Communications Standards

WEBCAST: Dynamic routing architecture (DRA) provides functionality over and above that of clustering architecture that optimizes communications in many distributed application topologies. Watch this webcast to discover how DRA provides the unmatched high-availability and administrative transparency and efficiency you need.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 22 Nov 2011

RESOURCE: Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf documented their combined experience in the integration space and created the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (EIP), which has since been adopted as the standard for describing messaging solutions. Check out this deck of flashcards to find definitions of integration design patterns based on EIP.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

EBOOK: The SEC XBRL Mandate for Dummies is a guide to assist external reporting professionals tasked with quickly and accurately assembling, tagging and filing their companies’ external reports.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WEBCAST: This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript explores key management factors you should consider as you navigate your virtualization initiative, including licensing, memory capabilities, and more. Hear about one company's virtualization roadmap and determine whether it aligns with your own virtualization plans.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

IT BRIEFING: This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to understanding mobile wireless (cellular) standards, things can get confusing. There are two significant global cellular standards that are in use today. Mobile handsets, including smartphones, usually are designed to support one or the other. This white paper will help you better understand cellular standards.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses what SIP is, the challenge of implementing it, and how it can help your enterprise meet your communications needs.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This ‘thought paper’ draws a parallel between young people in the 1960s and 1970s, the group that became known as the baby boomer generation and young people of today, often termed Generation Y or Digital Natives.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: Scottsdale Medical Imaging has standardized on HP products wherever possible—from business desktop PCs to the servers that support administrative operations and redundant storage arrays that store the vast library of medical images.  Download this case study for additional details on their objective, approach, IT improvements and business benefits.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Jericho Forum aims to develop and influence information and communications technology(ICT) security standards.  These will facilitate the secure interoperation of ICT to support collaboration and commerce over open networks, within and between organisations, based on a security architecture and design approach entitled de-perimeterisation.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains various ways unified communications solutions have proven their ability to help organizations solve various problems like, enabling them to transform their business, streamline business processes and reduce costs.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read how one business employed Dell Hardware to increase efficiency, drastically reduce new PC deployment time, and foster collaboration among global divisions.

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 | Published: 09 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Communications needs for many organisations are changing rapidly. Internally, there are always new technologies appearing and changes in working styles to deal with but there is now, increasingly, the influence of more social and consumer choices affecting the officially deployed systems.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Web 2.0 and new media technologies, such as blogs, wikis, and social networks, are spreading rapidly through companies, often without IT's direct involvement. This report from Booz&Co argues that CIOs and their IT departments must take the lead in these emerging technologies.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The dial plan is a key element in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) environments. The dial plan is at the very core of the user experience. For companies that have multiple locations, or that are global, a comprehensive dial plan can become large and very complex.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies are continuing to invest in video and rich media technology to meet the needs of videoconferencing, on-demand videos and video surveillance. Access this paper to find out how you can achieve high performance and reliability, assure end-to-end QoS, and make deployment of a video-ready network easy.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In earlier times, if an enterprise presumed it had control over its network, and if it had few external connections or communication, it was feasible that the connections between operational computers probably were not an unacceptable risk.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: To achieve their business goals and unlock the value of their infrastructures, companies need a more disciplined and structured way to eliminate inefficiencies. This first installment in a three-part series explores how standardization forms the basis for deriving value from the efforts that follow.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 31 Aug 2010

CASE STUDY: In this case study Flow International standardizes on Dell hardware to increase enterprise efficiency, cut new PC deployment time by up to 10 hours, and foster collaboration among global divisions. Download now to learn more about the specific benefits achieved.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet contains a sample of real business results that organizations around the world, across a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript focuses on identifying the standard requirements necessary to implement a successful desktop virtualization pilot, including selecting use cases, a time frame for the pilot and more.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 12 Jul 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: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

CASE STUDY: Uncover why a implementing a CallCopy recording solution that is easy to use, search, update, support and maintain can offer a lower TCO than other solutions, as well as fulfilling all your call recording needs.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses primarily on the negotiation process, different negotiation styles, and the various elements of communication that affect the outcome. When all is said and done, negotiation is the art and science of convincing the other party that your best outcome is good for them.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: In Quocirca’s evaluation of major providers of Managed Print Services (MPS) in Europe, Quocirca found that Xerox and HP  lead the pack, due to their  global scale and broad service capabilities. The analysis also showed that Ricoh and Lexmark  have gained considerable ground, demonstrating effective maturity and service delivery excellence.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper learn how companies can overcome the limitations in marketing, sales, and service processes by pursuing communication-enabled business processes (CEBPs)–enabled by communication systems that are integrated with business applications.

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the advantages of virtualizing your Cisco Unified Communications using the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 15 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the need to select Cisco IP Phones, switches, routers for your home lab and explores how to configure the options of VMware so that you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The average small business is becoming highly dependent on multiple forms of digital communications, but the technology choices are increasingly complex and come at a cost.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011