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How to Justify the Cost of a TMS by Automating Freight Audit & Payment

Posted April 23, 2012 - 1:40 pm

Read this white paper to learn how implementing a service-based TMS, together with a well designed freight audit and payment module help reduce your transportation spend.
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Smarter Commerce for Consumer Electronics

Posted April 23, 2012 - 1:40 pm

Smarter commerce is more than just an idea-when applied, it provides real business results. This paper discusses how IBM helped consumer electronics companies transform their approach to commerce by focusing on the customer.
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Managing Volatility Through Smart Inventory Planning

Posted April 23, 2012 - 1:40 pm

This paper will consider the latest developments in inventory optimization technology, including a look at how leading CP companies are using this generation of inventory management tools to help minimize working capital.
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Smarter Commerce for Consumer Products

Posted April 23, 2012 - 1:40 pm

To succeed in today's marketplace, consumer product companies must focus on flawless execution when connecting with the new consumer, managing supply chain efficiencies and collaborating with channel partners. Essentially, they must change the way their products are sourced, manufactured and distributed.
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IBM Study - Capitalizing on the Power of the Smarter Consumer

Posted April 23, 2012 - 1:40 pm

Our survey of more than 30,000 consumers in 13 countries tell us that consumers want to be heard, known and empowered. Savvy retailers will listen to today's smarter, connected consumer and leverage what they learn to empower their customers to shop when and how they want.
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Mac botnet may not be shrinking much after all

Posted April 23, 2012 - 11:39 am

Security and anti-virus companies have disagreed all along on how many Macs are infected with the Flashback malware. Dr. Web, which discovered it, claims 650,000; Symantec says 140,000.
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Best Practices for Migrating Linux/x86 Applications to IBM Power Systems

Posted April 23, 2012 - 11:30 am

Read the white paper to learn the best practices for migrating to Power System servers. You'll also see how simple it is to leverage IBM's offerings to maximize performance and cost savings.
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Microsoft updates Deployment Toolkit utility

Posted April 23, 2012 - 10:47 am

Microsoft has released a new version of a tool designed to let enterprise IT staffers automate and manage large-scale deployments of Microsoft OSes, desktop applications and server software.
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A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware vSphere (4.1 & 5.0) Virtualization Performance

Posted April 23, 2012 - 10:20 am

This technical white paper presents benchmark results showing greater VM consolidation ratios than demonstrated in previous benchmarks and demonstrating the extent of the performance lead that PowerVM virtualization technologies deliver over x86-based add-on virtualization products.
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Accelerate Document Processing and Wow Your Customers

Posted April 23, 2012 - 10:20 am

Learn how intelligent imaging and BPM solutions, coupled with pragmatic best practices and methodology, can improve productivity, lower cost, increase accuracy, reduce cycle times and lower overall risk.
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Microsoft System Center 2012 overhauls licensing, focuses on apps

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:40 am

Microsoft has formally shipped System Center 2012 management platform, adding features that create application-centric views of corporate infrastructure and - just as important - implementing a new licensing scheme designed to capitalize on customers' frustration with the leading competitor, VMware.
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Brain scan predicts mistakes 20 seconds before you make them

Posted April 20, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Research from a computer-scientist at the University of Arizona has defined EEG brain patterns that indicate when the brain is about to slip up on a math problem. The goal is to create systems or help students learn faster by helping keep the mental challenges manageable.
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Malware-infected download knocks last trace of hipster gloss from Instagram

Posted April 19, 2012 - 4:43 pm

Instagram, once the not-very-exclusive artistic vision of the hipster iPhone photographer community, lost most of its shine when it was ported to Android, then sold to Facebook. Fake downloads with Russian malware put it out to pasture for good.
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New Mac malware gets newer; now available from Word docs as well as Java

Posted April 17, 2012 - 10:22 am

Mac users may not want to hear it, but the debut today of a new version of a Trojan whose original version is less than a month old,shows malware writers are much more prompt about updating software for Macs than app developers ever were in porting Windows products to it.
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Source of Apple's malware problem: arrogance, negligence, contempt

Posted April 16, 2012 - 7:57 pm

The Flashback botnet was labeled as the big breakthrough that would make Apple and its users realize malware for the Mac was real. Instead it made clear that, whenever Apple users need it to step up and take responsibility for a major flaw, Apple steps back and points fingers instead.
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Why AppSense for VDI: How User Virtualization performs and adds value

Posted April 16, 2012 - 2:10 pm

More and more enterprises are turning to desktop virtualization as a solution to rising IT costs and security concerns combined with user demands for a personalized desktop experience and the ability to work from anywhere, at any time, from any device. AppSense and Citrix are working together to integrate the market-leading user virtualization solution with the world's most widely deployed desktop virtualization platform. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the joint value of AppSense with XenDesktop 5.6 on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1.
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EMA Radar™ for Hosted Message Security Services: Q2 2011

Posted April 16, 2012 - 1:00 pm

Pros and Cons of a leading Hosted Message Security Service.
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Moving Your Email to the Trusted Cloud

Posted April 16, 2012 - 12:00 pm

How cloud-based email can help your company.
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Gartner Research Report - "What MFT Is, and How It Applies to You"

Posted April 12, 2012 - 4:30 pm

In this research report-What MFT Is, and How It Applies to You-Gartner analyst Thomas Skybakmoen defines managed file transfer (MFT), outlines the key factors driving organizations to adopt MFT, and describes how MFT can help with governance and regulatory compliance as your file transfers multiply.
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Fearing for safety, LulzSec, Anonymous stool pigeon Sabu skips court date

Posted April 12, 2012 - 2:55 pm

Hector 'Sabu" Monsegur, 28, the LulzSec leader who spent months collecting evidence to help the FBI arrest LulzSec and Anonymous contacts said he was too afraid of threats on his life to appear at court to answer charge of impersonating a federal agent.
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FBI wants more modern techniques for torture, interrogation

Posted April 12, 2012 - 2:05 pm

The FBI has a long tradition of Constitution-violating investigatory methods, but it has never been big on actual torture. It is now trying to update methods used for interrogations at Gitmo by asking experts to suggest less-torturous ways to get good answers from bad prisoners.
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Find the cost effective balance between IT Compliance and User Demand

Posted April 12, 2012 - 1:10 pm

Whether a user environment is delivered through server based computing, virtual or physical desktops, it is essential users receive only the applications they require. Learn how to increase visibility into application landscape, ensure compliance, reduce support calls, & increase user acceptance with AppSense Application Manager.
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Centralize and provide user's 'digital personality' on demand to any desktop or device

Posted April 12, 2012 - 1:10 pm

Accelerate desktop migration, enable virtual desktop pooling, improve logon times, reduce support costs and eliminate roaming profil corruption with AppSense Enviroment Manager(EM). From server based computing environments through virtual and physical desktops, AppSense EM product ensures users always receive a consistent, predictable and personalized working experience.
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A strategic approach to performance management brings better economics and happier users

Posted April 12, 2012 - 1:10 pm

With the increasing use of desktop delivery technologies such as server based computing and virtual desktops, ensuring applications are responsive to user actions is key to adoption.Learn how you can increase user procutivity and reduce costs at the same time!
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Centrally manage, deploy and report on all user configurations across the enterprise

Posted April 12, 2012 - 1:10 pm

Unlock the ability to control all aspects of the user environment from a central location. Deploy tailored policy and user personalization settings to thousands of physicaland virtual devices across many sites. With AppSense Management Suite you can do all this and more!
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