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 The Decisive Edge: Improving Decision Making in the Insurance Enterprise An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Insurers seek greater transparency and agility more than ever but they typically fail to assimilate these qualities as guiding principles of their enterprise management culture. Rapid reaction to a changing market requires real-time insight into operations at multiple levels. Many carriers struggle to deliver sound accounting and financial information at a time when competitive distinction increasingly hinges on ready access to policy and claims trends, sales data, channel profitability and other sources. Join this one-hour webcast co-sponsored by Insurance & Technology and Oracle, to learn about: * The increasing importance of rapid and sound decision-making as a competitive differentiator * Typical impediments to freer information flow within the insurance enterprise * Converting diverse sources of data into actionable information * Using business intelligence as a foundation for management excellence Date: Thursday, February 04, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Cashing In on Cash Management Technology An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast By proactively managing payment processes, insurers can limit short-term cash flow issues, improve regulatory compliance and enhance customer service. In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology Senior Editor Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts on cash management technology and how carriers can fully realize its benefits. Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: SmartStream Register now Notify, Respond, Collaborate Mass Notifications Systems - Uses and Considerations An InformationWeek Webcast Pipelines burst, government officials resign, blackouts darken hospitals, or a supply chain comes to a screeching halt. When these events occur, organizations require the tools to instantly notify employees and organizational stakeholders about situational status and what action individuals need to take. Whether it is a safety issue or your company's bottom line, for such systems to work successfully, notification solutions should be centralized, easy to deploy and able to transmit messages in real-time. Join InformationWeek and Avaya for a discussion on this critical issue, by learning about next-generation tools available to enterprises requiring instant, enterprise-wide communication. ** Live attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the Avaya whitepaper, "Beyond Emergencies: How SIP-based notification systems can improve response, collaboration and resolution for a variety of business scenarios" ** Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010 Time: 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET Sponsored by: Avaya Register now 5 Keys to Driving Down Data Protection Costs While Increasing IT Service Levels: Smart Moves You Can Make Now AnNetwork Computing Webcast Everyone is talking about controlling costs and improving productivity. In tough markets, optimizing your operations is a proven way to help weather the storm. Emerging technologies like disk backup with data deduplication are changing the way IT organizations protect critical data and IT assets, all while lowering costs and increasing IT service levels. Backup experts from ExaGrid Systems and Symantec NetBackup will uncover how these hot technologies can better protect your data, while bolstering your IT environment and your organizations overall bottom line. Join us for a live, interactive 45-minute discussion to learn how other IT organizations are using the powerful combination of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and NetBackup software to dramatically improve backups and restores at a significantly lower cost. Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010 Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET Sponsored by: ExaGrid Register now Building a Collaborative Banking Environment A Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this Bank Systems & Technology webcast moderated by executive editor Penny Crosman and sponsored by IBM, we will explore many of the ways collaboration tools are helping banks drive costs down, efficiency up and enhance customer service. Well explore collaboration trends including the latest social media tools and our expert panel will discuss the collaborative tools innovative financial institutions are starting to use in their organizations -- and the results so far. Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now The Evolving Malware Threat: Is Your Organization Protected from All Angles? An InformationWeek Webcast In 2010, we can expect to witness a battle as mobile devices, laptops, netbooks and PCs compete to gain a prominent share of the technological market. This battle for dominance will also take place elsewhere -- amongst cybercriminals. They will compete to deliver the fastest, strongest, most widespread and financially rewarding threat. And, in 2010, this means taking advantage of our reliance on email and the Web. The hybrid threat is complex and sophisticated -- an email which delivers a Web-based threat. This type of attack is increasing dramatically as we use our Web-browser as an imperative tool to work, live and play. We access our emails and the Web online, from wherever we happen to be. It is clear that as these attacks continue to evolve and become increasingly complex and sophisticated, an organization's defenses also need to evolve. Please join us for an informative webcast to learn how you can better prepare for the complex threat environment of 2010. Learn first-hand from a panel of experts -- who you will be able to quiz in a live Q&A session -- about the trends in malware attacks and what you can do to better prepare your network to counter the new 2010 threat environment. Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Webroot Register now Four Secrets to Innovating with Packaged Applications An InformationWeek Webcast Thousands of Oracle Applications customers have appropriated significantly more value out of their packaged applications investments by innovating on the industry-leading Oracle SOA Suite. Based on these customer successes, Oracle has identified four innovation secrets that every applications customer ought to know about. This session analyzes these secrets and shares insights into why each of them dramatically improves investment returns. By attending this session, you will learn: - The four key innovation strategies for packaged applications - The expected ROI by implementing these strategies - Customer success stories of innovation with the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010 Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Conquering the Challenges of Virtualization Management An InformationWeek Webcast Virtualized environments are taking IT data centers by storm. However, as data center virtualization continues to exponentially increase, virtualization introduces several new management challenges that can disrupt your data center environment and give you headaches. Join Olivier Thierry, Chief Marketing Officer, and Kent Erickson, VP of Product Management at Zenoss, as they discuss how you can meet virtualization management challenges and minimize data center disruptions. Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Zenoss Register now 11 Secrets of Success with Business Rules An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this presentation, youll discover great tips for business users and IT professionals alike from the people behind the leader in business rules management systems, FICO Blaze Advisor®, and a forward-thinking insurer who has transformed his business using business rules. Business rules play a critical part in modernizing the insurance infrastructure, reducing costs and increasing business agility. Get your use of rules off to the right start, or learn how to advance your current use of rules, with this valuable webinar. Date: Tuesday, February 23,2010 Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: FICO Register now Consolidate for Business Advantage: From Storage to Scorecard An InformationWeek Webcast With insights into enterprise-wide information, companies can support a broad range of strategic, financial, and operational processes that meet their extreme performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership requirements. But getting actionable and timely information in the hands of the right decision makers can be tricky, especially when you must consolidate data from disparate systems throughout the enterprise. As the market leader in data warehousing, enterprise performance management, and business intelligence, Oracle combines best-in-class capabilities to provide a complete, open, and integrated solution from storage to scorecard. Register for this webcast to learn how to: Drive pervasive insights and decision-making with Oracle Business Intelligence Unify enterprise information at low cost with Oracle Data Integration Suite Get extreme performance and manage data growth with Oracle data warehousing Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Time: 9am PT / 12pm ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Consolidate for Business Advantage: From Storage to Scorecard A InformationWeek Government Webcast It's no secret that virtualization provides many benefits and although many organizations realize the advantages, virtualization currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads. Windows servers may be part of your physical server landscape, but may not be the best choice for your core virtualization platform. This webcast will talk about the overall factors organizations should consider when starting or expanding their virtualization initiatives, including hypervisor selection, management tools, and expansion planning. We'll specifically review the new developments from open source market leader Red Hat. Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Time: 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET Sponsored by: CarahSoft/Redhat Register now On-Demand Resource & Education Center for Business & IT Professionals View recent TechWebCasts on a variety of topics How to Avoid the Costly Pitfalls of PCI ComplianceOptimize Your Data Center Operations and Harvest Savings An InformationWeek WebCast During this webcast, the speakers will share with you tips and techniques to maximize returns and improve service maturity from your DCO engagement. Through this Webinar, you will also learn how to: - Enhance efficiency of DCO and reduce total cost of ownership - Improve business availability through an SLA-based engagement model - Leverage an ITIL-based framework for reliable & predictable IT operations Original Date: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Patni Register now Extreme Manageability with Oracle Database 11g An InformationWeek WebCast Today, IT organizations are facing extreme pressures. Pressures to reduce costs, to deliver service levels 24 x 7, and pressures to do more while IT resources remain flat. Join us and learn how Oracle gives you extreme manageability with Oracle Database 11g. See how you can save time and lower your database management costs to overcome these extreme pressures. Watch the Oracle Webcast and learn how to: - Deliver the best database performance for any situation; - Create IT agility with timesaving risk-free testing and change management; - Lower your IT costs with Oracle Databases unique self-managing capabilities. Register now for the Webcast, and learn more about Oracles extreme manageability with Oracle Database 11g. Original Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Becoming the Enterprise Single Sign-on IT Hero: A Case Study An InformationWeek WebCast If your end users must remember 5 or more passwords and are inundating the help desk with password-reset calls, you have a costly but avoidable problem. Fix the problem and you'll be revered as an IT hero. Let us show you how. Attend this free Web seminar to learn how deploying an enterprise single sign-on (SSO) solution from Novell can help you deliver a quick win with a near-immediate return on investment. The result? End users and IT staff can focus on conducting business instead of remembering or resetting passwords; senior management can redirect the money you help the company save to other, more strategic areas; and you come out the hero. Original Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010 Original Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET Sponsored by: Novell Register now Integrated Risk and Performance Management in Financial Services: Promoting a Transparent Risk Management Culture An Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast At this free, one-hour Webcast, the first in a series of timely and provocative Webcasts on Integrated Solutions for Financial Services co-produced by Bank Systems & Technology and Oracle, you will learn how to promote a transparent risk management culture and achieve a consistent view of performance - gaining more flexibility, value and choice with less complexity, risk and cost. Find out how adopting a framework-based approach to delivering these capabilities is critical to addressing the need to measure and meet risk-adjusted performance objectives, price products to reflect their true risk, and better understand the impact of threats to liquidity, capital adequacy and exposure to market rate volatility - as well as making forward-looking capital projections under multiple market conditions. Original Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Creating a Database Security Plan -- Why Basic Database Security is No Longer Sufficient ADark Reading and InformationWeek WebCast SQL injection attacks and internal data thefts are on the rise -- but DBAs spend less than 5% of their time on database security. Join Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst and database security expert at Forrester Research, and Phil Neray, VP of Security Strategy at Guardium, to learn about: - Why AAA and basic security are no longer sufficient. - The 3 key pillars of a database security plan (foundation, preventive, detection). - Why 60% of internal database threats go undetected. - Why privileged user monitoring and role separation are important (and how to implement them). - Reducing compliance costs and effort by standardizing controls across regulations and applications. - Forrester's latest research on vendor evaluation criteria for enterprise database auditing and real-time protection. Check out this educational webcast to learn about the critical trends in data theft and proven strategies for increasing your company's data-level security against modern cybercriminals! Original Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Original Time: 11:00AM PT / 2:00AM ET Sponsored by: Guardium Register now Getting Started with Governance-Centric MDM Practical and Tactical Recommendations An InformationWeek WebCast Attend this Web seminar to learn why featured guest Forrester Research "continues to witness growing enthusiasm for MDM initiatives across all industries". Register now to join information management experts John Evans of Kalido and featured guest Rob Karel of Forrester Research and as they provide field-proven recommendations for effectively evangelizing enterprise data governance programs and scoping MDM implementations that deliver near-term ROI to your business. Original Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Original Time: 8:00AM PT / 11:00AM ET Sponsored by: Kalido Register now Taking Low Latency to the Next Level A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Discover why organizations like NYSE Euronext are using some of the latest high performance networking technology to improve throughput and reduce latency throughout the trade cycle in this webcast that also features TABB Group Senior Analyst Kevin McPartland. Original Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Ciena