The 2009 SIFMA-IBM Technology Survey Results
Download these survey results and find out what SIFMA members revealed about new technologies and computing models and how they are managing major industry challenges.
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Death to PST Files
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Email is one of a company’s most widely used assets—the average corporate user sends and receives 167 messages per day. Since a company must provide employees constant access to their email accounts and retain copies of every important message, managing the email of an entire enterprise is exceedingly difficult. Many employees use Personal Storage Table (PST) files as a “personal email filing cabinet” that can burden a company’s storage and cause data loss or corruption.
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How Data Governance Can Constrain the Value of MDM Initiative
[ Source: Siperian, Inc. ]
January 2010-Over the past several years, we’ve seen rapid adoption of Master Data Management in a variety of industries offering a “single source of truth” across the enterprise. Most of these implementations use a “reactive” style of data governance… Learn how “reactive” data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a “proactive” approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.
[WHITE PAPER]
A CISO's Guide to Application Security
[ Source: Fortify ]
November 2009-Security breaches are expensive. They cost time, effort, remediation, and reputation restoration. Many IT decision-makers tend to focus their security efforts almost exclusively at the network perimeter. They overlook the software applications that run their day-to-day agencies. These applications are often packed with Social Security numbers, addresses, personal health information, or other sensitive data.
Focusing on security features at both the infrastructure and application level isn’t enough. Organizations must also consider flaws in their ....
[WHITE PAPER]
6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filter
[ Source: St. Bernard Software ]
November 2009-Determining the best Web filter for your organization can be difficult with so many choices on the market. IT Professionals know that there’s more to choosing a solution than looking at a few features and comparing prices. Other considerations may be just as important but you may not be aware of their significance. This informative guide discusses the critical considerations you need to make before you decide, and also, how thoroughly analyzing your options can ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Five Essentials Of Business Recovery
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2009-This whitepaper delivers the 5 critical elements of business recovery you must have, which can help you reduce the risk of lost revenue should your system go down.
[WHITE PAPER]
Uncovering Your Best Business Intelligence: How Next-Generation Insight Portals Turbo-Charge Executive Decision Making
[ Source: Saama ]
January 2010-For IT directors at large companies, delivering effective business intelligence (BI) is a critical responsibility. Corporations invest millions in data warehousing to learn more about the inner workings of their businesses but consolidating insights across multiple BI reporting systems is often a challenge.
Business functions like sales, marketing, operations and manufacturing collect data to help identify potential business problems. However, each functional area often uses different BI tools to collect and maintain this ....
[WHITE PAPER]
The Benefits of Dark Fiber for Healthcare IT Infrastructures
[ Source: Sunesys, LLC ]
November 2009-Today, healthcare IT professionals are being asked to shoulder increasing responsibility for the delivery of key services to hospital and healthcare organizations. Yet many financial and operational obstacles can make fulfillment of these new services highly complex. The current recession has put increasing demands on the healthcare IT professional. Yet even with today’s flatlined or shrinking budgets, IT professionals are being tasked with delivering additional medical and administrative applications. How will you respond to these ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Streamline Your Business with Innovative Tools
[ Source: Citrix Online ]
February 2009-Citrix Online has put together a practical guide that explores how Web-based solutions have enabled real companies to achieve remarkable results, such as reducing cost per sale by 75 percent; improving productivity by 10 percent and increasing revenue by $1 million.
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Enterprise Packages: Where Are They Headed?
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
November 2009-This shift in the development and usage of business applications in large corporations began in the 1990s when enterprise packages arrived on the scene. The traditional way of developing an application for corporations from the ground up (whether it be for financial accounting or inventory management) was created and the concept of picking up and configuring a commercially available, off-the-shelf package was adopted. The threat of the looming Y2K issues in the late 1990s acted ....
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The Tangled Web: Silent Threats & Invisible Enemies
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Today’s cyber-criminals are experts at using anonymity, deceit and subterfuge to victimize companies with a variety of covert malware, spam and scams that hamper employee productivity and cut profits. Attacks using rich media, open-source platforms, web 2.0 collaboration tools and social-networking sites make business networks vulnerable to this new breed of web threats.
On-premise web-security solutions have the disadvantages of high costs for infrastructure, managing the security system and training IT staff. Learn about ....
[WHITE PAPER]
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The Yin and Yang of Financial Disruption
[ Source: IBM ]
June 2009-
Even as nations take unprecedented measures to respond to the global financial-now-economic crisis, exacerbated structural tensions in the global financial system are yet to be resolved. But it cannot be done by any one institution or even one government. Rebuilding trust and moving from crisis, to health, to wealth will require committed, concerted effort from industry, government and individuals. Now is the time for us to work together, address the fundamentals and innovate.
[WHITE PAPER]
A Leading Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Improves Production System Support
[ Source: Virtusa Corporation ]
January 2008-
Virtusa took the entire responsibility for system maintenance, using a well-planned transition process that resulted in improved on-time resolution with minimal disruption to the client's business. We adopted effective process and quality management systems, resulting in better on-time delivery with high quality results.
