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June 30, 2008
Power Management DesignLine Europe Newsletter

The Power Management DesignLine Europe Newsletter is the design engineer's knowledge source for controlling performance and power levels in electronic systems.

This newsletter includes the latest news, products, and how-to articles covering all aspects of power supplies and components, UPS, battery management, and new technologies, highlighting the latest articles and practical information posted to our PowerManagementDesignLine site and delivering announcements, white papers, data sheets, and design notes from key company sites.



Boost collaboration and customer satisfaction with Unified Communications

This free white paper reveals how you can leverage the tech-savvy orientation of the next generation of workers for a tighter, more collaborative business that leverages every available form of communication. More than ever, it's the content of a message that matters—not the way workers get it!

Learn:

  • Why "Generation Nexters" are actually turning down jobs that prohibit instant messaging
  • How to dramatically improve sales success and customer relations, by putting people back in the center of the process
  • Why, according to an Aberdeen Group study, best-in-class companies are adopting Unified Communications solutions to manage decentralized workforces and respond faster to customer needs
  • How those same companies saw gains of more than 50% in employee responsiveness, flexibility, and access to critical data—and a competitiveness increase of over 300%

Find out how your company can start enjoying enhanced collaboration, streamlined workflow, and better customer satisfaction with far fewer complaints. Download this forward-looking white paper now, and learn how companies are boosting collaboration and customer satisfaction by integrating mobility, conferencing, and messaging.



Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail

This paper provides insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence and offers guidance on how to avoid or overcome these worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. After reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to identify and combat the top-four worst practices for BI and achieve success with your BI initiatives.



Best Practices for Securing Exchange Email

Email is an essential business tool for organizations of all sizes. Yet it is also the easiest way for hackers, spammers, and other malicious threats to penetrate and disrupt business operations. End-to-end security is as vital to today's businesses as email itself.

Discover how to deliver enterprise-level security to small, medium and large businesses through email hosting with a truly qualified provider--one that implements best-of-breed technology and follows best practices for email security comprising deep expertise in people, technology, and processes.



June 13, 2008
How to Champion a Commercial Open Source IT Management Solution to Executive Management

Today's new trend in IT Management is to replace proprietary solutions for open source solutions because of the proprietary software's restricted extensibility, bloated functionality, and lofty maintenance costs. Often, these open source projects replacing proprietary software are discovered by middle IT managers who are pleased with the results on a test environment. These managers have several important steps ahead of them to prove the open source strength and cost effectiveness to convince management to make the switch.

Join Audrey Rasmussen, analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates share insight on what Senior IT managers are experiencing today in their software purchasing, including outside influencers such as budget shifts, service level expectations, and heterogeneous environment orchestration which proves vital insight for selling in a new project that's open source based.

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Time: 8:00 am PT/11:00 am ET/4:00 pm GMT
Duration: 60 minutes



Search Engine Optimization and Web 2.0

Don't fall into the "Web 2.0 will fix SEO for our site" trap. Instead, find out how to address common misconceptions.

Web 2.0 is a fairly recent phenomenon whose predominate features are a high level of user or community participation and leading-edge technical features such as AJAX. Because of these elements, many sites aren't optimized well for search engines and thus are missing out on a large cut of potential online visitors.

In this white paper, Bloofusion will tackle issues that apply to Web 2.0 web sites and explain why the best strategy is usually one that is able to both attract visitors and appeal to the search engines - two parallel endeavors that often don't require major resources to accomplish.



SafeNet Data Discovery Tool

Identify in minutes exposed or sensitive data in your Oracle databases that should be encrypted, simply by using this free SafeNet compliance validation tool. Request yours today!

The SafeNet Data Discovery Utility can locate clear text data, and users can define their own regular expressions to scan for: it also can act as a compliance validation tool. Data that has already been encrypted and stored in cipher text will not appear in the search results of the discovery tool. Therefore, organizations can validate that the encryption they have in place is effectively safeguarding their data.

The discovery utility currently works with Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and SQL Server 2000, 2005 databases. The SafeNet Data Discovery Utility is a Java-based application that can quickly and easily install on any platform supporting Java Virtual Machines (JVM).



Sharing BlackBerry Knowledge: Building the Foundation for Intelligent Mobility

Join the leaders in mobility intelligence at the virtual BlackBerry Technical Seminar on July 9th. From the comfort of your office, you can hear keynote speeches, ask technical questions, see solutions in action, and visit the Exhibit Hall. This is a must-attend virtual event for Senior IT Managers responsible for their BlackBerry solution and for determining the strategic role of mobility within their organization.

Agenda Highlights:

  • Hear webcasts on how to deal with the strategic decisions your organization is facing today
  • Be alerted to enterprise mobility trends including Unified Communications and Mobile Social Networking
  • Evaluate BlackBerry Alliance Member applications
  • Ask questions of your peers and BlackBerry experts from Research In Motion
Be there July 9th! Event runs from 8:30am-11pm ET. Exhibit Hall opens at 8:30am ET. Register today!



The Essential Guide to Solving Server Sprawl

Given the challenge of server sprawl, the desire to reduce energy costs, and the increasing demand for computer resources and rack space, today is an ideal time to consider Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for database consolidation in 64-bit computing environments.

