenues With Improved Business Intelligence Reporting | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Biocel Paskov is a leading Czech processor of wood and one of the top European producers of sulphite pulp. Biocel Paskov wanted to provide managers with live intelligence about incoming wood chips shipments, including information on volumes, quality, and prices and implement a system to generate reports and simplify their distribution to all users via a simple interface. The challenge was to create a single sign-on capability to ensure security while minimizing the burden on users. Biocel Paskov implemented Oracle Business Intelligence to provide managers with a real-time view of all data relating to incoming wood chips shipments and pricing.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing |
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Janssen-Cilag SpA Advances Business Strategy With Flexible Business Intelligence Solution | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Janssen-Cilag wanted to expand business intelligence capabilities to support business strategies and integrate multiple company functions in a single system, including sales and marketing, credit collection, medical direction, and product managers - ensuring that each function has a customized vision of the company's data resources. The challenge was to integrate data from different systems and vendors, including SAP, Oracle, and other third-parties and increase integration of sales and marketing with other company functions. Janssen-Cilag deployed Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to create a single interactive point of access to information that can be used in real time and incorporated new company functions in the system and granted access to information based on the user's profile.
Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing |
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Hafslund ASA Improves Customer Management With a Single Source of Data | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| Hafslund wanted to centralize critical customer data spread across six different systems and integrate customer interaction, which was specific to each company and product. The challenge was to provide customer service center staff with a complete overview of customer commitments, and enable cross-selling and improve customer service by consolidating all customer information onto one system. Hafslund implemented Oracle's Siebel eEnergy and Oracle Business Intelligence to provide a ready-made solution capable of integrating Hafslund customer data as well as worked with Oracle Partner Infosys to consolidate information from disparate systems into a single application using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services.
Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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SCM Group Supports Uniformity and Growth Worldwide With Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning Platform | 2008-05-01 | Oracle |
| SCM Group wanted to support plans for international expansion adequately with a single and integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform and create homogeneous, centralized, automated systems for management of data and procedures in the global network. The challenge was to create consistent procedures for all group branches and new acquisitions while preserving the distinguishing features that make each of them unique and integrate the new structure with the existing management control system. SCM Group integrated all group companies, headquarter and subsidiaries, with Oracle E-Business Suite, thanks to its ability to provide access to data and business processes via the Web and cut operating costs by automating processes.
Tags: ERP |
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MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: SQL Server Compact Edition Tips and Tricks With Jim Wilson (Level 200) | 2008-04-30 | Microsoft Tips |
| The presenter of this webcast will highlight best practices for using SQL Server Compact Edition.
Tags: Best Practices, Application Development |
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Managing SharePoint in an Enterprise Environment | 2008-04-29 | Global Knowledge |
| Planning is a very important part of any project. Without a good plan, you could find yourself without essential components, leaving you with a poorly performing infrastructure that is hard to manage. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other SharePoint technologies are excellent tools for a modern, web-based office environment. This white paper will show you how, through proper planning and implementation, it can be a high-performing, easy-to-maintain platform that will grow with your needs.
Tags: Storage Management, Database Management, Collaborative Web, Database Applications |