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whitepaper Health Plan Supports Growth, Controls Costs, and Reduces Complexities With Licensing Plan2009-10-23 Microsoft
  With recent growth, Molina Healthcare wanted to use its existing technology assets and apply them to key business processes in order to drive down administrative costs and simplify customer interactions. Molina chose a cost-effective licensing program, the Microsoft Enrollment for Application Platform (EAP) for Enterprise Agreements. Molina is controlling costs while preparing to meet new HIPAA 5010 standards, increasing collaboration, and continuing to provide access to affordable healthcare.

Tags: Regulatory Compliance		   
whitepaper Tripwire Proves Configuration Control Is a Best Seller With Auditors and IT2009-09-19 Tripwire
  Since 1995, MarketLive, Inc. has focused exclusively on providing enterprise-class e-commerce retail technology and services that help mid-sized businesses successfully sell goods and services online. The challenge was to deliver a single PCI compliant solution that serves all clients, to improve change control processes and to reduce unplanned work caused by inefficient operations. Tripwire Enterprise provides configuration control for file servers and databases that meets the needs of PCI compliance and provides auditors with comprehensive reports that prove risk control. With Tripwire's visibility of change for servers and databases, changes that are in exception to policy are escalated for investigation, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone rebuilds.

Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Keeping Banking Infrastructure Secure With Tripwire Software2009-09-19 Tripwire
  Members of the British and French Rothschild families set up Rothschild Bank AG in Zurich in 1968. The challenge was to attain visibility across a multi-location, multi-platform IT infrastructure, to implement an automated, cost-efficient method for monitoring change activity and to establish accountability through more stringent change and access control. Tripwire Enterprise automatically monitors change across multiple platforms, including servers and Active Directory, providing complete visibility of change activity throughout the IT. Tripwire analyzes changes, reconciling authorized from unauthorized, and providing the information needed for managing risk and ensure security of financial systems.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Tripwire Rings Up Compliance and Fuels Efficiency for This Busy Regional Company2009-09-19 Tripwire
  Starting as a refinery outlet in 1952, Wesco has grown to a regional company that includes wholesale energy division, filling stations, convenience stores, distribution center, training facility and bakery. The challenge was to become PCI compliant with minimal impact to IT staff, to increase and enforce change management processes and discipline and to reduce unplanned work. Tripwire Enterprise's configuration control solution specifically addresses many PCI requirements and provides auditors with comprehensive reports that prove effective risk control. Tripwire detects and documents all changes so that IT staff can quickly troubleshoot any service incident, and return systems to a known state.

Tags: Security Administration, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Dell PartnerDirect and PEQ Help Sonic Reduce Printing Costs by 35-50%2009-09-01 Dell
  With a three year, all inclusive procurement contract for Dell standardization on desktops and servers, some service providers might be satisfied with the scope of service and hardware opportunity. But then they wouldn't be PEQ Consulting. 153 individual dealerships in 17 states owned by parent company, Sonic Automotive. There was no corporate standard in place for print, costing unnecessary money. PEQ negotiated with each retail store individually to implement the Dell/PEQ Managed Print Service (MPS) solution, one location at a time.   
whitepaper Costain Group Leverages Global Best Practice and Collaboration to Achieve Goal of Being "Number One"2009-09-01 Oracle
  Costain Group wanted to streamline collaboration between globally dispersed teams of partners, associates, and subcontractors working on multiple projects undertaken by Costain's diverse operating entities and maximize business efficiency and excellence to sustain double-digit growth in profit and revenue through 2010 and beyond. The challenge was to enforce rigorous, best-practice, globally-recognized risk management processes to deliver realistic construction project bids for timely payback with minimized costs and schedule overruns. Costain Group replaced Oracle's Primavera SureTrak, with a single instance of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and built a single, integrated project database and gave planners, partners, and customers a real-time view of budgets, cashflow, resources, and performance against construction schedules.

Tags: Project Management		   
whitepaper University of Utah Writes New Thesis on Risk Management2009-09-01 Qualys
  The University of Utah is ranked as one of the top public research universities in the nation. It's also the oldest and largest institution of higher education in the state. The challenge was the need to keep its systems secure, and within HIPAA compliance. University deployed QualysGuard providing control of the entire vulnerability management life cycle: asset discovery, vulnerability assessments, and tracking of security fixes.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Nationwide Financial Leverages Consolidated BI Platform for Risk Management, Sales & Marketing Analyses2009-08-01 Netezza
  Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NFS) provides financial services that help consumers invest and protect their long-term assets, and also offers retirement plans and services through public- and private-sector employers. NFS has an impressive growth record through its ability to offer customized retirement products that give customers more choices and control over their financial security. The company relies on sophisticated business intelligence software to analyze sales and marketing data so it can continually refine its offerings and marketing strategies. With its unique analytic appliance, Netezza provides NFS with a high performance data warehouse platform that allows NFS to use business intelligence applications to full advantage - to look deeper, wider and certainly faster to deliver more targeted offerings than its competitors.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper University of Missouri Reshapes Hospital Supply Chain Management to Reduce Cost, Increase Effectiveness2009-08-01 Oracle
  University of Missouri (UM) wanted to improve supply chain management systems, which had operational issues and limited the ability to control supply costs and improve operating rooms' inventory visibility, to limit stocking costs and prevent frequent expediting of supplies. The challenge was to improve reporting and analytics to properly manage overall supply chain logistics and costs and consolidate environments for significant cost savings related to accounts payable functions. UM re-engaged Oracle Insight based on previous successes in working with the team to build solid business cases that resulted in tangible improvements and participated in a series of focused discovery sessions and thorough process analysis with the Oracle Insight team to gain a clear understanding of the university's key supply chain issues and challenges.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Cascade Microtech Proves Control Over Change2009-07-18 Tripwire
  Protiviti is a leading provider of independent risk consulting and internal audit services. The challenge was the ability to quickly respond to immediate SOX audit requirements, to prove to external auditors that IT has control over all system changes and to establish a cost-effective process for change control going forward. Tripwire Enterprise tracks all changes across the enterprise, providing external auditors with a change audit trail that proves IT process controls are effective and IT infrastructure is secure. Detective controls alert organizations to unauthorized changes, enabling staff to quickly investigate issues and reconcile problems.

Tags: IT Budgeting