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whitepaper Microsoft Builds a Green Campus to Save Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint2009-08-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft planned to expand its facilities in Shanghai, China, beginning in late 2007. It needed to incorporate sustainable building requirements and cost savings into the campus. Microsoft IT worked with other Microsoft teams to build and run a green campus in Shanghai. The teams focused on deriving benefits from the following elements of the campus: offices, data center, labs, desktop and laptop computers, virtual collaboration.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Insider Risk Management: A Framework Approach to Internal Security2009-08-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  Internal security risks are a complex challenge facing organizations of all industries and in all regions. Unfortunately, no single technology will solve the wide range of risks posed by "insiders." Insiders are authorized users with legitimate access to corporate networks, applications, and data. They include, but are not limited to, employees, executives, board members, business managers, IT, consultants, outsourcers, contractors, and business partners. As organizations build strategies to better secure their business, establishing a framework for managing insider risk should be a top priority for CISOs, CSOs, and other C-level executives globally.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Raymond James Financial to Provide CRM Solution, Distribute Best-Practices Workflow2009-08-01 Microsoft
  Raymond James Financial employs over 3,000 financial advisors, 75 percent of whom are independent contractors. To attract and keep well-to-do clients, these advisors must apply sophisticated relationship building skills. Consequently, the use of CRM tools is ubiquitous at the firm. "As a company, we had over 2,000 discrete customer databases across heterogeneous platforms like ACT!, GoldMine, and Juncture CRM," says Shawn Tabor, Product Manager for CRM at Raymond James Financial. "Our advisors had no uniform way to document interactions with clients and we had no easy way to assist them with compliance issues or best practices processes." To meet its goals, the company chose to deploy Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM. Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides the features, flexibility, and customer detail to optimize the effectiveness of financial advisors in deepening and capitalizing on their relationships with prospects and customers.

Tags: Customer Management, Customer Management, Customer Management, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Medicaid MITA: Innovative COTS Solutions for IT Risk Management2009-08-01 Symantec
  This paper provides an overview of the MITA Technical Architecture and discusses key areas of potential contribution to implementation of this framework from one the world's leading IT security and infrastructures software solution providers, Symantec. The goal of this paper is to facilitate discussion and familiarization of the Symantec Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) offerings for those who find themselves charged with the implementation of anew MITA aligned Medicaid enterprise. Symantec understands that MITA is helping to foster integrated business and IT transformation across the Medicaid enterprise, putting business needs first in order to improve the administration of the Medicaid program, focusing on cost control, and is intended to improve interoperability for state Medicaid organizations.   
whitepaper Consolidating Enterprise Network Security Infrastructure: Ways to Cut Costs and Complexity2009-08-01 SonicWall
  Off late economy, large enterprise businesses and their IT organizations need to do more with less. It is the responsibility of IT to optimize limited resources and garner the greatest return on budgets. Enterprises are leading the way and reaping the benefits of consolidation, centralizing data centers and embracing virtualization initiatives. Enterprises have the opportunity to optimize productivity and minimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - while also maximizing security against Web 2.0-based threats - by consolidating multiple security technologies into a single Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall solution.

Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Empresa Tejofran De Saneamento e Servicos Ltda. Expands Its Financial Vision2009-08-01 Oracle
  Founded in 1957, Empresa Tejofran de Saneamento e Servicos Ltda. (Tejofran) is a pioneer in the service outsourcing industry. Today, it has eight business units: cleaning and multiservices, security, sanitation, railroads, energy, environment, services management, and highways. Including 23 service points and its headquarters, Tejofran operates in approximately 190 cities in the states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Parana, providing around-the-clock service. It needed to consolidate the company's financial information to make it accessible to all departments and improve decision making. Tejofran worked with Oracle Partner Sunrising Consulting to implement Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management to provide greater visibility into financial activities and accelerate decision making.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Outsourcing for Success - The Retained Organization: Transforming Your Team for Operational Excellence2009-07-30 novusorigo.com
  The requirements for the advanced planning and design of a skilled retained organization are paramount to the success of any outsourcing relationship, and should be facilitated early on in the outsourcing process. Additionally, key success factors in the design and implementation of a retained organization include; the ability of the team to operate against new processes and methodologies, having a clear understanding of what transactions are being outsourced, properly selecting retained resources based on skills and requirements, the understanding of all knowledge transfer requirements, and the ability to provide strong leadership to implement communications and change management.

Tags: Project Management, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: Dial-in Audio Conferencing in OCS 2007 R2 (Level 300)2009-07-30 Microsoft
  Excited about the ROI of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 dial-in conferencing, but don't feel confident with the technical details behind it? The attendee of this webcast will earn about deployment considerations, server configuration, call flows and end user options.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Using Good Information Governance to Manage Growth and ROI in a Down Economy2009-07-28 EMC
  Information volume is growing at an exponential rate each year. Taking control of this information can seem overwhelming - especially with a tight budget. By classifying content at creation and implementing retention-enabled business processes, one can more effectively manage information growth and increase the ability to reuse information to increase the organization's competitive advantage. The attendee will hear from EMC experts on how to use metadata to classify content and thereby make records management an integral part of the business processes.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Implementing Enterprise-Wide Risk Reduction Across Operational and Financial Processes2009-07-22 Syntex Management Systems
  The ultimate goal of Risk Management is targeted at reducing any factor that represents a threat to a company attaining its strategic objectives. The desired outcome is to reduce the variability in the organization's process execution and thus produce more predictable financial and operational results. The scope of the financial impact is on both revenue and net income because Risk Management is as concerned with revenue growth as it is with loss prevention. This expanded opportunity is based on the premise that a continuous improvement initiative enabled by enterprise-wide common Risk Framework will increase risk mitigation effectiveness, reduce process variability, and help ensure that a company's strategic objectives can be accomplished.

Tags: IT Budgeting