Register now Insurance for a Smarter Planet An IBM Virtual Briefing Center Join IBM for the grand opening of the Insurance for a Smarter Planet virtual briefing center. The current economic environment is the most challenging in decades. Insurance leaders anticipate turbulent change and predict bold moves for the industry in the tough months ahead. Come explore bold moves for your business. Visit the site for more details! Original Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Original Time: 10:00 AM -1:30 PM EST Sponsored by: IBM Register now Security Update: Threats in a Web 2.0 World A Dark Reading WebCast Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, will explore the world of computer security threats during a live Webcast. Gain insights into the latest trends in malware with SophosLabs -- where more than 50,000 new samples of malware are analyzed every day. Featuring live Q&A, this interactive Web event sponsored by Sophos will help you with today's security challenges and beyond. Register today! Original Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sophos Register now Daily log review sucks, here's how to make it easier A Dark Reading WebCast QSAs have stated the number 1 reason a merchant fails their PCI DSS audit is due to the lack of effective daily log review. This problem came into light in 2009 when credit card security breaches made major headlines and the investigations showed a lack of daily log review. While the creators of PCI DSS requirement 10 had great intentions that daily log data could detect suspicious activity and possible network threats, they failed to understand the time and expertise needed by the merchants to effectively perform log review. Join Randy Rosenbaum of Alert Logic as he discusses ways to not only reduce the amount of time spent reviewing logs, but how to quickly respond to suspicious activity found in log data and evidence of log review to satisfy PCI auditors. Original Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 Original Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET Sponsored by: Alert Logic Register now Latency in the Online Channel: What's the Cost to Customer Satisfaction? A Wall Street & Technology and Bank Systems & Technology WebCast A new study, commissioned by Akamai and conducted by Forrester Consulting on its behalf, shows that Web site performance is second only to security as the most important feature of an online banking or brokerage site. Moreover, poor site performance leads to customer dissatisfaction more than any other factor. While the average banking and brokerage Web pages load in 3.3 and 2.5 seconds, respectively, consumers expect pages to load in 2 seconds or less. Whats the impact of this expectation gap? And what do we do about it? Join this free Webinar hosted by Akamai to hear results of this new study and gain insight into: * What drives online customer satisfaction? * How much more demanding are active traders and power users? * What do online consumers do if their providers site is slow or unavailable? * What are the sources of latency and discontinuity on the public Internet and the options for addressing it? Original Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 Original Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET Sponsored by: Akamai Register now Advanced Customer Insights - Know Your Customer Better An InformationWeek Webcast Customers are becoming more fragmented due to changing demographics and systems. Due to this, organizations are seeking more effective ways to interact with customers, develop appropriate relationships, and establish long-term sustainable profitability. Capabilities such as profitability analysis, predictive analytics, complete customer view, and event based customer management will enable advanced customer insights that will sustain competitive advantage through revenue growth and reduced expenses. Join us for a webcast during which we will explore how Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) can help you meet the challenges you face. Original Date: Thursday December 17, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Smarter, Easier, Adaptive MDM An InformationWeek Webcast IBM is taking master data management to the next level of smart. Join the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management team to learn about the newest capabilities, including custom-built data domains and enhanced user interface, which meet key business needs and enable faster time to value. Experts will discuss key product features and use cases that enable flexibility and choice in InfoSphere Master Data Management implementations. Industry specific requirements and benefits will also be highlighted including Financial Services, Telco, Retail and Government. Original Date: Thursday December 17, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Boost Customer Satisfaction with Microsoft OCS in Your Contact Center An InformationWeek Webcast Join Microsoft and Interactive Intelligence and learn how integrating OCS into the contact center can make all the difference in increasing first call resolution rates, improving customer satisfaction, and raising revenues for your business. In the webinar, we will: Uncover the facts surrounding poor customer service Demonstrate the integration between OCS and the Customer Interaction Center from Interactive Intelligence Provide tips on increasing first call resolution rates by involving the rest of your enterprise as an extension of your contact center Original Date: Thursday December 17, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET Sponsored by: Interactive Intelligence Register now Looking to 2010 - Critical Trends in Capital Markets Regulation An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this one-hour webcast, you will hear from Geoff Calhoun of AccuQuote about how they are taking advantage of communications and business process automation to remain innovative and competitive, as well as increase customer satisfaction and responsiveness by: -Consolidating communications and improving productivity -Standardizing and streamlining of business to eliminate disconnected and redundant processes -Improving operational metrics and performance benchmarks -Increasing sales opportunities - Decreasing cost of materials to process applications - Automatically routing and assigning work to staff based on location, workload, skills, and availability Original Date: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Interactive Intelligence Register now Looking to 2010 - Critical Trends in Capital Markets Regulation A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast The goal of the new regulatory framework for financial markets -- preventing a systemic crisis in the financial system -- will not be accomplished with a few tweaks. Indeed, regulation will change how financial services institutions operate. And given the many different regulatory agencies and compliance mandates, now's the time to get up speed...fast. Original Date: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sybase Register now Managed Services and the Productivity Imperative Why managed services are the fastest route to increasing enterprise productivity at a lower cost An InformationWeek Webcast One of the most important lessons resulting from the recent economic meltdown is that corporations can, in fact, find ways to deliver both higher value services to employees while also saving on costs. One of the best examples of limiting limiting capital and operating expenditures is through the deployment of managed services for voice, data and network operations, where enterprises rely on third-parties to optimize critical systems and also assure higher performance levels. A recent industry research study found 70% of corporate executives and IT managers expressed confidence that investing in voice, data and networks operations improves efficiencies and reduces costs in order to be better prepared for an economic recovery. Our upcoming webcast will show exactly how enterprises can realize these important and timely benefits. Original Date: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Original Time: 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Qwest Register now End to virtual sprawl: How Fiserv is using automation for better control An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast Suffering from virtualization sprawl? Virtual machines can be created within minutes but management challenges can last much longer. Thats why Fiserv uses automation to gain control over their servers and network devices, both physical and virtual. Join us for this InformationWeek Webcast to learn how they: - Dramatically increased efficiency and team productivity - Automated provisioning, configuration and compliance management across physical and virtual environments - Plan to drive additional benefits through greater task and process automation Register today and learn how to gain control over your virtualized environment. All attendees will also receive a free HP ROI white paper. Original Date: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: HP Register now Out of Recession into Reconstruction: What 2010 Has in Store for Financial Institutions A Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast At this free, one-hour Webcast, moderated by Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, youll gain an insiders view into some of the key trends and developments that will be shaping the financial services industry in 2010. Get a preview into how banks will be optimizing IT budgets and where the investment will be going, as well as how new and updated regulatory requirements will be shaping banks operations and policies. Find out what it will take to drive growth while preserving capital and mitigating institutional risk and ultimately to be a competitive and profitable financial institution in 2010 and beyond. Original Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Original Time: 8:30 am PT/ 10:30 am CT/ 11:30 am ET Sponsored by: Fiserv Register now Using Logs To Investigate Cyber Threats In The Enterprise ADark Reading Webcast When security professionals suspect a security breach or infection in their enterprises, they begin an investigative process that is often complex and time-consuming. Combing through system and application logs to find clues on the source of the breach is a tedious and difficult process -- at a time when speed is of the essence. How can IT workers find the information they need to resolve these business-threatening security events -- with a minimum of delay? Featuring a series of presentations by Dark Reading editor Tim Wilson and security/forensics expert and blogger John Sawyer, this interactive 1-hour Web event sponsored by ArcSight will help you de-mystify the process of investigating potential breaches, infections, and other security events using log data. Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: ArcSight Register now Global CIO Agenda 2010: Welcome To The CIO Revolution An InformationWeek Global CIO Webcast The shifting Global economy is rapidly creating a CIO Revolution. Yes, we said Revolution. A new wave of senior IT executives are supercharging their organizations with optimized processes, lower latency, deeper customer insights, collaborative capabilities, and fresh ideas. Are you paying attention? Are you participating? In a 90-minute intense, interactive discussion moderated by InformationWeek Global CIO's Bob Evans, world-class CIOs will candidly disclose the transformational initiatives within their companies. And, they will share how they are actively connecting with business colleagues and customers to deliver unprecedented new ways of exchanging ideas, lowering costs, and co-creating immediate business value. Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Capgemini Register now Maximize Your Platform with Windows® 7 to Reduce Costs & Complexity AnInformationWeek Webcast Join us for this webcast and learn how you can quickly capitalize on the innovation of Windows 7 with a successful strategy to drive business value from this new operating system. Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Cognizant Register now 5 Keys to Driving Down Data Protection Costs While Increasing IT Service Levels: Smart Moves You Can Make Now A Network Computing Webcast Everyone is talking about controlling costs and improving productivity. In tough markets, optimizing your operations is a proven way to help weather the storm. Join us for a live, interactive 45-minute discussion to learn how other IT organizations are using the powerful combination of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and NetBackup software to dramatically improve backups and restores at a significantly lower cost. Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: ExaGrid Register now Smarter Business An InformationWeek Editorial Webcast The business world is entering a new wave of transformation, as sophisticated information technologies such as analytics, sensor-equipped networks, and Web applications make industries, processes, and professionals smarter than ever before. InformationWeek calls the trend Smarter Business, and in this live, 60-minute video Webcast presentation, well draw from interviews with leading practitioners in presenting a range of compelling use cases. This Smarter Business Webcast will feature a 15-minute presentation by Sean Hogan, vice president, Global Healthcare Delivery Systems, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences, as well as a panel discussion among InformationWeek editor in chief Rob Preston, InformationWeek editor Chris Murphy, and Intelligent Enterprise editor in chief Doug Henschen. There will be ample opportunity for questions and answers. Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Email Encryption for Enterprise Security: The Who, Why, When and How An InformationWeek Webcast Email is an indispensable corporate communication tool. And with updated HIPAA requirements due to HITECH, FINRA, and other measures, can you say with confidence your organization is compliant? One part of your compliance strategy involves encrypting sensitive information shared through email to ensure critical intellectual property doesn't end up in the wrong hands. Join this special webcast hosted by Dark Reading contributing editor Curtis Franklin and Bob Rowell, Webroot Systems Engineer for a technical discussion on how encryption can keep your organization compliant. After the presentation we will answer any questions you may have about implementing effective, affordable email security. Original Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Webroot Register now Leading Analyst to Present ROI Model of IT and End-User Collaboration An InformationWeek Webcast Forrester Researcher, Jon Erickson and General Manager and VP of Actuate Open Source Strategy Group, Rich Guth, will take an in-depth look at how a financial institution achieved tangible economic benefits by providing business users with self-service access to information. Attend and receive your complimentary copy of Forresters report, The Total Economic Impact of Actuates BIRT Product Line. Original Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now State of Information Integrity: Increasing Accuracy in Financial Analyses to Improve Decision Making A Wall Street & Technology and Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Join Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology and EMC Consulting in this editorial perspectives webcast as we share the results of the State of Information Integrity survey and hear from leading experts about ways that firms are increasing accuracy in financial analyses. Original Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: EMC Consulting Register now Smarter PC and Laptop Management with Cloud-Based BI An InformationWeek Webcast If you are managing PCs, laptops or mobile devices, cloud-based business intelligence services can make your job much easier, not to mention helping you improve data security and reduce management costs. In this 45-minute webcast, our featured guest, Chris Silva of independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., will discuss why PC managers and "Mobile Operations Managers" need to increase their ability to monitor what happens on endpoints. Original Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: MaaS360 Register now Clustering Database Applications to Lower Costs An InformationWeek Webcast Analysts are taking note of the growing importance of Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) as customers across all industries cluster their transaction processing and data warehousing applications to deliver a higher quality of service at lower cost. Join us for a conversation with Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, to learn how clustering database applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, Siebel, SAP and other applications with Oracle RAC can reduce server and storage costs, and lighten the load for your database administrators. Original Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Application Porting Considerations when Migrating from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server An InformationWeek Webcast Migrating your UNIX workloads to Linux can potentially save you a lot of money. Join us for a technical discussion about some application porting considerations, so that you can make a better, more informed platform migration decision. Original Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Novell Register now The Evolution of Performance Management and Integrated BI An Insurance & Technology and Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast Join Insurance & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology and SAP for an editorial perspectives webcast where you will gain insights into the kinds of consolidated solutions that can reduce cycle time in creating and approving budgets, enable calculated decision making by taking risk probabilities into account, and increase user productivity with minimal training. Original Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: SAP Register now The Total Economic Impact of moving to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: An overview of results from a Forrester Consulting study An InformationWeek Webcast Join Red Hat and Forrester Consulting on December 16 at 12:00 EST to learn about the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by migrating to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Hear the results of the Forrester Consulting study: The Total Economic Impact of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and learn how to prepare your own economic justification report. Original Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Red Hat Register now Portability In The Cloud An InformationWeek Editorial Webcast As more companies embrace cloud computing, IT pros have many options for applications, platforms, and infrastructure. It's critical that businesses maintain the flexibility to move data and applications among clouds and be able to switch cloud service providers if necessary. In this webcast, we will explore strategies for developing cloud environments with interoperability and portability in mind. Eli Lilly, a cloud computing pioneer, shares its experiences and approach. Original Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now True ECM: Collaborative Content and a Transactional Focus An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology senior editor Nathan Conz, youll hear from industry experts as they discuss how Enterprise Content Management systems, such as Hyland Softwares OnBase solution, can be integrated with Microsofts SharePoint software to empower agents with Web access to both collaborative and transactional content. Original Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Original Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Sponsored by: Hyland Software Register now Separating hype from reality for energy-saving UPSs Five questions to ask when selecting a new high-efficiency UPS An InformationWeek Webcast A one-megawatt data center with a 10-year-old UPS could be forfeiting $112,000 a year to energy losses. New technology enables UPSs to be 99 percent efficient, even under normal loads, without sacrificing protection. Join Eaton and InformationWeek in a Webcast to learn about new energy-saving UPSshow they work, the compelling business case for replacing legacy UPSs, and what makes the latest generation of energy-saving systems different from conventional "eco-mode" UPSs. Original Date: Thursday, December 2, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ETET Sponsored by: Eaton Register now Financial Services in 2010 - Top Business and Technology Trends An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast Join this webcast to learn how open source technologies like BIRT can be used to remain current with these trends by incorporating new functionality into online banking, wealth management and cash and treasury management applications without incurring the technology overhead of starting from the ground up. Attend and receive a complimentary copy of this report, "How RIA Technologies Enable Business Banking Client Relationships". Original Date: Thursday, December 03, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now Composite Applications: Increasing Efficiency, Reducing Costs An InformationWeek Webcast Application development shops often find themselves in a no-win position. The business wants new applications ASAP but also demands that existing systems remain stable and well maintained. Join ASG Senior Director of Product Management Ian Rowlands and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Principal Analyst Jeffrey S. Hammond, as they discuss development best practices, tools and technologies that resource-constrained development shops are using to evolve their existing application portfolio into dynamic business applications. Original Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Original Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET Sponsored by: ASG Register now Solving the Complete 360 Customer View Problem A Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Join Bank Systems & Technology and Siperian for a free, one-hour webcast to find out how you can solve the Complete 360 Customer View problem in your organization to better serve customers, improve financial results, and differentiate from the competition. Original Date: Tuesday., November 17, 2009 Original Time: 9AM PT/12:00 AM ET Sponsored by: Siperian Register now Improving Licensing and Compliance Processes Through Outsourcing An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Join Insurance & Technology and Kaplan Compliance to learn about such timely topics as operational standards that mitigate the risks of compliance outsourcing, choosing the right vendor for compliance outsourcing and crafting a long-term plan for increasing the accuracy and efficiency of compliance processes. Original Date: Tuesday., November 17, 2009 Original Time: 9AM PT/12:00 AM ET Sponsored by: Kaplan Compliance Register now The Informed CIO - State of Disaster Recovery An InformationWeek Webcast During this webcast event, InformationWeek Business Editor, Andrew Conry-Murray will discuss the landscape of IT disaster preparedness within organizations today, what methods are used and how users can improve preparedness within their own organizations. Discussion highlights include: - Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst - Planning for Recovery, Not for Disaster - Backup and Storage Strategies/Tactics Don't miss this webcast! Register Today! Original Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Symantec Register now The Sun Oracle Database Machine - The First OLTP Database Machine An InformationWeekWebcast Oracle Exadata V1 transformed the data warehousing industry by providing 10 times better performance. Now, with the introduction of Exadata V2, Oracle is building on that success to deliver even faster performance for Data Warehousing while adding support for OLTP workloads on the same machine. The Sun Oracle Database machine provides extreme performance for OLTP workloads by using flash memory to run up to a million I/O operations per second. It also introduces new technologies for compression that allow 10 times more data to be stored at the same cost. The Sun Oracle Database Machine is the fastest and most economical platform for both Data Warehousing and OLTP. Don't miss this webcast! Register Today! Original Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Pandemic Planning and Telework: Best Practices for Turning Office Workers into Home Workers An InformationWeekWebcast If the H1N1 pandemic strikes, can you turn office-bound employees into teleworkers and keep key business processes running? This webcast looks at best practices for implementing telework, both as a strategic program, and as a rapid response to emergencies. Theresa Noll, Senior Telework Program Analyst, U.S. General Services Administration, will discuss how the GSA dramatically boosted participation in its telework program, and key policies for strong telework initiatives. Jon Friedman, Director of Marketing at MaaS360, will examine best practices for turning office workers into home workers in a crisis, including planning, security, and "work at home day" tests. Original Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: MaaS360 Register now Protecting PII (Personally Identifiable Information): What Data is at Risk and Why An InformationWeekWebcast Hosted by Graham Cluley and featuring live Q&A, this interactive 1-hour Web event sponsored by Sophos will help you de-mystify PII and outline policies for protecting Don't miss this webcast! Register Today! Original Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sophos Register now Global Document Automation: Worldwide and Centrally Managed An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Join Insurance & Technology and EMC Document Sciences and hear from industry experts on a possible shift in the industry towards globally deployed document automation solutions and learn how to identify what type of customer communication platform will fulfill global requirements that could benefit your company. Original Date: Friday, November 20, 2009 Original Time: 9AM PT/12:00 AM ET Sponsored by: EMC Document Sciences Register now Applying Business Analytics to AML Compliance A Bank Systems & Technology & Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast At this free, one-hour Webcast, moderated by Bank Systems & Technologys Editorial Director, Kathy Burger, you will learn how to combine legacy fraud-fighting tools with advanced analytics and adaptive optimization in order to gain ground in AML compliance. Hear how analytics are helping financial institutions learn from complex data patterns, use sophisticated decision models to better manage false positives, create an enterprisewide view of customer relationships and risks, and reduce the costs of complying with regulatory expectations. Original Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Original Time: 8AM PT/11:00 AM ET Sponsored by: SAS Register now Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality An InformationWeekWebcast Move to the next level of IT service delivery and get end-to-end visibility of your IT Service - so you can predict performance issues before they happen - ensuring better service quality and efficiency. Join CA Service Assurance Management experts in this 1-hour live technical webcast, Thursday, November 12, 2009 , as we discuss how organizations are implementing Lean IT principles to improve overall IT service quality, IT predictability and IT efficiency. Original Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: CA Register now Safety in the Network Neighborhood: Protecting Enterprise Assets from Social Networking Threats An InformationWeekWebcast Of all the network security threats, one of the most challenging to secure against is malware attacks originating from social networking sites, particularly as organizations begin to use social networking and other Web 2.0 sites for business purposes. Organizations must now reconcile how to enforce Web 2.0 acceptable use policies for their users with the need to secure users from the growing number of web based malware threats. This becomes increasingly difficult as the workforce grows more mobile and users begin to use company issued laptops to access the Internet and other internal networks from home and other remote locations. Join this informative Webinar hosted by Dark Reading contributing editor Curtis Franklin and Brian Czarny, VP of Solutions Marketing for Webroot as they discuss the trends, impact and methods to solve this growing problem. Original Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Webroot Register now Operational Business Intelligence and the Place for SaaS An InformationWeek and Intelligent Enterprise Webcast For years now, organizations have been trying to spread business intelligence tools to more users, improve business planning, monitor key performance metrics and share insights with key executives. There has been progress as firms have adopted companywide standards. But the complexity, expense and delays of conventional software deployments can still be roadblocks to broad and effective use of BI. Take aways from this webcast: When and why companies are choosing SaaS-based BI, either as a supplement or an alternative to conventional BI software. The tradeoffs between application-specific offerings and broad, horizontal capabilities. Best practices and lessons learned from frontline users of SaaS-based BI. Ways to assess BI maturity and preparedness for conventional and SaaS-based deployments tools Don't miss this webcast! Register Today! Original Date: Thursday, November 05, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: myDIALS Register now Using security indicators to help increase consumer confidence An InformationWeek and Intelligent Enterprise Webcast Join Ryan White, product marketing manager for SSL from VeriSign, to learn how to optimize your companys Web site for increased customer confidence with Extended Validation (EV) SSL. In this webcast, you will: - Learn how EV SSL works and why consumers respond so favorably to it - See why EV SSL is chosen by top companies and smaller businesses alike - Be shown what EV SSL does in a variety of browsers including handheld devices Don't miss this webcast! Register Today! Original Date: Thursday, November 05, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: VeriSign Register now The Application Grid Approach to a Modern Data Center An InformationWeek Custom EditorialWebcast Come learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware products including Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle Coherence and Oracle Enterprise Manager have evolved to guide your existing data center along the road toward true agility. Respond instantly to changing business needs. React with precision and confidence with a truly flexible, adaptable architecture. What attendees will learn: - What's new with application grid products that form the foundation of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. - They will discover new offerings that dramatically automate the process of adding, reducing or modifying existing IT deployments in support of highly scalable systems. Don't miss this webcast! Register Today! Original Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Anytime, Anywhere Banking: The Online Customer Experience Still Matters A Bank Systems & Technology Webcast Attend this live webcast to learn: -How banks can improve the customer experience both on the Web and via mobile channels -Why your online banking enhancements are getting different reactions from customers than your competitor's enhancements -Why your SMS alerts aren't getting to customers at the same speed as your competitors -How to monitor the performance and availability of your Internet site