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- ECM: Tips for Managing Change Effectively
- Change management planning revolves around a specific, well-defined, measurable, realistic, and achievable project. Managing change starts at the beginning - during the planning stage - and runs through a project's conclusion, addressing the gradual transition and ongoing support of employees charged with implementation. Those who recognize its importance typically do...
- Tags: Optical Image Technology, Change Management, Leadership, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Management, Finance
- White papers 2009-11-09
- Asian Paints enables growth through improved planning
- Asian Paints is India's largest paint company and is ranked among the top 10 decorative coatings companies in the world. When the company needed a competitive edge in the challenging Indian marketplace, it found a clear advantage in establishing a leaner, more agile and cost-efficient supply chain. Its management chose...
- Tags: Supply Chain, I2 Technologies Inc., Asian Paint, Asian Paints, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Change Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Tripwire Passes Blackboard's Configuration Control Test
- Blackboard is a leading provider of e-Learning enterprise software applications, campus commerce systems, and related services to educational organizations. The challenge was to track configuration changes across mission-critical infrastructure, to implement automated detective controls to support IT security and compliance strategies and to increase maturity of change management and compliance...
- Tags: Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- Using Configuration Control to Meet Compliance and Improve Operations
- CAPITAL Card Services, Inc. is a leading servicer of MasterCard and Visa accounts for financial and non-financial institutions nationwide. The challenge was to become compliant with various regulations, including PCI, to increase and enforce change management processes and discipline and to reduce unplanned work. Tripwire Enterprise provides configuration control to...
- Tags: Compliance, Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- Tripwire Helps Put This Student Loan Servicing Company at the Head of Its Class
- EdFinancial Services strives to be best in class by streamlining the student loan delivery process across the life of a loan in a completely digital environment. The challenge was to ensure successful deployment of web content changes, to leverage automated controls to minimize audit overhead and increase change management discipline...
- Tags: Tripwire, EdFinancial Services, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, File Servers, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- Pulte Mortgage Builds a Strong IT Foundation With Tripwire Enterprise
- Pulte Mortgage, LLC has been helping homebuyers turn their dreams of owning a home into reality for over 33 years. The challenge was to satisfy change control demands of SOX regulations, to improve methods for verifying configuration changes and to track change success rates to evaluate staff effectiveness. Tripwire Enterprise...
- Tags: Information Technology, Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, Mortgages, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Tools & Techniques, Management, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Government, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- Tripwire Rings Up Compliance and Fuels Efficiency for This Busy Regional Company
- 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...
- Tags: Compliance, Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise, PCI, Change Management, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Storage, Hardware, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- Automating Change Management Responsibly
- Automating Change Management Responsibly Please join Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates and Stephen Nunn, Associate Partner of Accenture to discuss the economic and procedural value of process automation in your environment. Dennis will provide an overview of the advantages of automating IT processes citing industry statistics...
- Tags: Process Automation, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., IBM Corp., Change Management, Leadership, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Webcasts 2009-09-17
- Change Reporter for VMware 2.0.45 (Windows)
- The freeware reporting tool for change management of your virtual infrastructure. Reports changes to virtual hardware, configuration of ESX servers, resource pools, clusters, and other virtual and physical objects. The tool sends a daily report, outlining all changes made to virtual infrastructure, including previous values of configuration settings. You can...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Infrastructure, Change Management, Virtualization, Business Intelligence, Ip storage, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- The Benefits of Change Management
- Implementing a change management system can have many benefits, particularly in terms of improving efficiency and reducing outages and downtime. It also provides a useful audit trail that can save huge amounts of time in meeting government compliance requirements. To gain the full benefits of change management requires software that...
