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Implementing Enterprise-Wide Risk Reduction Across Operational and Financial Processes

The ultimate goal of Risk Management is targeted at reducing any factor that represents a threat to a company attaining its strategic objectives. The desired outcome is to reduce the variability in the organization's process execution and thus produce more predictable financial and operational results. The scope of the financial...

Tags: Financial, Variability, Risk Management, Syntex Management Systems, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2009-07-22

Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablement

Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablementVariability?Variability... how much is enough to justify moving into the cloud?EVERY business application system out there has some level of variability. How much is "enough"? Is a nightly batch job that consumes CPU for 2 hours enough? Is month end activity enough? What...

Tags: Virtualization, variability, cloud computing, business enablement

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Modularizing Variability and Scalability Concerns in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems With Modeling Tools and Component Middleware

Developing real-time software for large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded DRE systems is hard due to variabilities that arise from integration with various subsystems based on different programming languages and hardware, OS, middleware platforms, fine tuning the system to satisfy a range of customer requirements, such as various Quality-of-Service QoS properties,...

Tags: QoS, Variability, Scalability, Embedded System, Modeling, Model-Driven Development, Middleware, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-01-01

Quite a lot of people, including frequent contributor Anton Philidor in last weeks discussion of Microsofts $3 response to Gelernter, claim that the availability of source code for open source products makes it easier for bad guys to attack them. ...

Tags: Security, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 1: Choosing the Right Implementation

Explore options for building Points Of Variability POV in Service-Oriented Architecture SOA composite business services in this series. This paper provides an overview of the different options for designing and developing composite business services to cope with change and describes the features and capabilities in IBM WebSphere software that can...

Tags: Business Service, Variability, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software

White papers 2007-04-10

Improving TCP Throughput in 802.11 WLANs With High Delay Variability

Reduced throughput of TCP over wireless networks is mainly due to misinterpretation of wireless losses as congestion signals and high delay variability because of fluctuating radio channel quality. High delay variability often leads to spurious TCP timeouts which result in severe throughput degradation. This paper shows the negative impact of...

Tags: 802.11 Wireless LAN, IEEE 802.11, Network, Variability, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2005-07-15

Additional Resources

This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers

RE: This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers"The current Pope, a self-proclaimed Christian..."???Is that writing from ignorance of Catholicism, Christianity, both, or taking a swipe at the largest Christian denomination?global waming journalist...afraid to lose a job?when people realize that CO2 caused global warming is a...

Tags: global warming, global warming denier, NASA, fuse

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

One climate modeller predicts a cooling trend, shortly

One climate modeller who's been involved in the IPCC climate conferences and report-writing says he expects short term, natural phenomena to reverse warming trend for awhile. This will be sweet music to those opposing political action on global warming. Upsetting to those who see science indicating long-term warming...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Effective Forum Submitter 1.0.0.12 (Windows)

Effective Forum Submitter is a simple and at the same time efficient tool for every user who wants to submit links or messages to message boards or various forums. Just choose your selected forums where you submit your messages regularly, add them to the database and you can start submitting....

Tags: Message, Board, Microsoft Windows, SELFIX, Effective Forum Submitter, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-09-01

ERP sales are falling: here's one reason

I'm on a small project that is typical of many: "I have a modest sized business but our complexities are no different to the Big Boys. Help." So off we trot so see if there's a solution that comes vaguely close to an 80% fit. As a 'day job sometimes'...

Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., ERP Sale, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Outsourcing, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him.  Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Colorcon Cuts Production Lead Times and Simplifies Multinational Regulatory Compliance

Colorcon wanted to improve the global company's ability to manage variability of its manufacturing processes to ensure product consistency and customer confidence and provide the IT foundation required to scale Colorcon's business while improving sales and customer service effectiveness. The challenge was to streamline compliance to regulations governing the health...

Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Manufacturing, Regulatory Compliance, Product Marketing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-07-01

Going blond

Going blondAre you kidding?In reality, less than 2% of the Earth?s land surface (0.6% of total Earth surface) is covered by cities. If 50% of cities are comprised of rooftops probably a high estimate then he is suggesting that by modifying the albedo of a widely disbursed 0.3% of...

Tags: Earth?s

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

New Product Forecasting Using Structured Analogies

The structured analogy approach can be useful in many, but certainly not all, new product forecasting situations. It attempts to improve on human judgment alone by automating the historical data handling and incorporating statistical analysis. The software makes it possible to quickly extract candidate products based on the user-specified attribute...

Tags: SAS Institute, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Sales

White papers 2009-06-01

Instant ECG 2.0.2 (Mobile)

Instant ECG Offers 30 Full Screen Movies without audio of the most common arrhythmias, over 90 high resolution ECG Examples to review or learn variability of presentation, info tab provides clear descriptions of diagnostic features of each arrhythmia, etiology and differential diagnosis, over 140 Quiz Question to test your Electrocardiogram...

Tags: Mobile, Interpretation, iAnesthesia LLC, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management

Software downloads 2009-05-28

Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablement

In yesterday’s Forbes.com HP VP and CTO Russ Daniels wrote a short commentary on how cloud computing can help reignite the global economy and his focus is what makes the difference. Where Russ differs from many others on cloud computing in that he is talking about the vision from a...

Tags: MagCloud, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Standards-Based Radio Networks: Improve Tactical Integration

New software-defined radios allow a single radio to operate with multiple waveforms to provide a wide range of capabilities depending on frequency, waveform characteristics, and bandwidth. However, that variability also makes it difficult to establish and maintain IP connectivity. Moreover, radio-based communications can be unreliable, and if routers are unaware...

Tags: Network, Radio, Standards, Integration, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-01

Model-Driven Automated Error Recovery in Cloud Computing

With the increasing complexity of software and systems, domain analysis and modeling are becoming more important for software development and system applications. Applying domain-specific modeling languages and transformation engines is an effective approach to address platform complexity and the inability of third-generation languages to express domain concepts clearly. Building correct...

Tags: Recovery, Modeling, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Business Operations, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-28

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...

Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm

Discussion threads 2009-04-15