and mobile content and applications -Which of your competitor's online enhancement to emulate and which to ignore This is a webcast not to be missed! Original Date: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET Sponsored by: Keynote Systems Register now Policy, Billing and Claims in the Cloud: Opting for SaaS An Insurance & Technology I> Webcast Pondering whether Software-as-a-Service is ready for core systems? Learn about the business drivers, trade-offs and benefits. Join us to hear Novarica analyst Chad Hersh speak on insurance SaaS implementation and our featured speaker, Mike Anselmo, CIO, Narragansett Bay Insurance Company, discuss the decision-making process that led NBIC to trade in-house core systems administration to gain substantial operational, financial and technological benefits. Original Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Exigen Insurance Solutions Register now An Integrated Approach to Fighting Financial Crime: Leveraging Investments in Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Solutions A Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In "An Integrated Approach to Fighting Financial Crime: Leveraging Investments in Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Solutions," a free one-hour Webcast moderated by Kathy Burger, Editorial Director of Bank Systems & Technology, our panel of experts will share perspectives, ideas, and actionable steps to help optimize your institution's approach to financial crime and compliance management, achieve a more unified view of financial crime and risks across the enterprise, and realize the synergies and ROI to be gained from addressing AML compliance and fraud prevention in tandem. Original Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Original Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Content-Based Access Management A new breed of Identity and Access Management (IAM) An InformationWeekWebcast What if you could: - Better protect your company's IP and customer information from being stolen while also improving revenue and customer satisfaction? - Double your audit success rate? - Reduce the cost of compliance by up to 50%? Today's security professionals try to achieve goals like these while facing many challenges, including managing and controlling the integrity and safety of data while at the same time ensuring compliance. Identity and Access Management (IAM) historically has been about knowing who your users are and then giving them access to data. What then happened with that access, however, was a mystery. Merely understanding identities is no longer enough. Don't miss this webcast! Original Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: CA Register now Lessons From the "2009 Data Breach Investigations Report" An Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast At this educational webcast, learn about the critical trends in data theft and proven strategies for increasing your company's data-level security against modern cybercriminals. Chris Novak of Verizon Business Systems will share data security insights from nearly 600 breaches involving more than a half-billion compromised records from 2004 to 2008. **25 Live Attendees will win a copy of the book, "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g!" Don't miss this webcast! Original Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Guardium Register now Architect Your Web Conferencing for Organizational Success An InformationWeek Webcast Join Frank Rogers, SVP of Business Development at Intesolv, an Adobe Gold Partner and leading authority on the subject of web conferencing implementation, to learn how you can fit web conferencing into your technology infrastructure and give your organization a competitive advantage. You will also discover the benefits of Adobes Acrobat Connect Pro web conferencing to provide business and IT leaders with a solution they can easily use immediately, including several case studies. **All attendees will have the opportunity to take away a whitepaper Embedded Web Conferencing by Adobe Systems Incorporated** Original Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Adobe Register now Achieve Business Agility: Maximizing Business Results with Highly Agile, Interconnected Processes An InformationWeek EditorialWebcast Highly agile processes are the key to successfully navigating choppy economic waters and the rapidly changing global and economic landscape. A network that enables the right response at the right time can mean that critical edge over the competition. But the rigid, siloed environments at many companies form a barrier to timely action, while limited budgets mean fewer dollars to spend on a solution. Join us for a 60-minute webcast featuring renowned author and business thought-leader Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp., and Craig Hayman, General Manager of WebSphere within IBM Software Group. Don't miss this webcast! Original Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 OriginalTime: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Remote Access and Virtual Networking for SMBs A bMighty Webcast Join us for a bMighty webcast that will discuss how LogMeIn helps small businesses and the IT providers who support them provide secure, remote access, computer management, and virtual networking capabilities to Internet-connected computers located around the world, and how Central enables the anytime, anywhere productivity they need to compete in today's mobile and cost-conscious environment. Original Date: Wednesday October 14, 2009 OriginalTime: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: LogMeIn Register now How to Create Your Cloud Computing Action Plan A bMighty Webcast IT departments are discovering cloud computing as a key method to reduce IT costs, and free up time and budget for innovation. Join Phil Wainewright - an authority on emerging IT trends and cloud computing, together with a group of IT leaders who took their business software to the cloud. Phil will discuss the latest trends in cloud computing, best practices and pitfalls to avoid, and you'll get hands on advice from 2 IT leaders who made the switch and most importantly, what they gained from making the move. Original Date: Wednesday October 14, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: NetSuite Register now eDiscovery for IT (Can you please repeat that in English?):Understanding Legals IT Requirements A TechNetWebcast In this webinar eDiscovery expert Mark Diamond will discuss what Legal need from each other IT and how this at-times contentious relationship between Legal and IT can be made to work. It will include a review on how responsibilities should be divided between Legal and IT, what IT needs from Legal to do its job, and potential pitfalls to avoid. Original Date: Wednesday October 14, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Mimosa Register now Are Your Laptops Secure? Be Confident! Simplifying PC Management and Security: Research and Examples A bMightyWebcast Most midsize businesses spend countless hours applying software patches and managing endpoint security applications, but still don't know if their information is really secure. How can you simplify management of laptops and PCs and be confident that your data is protected? In this 45-minute webcast, our featured guest, Jonathan Penn of independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc., will discuss why IT managers at midsize businesses are looking to automate PC management and begin using hosted services. Original Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Fiberlink Register now Future of Online Interaction: The Emotional Experience and BIRT An InformationWeekWebcast Join our featured guest, Forrester Principal Analyst Ron Rogowski, as he examines the future of online user experience. Seema Haji, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Actuate, will discuss the latest RIA technologies and strategies that will help you get ahead of these trends regardless of your industry. Original Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now A Core Capability: The Case for Underwriting Technology An Insurance & TechnologyWebcast Join our featured guest, Forrester Principal Analyst Ron Rogowski, as he examines the future of online user experience. Seema Haji, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Actuate, will discuss the latest RIA technologies and strategies that will help you get ahead of these trends regardless of your industry. Original Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET Sponsored by: MajescoMastek Register now How the cloud makes wireless LAN easier and more affordable for branches and multi-site organization An InformationWeekWebcast Join us for this webinar, learn more about Meraki's award-winning cloud-based approach, and how the nation's 8th largest architecture firm, ZGF Architects, deployed Meraki for an 802.11n wireless network across their five offices, and is thrilled with the results. Original Date: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Meraki Register now BIRT: Enhance Corporate Banking while Reducing Costs with Open Source A Financial Technology NetworkWebcast Seema Haji, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Actuate, will discuss how to address these trends with customer-centric online applications and why open-source products like BIRT are gaining acceptance as alternatives to building these applications 100% from the ground up. Original Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now Extending the Reach, Impact and ROI of Mobile Banking and Transaction Services An InformationWeek kWebcast Come join us for an in-depth and timely look at the emerging mobile transactions market. We will explore how to leverage all modes of mobile interaction, discuss strategies that drive user adoption, deliver value services to customers, decrease costs, and meet key ROI objectives Original Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009 Original Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Sponsored by: Verisign Register now How IT Leaders Are Capturing Missed Savings An InformationWeekWebcast According to Hackett, three in four companies have failed to drive enough SG&A reductions to offset declining revenues. Facing increased pressure for cost reductions, IT leaders from companies like Whirlpool, Kimberly-Clark and Hertz are responding by gaining control over project expenditures-a large but largely undermanaged area of spending. Find out how these leaders are driving millions in savings each year by more aggressively managing these purchases. Original Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: ICG Commerce Register now Creating the Optimized Insurer Through Analytics An Insurance & Technology Webcast In this one-hour webcast, learn how data-rich but information-poor companies can become insight-rich through a holistic data analytics strategy to drive: * Claims optimization * Customer optimization * Channel and product optimization * Risk and compliance Original Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: SAS Register now An Executive Primer on Cutting Costs with Third-Party Software Support An InformationWeekWebcast In this free, 45-minute webcast, a panel of experts will discuss the current state of enterprise software support and examine the new third-party support model in detail, including: - Definition of third-party support and how it works - Comparison of third-party support with traditional software vendor support - How to separate and optimize strategic vs. commodity applications - The business case for third-party support vs. vendor support - How to assess whether third-party support is a fit with your IT strategy After this informative webcast, you will have the data you need to respond to questions from your Board and/or CEO whether the 50%+ cost savings of third-party support is an option for your organization's IT strategy and budget planning. Register for the Webcast and learn your options! **Register for this free webcast and receive your complimentary copy of the "Seven Reasons Why Software Licensees Choose Third-Party Support" white paper.** Original Date: Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Original Time: 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET Sponsored by: Rimini Street Register now Agile in the Enterprise -.NET Development & Beyond A MSDN Webcast Join us for the second webinar in this series, as InnerWorkings hosts emergn for an open and in-depth discussion that will cover the following topics: Challenges facing enterprise software organizations today Limitations of traditional approaches to software development Tangible value of adopting Agile for your organization Roadmap to Agile adoption and greater development efficiencies You'll also learn how one Fortune 50 company began their Agile journey and embarked on a substantial initiative to align their development efforts with real business value. Original Date: Thursday October 8, 2009 Original Time: 11 am pt/2 pm et Sponsored by: InnerWorkings Register now Business Analytics and Data Optimization Turning data into information and action for a smarter planet An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast Organizations are experiencing higher costs and complexity from an explosion in the amount of data that's available to them. At the same time, they're facing a fundamentally changed environment with increased demands for informed decisions to be made quickly and accurately. Too few organizations are able to meet this challenge today. Join us for a webcast during which we will explore how business analytics and optimization can help you meet the challenges you face, including: * Simplification of underlying data * Reducing complexity in analytics *Reducing the costs of your existing analytics ecosystem We look forward to your participation in this webcast. Original Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Fueling Growth and Driving Product Innovation in Dynamic Market Conditions An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast During this one-hour webcast, our speakers will explore: * Best practices for aligning business and IT objectives when making policy administration investments, including critical success factors and common pitfalls to avoid * Ease of using modern, rules-based policy administration systems to create innovative and often complex products for specific market segments and accelerate product development cycles * How to respond to market or regulatory changes by leveraging your policy administration system to reconfigure or "clone" existing products for true business agility * Examples of how insurers are achieving dramatic improvements in speed-to-market and competitive advantage to sustain and fuel growth, while reducing overall total cost of ownership Original Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Legacy IT Modernization Practical Reality An InformationWeek Webcast Join BluePhoenix for a one-hour webcast and learn how legacy IT modernization can bring true value to organizations that are looking to balance near-term budget reductions with the need to building a foundation for long-term business growth. Original Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: BluePhoenix Register now ITIL Gain without the Pain: A Pragmatic Approach to ITIL Best Practices An InformationWeekWebcast Join leading analyst firm EMA and KACE in this hour long webcast to learn how a practical, targeted implementation of ITIL best practices can quickly and cost-effectively deliver the benefits of ITIL to your organization. After this webinar you will understand the most important components of ITIL and how to immediately act on those areas that can offer the greatest near term return, including: - Implementation of accurate, enforceable policy-based configuration management - Reduction of problem resolution times and improved efficiencies through accurate inventory and native, integrated help desk capabilities - Transformation of a reactive operation to the pro-active delivery of IT services Youll also