Topic: Enterprise Architecture

How to Streamline the Financial Close Process While Ensuring Financial Statement Quality
How do you streamline the financial close process while ensuring financial statement quality? In this program, two leading industry experts help you solve that challenge. First, John Van Decker, Research VP, at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., discusses why it’s important for financial close solutions to be designed for users to manage the entire close process. You’ll hear about the key elements that will guide your organization towards a ‘world class close’. And you’ll learn about the critical touch points and synergies needed between governance, risk, and compliance and enterprise performance management solutions.

Sponsor: Oracle
Type: Audio (30 minutes)

Migrating Your Applications To Windows 7 – Best Practices To Get You There Faster.
Join Michael Silver, a foremost expert on Microsoft migrations, and a VP Distinguished Analyst at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he presents best practices to help you migrate your applications to Windows 7 faster. In this Webcast you’ll also hear Mike Welling, CEO of App-DNA, a leading global provider of enterprise application-compatibility management solutions, reveal a pre-migration testing solution that can enable your enterprise to cut time, cost and risk. Plus, you’ll learn how to quickly incorporate new technologies to the end-user community and automatically test all of your applications. The result? By removing the old manual process of testing applications and automating it, you may be able to achieve a 300% to 500% return on investment on your migration projects.

Sponsor: App-DNA
Type: Video (14 minutes)

Increase Business Responsiveness with SOA and EDA
In most organizations, business processes are started, stopped, or modified based on events. The ability to realistically model these processes in software is crucial for any organization that wants to respond to events faster. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a step in this direction, but adding event processing to your SOA, through an event-driven architecture (EDA), completes the move. Learn more about making the most of your SOA deployment with event-driven architecture in this new Webcast now.

Sponsor: InterSystems Corporation
Type: Video (18 minutes)

Insight into Vulnerability Management Trends, Regulatory Compliance and Product Solutions
Join John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he discusses ways your organization can meet today’s regulatory mandates. You’ll hear about the components of a best-in-class enterprise vulnerability management program. And you’ll learn how to improve your overall risk assessment and management strategies. Plus you’ll get recommendations on the latest vulnerability management solutions and you’ll learn about the pitfalls to avoid in a vulnerability management program. Go now.

Sponsor: Rapid7
Type: Video (50 minutes)

Disrupting the Enterprise Networking Status Quo
There is a definitive shift in the buying patterns of enterprises as they closely examine their infrastructure and their vendors, to find opportunities to improve network performance, decrease power consumption, and reduce vendor lock-in without paying a premium for those solutions. IT organizations that are focusing on requirements first and vendor relationships and solutions second are, in many cases, able to recognize 30% to 50% capital purchase price savings by seriously considering and adopting secondary vendors. You're invited to an exclusive, on-demand presentation " Disrupting the Enterprise Networking Status Quo." Learn more now.

Sponsor: 3Com
Type: Video (27 minutes)

Leveraging Modern Backup Approaches to Improve Data Availability and Eliminate Operational Complexities
Modern backup approaches that employ a unified architecture and innovative disk-based backup methods can deliver dramatic operational efficiencies, simplify recovery and help you control storage costs. Watch this new program now and learn more. Join Dave Russell, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he uncovers the benefits of modern backup approaches, discusses their impact on data recovery, and outlines how to leverage a unified architecture to optimize the use of storage to simplify the data capture process. Watch now.

Sponsor: CommVault
Type: Video (13 minutes)

Enterprise Content Management
Why do companies need to invest now? Cost savings, productivity gains and to support the successful growth and development of a company - these are the main objectives of today's IT projects. But many companies are confused when it comes to achieving these objectives in the field of content management. What approaches and solutions are suitable for this purpose best? How can we create an additional legal certainty? And what opportunities and risks lie in recent developments such as social media? In this Webcast Mick MacComascaigh, Research Director at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Open Text Manager Detlev Legler, discuss solutions for how companies can use enterprise content management to achieve short-term profitability and long-term strategic competitive advantage.

Sponsor: Open Text
Type: Video (24 minutes)