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Enterprise Risk Management: S&P Enhancement White Paper

Standard & Poor's (S&P) announcement provides a timely opportunity for effected companies to conduct an objective, third-party review of their ERM programs prior to the official S&P risk management reviews. Senior management of S&P-rated companies needs to demonstrate an ability to incorporate risk information as a part of the strategic...

Tags: Aon Corp., S&P, Enterprise Risk Management, ERM, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2008-12-13

Improve your failed IT culture

The underpinnings of IT failure lie in culture, the unspoken rules governing an organization's style and general priorities. Since most organizations pay little attention to project culture, it's not surprising failure rates remain high. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Team, Culture, Information Technology, Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Strategy, Business Security, Business Operations, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The Bigger Picture: Enterprise Risk Management in Financial Services Organisations

Despite a growing appetite for enterprise-wide risk management among the world's largest financial services providers, there is some way to go before such practices are fully rolled out and operational. Just 18% of senior financial executives who responded to survey say that they have an ERM strategy that is well-formulated...

Tags: Financial, Financial Service, Economist, ERM, Financial Planning, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2008-09-01

Best Practices in Reporting: Meeting the Goal of an Enterprise Risk Management Platform

This paper is part of a series that highlights technologies related to best practices in Enterprise Risk Management. The first paper in the series, Best Practices in Data Management: Meeting the goal of an enterprise risk management platform highlighted the importance of data management in achieving the goals of an...

Tags: Best Practice, Enterprise Risk Management, Data Management, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2008-03-01

Securely Accelerating Data Access Within the Distributed Environment

Accelerated access to confidential information within a distributed enterprise should create no greater risk than accelerated access to nonsecure information, and should carry equal protection. However, lines have been drawn between the performance and security levels of the data center and the remote branch office, making the distributed enterprise a...

Tags: Environment, Data Access, Enterprise, Certeon, Enterprise Risk Management, Data Centers, Performance Management, Security, Business Security, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-01-17

Compliance Risk Management

The financial services industry is experiencing tremendous growth, diversification and innovation. Derivatives, globalization, product innovation, dynamic markets, and new methods of taking on and managing financial risk are key catalysts to profit growth and evolution. Wide-scale adoption of high-performance computing like that powered by AMD Opteron processors has further accelerated...

Tags: Financial, Compliance, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Compliance Risk Management, Financial Services Industry, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Accounting, Business Security, Business Operations, Finance

White papers 2007-07-03

Best Practices in Data Management: Meeting the Goal of an Enterprise Risk Management Platform

Ever since Enterprise Risk Management ERM systems first came to the forefront in the mid-1990s, financial institutions worldwide have been grappling with ERM principles and their viable implementation. In general, an ERM system should capture and analyze information across all lines of business on multiple topics (e.g., exposures, limits on...

Tags: Best Practice, Enterprise Risk Management, Data Management, Databases, Business Security, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-05-01

Enterprise Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry: International Benchmark Survey May 2007

The survey reveals that financial institutions are continuing to invest in ERM. Risk-based regulations - such as Basel II, Solvency II and Anti-Money Laundering - have acted as catalysts for ERM-related investment. However, this investment is often a reaction to "Silo-based" compliance requirements and not part of a structured strategic...

Tags: Financial, Enterprise Risk Management, ERM, Survey

White papers 2007-05-01

Maximizing Shareholder Value With SAS Enterprise Risk Management

Uncertainty in business makes it difficult to accurately predict and avoid large fluctuations in the performance of capital across the firms. As global markets mature, institutions recognize that risks are intertwined and should be measured in an integrated manner. The ability to accurately measure, predict and act on these measures...

Tags: Shareholder, SAS Institute, Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2007-05-01

IMPACT Enterprise: Unlocking the Value of Enterprise Risk Management

Enterprise Risk Management ERM is much broader than losses, insurance and claims. In fact the goal of ERM is to manage any facet of risk that threatens a company's ability to achieve its strategic objectives. The desired outcome of a fully integrated Enterprise Risk Management solution is to reduce the...

Tags: Syntex Management Systems, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2006-07-20

Risk Shield Pocket Edition 1.2 (Mobile)

Risk Shield offers a Windows Mobile solution for users who wish to start enterprise risk management with some basic risk assessments. This solution offers user access to a pre-defined risk matrix. A pocket version of the Risk Shield's Risk Register module. Single risk dimension in assessing risk impacts.

Tags: Mobile, Risk Shield, Enterprise Risk Management, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Business Security, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Software

Software downloads 2006-05-29

The Future of Real-Time Enterprise Risk Management ("ERM")

In enterprise risk management, it is critical to perform the three M's of risk - monitor, measure, and manage - to best provide actionable opportunities that anticipate and mitigate the various risk factors a financial service firm takes on, helping to improve its business performance. As financial service companies embark...

Tags: Financial Service, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2006-01-31

Enterprise Risk Management and Sarbanes-Oxley Measuring and Gaining Control of Risk (Forrester)

Governance, risk, and compliance are major issues that have caught organizations by surprise. As organizations have tactically responded to regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, they have needed to approach compliance and risk management more strategically. A tactical response to risk and compliance management is prone to failure, not effective at meeting requirements,...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Forrester Research Inc., Consul Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Security, Business Operations, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance

Webcasts

Leading Corporate Credit Union Extends Impact of Risk Management With LogicERM Solution That Leverages Adobe Flex and Macromedia ColdFusion From Adobe

Corporate One Federal Credit Union is one of the nation's largest and most progressive corporate credit unions managing more than $4.1 billion in assets. The company wanted to accelerate risk assessment and improve communication and implementation of risk mitigation strategies. This was solved by implementing Enterprise Risk Management. Corporate One...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Inc., Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations

Case studies

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

JumpBox for the PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System 1.1.5 (Mac)

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that's been under active development for over 15 years. An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control MVCC, point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions savepoints, online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Server, PostgreSQL, JumpBox, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

SaaS: Shelfware as a service?

Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14