learn about the unique KACE appliance-based approach to systems management, and how new KBOX Help Desk enhancements enable organizations to take pragmatic steps toward implementation of ITIL best practices. Register and attend this valuable webinar to gain the benefits of ITIL without the cost and complexity. Original Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: KACE Register now CA Automation - A technical examination of CA's Process Automation capabilities An InformationWeekWebcast This webcast is a technical presentation for those participants that want to know a bit more about the "why, what and how" of CAs Process Automation capability. This session is intended to be more than an introduction to process automation; we expect that attendees will have some awareness of data center automation issues, opportunities and a basic understanding of process automation. Our efforts will focus on what the product capability does and how customers can leverage this capability to integrate, automate and accelerate the business of IT. We will examine elements of Process Automation's value proposition, explain the elements of a use case example and take a look under the covers at 15 of the top features of the process automation tool set. We will then present a concise demo of the process automation product and close with a brief Q&A. Original Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: CA Register now Optimize Application Quality through Software Quality Transformation An InformationWeekWebcast Successful application software quality initiatives also require a mechanism that feeds and integrates best practices spanning multiple disciplines to the QA organization on a continuous basis. Attend this webinar and learn how: To achieve consistent quality that is benchmarked against best-in-class organizations To ensure predictability in quality, cost and schedule To build an innovation-centric organization driving optimization across all touch points and critical functions To build quality into -- rather than wrapping it around -- the application. Original Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Cognizant Register now Creating a Straight-Through Environment in the Transaction Processing Space A Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast To hear how your financial institution can benefit from the efficiencies of an STP-based transaction infrastructure, join Bank Systems & Technology for Creating a Straight-Through Environment in the Transaction Processing Space, a free, one hour webcast in which you will: * Receive a picture of the current state of payments and reconciliations. * Understand the ways in which to eliminate manual processes in your operations. * Learn about advances in technologies that can help your bank achieve greater STP in the transaction lifecycle. Original Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: SmartStream Register now Wealth Management - An Integrated Desktop Workflow A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast Join Wall Street & Technology for a live webinar and hear how one leading financial institution rolled out an integrated advisor desktop and how the tool is helping its advisors better acquire, manage and serve their clients. Original Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: NexJ Systems Register now Winning Strategies for Successful SharePoint Backup & Recovery A TechNetWebcast In this session, we will discuss the key components of any successful SharePoint backup & recovery and disaster recovery plan. After analyzing SharePoint's native data and platform protection capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully protected SharePoint platform. Original Date: Tuesday September 15, 2009 Original Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Sponsored by: AvePoint Register now 802.11n Ratification: Burton Group and Wi-Fi Alliance Discuss Facts and Practical Implications A Network Computing and Dark Reading Webcast Join one of IT's leading analyst firms Burton Group together with the Wi-Fi Alliance for an educational web seminar to discuss how the impending ratification of the 802.11n standard will affect enterprise IT. During this highly educational web seminar, the presenters will share results from their extensive technology research and industry efforts. They will share specific recommendations on how to incorporate this major technology advancement in your IT strategy, regardless of the extent wireless LAN technology is part of your current plans. Original Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Aruba Networks Register now Optimize Business Performance by Building a Smarter Enterprise An InformationWeekWebcast On Wednesday, September 16th, James Surowiecki, world-renowned business strategist and author of the best-selling book The Wisdom of Crowds, and Jon Iwata, Chief Marketing Officer at IBM, will lead a live videocast to help your organization take advantage of the way work is evolving in order to become a smarter, more agile enterprise. Don't miss this webcast, register NOW! Original Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Ensuring Continuous Availability from the Data Center to the Point of Care A bMigthyWebcast This Webcast will examine the impact of these revolutionary technologies on data centers and network closets across the healthcare industry and strategies for ensuring the continuous availability of life-critical information and equipment. Join Dan Draper, Healthcare Industry Marketing Manager for the Liebert Products and Services business of Emerson Network Power, to discover: -The top IT infrastructure challenges faced by ambulatory care, hospital facilities, computer networks and data centers -Strategies for ensuring continuous availability of life-critical healthcare technologies including electronic medical records, digital imaging, RFID systems, and others -Techniques for effectively managing the complex infrastructures associated with advanced IT systems Don't miss this webcast, register NOW! Original Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Original Time: 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Emerson Network Power Register now How HealthNow New York Drives Profitability and Operational Efficiencies with BIRT Performance Scorecard An InformationWeekWebcast In this webcast, HealthNow New York will share tips and tricks on how building an effective dashboard using BIRT Performance Scorecard helped clearly and rapidly communicate relevant and personalized key metrics to each viewer. The resulting high user adoption delivered unmatched performance insight, improved efficiencies, and profitability. Register and Attend this web seminar to receive a complimentary copy of the HealthNow New York Case Study! Original Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now Putting your Telework Policy in Motion: Selecting the Right Enabling Technologies A InformationWeek Government Webcast This webcast is focused on how federal, state and local government organizations can develop a strategy to support telework programs and initiatives. At this informative webcast, attendees will hear from industry experts on government telework initiatives as well as an update on recommended technologies that enable trusted telework connectivity to help solve telework road blocks. Original Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sprint with Cisco Register now Web Attacks: How Hackers Create and Spread Malware A Dark Reading Webcast Join this live one-hour webcast featuring web security expert Chris McCormack, and principal researcher Fraser Howard from Sophos to learn how web threats are created and spread -- and the impact they have on your business. Attend this live webcast and complete the survey to receive a free T-shirt! Original Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sophos Register now Accelerating Business Optimization through Workload-Optimized Analytics Systems An InformationWeek Webcast Companies face nearly constant change. Whether the change is driven by consumer preferences and demands, government requirements, global competition, new potential opportunities, or one of many possible factors, a quick response driven by solid intelligence can give a company a critical edge. Join InformationWeek and IBM for a one-hour Webcast that explores: - The importance of analytics in optimizing business results - Why companies struggle to meet their current analytic and information needs - The importance of flexibility in a high-performance analytics infrastructure - Growing time-to-value pressure - The role of emerging pre-integrated, workload-optimized analytic systems that combine hardware, software, and services to meet the need for rapid, flexible analytics Original Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now FutureAPM: Its All About Online Transactions An InformationWeek Webcast If you are responsible for application performance management, your future is certain. The scale of your infrastructure will get bigger, the scope your business services and online applications will get more complex, and speed of change will be faster. As this certainty evolves, managing application performance inside your firewall or in the cloud is all about managing transaction performance. Transactions are your anchors, linking IT to the business and customers to your infrastructure. Join CA Wily VP of Product Management Rick Fitz to hear about effective strategies for FutureAPM Original Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: CA Wily Register now Secure Web Conferencing by Adobe An InformationWeek Webcast Join Adobe web conferencing expert James Lockman to learn how to ensure your web conferencing solution is secure. You will gain insights on security importance, control and compliance features and what to consider when implementing secure web conferencing. This presentation also showcases the unique security features of Adobe® Acrobat® Connect Pro web conferencing. You will be able to take away an Adobe case study on how the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) of the U.S. Department of Defense uses secure web conferencing. Original Date: Friday, August 14, 2009 Original Time: 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT Sponsored by: Adobe Register now Collaborative Straight Through Processing for Insurance An Insurance & Technology Webcast Microsoft technologies demonstrated in this session include, but are not limited to, Silverlight, .NET, Office, SQL Server, PerformancePoint, BizTalk, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Azure. Additionally, Microsoft will also show how rich business documents like Policies and Illustrations can be created through a centralized server-side process, but managed by business people through Office tools. Original Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Microsoft Register now Content Management as a Customer Service Optimization Tool A Insurance & TechnologyEditorial Perspectives Webcast At this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology's Senior Editor, Nathan Conz, youll hear from industry experts on how to leverage the capabilities that an end-to-end content management solutions can provide -- scanning, imaging, document management and workflow automation -- to give your claims department the ability to streamline its core processes and easily store, access and retrieve information, leading to better cycle times and more satisfied customers. Original Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Interactive Intelligence Register now Leveraging SOA for Agile Enterprise CommunicationsAn Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this one-hour webcast, our panelists will discuss how the business agility promise of SOA can translate into communications agility through the use of dynamic content publishing. Topics of discussion include: * A look into current research on insurers' SOA progress * The architecture of applications and content management agility * Data management prerequisites for ECM * The implementation of dynamic content publishing for Web-based document fulfillment and high-volume batch generation Original Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: EMC Document Sciences Register now Business Objectives driven SAP Application Management Services An InformationWeek Vendor Perspective Webcast Join Patni Computer Systems and featured guest speakers from Forrester Research and The Mosaic Company for a Live Webinar on "Business Objectives-driven SAP Application Management Services" and learn how it can be designed to create an agile & responsive service delivery platform and drive application spend reduction. Also, listen to a compelling real-life account demonstrating how Mosaic, the worlds leading producer of Phosphate and Potash products, drives IT and business alignment leveraging a business objective-driven AMS model. Don't miss this webcast! Original Date: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ETT Sponsored by: Patni Register now Real-Time Goes Prime Time:Seize the Moment with Event Processing An Intelligent Enterprise Webcast Join Intelligent Enterprise editor, Doug Henschen, and Progress Apama Event Processing expert, David Olson, as they present a one-hour webcast that takes an up-close look at what it takes to begin managing your business in real-time, responding and taking advantage of events as they happen. Original Date: Thursday, August 06, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Progress Software Register now Transforming QA From Gatekeepers to Quality Partners An InformationWeek Vendor Perspective Webcast Many organizations have traditionally considered Business, IT and QA independent entities. This created organizational silos, with QA serving IT and IT serving Business. The result: Business complains about ever increasing IT costs; IT argues that QA is the culprit, since this group adds minimal value and drains resources. Industry gurus have consistently advocated the need for synergy between Business, IT and QA -- especially during tough times. They maintain that greater business value can be gained when these organizations work more closely together. By establishing the right enterprise IT strategy, and blending QA smoothly within IT, many of the operational gaps begin to disappear. Attend this Webinar and learn: - Ways to assess the current maturity level of your QA organization - How to arrive at desired levels of maturity and function to establish QA synergy with IT and Business - Outsourcing models that can help your organization transition from current maturity levels to desired levels Original Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Cognizant Register now In Any Communications Saga, "Chapter 11" is Never the Best Part of the Story Let us help you plan the next chapter in your Nortel story An InformationWeek Webcast In this InformationWeek webcast, sponsored by Interactive Intelligence, youll have the opportunity to hear from Steve Leaden, president of Leaden Associates, a leading telecom engagement consultant who has deep experience working with Nortel deployments. Steve is also an author who has recently published an in-depth article outlining the best way to build a Nortel contingency plan. Steve will be joined on the webcast by Brad Herrington, Manager, Solutions Marketing at Interactive Intelligence Inc., who will discuss options for moving forward in the current environment. Original Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Interactive Intelligence Register now Improved Data Quality: The Ultimate Efficiency An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspective Webcast At this free, one-hour web seminar moderated by Insurance & Technology's Senior Editor, Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts on how to leverage data verification and data quality software solutions to ensure that your efficiency initiatives reach their full potential. Original Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Experian QAS Register now Connected Decisions: How a Holistic Approach to Decision Making