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Title: Frost & Sullivan "Overview and Competitive Analysis of the One Time Password (OTP) Market."

In 2008 Frost & Sullivan tracked over 20 vendors participating in the hardware devices market. In this report they examine market trends, the competitive landscape and its key players.

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Competitive Analysis, Hardware, Frost & Sullivan

White papers 2009-06-01

Competitive Analysis of Performance Impact of Endpoint Security Solutions for Small Businesses

In small businesses with limited budgets for hardware upgrades, it is important that security software does not significantly impact computer performance. The presenter of this webcast gives the findings of a comprehensive performance comparison which includes 7 vendors, 44 test scenarios, and over 2000 individual test runs. The test concentrated...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Performance, Competitive Analysis, Small Business, Performance Management, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts 2009-05-14

An Overview and Competitive Analysis of the One Time Password (OTP) Market

As attackers become more daring and manipulative, information systems that rely on static passwords for security are a major risk factor and are often the key reason that those systems are breached, leaving the organization and its end users open to identity and financial fraud attempts. Thieves target personal information...

Tags: Password, Financial, Competitive Analysis, Frost & Sullivan, Social Security, Financial Accounting, Security, Government, Finance

White papers 2009-04-17

Competitive Analysis of Buffer Policies With SLA Commitments

This paper considers an abstraction of the problem of managing buffers where traffic is subject to service level agreements SLA. The service provider must on one hand deliver all committed packets, and on the other hand can get extra revenue for any excess packet delivered. Using competitive analysis, they have...

Tags: SLA, Packet, Competitive Analysis, IEEE, Service Level Management, Engineering, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2008-09-08

Network Security Best Practices: Competitive Analysis

When it comes to security architecture, choosing a system that's scalable and applicable to a broad set of security needs is a wise move. New security services for Internet Protocol IP networks are emerging that enable new levels of scalability and manageability - while remaining completely transparent to the network....

Tags: Network, Network Security, Competitive Analysis, CipherOptics, Security

White papers 2007-07-18

Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit: Sour grapes or real gripes?

They should join the IIARMichael,Nice post, I agree with your analysis. As a bottom line, I think they should be more professional with their AR programme, maybe join the IIAR [u]http://www.analystrelations.org[/u] to benefit from best practices.See my earlier post on this:http://iiar.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/is-shooting-on-the-referee-productive/Merits of LawsuitWhile Gartner may have its own objectives, I...

Tags: Gartner Inc., IIAR, lawsuit, Sour Grapes, Gartner Magic Quadrant

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?

It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Apple Inc., keyboard, mouse, Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades now

I would betthat not nearly as many businesses will bite as MS wants, but that more businesses than usual will bite.RE: Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades nowAs with many we are still running XP on all of our machines and Server 2003 with no money in...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, standards, Acid3 Test, compliant browser, web standard, IE 8, GNU/Linux, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Brother MFC-990CW

The Brother MFC-990CW is an ideal multifunction printer that can truly do it all: for $230, you get a 4.2-inch touch-screen LCD display, 802.11 b/g wireless networking, a cordless handset with a digital answering machine, autoduplexing, and Bluetooth connectivity, just to name a few of the extended features. Only a...

Tags: Printers, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Memory, Fax, Wi-Fi, printer, Brother MFC-990CW

Product reviews 2009-09-08

McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape

McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...

Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., Consulting, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Panostaja Oyj Provides a Competitive Edge for Subsidiaries With Effective Reporting System

Panostaja Oyj wanted to obtain a scalable and reliable financial reporting system to meet the needs of the quickly growing business, which had doubled in annual revenue and number of business areas due to mergers and acquisitions and reduce the amount of manual work both in external and internal reporting,...

Tags: Financial Reporting, Oracle Corp., Panostaja Oyj, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-09-01

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Smart Planet: Turning algae into oil the NASA way

now this is cooloil is a great portable energy source. I'm all for making it as cheap and abundant as possible.RE: Smart Planet: Turning algae into oil the NASA way1. Dr. Trent should re-read the NREL 1998 report on its 20 years of research into algae as a fuel source...

Tags: Food & Beverage, NASA, food

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 (Download, 1-Year License)

Photo gallery:Kaspersky Internet Security 2010Like many in the security industry are doing, Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 leverages anonymous data from its customer base to create a behavioral engine to further strengthen security safeguards. The new version also introduces several useful ancillary tools, including a sandboxing feature for running programs with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, UDS, Kaspersky, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, security

Product reviews 2009-08-26

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 (CD-ROM, 1-Year License)

Photo gallery:Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010Like its more robust sibling, Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 leverages anonymous data from its customer base to create a behavioral engine to further strengthen security safeguards. Other than that, though, there's not much to differentiate KAV from its freeware competitors--some of which score better...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, UDS, CD-ROM, Kaspersky, KAV, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Product reviews 2009-08-26

Accelerating Online Business Insights

Written by digital marketing expert Jim Sterne, this white paper explains why current web analytics are not enough to generate desired business results and how behavioral analytics can help you make data-driven decisions that quickly impact revenue, traffic, and site stickiness. Using case studies and examples from leading media,...

Tags: Analytics, Financial Planning, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing

White papers 2009-08-26

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction

Microsoft didn't mention this when they should have!Great day for Open Office - i4i said it has looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn?t infringe on its patents. Oh dear. Poor Microsoft. From Groklaw -http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090817235436439"I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Mary Jo-Foley, Groklaw, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, I4i, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

MSDN Webcast: MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server (Level 100 )

The latest Microsoft MapPoint add-in connects Microsoft SQL Server spatial data directly to MapPoint. Now, MapPoint can now act as an easy, quick, powerful visualization tool for geographic and spatial data stored in SQL Server, which gives both SQL Server and MapPoint a competitive edge in the spatial market. The...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, MapPoint, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-07-29

IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS

IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...

Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2009-07-28