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		<title><![CDATA[Finansbank Improves Performance and Availability of Enterprise Data Warehouse]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171363]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Finansbank wanted to implement a new enterprise data warehouse solution to support core banking data from a variety of sources and relieve performance loads on the existing data warehouse and manage a large and rapidly growing data store, now at 16 terabytes and doubling in size approximately every 15 months....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hana Bank Increases Profits by US$586 Million, Reduces Costs by US$56.7 Million]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171385]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1971, Hana Bank is ranked as one of the world's top 100 banks in terms of asset size. In recent years, Hana Bank has embarked on strategies to increase efficiency, improve risk management, and enhance synergies across its businesses to boost competitiveness. The company had to revamp its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">ORCL</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[NASDAQ will keep tabs on certain smart grid players]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=7446]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The people over at NASDAQ who make up stock indexes have come up with a new one in their eco-related products: the Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index. You can follow its performance through the symbol QGRD. Or, you can watch historical performance at this link.    The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:20:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">NDAQ</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[TicketCreator 5.1.17 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1147189]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TicketCreator is a unique ticketing software to print tickets for your events, like concerts, theater performances or sport matches. Create, design, and print attractive tickets with row and seat numbers, tickets with serial numbers or unnumbered tickets even for complex venues in any format and on your normal printer. Moreover,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chartastic Chart Viewer 0.1 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152009]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Chartastic Chart Viewer is a quick and easy way to check performance of your favorite stocks over time. Our easy to use interface gives you instant access to thousands of charts with up to 40 years of historical data. Choose between line, candlestick, mountain, and OHLC chart styles, and choose...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Customer Video: Siemens]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1122749]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions.  They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Advisory Services Finance Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1176853]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Industry challenges have never been greater for chief financial officers CFOs. The current market conditions and the pace of regulatory change have all pushed CFOs into a more active role. Today, the role of the CFO has evolved beyond being the director of a support function to being a true...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/ernst+%2526+young+llp.html"><![CDATA[Ernst & Young LLP]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1124239]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to speed up slow, computer-intensive operations, such as the monthly payroll run, and enable parallel running of processes and improve the daily backup, which...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1124279]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/hyperion+solutions+corp..html"><![CDATA[Hyperion Solutions Corp.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kapsch TrafficCom AG Integrates Data From Disparate Systems to Improve Business Processes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171185]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Kapsch TrafficCom AG is a leading international provider of innovative Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS products, and services. Kapsch TrafficCom primarily develops and supplies electronic toll systems and handles the technical and commercial operation of these systems. The challenge was to collect and analyze complex ITS information for multilane free-flow systems...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=781]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:12:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/performance.html"><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The New Face of Intrusion Prevention: Check Point IPS Software Blade Gives Breakthrough Performance and Protection at a Breakthrough Price]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1177979]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Off late organizations had two choices when considering Intrusion Prevention IPS: an expensive, dedicated IPS system, or an integrated system that lacked robust performance and security. Additionally, most IPS system were not used to their full potential. Deployed offline, they were used more as intrusion detection systems, only logging attacks...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/check+point+software+technologies+ltd..html"><![CDATA[Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/blade.html"><![CDATA[Blade]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Efficiently Archive and Purge Your Data to Improve Performance - And Meet Compliance Requirements]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1097879]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Indusa Infotech Services Pvt. Ltd's database archive and purge software, ArchivePlus, can significantly improve the efficiency and availability of live production databases. It enables unrestricted access to years of data and multiple archive definitions - while reducing costs and enhancing performance. Based on SQL Server 2008 data management software, ArchivePlus...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft+sql+server+2008.html"><![CDATA[Microsoft SQL Server 2008]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Optimizing the Data Center: New Dell Servers and the Dell Energy Smart Architecture]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1110869]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dell Energy Smart architecture, including new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers, provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance with energy efficiency. By focusing on four key tenets - design, measurement, control, and reporting - this architecture can support scalable, energy-efficient infrastructures that can help optimize performance per watt and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=497]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Alguacil over at Pingdom has crunched numbers on tech company profits per employee and Google comes top with $210K per person in 2008.     Microsoft $194K  Baidu  $164K  Apple $151K  Cisco $122K  Adobe $119K  Ebay $110K  Intel $64K ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 18:18:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trade Manager Pro 1.2 (Mac)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1112591]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Trade Manager Pro manages trade and portfolio risk for stocks, futures and options. It also tracks your trading performance in real time to insure you are staying within your risk tolerance guidelines. You can also test your trading strategies to insure they are profitable before you put any money at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EasyStockTicker 1.4 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=959907]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Displays current stock quotes, as known from various TV stations. It can be set up with various options. The scrolling performance is very high. Colors and fonts can be chosen freely. Any ticker code can be used. Two or more ticker lines are possible. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft+windows.html"><![CDATA[Microsoft Windows]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[China Mobile Henan Co. Achieves Two-To Four-Fold Improvement in System Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=993117]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[China Mobile Henan wanted to eliminate potential system risks to improve the availability of Oracle databases and Oracle E-Business Suite applications and improve the performance of the Oracle enterprise resource planning system. The challenge was to increase the efficiency of monthly and yearly accounting processes. China Mobile Henan engaged Oracle...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://rss.financialcontent.com/stocksymbol">ORCL</category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Invensys Plc Reduces Mismatches by 90%, and Enhances Strategic Planning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=993125]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Invensys wanted to condense end-of-period consolidation and reporting cycle for 200 globally dispersed businesses operating on disparate financial systems and simplifies intercompany accounting and eliminates mismatches. The challenge was to provide executives with timely, at-a-glance performance data with advanced drill-down and analysis tools on the desktop and gain broader, in-depth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/hyperion+solutions+corp..html"><![CDATA[Hyperion Solutions Corp.]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Compania de Parques Nacionales de Puerto Rico Increases Productivity and Efficiency by 55%]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=971413]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Companía de Parques Nacionales de Puerto Rico wanted to integrate disparate systems in a single platform to consolidate operations throughout the organization and centralize financial operations between the central office and the various installations to improve operating efficiency. The challenge was to create applications performance monitoring alerts to make timely...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/oracle+corp..html"><![CDATA[Oracle Corp.]]></category>
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