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Microsoft Drives Corporate Performance With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 2007-10-08 Microsoft Tips

With hundreds of internal organizations and business groups, Microsoft Corporation found it challenging to ensure that everyone through every level of the enterprise was aligned with its business goals. Microsoft's business process relied largely on the various groups sharing targets and results by emailing standalone Excel files. This created concerns around data inaccuracies, inconsistencies and security. The perfect solution presented itself in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, an integrated performance management application with comprehensive capabilities that include budget and forecasting, which are essential for establishing the targets to support the company's strategies and objectives. Based on Microsoft Office and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also offers scalability, data management and security, and a familiar, easy-to use-interface for data entry using Microsoft Excel.

Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

Working With Connectors 2007-10-05 Microsoft

Imagine a person spending hours working on a flowchart for new authors detailing the process a manuscript goes through from submission to publication at the company. The next day, he or she finds out that the process has been changed: roles have been added and certain steps have been combined or switched. The person is going to need to update the chart to reflect these changes. In the past, this would have required painstakingly moving the shapes and the lines connecting them separately. By using connectors in Visio 2003 - special lines that stay "Glued" to shapes - one can move the shapes and the lines at once, quickly and easily updating the flowchart.

Tags: Collaboration Tools

Microsoft and Ingenix Offer Leading-Edge Decision Support Technology for the Healthcare Industry That Can Improve Performance 2007-10-05 Microsoft

For a health plan provider looking for ways to identify opportunities for improvement, watch this webcast, during which Microsoft and knowledge driven healthcare partner, will present an integrated solution that incorporates leading-edge decision support technology with proven analytic methodologies. The presenter will explain how to gain a deeper understanding of utilization trends, patient outcomes and provider performance. This webcast will show how to boost the quality and performance of your health plan, enhance the health and well-being of your members and optimize provider network. Impact Analysis offers the organization the flexibility to analyze and dissect data by utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Analytics and reporting services to generate customized report views so users can focus on the data they need most.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Database Applications

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Effective Conditional Formats Using Excel 2007 (Level 300) 2007-10-05 Microsoft

This webcast shows how to create effective conditional formats using the new capabilities in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. This webcast gives more tips and tricks for summarizing data, discovering business intelligence (BI), and designing effective information dashboards.

Tags: Spreadsheets, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization 2007-10-01 IBM

We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we're called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis.

In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Strategic Planning

Eurocopter Improves Product Development Operations With Web-Based Visualization Solution 2007-10-01 Oracle

Global distribution of development and production, and the growing trend toward outsourcing development tasks to international system suppliers represented a major challenge for the company. At the same time, the company faced growing pressure to reduce development cycle times and costs. Eurocopter needed to improve the efficiency of its product development operations and other business processes. One possible starting point for improvement was the way in which Eurocopter communicated Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data across the company. Digital product development enables Eurocopter to shorten development cycles for its helicopters, but it requires powerful tools to make the digital data accessible to non-CAD departments.

Tags: Database Management, CAD

Electricity Distributor ETSA Utilities, Simplifies Connections With SAP NetWeaver 2007-10-01 SAP

There was a need to improve engagement with key stakeholders, such as Energy Retailers and Electricians and a need to consolidate IT skills around a specific technology. There was a desire to reuse technology to expand the project to enhance relationships with customers and suppliers. ETSA Utilities wanted to simplify the request process for new connections, metering changes, service alterations, system augmentation or permanent removal of electricity supply and reduce turn around time and handling time on such requests. The challenge was to provide greater flexibility through web-based 24/7 self-service facility. As a solution the company deployed SAP NetWeaver and SAP Services.

Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster 2007-10-01 Dell

Dell's visualization system, the Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster, is a clustering system of high performance workstations, utilizing the aggregate performance of data processors, graphics accelerators, and network technologies. The visualization cluster provides scientists and engineers with the visualization power to study/simulate large scale problems such as earth simulation, very high resolution problems such as molecular bonding, or high resolution datasets. This paper explains the visualization cluster reference architecture, components, HW/SW configuration, and installation process.

Are You Protected by a Piece of Plastic and Two Screws?: Wiegand Had Its Day! Borer All-in-One Solution, Will Ensure Your Data Is Secure 2007-10-01 Borer Data Systems

The majority of cards and biometric readers in access control systems use a Wiegand interface to transmit data read from a card to a control panel. The control panel will then validate the date received and grant/deny access. Often people in the Access Control Industry accept the Wiegand interface as a standard. Wiegand is not a standard as there is no formal definition, ratified by ISO or the IEEE, of the Wiegand Interface against which manufacturers can measure the performance of their equipment. Wiegand is more of an informal working convention, which has allowed the manufacturers of card and biometric readers using a variety of reading technologies to connect their products to control panels produced by system integrators.

Recipe for Mobile Data Security: TPM, Bitlocker, Windows Vista and Active Directory 2007-10-01 Erudio Security

If one's business is like mine, laptops regularly disappear. Until recently, centrally managed mobile storage encryption solutions for Windows environments were either too costly, required users to carry a key-resident device, or relied on keys residing on local disk. Sometimes the best solution under these circumstances was the presence of administrative controls (i.e. policies) prohibiting users from storing sensitive information on local laptop drives. With the proliferation of TPM 1.2 across most laptop platforms and the release of Microsoft Windows Vista, most roadblocks to laptop data encryption have been removed.

