October 27, 2009 - This podcast educates information security and IT pros on the right tools and technologies to create a solid process that provides the data, insight and metrics you need to meet your compliance and business objectives.
January 01, 2001 - FACTS® CLAIMS & ENCOUNTERS is a fully automated, real-time processing system for complete, online adjudication of medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, disability and COBRA claims and encounters.
January 01, 2001 - The FACTS MANAGED CARE SUITE provides a full range of reports to help you manage your organization, design plan requirements, and control and monitor costs.
January 01, 2001 - FACTS® PPO is a fully automated provider network processing module, this system provides you with a fully integrated database for providers (both practitioners and facilities).
January 01, 2001 - FACTS®Web facilitates the sharing of real-time information directly from your FACTS® system to insureds, employees, and provider's web browsers through the Internet.
May 21, 2009 - In Windows Server 2008 R2, the improvements to failover clusters are aimed at simplifying failover clusters, making them more secure, and enhancing their stability. Cluster setup and management are easier. Security and networking in failover clusters have been improved, as has the way a failover cluster communicates with storage.
February 15, 2010 - Listen to this expert podcast to learn how to improve cloud computing sales. Discover the importance of helping your clients understand the difference between public and private clouds and teaching them about the various cloud products and services on the market.
June 19, 2009 - ERP implementations don't have to take months or years. This white paper discusses how Colfax Corp. implemented IFS Applications in as little as nine weeks. It presents a case study of Colfax's complex but rapid rollout, and offers fast tracking tips from Colfax Business Analyst Jay Michael.
February 11, 2010 - At the core of any BI should be the ability to align business needs with the data infrastructure supporting them. This is almost impossible to do without a data model. Yet many BI implementers do not understand the need for these design components. This paper will examine the major benefits that data models have on BI environments.
March 18, 2009 - Using benchmarks and code samples throughout to anchor the discussion, this paper explores how Quercus - Caucho's Java implementation of PHP - can perform faster than the standard Apache-based PHP both in synthetic benchmarks and real-world applications. The results are quite impressive.
April 17, 2009 - Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission-critical IT capability that supports some of the most important business processes throughout a modern enterprise. This EMA whitepaper will review the implementation and benefits of agentless job scheduling.
January 13, 2010 - Adoption of SaaS solutions has increased as companies look to streamline costs and processes. Companies looking to integrate fax with SAP application no longer have to choose among efficiency, cost or functionality. SAP customers can take advantage of fax as service without software or hardware, and without sacrificing security or SAP integration.
September 01, 2009 - This webinar takes a look at on-demand faxing-as-a-service that's fully integrated with SAP solutions. Learn how this solution allows you to automate faxing of documents directly from SAP applications through a service hosted by Esker. You will learn the many values of this solution.
January 25, 2010 - The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.
October 01, 2008 - Read this paper to discover how Tripwire Enterprise is the first solution to effectively combine configuration assessment and file integrity monitoring, enabling automated and sustainable configuration control throughout virtual and physical infrastructures.
October 19, 2009 - Learn how new developments in BI make it easier and faster to serve those departments and groups whose BI needs have gone unmet. Birst hosts this educational webinar featuring Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.
January 15, 2009 - Real Estate and Workplace industry metrics and studies strongly suggest that hidden value on the balance sheet can reside within real estate and workplace assets.
September 08, 2009 - Virtualization has become a common solution to the problem of server sprawl. By using this technology to consolidate servers, many companies are using less floor space, cutting energy consumption, and simplifying management. But IT must translate these technological advantages into concrete improvements for the business. Read on to learn more.
February 01, 2010 - This paper outlines seven key tips that every healthcare organization should consider, while providing an overview of the key steps necessary to ensure the availability and integrity of your healthcare information system.
January 22, 2010 - This paper explores how a rigorous data quality program is now a business imperative rather than a luxury. Implemented correctly, it not only gives organizations the agility to better ride out the current recession but also raises their competitiveness when the economy recovers.
October 28, 2009 - Enterprises can realize value from their UC programs by following some basic practices, such as allowing for sufficient up-front planning, finding the right champion, and establishing cross-functional teams to manage program implementation. This article provides basic guidelines for implementing a successful UC program. Read on to learn more.
January 11, 2010 - Data protection is about more than backup. It’s also about the ability to recover data in the event of loss, and to get back to business without delay. Read this white paper to learn 5 ways to ensure the most rapid return to operations and minimize data loss under each recovery scenario your company may face.
February 09, 2010 - Deploying data loss prevention technology on endpoints requires a careful roll-out. In this pocket e-guide, expert Rich Mogull offers five tips, including the need to start slowly with a set of power users and how to manage endpoint discovery. Read on to get more detailed hints and tips.
October 20, 2008 - In selecting a disk-based backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organization now and into the future. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.
February 04, 2010 - When you lose data, the only thing that really counts is your ability to restore your systems and data in a timely manner. What level of confidence do you have in your current solution?
January 27, 2010 - Counterfeiters, competitors, off-brands, and grey market promoters thrive on a lack of awareness—and on the continuation of traditional methods used to combat them. Here are five questions they hope you never ask.
April 01, 2008 - This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
June 15, 2009 - Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.
March 18, 2008 - In this podcast, Jack Gold, analyst, and well-known authority on mobility, offers pointed advice on the steps you should take in rolling out your mobile business applications.
June 15, 2009 - Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
July 27, 2009 - There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007.
June 01, 2009 - Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know?
June 22, 2009 - Enterprise search transforms the ability of users to find information. It is a powerful, cost-effective, and productivity enabling technology for users in the enterprise. Read this white paper to learn about the value of enterprise search, why it's broken, and learn about WebFOCUS Magnify, the industry's first real-time enterprise search solution.