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MOBILE DEVICE SECURITY: Securing the Handheld, Securing the Enterprise™
[ Source: Motorola Good Technology Group ]
June 2007-
This White Paper identifies security threats to corporate data on mobile devices and details how mobile devices can become a "backdoor" to the enterprise
[WHITE PAPER]
Virtusa and iDNA Solutions: Next-generation Trade Management Application
[ Source: Virtusa Corporation ]
October 2007-
Virtusa, in conjunction with iDNA Solutions, launches the next generation of business and operational management systems designed to drive improved customer service and increased operational effciency into a bank’s trade finance business.
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The Yin and Yang of Financial Disruption
[ Source: IBM ]
June 2009-
Even as nations take unprecedented measures to respond to the global financial-now-economic crisis, exacerbated structural tensions in the global financial system are yet to be resolved. But it cannot be done by any one institution or even one government. Rebuilding trust and moving from crisis, to health, to wealth will require committed, concerted effort from industry, government and individuals. Now is the time for us to work together, address the fundamentals and innovate.
[WHITE PAPER]
Creating Unique Financial Solutions from Existing Banking Applications
[ Source: Metavante Corporation ]
March 2009-
The high-tech industry has attempted to address the banking industry’s need to speed product development. Accomplishing this means getting solutions to market faster, simpler and cheaper, not to mention in a more usable state. Differences between schools of thought can be subtle, and identities sometimes blur making comparative analysis confusing.
An alternative to programming fads and trends builds on the principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA). This paper will present the option of the ....
[WHITE PAPER]
The Need for CIO Coaches and Interim CIOs
[ Source: Estrella Partners Group ]
June 2009-
In today’s challenging economic environment insurance companies require effective IT executive leadership. As businesses evolve and develop new strategies for growth they often find limitations in their current technology and business practices. In many cases the business determines that its current IT systems and business processes are outdated and not aligned with its evolving strategic business goals, market needs, and regulatory requirements.
[WHITE PAPER]
Global Software Integration; Why Do So Many Projects Fail?
[ Source: Estrella Partners Group ]
June 2009-
The IT field is littered with failed global software integration sagas. Post mortems on these projects have surfaced many reasons for their failures focusing on mismatched capabilities, local geographical requirements and perhaps project technical management deficiencies. Most global software projects start with a thorough analysis of feature and function. Do the capabilities of the standard software meet the needs of the corporate requirements? This exercise is generally performed by knowledgeable internal personnel, both technical and ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Using Content to Improve the Customer Experience: HP Exstream Company Overview Flash
[ Source: HP Exstream ]
April 2009-
Your business has made significant investments to manage and govern the vast amounts of content continually flowing in and out of your organization. The extent to which you can absorb, utilize, transform, and create value with that content will differentiate you among your competitors. Key to success is technology that allows you to easily access and use content to create a better experience for your customers, communicating with them more effectively and efficiently across all ....
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KOALA in Depth: Key Costs -- Foundation for Value Analytics and Planning
[ Source: Avocent Inc. ]
April 2009-
This is the first of a series of articles that expands on the principles of the KOALA Factor, first introduced in “A Pragmatists Guide to Structuring IT Asset Data.” The KOALA Factor is: Key costs, ownership, accountability, lifecycle status, and assignment. The premise is that if bankers can track these core facts for your IT assets, they can provide at least a rudimentary response to the vast majority of the planning, compliance, and procurement tasks ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Instant Access: NASDAQ Market Replay Helps Improves Customer Service, Compliance & Efficiency
[ Source: Adobe ]
November 2008-
NASDAQ Market Replay Helps Brokers Improve Customer Service, Meet Compliance Requirements and Create Efficiencies
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., the world's largest exchange company, developed a solution that not only facilitates regulatory compliance for its customers but also functions as a tool to help investors and their brokerages.
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IT in the Financial Sector: Thriving in a Challenging Economy
[ Source: Quest Software, Inc. ]
December 2008-
Today’s financial sector landscape is changing fast, and technology executives are asked to keep up with changing business needs. In a challenging economy, IT staff must integrate diverse technologies from consolidated institutions, solve compliance issues, and somehow figure out a way to do it under budget with less staff. In this new white paper, learn how maximizing efficiency in IT enables financial institutions to do more with less. With today’s mounting ....
[DATA SHEET]
Green Benefits Put Thin-Client Computing Back on the Desktop Hardware Agenda
[ Source: HP ]
October 2008-
The lure of 25% or more power savings and the growing importance of green IT have resurrected the thin-client debate. IT sourcing executives, though responsible for setting neither environmental agendas nor computing architecture road maps, must reacquaint themselves with the realities of thin client provisioning to prepare a response to the various stakeholders who are pushing for or fighting its deployment. Sourcing will take on one of three roles: playing an investigative role and interfacing ....
[WHITE PAPER]
The Green Data Center
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2008-
After an intensive study of server and data center energy efficiency for Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that the U.S. data center industry is in the midst of a major expansion period spurred by increased demand for IT capacity to support busi-ness growth. The Agency listed several trends that are stimulating this demand, including:
• Increased use of online banking and electronic stock trading • Adoption of Internet-based communications ....
[WHITE PAPER]
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