Tags: Windows Vista

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Title	Date Added	Company
Microsoft Drives Corporate Performance With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007	2007-10-08	Microsoft Tips
With hundreds of internal organizations and business groups, Microsoft Corporation found it challenging to ensure that everyone through every level of the enterprise was aligned with its business goals. Microsoft's business process relied largely on the various groups sharing targets and results by emailing standalone Excel files. This created concerns around data inaccuracies, inconsistencies and security. The perfect solution presented itself in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, an integrated performance management application with comprehensive capabilities that include budget and forecasting, which are essential for establishing the targets to support the company's strategies and objectives. Based on Microsoft Office and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also offers scalability, data management and security, and a familiar, easy-to use-interface for data entry using Microsoft Excel. Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing
Working With Connectors	2007-10-05	Microsoft
Imagine a person spending hours working on a flowchart for new authors detailing the process a manuscript goes through from submission to publication at the company. The next day, he or she finds out that the process has been changed: roles have been added and certain steps have been combined or switched. The person is going to need to update the chart to reflect these changes. In the past, this would have required painstakingly moving the shapes and the lines connecting them separately. By using connectors in Visio 2003 - special lines that stay "Glued" to shapes - one can move the shapes and the lines at once, quickly and easily updating the flowchart. Tags: Collaboration Tools
Microsoft and Ingenix Offer Leading-Edge Decision Support Technology for the Healthcare Industry That Can Improve Performance	2007-10-05	Microsoft
For a health plan provider looking for ways to identify opportunities for improvement, watch this webcast, during which Microsoft and knowledge driven healthcare partner, will present an integrated solution that incorporates leading-edge decision support technology with proven analytic methodologies. The presenter will explain how to gain a deeper understanding of utilization trends, patient outcomes and provider performance. This webcast will show how to boost the quality and performance of your health plan, enhance the health and well-being of your members and optimize provider network. Impact Analysis offers the organization the flexibility to analyze and dissect data by utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Analytics and reporting services to generate customized report views so users can focus on the data they need most. Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Database Applications
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Effective Conditional Formats Using Excel 2007 (Level 300)	2007-10-05	Microsoft
This webcast shows how to create effective conditional formats using the new capabilities in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. This webcast gives more tips and tricks for summarizing data, discovering business intelligence (BI), and designing effective information dashboards. Tags: Spreadsheets, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing
White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization	2007-10-01	IBM
We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we're called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis. In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions. Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Strategic Planning
Eurocopter Improves Product Development Operations With Web-Based Visualization Solution	2007-10-01	Oracle
Global distribution of development and production, and the growing trend toward outsourcing development tasks to international system suppliers represented a major challenge for the company. At the same time, the company faced growing pressure to reduce development cycle times and costs. Eurocopter needed to improve the efficiency of its product development operations and other business processes. One possible starting point for improvement was the way in which Eurocopter communicated Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data across the company. Digital product development enables Eurocopter to shorten development cycles for its helicopters, but it requires powerful tools to make the digital data accessible to non-CAD departments. Tags: Database Management, CAD
Electricity Distributor ETSA Utilities, Simplifies Connections With SAP NetWeaver	2007-10-01	SAP
There was a need to improve engagement with key stakeholders, such as Energy Retailers and Electricians and a need to consolidate IT skills around a specific technology. There was a desire to reuse technology to expand the project to enhance relationships with customers and suppliers. ETSA Utilities wanted to simplify the request process for new connections, metering changes, service alterations, system augmentation or permanent removal of electricity supply and reduce turn around time and handling time on such requests. The challenge was to provide greater flexibility through web-based 24/7 self-service facility. As a solution the company deployed SAP NetWeaver and SAP Services.
Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster	2007-10-01	Dell
Dell's visualization system, the Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster, is a clustering system of high performance workstations, utilizing the aggregate performance of data processors, graphics accelerators, and network technologies. The visualization cluster provides scientists and engineers with the visualization power to study/simulate large scale problems such as earth simulation, very high resolution problems such as molecular bonding, or high resolution datasets. This paper explains the visualization cluster reference architecture, components, HW/SW configuration, and installation process.
Are You Protected by a Piece of Plastic and Two Screws?: Wiegand Had Its Day! Borer All-in-One Solution, Will Ensure Your Data Is Secure	2007-10-01	Borer Data Systems
The majority of cards and biometric readers in access control systems use a Wiegand interface to transmit data read from a card to a control panel. The control panel will then validate the date received and grant/deny access. Often people in the Access Control Industry accept the Wiegand interface as a standard. Wiegand is not a standard as there is no formal definition, ratified by ISO or the IEEE, of the Wiegand Interface against which manufacturers can measure the performance of their equipment. Wiegand is more of an informal working convention, which has allowed the manufacturers of card and biometric readers using a variety of reading technologies to connect their products to control panels produced by system integrators.
Recipe for Mobile Data Security: TPM, Bitlocker, Windows Vista and Active Directory	2007-10-01	Erudio Security
If one's business is like mine, laptops regularly disappear. Until recently, centrally managed mobile storage encryption solutions for Windows environments were either too costly, required users to carry a key-resident device, or relied on keys residing on local disk. Sometimes the best solution under these circumstances was the presence of administrative controls (i.e. policies) prohibiting users from storing sensitive information on local laptop drives. With the proliferation of TPM 1.2 across most laptop platforms and the release of Microsoft Windows Vista, most roadblocks to laptop data encryption have been removed. Tags: Windows Vista