Can Help Insurers Build a Profitable Book of Business An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspective Webcast At this free, one-hour Webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, you will hear how to improve the new business process and drive growth by bringing enhanced decision-making capabilities up to frontline functions, particularly the point of sale. Learn how a Connected Decisions approach of sharing data, analytics and intelligence across the new business cycle produces better decisions, more accurate pricing, improved speed to market, enhanced profitability and increased precision that enables insurers to build and price coverage in ways that expand the range of risks they are willing to write. Original Date: Thursday, July 09, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: FICO Register now Build a Dynamic Data Center: Optimize your Approach to Virtualization An InformationWeek Vendor Perspective Webcast Businesses need to keep IT expenditures down while continuing to provide high quality service. Virtualization offers a low cost way to improve systems management, enable availability of resources, and uphold business continuity without increasing IT overhead. Machine virtualization is established as a mainstream technology in most data centers today. Many organizations are now considering how best to advance to a more mature use of integrated, virtual technologies. During the webinar you'll learn how to create a complete strategic plan and roadmap for virtualization that enables you to: - Align virtualization technologies with business needs and IT vision - Move beyond machine virtualization to a more mature use of integrated virtual technologies - Optimize the capabilities of your virtualized resources to maximize ROI - Make virtualization the foundation for a dynamic data center in the 21st century Original Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Cognizant Register now Modernize your Development by Moving Build and Code Quality Upstream A Dr. Dobbs Vendor Perspective Webcast Moderated by Jon Erickson, Editor-in-Chief of Dr. Dobb's Journal, this interactive panel discussion brings industry experts Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud and Gwyn Fisher, CTO of Klocwork together for a candid discussion of the cost savings, productivity and quality benefits that can be achieved by stabilizing builds and code quality as early in the development cycle as possible. The reality of today's development environment - geographically distributed teams, the use of Agile development practices, increasing application complexity, etc. - is straining the viability of the traditional coding, build and release process. To stay ahead of the curve, development teams are modernizing their approach to dealing with these issues, and as a result are achieving new levels of development productivity. Original Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Electric Cloud & Klocwork Register now A Dark Reading Vendor Perspective Webcast Join Steve Smith and Randy Rosenbaum of Alert Logic as they discuss how you can cut your operational and technology costs in half by deploying a Cloud-based PCI compliance solution for requirements 10 and 11. In this webinar, you will learn how Cloud-based solutions for Log Management, Intrusion Detection, and Vulnerability Scanning provides the following benefits: - Deploy in hours or days instead of weeks or months - Reduce the amount of time your team spends on PCI compliance - Eliminate software, hardware, and maintenance costs Original Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Alert Logic Register now Surviving & Thriving in 2009: Driving Cost and Productivity Optimization in Large Scale Virtualization An InformationWeek Vendor Perspective Webcast To help you cross the chasm between ideation and implementation, InformationWeek and Wipro invite you to join our interactive Webcast session on simplifying large scale virtualization projects. You will hear first-hand accounts on how improving optimization is a realistic operational target that is being delivered today in large enterprise environments. Attendees will also have the opportunity to have their questions answered LIVE during our interactive Q&A session! We hope you can attend!! Original Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Original Time: 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 3:30 PM GMT / 6:30 PM AST / 7:30 PM GST Sponsored by: Wipro Register now Surviving and Thriving 2009: How Banks Can Deliver More with Less A Bank Systems & Technology and Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In the current unsettled financial services environment, its more critical than ever for banks to be able to optimize the performance of their IT organizations. Many financial institutions continue to be hobbled by disparate legacy systems and fragmented, siloed organizations. These severely restrict opportunities to maximize resources and collaborate, while also increasing operating costs, create inefficiencies and ultimately hampers compliance, risk management, and customer service efforts. Join us for this one-hour Webcast, moderated by Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, and you will gain insights into how competitive banking organizations can transform their IT organizations into efficient high-performance entities, away from the traditional inflexible cost centers. Original Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Wipro Register now Automating for Efficiency: How Enterprises Can Drive Latency and Human Error out of Business Processes An InformationWeek Webcast In these competitive times, a keen focus on efficiency is the mantra. And many believe that Business Process Automation (BPA) is the means to that end. But with the economy still uneven, is process automation even on ITs radar? Apparently so, according to a recent survey by IDG Research Services, which found that Business Process Automation is an IT priority right now! Some of the findings in the broad survey of IT executives show: * More than 2/3 of respondents are automating most or many of their core business processes, and another 21% are moving towards this goal * 87% consider BPA to be a critical or important IT priority * 87% see a connection between unified communications and process automation, and more than one-third envision communication technology being incorporated into process automation applications **All web cast attendees will receive a copy of the white paper researched and produced by CXO Media, CIO Custom Solutions Group titled, "Automating for Efficiency: Enterprises drive latency and human error out of business processes with communications as the foundation to automation." Original Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Interactive Intelligence Register now The New Compliance Mandate: Enterprise-Wide Transparency A Financial Technology Network Editorial Perspective Webcast Following the credit crisis, regulators and investors are calling for greater transparency from all financial services organizations. But there seems to be a number of misconceptions about how automated compliance processes, such as e-discovery and auto-classification, can assist financial firms with their transparency and compliance requirements. In fact, some have even created a false controversy by questioning the legality of automation in support of compliance. Given the increasing burden of compliance, how can firms automate certain processes and get the most out of their existing content management architecture to meet increasing compliance demands? Key topics to be discussed: * Understanding and navigating new regulatory and legal standards * Leveraging enterprise content management architectures for compliance and transparency * Using metadata and text mining for classification Original Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Surviving & Thriving in 2009: Gaining Control of Your Applications for Optimized Business Value An InformationWeek Webcast Join InformationWeek, Sony Electronics, and Wipro for an insightful discussion aimed to provide practical guidance for establishing a proactive application management solution. Attendees will hear first-hand from Drew Martin how Sony Electonics is managing applications for an enhanced end-user experience. Our panel discussion will also focus on how to seamlessly align applications with business processes to give companies greater visibility into the customer experience and changing market conditions. Original Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Wipro Register now Analytics-Driven Fraud Detection: A Paradigm For Our Times An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspective Webcast To face todays challenges, insurers need to adopt a new paradigm of fraud detection and management based on predictive analytics to efficiently and proactively detect fraud without sacrificing best practices for fraud investigation workflow and case management. In this one-hour webcast, learn how analytics-based fraud detection enables:* Dynamic recognition of emerging fraud practices * More timely and precise identification of aberrant behavior (claimants, providers, employers) * Reliable detection of fraud prior to claim payment, avoiding the "pay and chase" cycle * Lower maintenance costs for any line of business * Adjustment of fraud thresholds to limits of staff capacity * Focus of limited investigative resources on cases most likely to be fraudulent Original Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: FICO Register now SharePoint and Compliance Regulations- The Rules and How to Avoid Violating Them A TechNet Webcast Though Microsoft SharePoint has empowered organizations to realize unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency, its adoption also presents distinct compliance related challenges. This presentation will first briefly review the general principles underlying today's regulatory and legal environment, then identify best practices for translating these principles into robust, efficient, and cost-effective SharePoint compliance strategies. Original Date: Monday June 15, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: AvePoint Register now Breaking the Bank - Online Fraud Detection and Prevention A Dark Reading Webcast This WebCast will explore fundamental fraud concepts relating to e-Commerce, including banking, online wealth management and healthcare. We will take an in-depth look at the most prevalent threats for the coming years as well as advanced detection mechanisms. This topic is relevant to not only e-Banking, but to any organization where transactions can take place through an online system. This includes both internal employees as well as the external customers accessing systems through web portals. During these tough economic times, it is more important than ever to protect the business. Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: ArcSight Register now Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Standard Reporting in Financial Services An Insurance & Technology and Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Webcast Financial services organizations everywhere face increased pressure to improve their operations from multiple directions. Risk and compliance requirements, government intervention, a growing amount of data, and an increasing need to be customer-oriented are forcing financial services firms to do more with less. To achieve these goals, savvy financial institutions are starting to employ next-generation business intelligence (BI) solutions. However, the road to becoming agile, customer service-oriented businesses is a challenging one. To see how your company can better navigate this path, join Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology for the free, one-hour webcast "Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Standard Reporting in Financial Services." . Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: SAP Register now SMBs: Get More with Less with Dynamic, Flexible IT Cooling A bMighty Webcast This Webcast will examine cost-effective strategies for cooling network closets, IT rooms and small and midsized data centers to protect mission-critical equipment and ensure its longevity, increase availability and reduce total cost of ownership. Join Matt Kightlinger, director of solutions marketing for the Liebert Products business of Emerson Network Power, to learn best practices for protecting IT equipment with efficient cooling strategies, as well as opportunities for reducing costs by preventing system downtime and enhancing energy efficiency. Then see how several small and midsized businesses across the country protect their networks and reduce costs by implementing their own precision cooling strategies. Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Time: 1pm PT/ 4 pm ET Sponsored by: Emerson Network Power Register now Reducing Data Management Costs to Put the Focus Back on Business Goals AN InformationWeek Editorial Webcast IT departments in organizations around the world are facing the same reality: shrinking budgets and increasing business demands. Its the age-old conundrum: how to do more with less. The emerging answer comes from new data management technologies that help companies get more value from their existing infrastructure without sacrificing performance. Freeing up budget that otherwise would be spent on simply managing the flood of information organizations face means more dollars to devote to initiatives that focus on using that information to meet business goals. In this one-hour Webcast, IT Market Strategy Analyst Merv Adrian and Arvind Krishna, Vice President, IBM Enterprise Information Management Products, talk with TechWeb about how companies are using new data management technologies to save on data administration, storage, servers, energy consumption, and IT support - and reinvesting those savings into business priorities such as information-driven optimization. A live question-and-answer session follows the presentation. Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Green Technology as a Must-Have An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspective Webcast In this free, one-hour WebCast, moderated by Insurance & Technology associate editor Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts at Celent and EMC Document Sciences as they discuss why insurers need to take a more deliberate approach to green initiatives and how customer communications management technology can help carriers become more environmentally responsible and, perhaps most critically, more cost-efficient. Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: EMC Document Sciences Register now Leading Analyst on Driving Globalization of Wealth Management Products A Financial Technology Network Webcast Join guest speaker Matt Bienfang, TowerGroup's Senior Research Director, as he shares recommendations for implementing concrete strategies. Jeff Morris, Actuate's Senior Director of Technologies, will also discuss the best-of-breed technologies for delivering rich, interactive online customer experience to drive customer loyalty. Register and attend to receive a complimentary TowerGroup report, "2009 Top 10 Business Drivers, Strategic Responses, and IT Initiatives in Brokerage & Wealth Management." Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now How IT Operations Managers Can Be Heroes During a Recession An InformationWeek Webcast Recessions can be stressful. But one way IT operations managers can emerge as winners is by strengthening the management of laptops and mobile devices. In this webcast, featured guest Chris Silva of Forrester Research will discuss how operations managers can reduce costs and streamline the management of laptops and mobile devices by consolidating management tools, obtaining better visibility into endpoints, and leveraging hosted applications. Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Fiberlink Register now Prioritize Software Quality from Start to Finish A MSDN Webcast Attend this webcast to learn how to make a two-pronged attack on software quality issues, without breaking your budget. By addressing both the quality of code as it is written by developers and the ability to measure the accuracy of your testing later in the development process, you can make significant improvements to your organizations code quality. Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: InnerWorkings Register now Reduce Costs, Risks and Resource Constraints with Web Application Security OnDemand A Dr. Dobb's Webcast Not surprisingly, Web application security & compliance continues to be a top priority for companies who rely on their Web site to transact business. But in these challenging economic times, managing costs while reducing risk becomes an added challenge. Join us for this 1-hour webcast and let us share with you the importance of Web application security and our Security as a Service. Original Date: Tuesday May 26, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Innovating in Today's Economy: Sustaining Your Edge with HPC An InformationWeek Webcast Learn how the game-changing technology of modeling and simulation with high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, systems software, and applications can boost the productivity and competitiveness of your enterprise. Hear how the new-found affordability and ease of deploying HPC solutions are fostering broad adoption. Listen to the Council on Competitiveness explain why now is the time for industrial adoption of modeling and simulation, and get practical advice from HP, ANSYS, Microsoft, and Intel on how you can deploy solutions and integrate them into your existing IT environment. Original Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Original Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Sponsored by: HP , Intel & Microsoft Register now Custom Communication for Retention and Growth An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this one-hour webcast, learn how your enterprise can: * simplify document creation infrastructure with a single tool * make your customer communications more timely and relevant * bring greater ease-of-use to document end-users * significantly decrease time-to-market for new products * give knowledge workers and stakeholders greater control of the document creation process Original Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: HP Register now Weathering the Storm of a Bad Economy Why Now is the Time to Focus on Your Customer's Web Experience An Intelligent Enterprise Webcast Despite a slowdown in growth, ecommerce is still expected to grow in 2009 by capturing market share from the brick-and-mortar channel. So although investing in unproven site features may not be practical now, certainly investing in online customer experience efforts is a worthy endeavor. Isn't increasing customer value and building customer loyalty important now more than ever? Join Tealeaf and featured guest Megan Burns from Forrester Research for an exclusive webinar as we discuss Why Now is the Time to Invest in the Web Customer Experience. Original Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Tealeaf Register now The New Financial Services World Order - Are We Ready For It? The Financial Technology NetworkEditorial Perspectives Webcast As government starts to play a heightened role in regulating and assessing the activities of financial institutions, financial services firms will have to take a new approach to the ways they operate and grow. The challenges banks, capital markets firms and insurance companies face in achieving this new level of transparency, risk management and focus will be explored in a free, one-hour Video Webcast, moderated by Fritz Nelson, Executive Producer of TechWeb TV. Panelists will include - among others - Kathy Burger, Editorial Director of Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology, and Suzanne Duncan, Financial Services Leader at the IBM Institute for Business Value and author of the recent study "Toward Transparency and Sustainability: Building a New Financial Order." Original Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now 6 Tips To Stop Data Leakage From Your Organization A Dark Reading Webcast How can you help your company from becoming the next bad headline? Join TechWeb and compliance and security experts, John Metzger from Sophos and Nagraj Seshadri from Utimaco. Together, during a one-hour live WebCast, they will discuss how you can protect your company and customer data.Register and attend this live webcast to receive a free T-shirt! Original Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sophos Register now Learn how you can manage Unix, Linux, Mac OS and VMware ESX systems through Microsofts System Center Configuration Manager 2007 A TechNet Magazine Webcast During this webcast, Don Jones (co-founder, Concentrated Technology and Microsoft MVP) and Rob Mallicoat (strategic solutions consultant, Quest Software) will show you a solution that can help you easily manage your heterogeneous environment, increase efficiency, reduce costs, ensure compliance and mitigate risks. Attend the live webcast on May 21 and be eligible to win a free Zune! Winners will be announced May 22, 2009 via email. Original Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Quest Register now New Tools to Efficiently Analyze Exposure in a Turbulent Market A Wall Street & Technology and Bank Systems & Technology Webcast In this Webcast, join Thom King, Data Architect at Moodys, Melanie Rodier, Associate Editor at Wall Street & Technology and Anthony Deighton, SVP of Products at QlikTech, to hear how next generation business intelligence can provide a whole new way to analyze data, one that helps analysts assess exposures and estimate credit quality. All attendees will receive a copy of the case study: Investment research leader solves 2 terabyte analysis with QlikView". Original Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: QlikTech Register now Top Talent as a Renewable Resource An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology associate editor Nathan Conz, youll hear from industry experts at TowerGroup, IBM and Lawson as they discuss the value of human capital and the technologies and strategies that can play a key role in the battle for it. Original Date: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Lawson & IBM Register now Effectiveness of Software Quality Techniques A Dr. Dobbs Webcast Internationally recognized software management expert Capers Jones will present the results of his research, assessing an array of software quality techniques to help development teams select the most effective strategies and technologies to ensure the quality of their code. Matt Hayward, Coverity Director of Professional Services will present new findings of the effectiveness of static analysis in finding field defects in open source projects. Original Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Coverity Register now How to Integrate the Best of Open Source and Business Intelligence An InformationWeek Webcast Join Matt Aslett, leading Analyst with The 451 Group, as he highlights the evolution of open source and its profound effect on the face of business intelligence and IT usage adoption. Jeff Morris, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Actuate, will share innovative features and information on how to deploy best-of-breed technology.This is a must-attend for all IT Directors, Managers and Developers looking for a cost-effective BI solution! Original Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Actuate Register now Sustaining Growth Through Distribution Management Strategies An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast The winners in today's market will be those who can provide rapid rates and quotes to distributors and adjust quickly to changing market conditions. In this one-hour webcast, we will explore:* rapidly evolving distribution management trends * increasing expectations of distributors * the ease-of-use challenges of legacy systems one insurer's story of maximizing ease-of-use for agents Original Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Challenges and Characteristics of Enterprise Continuous Integration A Dr. Dobbs Webcast This webinar explores the challenges of continuous integration in the enterprise, and examines practical considerations when evaluating an Enterprise CI tool. Attendees at this webinar will learn: * 5 Challenges in real-world Enterprise CI and how to address them * 4 Key features of an Enterprise solution * Why auditing, virtualization, and reporting are key considerations when choosing a tool Original Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Electric Cloud Register now You Want Effective & Efficient Underwriting?Start with a Flexible Architecture An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast During this one-hour Webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology's Editorial Director, Kathy Burger, learn what it takes to improve underwriting quality, control and profitability, and overall competitive advantage. Original Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Software AG Register now Monitor Your Enterprise with Microsoft System Center for Operations Manager 2007 A TechNet Webcast During this webcast, Don Jones (Microsoft MVP) and Mike Bowe (General Manager, Product Strategy- System Center Division, Quest Software) will show you a solution that can help you easily manage your heterogeneous environment, increase efficiency, reduce costs and mitigate risks. Attend the live webcast on April 16 and be eligible to win a free Zune! Winners will be announced April 17, 2009 by email. Original Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Quest Software Register now Optimizing Premium Audit With Predictive Analytics: Using SaaS Analytics to Maximize Premium Recoveries and Minimize Premium Audit Expense An Insurance & Technology Vendor Perspectives Webcast Hear from well-known insurance industry expert, Mark Gorman, veteran actuary, Gaetan Veilleux, and predictive analytics expert David West as they discuss real world examples of how Valen's latest product offering has dramatically improved premium audit results for commercial lines insurers. They will explain the challenges faced by insurers as they employ predictive analytics and how Valen's solution enables insurers to overcome barriers to success. Original Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Valen Technologies Register now The Multi-Distribution Imperative An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this free, one-hour webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology associate editor Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts who will detail a roadmap to multi-distribution model maturity for insurance carriers, as the insurance business shifts from a traditional model of long-term customer retention to one of greater customer volatility. Original Date: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Capgemini Financial Services Register now Maximize Your Virtualization ROI An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast Virtualization delivers major benefits to your business that can help accelerate IT processes like never before and free you from the mundane manual management of systems. At the same time, getting this right requires the right processes and solutions to help avoid issues like virtual machine sprawl, siloed visibility, and management headaches that diminish ROI. Effectively manage virtualization initiatives and control costs-take a dramatically better approach to IT management, focusing on solutions that let you manage across your virtual environment and its physical components. **In appreciation for your attendance on the day of our live webcast, all attendees will receive a personalized link to download the new EMA white paper "Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center,"** Original Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Original Time: 10:00 AM PT /1:00 PM ET Sponsored by: HP Software Register now Mainframe 2.0 - Leveraging the Value of the Mainframe An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast Hear how Mainframe 2.0 bridges the generation gap by enabling a new generation of IT professionals to effectively and efficiently manage increasingly complex mainframe environments. Plus, learn how CA's new Out-tasking solutions, part of the Mainframe 2.0 rollout, enables enterprises to better govern, manage and secure their mainframe environment, despite resource constraints. Original Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: CA Register now Lower Data Warehousing Costs with Oracle Database 11g An Intelligent Enterprise Webcast For any organization, disk storage is one of the largest IT costs, and it's a cost that continues to grow year over year. In this webcast, you'll learn how Oracle Advanced Compression can dramatically reduce disk storage requirements and improve query performance. You won't have to change your applications, and you can store more data, keep it online longer, and access it faster using your existing storage environment. We will also cover how Oracle Partitioning can greatly reduce the total cost of ownership of your data warehouse, enabling a "tiered archiving" approach for keeping older relevant information online using low-cost storage devices. Original Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Cure Regulatory Compliance with Healthy IT Service Delivery A TechNet Webcast In this Webinar, IT administrators will discover how, through IT automation, they can make the most of their resources and manage their entire IT infrastructure from a single, fully integrated, web-based platform. Kaseya allows you to provide best practice IT service delivery to meet state, federal and industry regulations. Original Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Kaseya Register now State of the Cloud: A Virtual Panel on What's Real and What's Not An InformationWeek Webcast With the hype surrounding cloud computing reaching a fever pitch, organizations need a reality check on what's real and what's not. Join us for this timely and definitive webcast panel discussion with executives from rPath, Citrix, Rackspace, RightScale, U.S. Department of Energy and a representative on behalf of Wendy's International on "The State of the Cloud." These user accounts will establish a real-world usage context for a panel discussion that will explore the state of the cloud today. Moderated by Forrester Research, "The State of the Cloud" will discuss the emerging usage patterns, issues and opportunities at the heart of this often complex, occasionally muddled and almost certainly transformational trend. Original Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009 Original Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Sponsored by: rPath Register now Best Practices for Database Security & Compliance An InformationWeek / Dark Reading Webcast According to Forrester, "Database auditing and real-time protection have become necessities ... There is as well a growing need for real-time data protection to meet regulatory compliance requirements and mitigate risk against various types of threats to enterprise databases." Now, more than ever, enterprises are looking to protect sensitive corporate data such as financial/ERP information, credit card data, personally identifiable information (PII) and intellectual property (investment and trading data, product designs, etc.) while reducing the cost of compliance. Join this live one-hour webcast featuring Forrester database security expert, Noel Yuhanna, to learn best practices for safeguarding enterprise data while addressing compliance requirements such as SOX, PCI and data privacy laws. You'll also benefit from Forrester's latest research on vendor evaluation criteria for enterprise database auditing and real-time protection. Original Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Guardium Register now The Changing Role of the Security Leader An Executive Panel Discussion An InformationWeek Webcast It wasn't