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  • Optimizing Information Insight: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolodated Information Encompassing All Your Data
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business decisions is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data. The secret lies in centralized, automated data management. Centralization eliminates the inefficiency and insecurity of dispersed, fragmented data. It also ensures vital information is always complete and up-to-date. Meanwhile, automation delivers highly specific and relevant insight in real-time, and in the right format. The result is truly actionable information that delivers real competitive advantage in dynamic business environments. Affordable data infrastructure solutions based on open standards that are inherently...
  • How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP To Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough Economy
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:For midsize enterprises, now is the perfect time to invest in a significant IT expansion - despite the economic climate. Please read this case study to find out how installing the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 helped Gavina Coffee improve efficiencies, cut overall costs, and make the business more competitive.
  • Leveling the Field: Powerful Software Solutions for Midsize Companies
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:You no longer need to be a large enterprise with deep pockets to afford comprehensive industry-focused software. Now, midsize firms and even start ups can benefit from Oracle's Accelerate program, which is a fixed-scope/fixed-price approach that ultimately lowers your software costs and speeds time to value. Download this useful paper to learn how Oracle's partners like Jibe Consulting, a management and technology consulting business based in Portland, OR, use Oracle Business Accelerators with their own industry expertise to enable companies of all sizes, including yours, reach "go live" faster.
  • Analytics Partners - Delivering Faster and More Strategic BI
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:Analytics Partners, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the leading BI consultants and solutions providers in the Southeast, with more than 20 full-time consultants and approximately $5 million in total revenue. Right around the time Analytics Partners was launched, nQuire was acquired by Siebel, which was subsequently acquired by Oracle. Today, Analytics Partners offers the full range of Oracle DataWarehousing and Oracle Business Intelligence solutions, including Standard Edition, aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, as well as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, aimed at larger companies with a minimum of 50 users. Analytics Partners chose to work exclusively with...
  • Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:Ovum has been following Oracle's Accelerate program over the last couple of years because they thought it is a smart strategy for penetrating the upper mid-market. Although Oracle developed Accelerate largely in response to slowing growth in its core large-enterprise market, the program seems prescient as the global business climate worsens and places new urgency on cost-effective sales strategies.
  • Oracle Business Brief - Keeping hold of your customers, especially in tough economic conditions
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:You know as much as anyone about the challenges faced by midsize organizations. There are always competitors with deeper pockets, customers demanding more for less, and suppliers giving preferential terms to larger organizations. How can you sharpen your competitive edge? Read this white paper to learn how Oracle can help you; retain customers by deepening insight and improving service, retain customers cost-effectively with optimized information insight and improved process flexibility, use information insight and process flexibility to retain customers, keep hold of your customers.
  • Rapid Implementation: The New Age of ERP
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:Think your company is not "big enough" for ERP? Think again. Not only can small and mid-sized companies reap the renowned ERP benefits of greater agility, increased business visibility and measurable ROI. But they also can implement ERP rapidly with a solution specifically tailored to their vertical industry. This white paper, Rapid Implementation: The New Age ERP, shows you how.
  • From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game - Oracle Application Express delivers an easy, fast, and free way to manage your business information
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper: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. Learn how Oracle Application Express delivers an easy, fast, and free way to manage your business information.
  • Oracle Business Brief - Business Continuity - Are You Always Open for Business?
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:Business continuity with low administration and maintenance costs. Can you make it happen? This Oracle business brief explains how mid-sized can improve performance by creating an IT infrastructure that makes working faster, easier and more effective.
  • Why BI is Ripe - Now! - For Businesses of Any Size
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:Oracle's range of offerings to mid-size and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes.
  • Achieving Better ROI from Composite Applications through Better Understanding
    Source: ASG
    White Paper:This paper explores the characteristics, advantages, and challenges of composite applications in detail. It also discusses the role of application mining, an emerging technology that utilizes application code analytics to significantly reduce the impact of the complexity introduced by composite applications, as well as the cost and personnel overhead necessary to support them. Finally, it profiles ASG-becubic (tm), an application mining solution that provides a strong foundation for governance by exposing details about the structure of composite applications and their interrelationships.
  • Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions
    Source: ASG
    White Paper:For those who have automated job scheduling for a given platform or, better yet, consolidated job scheduling across multiple platforms and application software suites, the benefits are obvious - staffing efficiencies, error reduction, and simplicity. However, consolidated job scheduling is NOT Workload Automation (WLA) and, to be competitive in tomorrow's IT landscape, enterprises must advance to WLA. This paper explores the current WLA landscape and an innovative solution that addresses historical obstacles to implementation.
  • The Forrester Wave: Email Filtering, Q2 2009
    Source: McAfee
    White Paper:One of your biggest challenges is evaluating and selecting vendor products and services. That's why Forrester created the Forrester Wave, making it easy for you to make well-informed decisions. This complimentary Forrester Wave report on Email Filtering ($1749 retail value) offers: An in-depth evaluation of email security filtering vendors, based on 57 criteria, a powerful Excel spreadsheet that allows you to easily compare products and get in-depth data and analysis about each one, and tools to develop a custom shortlist based on your company's unique requirements.
  • The Forrester Wave: Web Filtering, Q2 2009
    Source: McAfee
    White Paper:One of your biggest challenges is evaluating and selecting vendor products and services. That's why Forrester created the Forrester Wave, making it easy for you to make well-informed decisions. This complimentary Forrester Wave report on Web Filtering ($795 retail value) offers: An in-depth evaluation of Web filtering vendors, based on 53 criteria and a powerful Excel spreadsheet that allows you to easily compare products and get in-depth data and analysis about each one.
  • A Process-based Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts & Meeting Regulatory Compliance
    Source: BeyondTrust
    White Paper:This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach in protecting critical privileged accounts that are found in virtually every application, database and infrastructure device throughout enterprises. This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. Through features such as automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system, PowerKeeper is the only solution in the market that is fully heterogeneous out-of-the-box.

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