- Tags: EnterpriseWizard, Change Management, Leadership, Benefits, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-09-05
- Cloud computing uniquely enables product and food recall processes across supply chains
- In conjunction with GS1 Canada, HP announced a product recall process Monday that straddles many participants across global supply chains. The pressures in such multi-player process ecologies can mount past the breaking point for such change management nightmares as rapid food or product recalls. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Supply Chain, Food, Cloud Computing, Change Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Food & Beverage, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance
- Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...
- Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- ALC Maintains System Integrity With Tripwire Configuration Control Solutions
- Since 1976, the Atlantic Lottery Corporation ALC has been contributing to Atlantic Canada's economy and way of life by generating significant revenue on behalf of the governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island. The challenge was to demonstrate compliance with federal and provincial online...
- Tags: Audit, Tripwire, ALC, Change Management, Games, Financial Accounting, Leadership, ITIL, Tools & Techniques, Management, Personal Technology, Finance, It Services
- Case studies 2009-07-18
- Pumping Up IT Muscle Helps This Fitness Equipment Leader Gain PCI Strength
- Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, Nautilus, Inc. is a global fitness products company providing innovative, quality solutions to help people achieve a healthy lifestyle. The challenge was to deploy an automated method for meeting regulatory compliance, to find a proactive method for detecting unauthorized changes and to reduce time spent investigating...
- Tags: Information Technology, PCI, Leader, Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-07-18
- CARFAX Drives IT Success With Tripwire Enterprise
- CARFAX started with a vision: to be the leading source of vehicle history information for buyers and sellers of used cars. The challenge was to prevent rogue changes from disrupting system availability, to increase visibility to change activity across the IT enterprise and to enforce change management processes across production...
- Tags: Information Technology, Tripwire, CARFAX, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-07-14
- RFID Tag Security
- RFID is a technology that offers huge potential for change management activities by automating processes and providing accurate, trusted data. Its unique features include giving each physical object a globally unique digital identity read from a distance without requiring line-of-sight capability, and often without using a battery. These features provide...
- Tags: RFID Tag, BRIDGE, RFID, Change Management, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2009-06-22
- Xstrata Consolidates Reporting, Streamlines Change Management, and Gains Visibility Into Best Practices
- Xstrata wanted to centralize management of 32 global financial consolidations annually across five business units, approximately 2,000 entities, and multiple ERP systems with many different ledgers and complete financial consolidation, budgeting, and reporting seven days after month's end, while gaining a real-time view of each business unit. The challenge was...
- Tags: Xstrata Plc., Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Best Practice, Financial Management, Change Management, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- A Three-Step Framework for Increasing ROI, Reducing Risk, and Lowering Costs by Automating IT Change Management
- This white paper outlines the processes and tools organization needs to address the challenge of change chaos and evolve beyond ITIL-based change management to change automation. It will demonstrate how even the most unwieldy and internally resistant IT organizations can be helped by embracing change management solutions from HP and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, ROI, Change Management, Leadership, Roi/Tco, Tools & Techniques, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-06-01
- dbConstructor 2.0.1.367 (Windows)
- dbConstructor was developed with the main focus on speeding and easing the database schema creation and maintenance process, while maintaining the complete documentation and change management required in today's fast development environment. Maintaining multiple or even a single database platform project can be a very complex task, which has been...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Database Schema, DBDeveloper Solutions, Storage, Change Management, Databases, Hardware, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-05-29
- SysAid Help Desk and Asset Management 6.5 (Windows)
- SysAid is a dynamic and highly intuitive free software solution for small to medium-sized organizations. It provides extensive Helpdesk,Asset Management, Monitoring, Reports and Analysis, Knowledgebase, Live Chat, and IT Benchmarking applications in a simple, attractive and easy-to-use package. The software comes with standardized templates to help you get started right...
- Tags: Asset, Software, Ilient, Asset Management, Microsoft Windows, SMS, SysAid, SysAid Software, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Tools & Techniques, Telephony, E-mail, Change Management, ITIL, Help Desk, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Management, Networking, It Services, It Operations
- Software downloads 2009-05-08
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