Executive Information Systems (EIS)

View this Videocast to learn how solution providers are helping customers address eDiscovery challenges by helping them manage their information infrastructure more effectively. Most companies produce countless numbers of digital business assets each day including customer emails, executive correspondence and financial statements. The importance and accessibility of electronic information has not gone unnoticed by regulators and litigators that are seeking...

This paper presents the buyside with a framework that offers a vision for the trading platforms. This framework explains why the future of trading belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers. The two main forces of cost and regulation combined with the ever more complex market structure will continue the buyside's push towards the insourcing of the execution function and the adoption of electronic trading...

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, produced this report that presents seven strategies of ten security leaders from around the world that are critical to making information security decisions. Business innovation is now a top-level concern at more enterprises, driven by the fiercely competitive global business environment and no longer seen as inventing products in a lab, but as an overarching, multi-disciplinary effort to create new value. Although security...

This article addresses what ILM originally set out to achieve, what it is today and what the real world requirements are for it long term. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is one of the most misused phrases in the IT industry.

Managing information for extended periods of time is a common problem for businesses today. In fact, many organizations increasingly suffer from "information blindness" with regards to key information assets that need to be managed, kept and utilized...

IBM Information Server is a revolutionary new data integration software platform from IBM that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems. This Flash presentation provides a graphic "guided tour" and demonstration of IBM Information Server, a revolutionary software platform from IBM that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems...

Having launched its "Information on Demand (IOD)" initiative few years ago. IBM has been among the most aggressive vendors in building an end-to-end unified information management (UIM) capability. IBM can claim what is arguably the industry's broadest portfolio of unified information management (UIM) software, services and industry-specific solutions. All of these offerings fall under IBM's Information on Demand (IOD) initiative, which the vendor launched in...

View this webinar to learn how Operational Performance Management provides the framework necessary to align different parts of an organization using proven methodologies and techniques to ensure individual business units are performing. Some organizations launch Performance Management initiatives "top down"; typically this happens when a visionary executive standardizes measurement practices and gets everyone in the organization to participate. More often...

Actuate’s combination of practical expertise, state of the art software and unparalleled customer support is unlike that of any other organization offering Performance Management solutions in the market today. THE MOST WIDELY DEPLOYED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION The Actuate Performance Management Centers of Excellence focus only on Performance Management. As this is all that we do, our efforts and investment are exclusively directed to ensure that we have leading...

This whitepaper analyzes the importance of executive dashboards. The steps to build an executive dashboard are discussed as well as the target audience and types of information that should be presented in the project. An executive dashboard (referred to as dashboard's for the rest of this article) is an intranet for a select group of users. These users tend to be executives–VPs and above, the people who are the main decision-makers in the company.

However, not all new dashboards...

Join Oracle CIO, Mark Sunday, and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, as they share best practices for building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization. Join Oracle CIO, Mark Sunday, and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, as they share best practices for building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization, Linux, high-performance application...

Read this paper to learn how the CA Mainframe Resource Management Suite helps fulfill the intricate information needs of today's enterprise IT infrastructure management environments, helping your IT professionals harness SMF metrics. The CA Mainframe Resource Management Suite helps fulfill the intricate information needs of today's enterprise IT infrastructure management environments, helping your IT professionals harness SMF metrics to make timely...

This paper examines the qualities of business agility, the challenges that restrain agility and how leadership, technology, business-critical information and other organizational aspects can improve an organization's agile ability. Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different...

This white paper discusses how business rule management systems can be used to meet the diverse range of stakeholder requirements associated with an automated policy management system. Business agility has become a significant indication of successful information management. Because Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) allow for greater business flexibility, they are now an essential competitive tool for businesses and government agencies alike. Organizations...