Download this free guide for:

  • A clear understanding of the problem of server sprawl
  • Steps for a successful consolidation
  • A discussion of hardware options, scalability, and licensing options



Are You Ready for CRM? Seven Ways to Know

Knowing your customers and their needs as thoroughly as possible is central to any business. And that's the very point of customer relationship management software, sophisticated business software commonly known as CRM. The question is, is CRM for you?

This webcast provides an informative discussion around CRM and outlines seven criteria that will help you decide if you are ready for Microsoft CRM!



Smart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization

SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable business tasks or services. But pursuing SOA on an ad hoc basis can drastically reduce its benefits.

This white paper outlines IBM's approach to SOA, garnered from best practices and lessons learned from experiences with clients to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles.



June 08, 2008
The Road to Revenue: 8 Surefire Strategies for Monetizing Your B2B Website

You know your industry. You know your audience. But do you know how to make your B2B website start making more money for you? If you rely on affiliate programs or pay-per-click (PPC) advertising for all or part of your revenue stream, you already know that the hours and dollars you spend on content creation and search engine optimization will be spent in vain if the traffic you drive to your site doesn't purchase from your affiliate merchants, click on your banners, or follow the links in your contextual ads.

Whether you target software developers or sales managers, gadget heads or genetic engineers, the proven strategies outlined here will help you transform your B2B site from a labor of love into a money-making machine.



Driving Workforce Productivity with Unified Communications: The Path to Fixed / Mobile Convergence

Research by the Aberdeen Group shows that Unified Communications (UC) solutions – both fixed and mobile – have a measurable impact on the productivity of an organization's workforce.

Best-in-Class (BIC) organizations are leveraging UC solutions as part of an integrated business process mapping program to understand what is core to their organization and how UC solutions help the workforce most effectively improve those core business processes.

Download this free report to review the findings from an August 2007 survey of more than 360 organizations.



10 Questions to Ask Your Hosted IP PBX Provider

Signing up for a hosted IP PBX provider is just like signing up for cable TV: the provider is trying to lock you in to a long-term contract at terms that give them the most profit, while you're just trying to get the service and features you need at the lowest possible price.

Learn how to save money, get service guarantees and make sure your provider will work for you...before you sign on the dotted line.



Using Technology to Drive Growth and Stay Competitive

Running a fast-growth company is a remarkable task, one that is not without sacrifices and struggles. However, it is equally difficult to sustain the growth that made your company a success in the first place.

Inspired by the popular Inc. magazine feature, "How I Did It," this free online video demonstrates how to drive growth and stay competitive, and shares solutions that will help your company innovate within its industry and deliver products that meet the evolving demands of consumers.



Exponential ROI: How You Can Achieve It with Online Reputation Management

This white paper is an outstanding resource for marketing, brand management, e-commerce, operations and Web 2.0 teams in enterprise, agency and solution provider organizations concerned with spam, blacklists and email deliverability issues.

Included are best practices and tips for achieving measurable business results with online reputation management. Learn how:

  • Publishers Clearing House consistently achieves inbox delivery rates in excess of 98% across ISPs and corporate domains on its email list
  • Socializr was whitelisted on Juno/NetZero and Yahoo, and qualified for AOL and Hotmail whitelists
  • Burpee increased sales by 10% due to dramatic improvement in email deliverability



InfoWorld's Java IDE Comparison Strategy Guide

If you're looking for a Java IDE, you want one based on Eclipse. But which offering do you want? Download the Infoworld Java IDE Comparison Strategy Guide and go deep into the details, comparing Technology of the Year winner JBuilder 2007, IBM's IRAD, MyEclipse and the free open-source Eclipse platform.

This Java IDE Strategy Guide closes with a look at an advanced concept in Java development: Application Factories. This innovative development metaphor and associated collection of tools allows developers to focus more on the nature and purpose of the application, and less on the underlying platform, framework, and technologies being used.



June 06, 2008
Why Business Acumen Wins More Sales

Sales professionals must demonstrate the business knowledge necessary to help customers achieve their financial goals.

Read this new white paper, "Why Business Acumen Wins More Sales," to learn how business acumen gives sales professionals the ultimate competitive advantage and why business acumen training is the fastest-growing area of the sales training industry.



Marketing Management In A Web 2.0 World

This collection of best practices discusses the upgraded tools that most online marketers use to communicate with customers. Web 2.0 technologies play a major role in this transformation, providing possibilities for advanced bi-directional communication with a large, globally distributed audience.

Web 2.0 technologies can seem simple on the surface, but there is more involved than meets the eye. If promised results are to be realized, care should be taken with the implementation, and any move in this direction must be supported with the right effort and proper content -- not undertaken simply to keep up with trends.



Vulnerability Management for Dummies

As a business owner or someone responsible for network security within your organization, you need to understand how to prevent attacks and eliminate network weaknesses that leave your business exposed and at risk.

Vulnerability Management for Dummies arms you with the facts and shows you how to implement a successful vulnerability management program. Whether your network consists of just a handful of computers or thousands of servers distributed around the world, this 5-part eBbook will help:

  • Explain the critical need for Vulnerability Management (VM)
  • Detail the essential best-practice steps of a successful VM Program
  • Outline various VM Solutions - including the pros & cons of each
  • Highlight the award-winning QualysGuard VM solution
  • Provide a 10-point checklist for removing vulnerabilities from your key resources