long ago that the information security executive's role in the organization was primarily tactical and reactionary. Join a power panel of three security leaders to understand how their roles have evolved and what they believe is critical to sustain leadership and value within their organizations. In the face of unprecedented cybercrime threats, we'll explore their day-to-day priorities and how their initiatives and organizations have changed in the down economy and how they are measuring success in their programs. Original Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Original Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Sponsored by: Fortify Register now Resetting Information and BI Priorities for a Challenging Economy An InformationWeek Analytics Webcast To learn more about today's path forward in business intelligence and information management, Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen and independent analyst David Stodder are teaming up to present a one-hour Webcast in which they'll discuss how to make the most of existing technologies while also laying the groundwork for short- and long-term investments. They'll also share guiding insights from the in-depth "Intelligent Enterprise Reader Priorities Survey 2009." Original Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Original Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now The Road to Adoption: A Business Analytics Research Model An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology associate editor Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts and carrier executives on what it takes to adopt a business analytics research model using predictive analytics -- both where you need to go and how to get there. Topics of discussion include: * Breaking down silos and becoming a more collaborative organization * IT as a data guardian and working in a proactive support role * Educating the workforce to utilize tools with extensive and sophisticated functionality * Governance in a predictive analytic environment and the centralized vs. de-centralized debate Original Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: SAS Register now Blueprinting the Mobile Internet An InformationWeekWebcast Service providers are pursuing the mobile Internet opportunity primarily with connectivity-centric approaches that focus on the migration to advanced IP-based radio networks, such as HSPA+, LTE, and WiMAX. This migration will have huge impacts on service providers. They which must transform their networks, operations, and business models to capitalize on the rapid innovation of over-the-top Internet players, pent-up demand for personalization, and the need to economically support massive bandwidth demand that will double each year for the foreseeable future. This session will discuss ways to capitalize on the heightened innovation associated with over-the-top Internet providers and establish strategies to economically support the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. Original Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Original Time: 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET Sponsored by: Cisco Register now Measuring the Results of Your Agile Adoption A Dr. Dobb's Journal Webcast Going agile? Sounds like a smart move, considering the pressures we all face in lieu of the economy. But in this world of increased scrutiny, how do you showcase that your agile adoption is leading to better results? In this webcast we will discuss how Measured Capability Improvement Framework can help you get to the bottom of those questions, and set you on to a path of measured success. Original Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Original Time: 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now SMBs: Get More with Less from Your Power Protection A bMightyWebcast Join David Joy, vice president of marketing for the Liebert AC Power business of Emerson Network Power, to learn best practices for ensuring reliable, scalable power protection for IT equipment, as well as opportunities for reducing costs by preventing system downtime, enhancing energy efficiency and reducing total cost of ownership. Then see how other small and midsized businesses across the country protect their networks and reduce costs by implementing their own power protection strategies. Original Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Original Time: 1 PM PT / 4 AM ET Sponsored by: Emerson Liebert Register now Driving Business Results with a New Kind of Intelligence Ann InformationWeekWebcast In a turbulent economy, companies need to seize every viable opportunity possible. Yet, as the global markets struggle, any margin for error or inefficiency has virtually vanished. Access to sound intelligence - derived from accurate, up-to-date information-helps companies make game-changing decisions quickly and with confidence. But managing the deluge of information that floods modern businesses isn't easy. Join TechWeb for this free Webcast featuring prominent industry analyst Dr. Fern Halper and IBM vice president of Information Management Product Strategy, Inhi Suh. Original Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009 Original Time: 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET Sponsored by: IBM Register now Future Proofing Customer Communications: Best practices and tools for Customer Communication Management (CCM) An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast In this one-hour Insurance & Technology WebCast, moderated by Executive Editor Anthony O'Donnell, you will learn how to: * Simultaneously maximize graphic and text design capabilities * Limit the involvement of IT in customer communications * Liberate the creativity of business users * Reduce development, print and distribution costs * Increase new product time-to-market * Improve quality, consistency and compliance Original Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: EMC Document Sciences Register now An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast Join our expert panel as we discuss a new approach to Performance Management that allows enterprises to move in a seamless path from today's often reactive state of performance monitoring to a more proactive performance management approach that begins to align IT with the business. Original Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Original Time: 8:00 AM PT /11:00 AM ET Sponsored by: ASG Register now The Threat from Within: How Insiders Have Become Your Greatest Security Risk A Dark Reading Vendor Perspectives Webcast Last December an astounding 53% of participants reported that if they were fired tomorrow they would definitely take company data with them to their next employer. Join us for an InformationWeek webcast where you will learn: How employees and partners are engaging with your IT assets and intellectual property * The different types of insider threat * Key steps to prevent this new insider threat within your organization * How one company has effectively enabled its employees while mitigating the risk of the insider threat To neutralize the threats posed by insiders , IT departments must take away the means and the opportunities to commit crimes. Attend this webcast and we'll show you how to do this! Original Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009 Original Time: 1:00 PM PT /4:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Lumension Register now True or False? Mac and Linux Computers Need Protection ADark Reading WebCast The network security risk from unprotected non-Windows computers has sometimes been downplayed or overlooked altogether. Although there are comparatively few viruses for Mac and Linux, these systems can and do harbor and deploy the more widespread Windows malware. UNIX or Linux server attacks can prey upon vulnerabilities in your network at a time when government and industry regulations require all systems be protected, regardless of operating system. Join this live one-hour webcast featuring security expert Jonathan Tait from Sophos to learn why non-Windows systems need protection. A Dark Reading moderator will take you through this session and offer you the opportunity to get your questions answered during a live Q&A. Register today to attend this informative and interactive webcast. Original Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009 / Time: 9am PT/12pm ET Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Sophos Register now A Smart Enterprise Online Exchange One of the biggest components of the IT budget has always been personnel costs. In a lean economy, productivity is essential, and human resource talent has to be maximized. To achieve this, CIOs are looking to implement more extensive automation. What strategies will bear the most fruit? What are the latest state-of-the art technologies that should be considered? Which IT processes are best-suited for automation and what is the cost-saving potential? Our CIO panel will offer strategic considerations as well as practical advice to help IT management from a variety of industries forge ahead with confidence. Original Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Original Time: 12:00 PM ET /9:00 AM PT Sponsored by: CA SEE Register now The Architecture Advantage: How Insurers Can Build More Profitable Customer Relationships AnInsurance & TechnologyEditorial Perspectives WebCast At this free one-hour Webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology's Editorial Director, Kathy Burger, you'll hear about insurers that have embraced innovative architecture solutions and are poised for continued short-term and long-term success. Learn how they have successfully: * Integrated all sales channels and touch points. * Reached out to customers with appropriate product/service offers, at times when they are most likely to buy. * Gained customer loyalty and deepened existing customer relationships. * Improved distribution efficiency and profitability. Original Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Tibco Register now Cloud ConversationsA Three part series An InformationWeek & Plug in to the Cloud Computing WebCast You are invited to a 3-part roundtable, where HP experts from each domain will discuss cloud technologies and new practices, and how global-class cloud computing will blend and augment traditional enterprise-class technologies and practices. This will be a multi-media, interactive event, and we will encourage active audience participation. If you're an application or operations executive, CTO or architect, service manager or PMO lead, this is a unique opportunity to look across the silos, and understand how cloud will re-shape much of the technology landscape. Original Date: February 17, 19 & 20 2009 Original Time: 8:00 AM PT /11:00 PM ET Sponsored by: HP Register now Can Your Data Center Infrastructure Handle the Side Effects of New Technology? An InformationWeek WebCast Virtualization, consolidation, high-density computing new technologies and approaches such as these are redefining the data center landscape. An aging support infrastructure can easily become obsolete-a threat to uptime and a costly bottleneck to future expansion. Join Eaton Corporation and Nemertes Research for an important Webcast to learn more about the impact of these IT technologies on power and cooling systems! Original Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Eaton Corporation Register now Telecommuting: Make It Successful & Secure with SSL VPN An InformationWeek WebCast View this webcast to learn about the trends driving telecommuting use today, the telecommuting best practices, and how SSL VPN is the ideal solution to effectively address your telecommuting needs. Original Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Juniper Networks Register now My Budget is Gone...Now What? How Network Rightsizing can Save IT An InformationWeek WebCast Join industry experts Steve Kovsky, InformationWeek Contributing Editor, Chris Harget of Aruba Networks, and John Turner, Director of Networks and Systems for Brandeis University at this informative webcast for a look into strategic cost reduction with new network strategies for 2009. The panel will reveal how organizations are shrinking one-time and recurring costs associated with building consolidations, closet refresh, network expansions or simply to contend with slashed budgets. Original Date: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Aruba Networks Register now Mitigating Litigation Risk with Strategic Email Management An InformationWeek WebCast Vivian Tero, IDC's research manager of Compliance Infrastructure will be joined by industry experts from Dell MessageOne who will present how a SaaS-enabled solution can reduce the total cost of ownership of your email infrastructure, effectively eliminate the risk of email downtime, securely archive email, expedite e-Discovery and block spam and virus attacks. Original Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Dell MessageOne Register now Calculating Today's Strong Authentication ROI An InformationWeek WebCast We all know that passwords are the weakest link in our security armor, so the smartest budget choice we can make is to protect that link in real-time rather than deal with the aftermath. But what's the best solution available? We'll arm you with the tools to simplify both your budget and security decisions as you investigate strong authentication solutions for your organization. Original Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: PhoneFactor Register now Avoiding SOA Paralysis: Cutting The Costs of Mainframe SOA for Insurance An Insurance & Technology Vendor Perspectives WebCast In this webcast, we will explore how insurance organizations can cost effectively utilize SOA to accelerate application modernization, essentially making SOA viable for the business. Join Insurance and Technology, Celent and DataDirect Technologies for this important webinar on the economic realities of SOA in the Insurance industry, revealing new patent-pending technologies that can dramatically lower the costs of mainframe SOA enablement. Original Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: DataDirect Register now Extreme Performance for Your Data Warehouse An Intelligent Enterprise WebCast In this webcast, we'll demonstrate how Oracle Exadata delivers extremely fast and completely scalable, enterprise-ready systems. In addition, you'll learn how Oracle Exadata can improve query performance for data warehouses by at least a factor of 10x. Original Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Original Time: 9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Oracle Register now Enabling the Extended Enterprise with Portals An InformationWeek WebCast During this webcast, Mark Vermette and George Rathbun of CRIX International with Jason Andersen from JBoss, a division of Red Hat, will discuss CRIX's implementation of their portal-based collaboration solution. Based on JBoss and Alfresco technology, CRIX has the potential to drastically reduce the effort associated with complex clinical research site initiation processes. Original Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Original Time: 1:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM ET Sponsored by: JBoss, a division of Red Hat Register now Starting Smart with Commercial Policy Admin Implementation An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast At this one-hour Webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology Executive Editor, Anthony O'Donnell, learn how pre-built ISO Commercial Lines templates can help insurers build a better business case for policy administration systems replacement and achieve: * Improved Speed to market * Lower systems implementation cost and risk * Lower total cost of ownership * Reduced product customization costs * Greater operational agility Original Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Original Time: 11:00 AM PT /2:00 PM ET Sponsored by: Duck Creek Register now Featured Webcasts: Are Your Laptops Secure? Be Confident! 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