March 28, 2008 - This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions.
March 28, 2008 - This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions.
January 21, 2010 - A number of options are available to facilities professionals looking to improve cooling efficiency and reduce resources consumed by their data centers. Aisle containment to prevent the mixing of hot and cold air stands out as a method that can dramatically reduce energy costs, minimize hot spots and improve the carbon footprint of data centers.
March 12, 2010 - The focus of this paper will be in helping organizations understand how the Best-in-Class are reducing the impact of food safety incidents; ultimately decreasing the number of product recalls and improving the customer experience.
April 02, 2008 - FACTS® gives you the most comprehensive line of fully automated and integrated, advanced technologies for expert management of your business.
January 29, 2010 - As the PCI DSS and its sister standards continue to evolve and gain momentum, organizations will have to bake compliance into their everyday operations in order to eliminate fire drills, contain costs, keep current customers, and attract new ones. Read this paper to learn how to comply with the global standard without breaking the bank
February 28, 2010 - The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). This application note explores the means by which existing data center assets can be repurposed to increase utilization, and improved application agility.
September 01, 2009 - Is cloud computing or in-house virtualization the answer to your scalability challenges? Maybe both. Cloud computing and in-house virtualization offer a wide range of complementary capabilities that can help your organization not only scale smoothly, but also simplify your IT infrastructure, reduce data center complexity, and cut costs.
January 15, 2009 - Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. Adoption is high, and firms are virtualizing mission-critical and business-critical applications. Forrester surveyed 124 of its global clients on the topic of storage for virtual server environments.
August 01, 2007 - Unified communications (UC), offers the promise of converging voice, data, and video communication and of eliminating many roadblocks in communication. In conducting these in-depth interviews with Microsoft UC products customers, Forrester found that organizations can achieve significant productivity improvements and cost savings.
December 18, 2009 - This paper discusses how Blueprint takes direct aim at MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio as the tools of choice for process analysts. Read more to learn how Blueprint is a lightweight process discovery tool that is tailored to support geographically dispersed process discovery teams.
March 02, 2010 - Based on user surveys and first-hand inquiries, Forrester Security and Compliance Analyst John Kindervag provides an overview of what issues are driving SIM adoption and some of the key capabilities end users should look for when evaluating a SIM solution.
November 12, 2007 - While firms have used different business strategies to insulate themselves from the effect of change, CEOs are beginning to recognize the need for their firms to become more agile in detecting and making the changes to strategy, operations, and products.
June 29, 2009 - Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more.
December 08, 2008 - In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
January 19, 2009 - Oracle Identity Manager is an enterprise identity management system that manages users' access right and privileges, throughout the provisioning life-cycle, within enterprise IT resources.
June 25, 2009 - This updated Forrester Research study, commissioned by Cisco Systems and Microsoft, focusses on the potential return on investment (ROI) of adopting Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and adds the value associated with the future flexibility option of deploying Windows Server on WAAS to the branch offices.
November 20, 2009 - This case study looks at the experience of a a mid-sized Fortune 1000 company that was dealing with the challenges of disparate servers and desktop systems as well as underutilized servers with huge energy consumption. See how they used desktop virtualization to obtain power cost savings and increased management efficiency.
November 20, 2009 - This case study looks at the typical experience of a Fortune 1000 company. A company turns to server and desktop virtualization in an effort to reduce the cost of distributed centralized operations centers.
November 20, 2009 - This case study looks at a Fortune 1000 company who recognizes that its storage environment has changed and has not kept pace. Before the company makes another storage purchase, it turns to Forsythe for help in assessing its existing storage infrastructure and designing an optimized, cost-efficient storage environment.
October 20, 2009 - This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments.
February 11, 2010 - Using patch and vulnerability management as the principal component of your risk mitigation strategy and taking prudent measures to establish a best practices approach can help reduce costs and risks in the long term.
October 19, 2009 - One of the greatest challenges for Fox Chase has been to keep pace with the backup requirements imposed by ever-growing amounts of data. Read this case study to learn how Fox Chase implemented a storage solution that significantly reduced backup times and improved the data reduction ratio.
January 26, 2010 - Download this podcast to find out how IT workload automation can help you improve the efficiency of your overall operations and help your business deliver new applications more quickly.
April 21, 2009 - This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy-to-use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company.
June 01, 2009 - This document examines the capabilities of DocAve Deployment Manager and offers tips and guidance to help streamline the SharePoint deployment process while maintaining the integrity of all SharePoint staging instances.
January 07, 2010 - With IT budgets being reduced, software-as-a service (SaaS) is becoming more attractive as a tool for companies handling data and application integration. Read this report from the 451 Group to learn about the benefits of SOA vs. SaaS, projected growth of this software segment, and read about the key vendors that provide Saas integration.
January 28, 2010 - Check out this presentation for information on how virtualization and cloud computing are affecting IT infrastructure as presented by David Kramer, Vice President of Product Management of CA, and Frank Gillett, Vice President and Principal Analyst for Forrester Research.
February 22, 2010 - In this white paper, Frost & Sullivan, a global consulting and research firm, shares real-world insights from its latest comprehensive study of the value of CEM, including operator strategies driving adoption, best practices and KPIs, and a glimpse into the future of CEM.
October 19, 2009 - In this webcast, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems.
November 23, 2009 - Read this whitepaper to learn how truly future-proofing your environment involves a comprehensive approach and engagement with newer technologies and methods, aligning them with overall best practices —and strengthening your ability to innovate.
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