Refined Petroleum Industry

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn about an innovative planning, scheduling, and monitoring strategy designed to enable businesses in the energy industry to improve operational efficiency, reduce risks, and cut costs. Discover the benefits of a planning technique that provides real-time visualization into and support of business operations.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Smart information technology (IT) practices reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can rise above the competition as a cloud provider, especially by using the five key steps outlined in this resource.

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Cleantech is emerging as a suitable alternative source of energy or a means of reducing  consumption of expensive resources, this report from Grant Thornton reveals.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: HP has been a pioneer in incorporating technology to improve energy efficiency and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for IT systems in the datacenter, with solutions designed to reduce server management costs, increase utilization, and improve power and cooling.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This paper from the Open Group reveals how banks can benefit from combining complementary industry frameworks on enterprise architecture.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION: Professor Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top500 supercomputer list, presents a critical assessment of high performance computing technology and applications.

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: With the profitability of exploiting information systems, coupled with the emergence of crimeware and services; fraud has grown from a criminal activity into an industry. This paper examines the industrialization of fraud and how organizations must respond with a comprehensive strategy that integrates intelligence with multiple security controls.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents 13 somewhat common infrastructure decisions that can result in poor IT security. It is possible that your organization can improve its security in one or more of these areas. Take the time to assess your current security policy in each of these areas to see if there is room for refinement or improvement.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Whether you are looking to upgrade your current PeopleSoft software or implementing for the first time, this white paper provides a clear description of the value added benefits you can expect to see from PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial management 9.1.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help address 5 areas of concern: compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity. The needs of the A&D market aren’t easily addressed by one-size-fits-all products.

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 | Published: 04 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: To keep pace with your peers and position your organisation for the future, you must continuously update your data centre. This white paper explains how one company refined their IT transformation strategy to improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of their business services. Explore their key objectives and best practices for success here.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This Strategic Outline Business Case sets out the opportunity to reduce costs and enhance flexibility of centralised ICT services, covering both information services delivered to citizens and staff, and the underpinning technical and physical Data Centre infrastructure.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn why enterprise resouce planning (ERP) systems are emerging as an alternative to project-based solutions (PBSs).

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how with a community-driven development approach, enhancements are driven by a community of users, which means the system constantly improves in the exact way a user requires. Continue reading to learn the power of community-driven product enhancement.

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 | Published: 07 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: Petrobras needed to accelerate data replication from offshore drilling platforms back to the corporate headquarters. Download the case study to learn how Riverbed deployed Steelhead® appliances to reduce Petrobras’ backup window from 34 hours to four hours, improve application performance for remote workers to LAN-like speeds, and more.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This threat report takes a thorough look back at the most significant threats, trends and outright attacks of the year that was. Read now for helpful tips and best practices for keeping your confidential information safe.

Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 25 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: PCI DSS is mandatory for any business that handles confidential cardholder data. Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager and Stingray Application Firewall Module help with many parts of the PCI DSS specification, notably the web application firewall (WAF) requirements of section 6.6.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how Iron Mountain has helped numerous companies across industries - particularly health care - streamline information management and achieve greater cost efficiencies.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now.

Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 07 May 2012

JOURNAL ARTICLE: This report from KPMG, packed with case studies, looks at the drivers for innovation in e-health.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 02 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Improve productivity and customer service with a lean approach to manufacturing. Read this white paper to learn how ERP works with lean to identify value and non-value components with your SAP system to give you a competitive edge.

Posted: 25 Apr 2007 | Published: 25 Apr 2007

IT BRIEFING: European consumers' growing use digital channels as part of their shopping experience is driving retailers’ focus on delivering efficient online, cross-border operations in Europe, this research report from Accenture reveals.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: It was the company that came from nowhere to revolutionise an entire industry. Dell, originally a provider of desktop PCs, was instrumental in changing the way that the IT business worked.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011