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whitepaper Policy Management2007-10-02 Peapod
 

Policy management is the process by which an organisation ensures an employee or associate agrees and understands their responsibilities before accessing and using business systems and data.

The following paper details why having the right policy management software in place is an important tool in reminding staff of their obligations whilst at work - and reducing the incidence of accidental security breaches.



Tags: Strategic Planning, Methodology		   
whitepaper UWV Upgrades Financial IT System in 3.5 Months With Careful Planning and New Training Tools2007-10-01 Oracle
  The Employee Insurance Schemes Implementing Body (Uitvoeringsorgaan Werknemersverzekeringen), also known as UWV, is a multi-billion euro organization that provides temporary income when it is impossible for its citizens to work. The UWV requires a robust and reliable financial infrastructure to efficiently and accurately compile reports, annual accounts, and annual financial statements. In 2006, the UWV began to look at an upgrade to its legacy PeopleSoft system to ensure that it could continue to effectively meet the needs of the constituents it serves and adhere to its financial reporting requirements. Working with Oracle Partner Capgemini and using Oracle User Productivity Kit, UWV completed the upgrade in just three-and-a-half months, well ahead of schedule, because six months were originally planned.

Tags: Accounting Applications, Finance		   
whitepaper Nuremberg Building Authority Reduces Building Permit Processing Time by 25%2007-10-01 Oracle
  Builders know from painful experience that obtaining a building permit can sometimes take longer than building a house. To be able to process building applications more quickly and to integrate the participating departments simultaneously into the permission process, the Nuremberg Building Authority has replaced the paper-based process with an electronic construction document system. The Nuremberg Building Authority uses Oracle's AutoVue 2D Professional, an enterprise visualization software solution, to view digital construction plans.

Tags: 3D Modeling and Rendering		   
whitepaper Brasil Telecom Increases Efficiency of Network Management and Service Provisioning2007-10-01 Oracle
  To meet Brasil Telecom's regulation-related business and service provisioning challenges, the company needed to improve its order management and provisioning processes and reduces its capital expenses and operating expenses. To operate more efficiently and gain market share, the company needed an inventory system with an architecture that could speed up the provisioning and control assets. The company's IT group took a three-tiered approach to solving its challenges. First it built a common, scalable, multi-domain, multi-service OSS reference architecture. Then it selected product vendors and system integration partners. Finally, Brasil Telecom embarked on ProVision, a major implementation to modernize products and processes, consolidate process management data, and roll out services.

Tags: Network Administration		   
whitepaper The Key to Successful Quality Customer Information2007-10-01 Levelsoft
  Businesses are in a constant state of change, so too is the customer information the paper depends upon to formulate the critical business decisions. This paper investigates the level of quality and dependency companies have on this information, and outline the steps which management can take to ensure the validity and completeness of this information. A frightening statistic according to The Data Warehousing Institute 2002 study shows that "Poor-quality customer data costs U.S. businesses a whopping $611 billion a year", with customer data becoming obsolete at a rate of 2% per month.   
whitepaper CA CMDB Gains Momentum2007-10-01 Enterprise Management Associates
  This paper addresses the advances CA has made with its CMDB offering through product features, integration with its broader IT management portfolio and its integration of the CA Cohesion product. It also provides insights from CA customers on the CA CMDB. It wraps up with EMA's perspective on CA's overall CMDB progress.   
whitepaper Hewitt Associates Helps Marriott U.K. Optimize Human Resources Management While Cutting Costs2007-10-01 Oracle
  Hewitt Associates, Inc. wanted to identify a scalable, cost-effective HR and payroll platform and suite of best-practice processes on which to operate HR business process outsourcing for 10,000 Marriott U.K. associates, following the formation of the joint venture between Marriott Hotels Ltd and Whitbread PLC. Hewitt Associates recommended Oracle On Demand as Marriott's technology and applications hosting partner to ensure unrivalled availability, performance, and flexibility at a low per-user price. It leveraged the HR expertise of Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Symatrix and its collaboration with Oracle On Demand to implement and go live on time and on budget.

Tags: HR		   
whitepaper Cotrafa Cooperativa Financiera Integrates for a Dependable and Scalable IT Infrastructure2007-10-01 Oracle
  Cotrafa Cooperativa Financiera one of the largest cooperatives in Colombia wanted to integrate all systems in a flexible, scalable, and stable platform, capable of supporting the company's vertical growth and centralize information in a robust and dependable Web-based database to offer new services and improve response times to clients and associates. The challenge was to consolidate the company's critical functions in a secure system to achieve maximum productivity and income and provide accurate predictions of system failures to avoid operational reprocessing. The company worked with Oracle Partner Aplicaciones Especiales to implement an integrated tools system in a stable and scalable technological platform. It also established a reliable and robust database with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, which provided online information access to a more users.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Ideapark Optimizes Internal Communications for 2,000 Users and Improves Information Flow2007-10-01 Oracle
  Finland's Ideapark is a "Commercial City" - an enclosed center that covers 100,000 meters and includes the largest shopping mall in Scandinavia, in addition to conference and leisure facilities. Finland's Ideapark wanted to create a technology platform to facilitate daily internal communication with Ideapark staff and accelerate the collaborative processes of the companies located in Ideapark. The challenge was to optimize communication, security management, and service request processes and create a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and build a platform capable of integrating new applications and processes. Finland's Ideapark launched ISIT, a cost-effective internal information and communication portal, built on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Portal 10g. It leveraged ISIT to support approximately 2,000 users from 200 different companies including Ideapark management, stores, restaurants, and service providers.

Tags: Database Applications, Application Development		   
whitepaper Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Accelerates Operations, Expands Service to Its 600,000 Citizens2007-10-01 Oracle
  Metro Nashville has a $1.6 billion annual budget, employs more than 20,000 people, and administers an additional 7,000 pensions. To streamline services, Nashville and Davidson consolidated their separate governments into one entity in 1963. Technology is the centerpiece of Metro Nashville's continued strategy to increase operational efficiencies. When a comprehensive IT project stalled 16 months into the project, with no solution in sight, city officials turned to Oracle On Demand to solve their technical challenges. This put the company into a position to complete the project, deploy new applications, control costs, and add flexibility to their operations.

Tags: Database Applications