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Live Webcast: Simplified remote access for increased productivity with Google Apps
If large distributed teams can use Google Apps to collaborate across continents, then certainly the average employee should be able to work remotely using Google Apps, right? Whether telecommuting, travelling, establishing a branch office, or collaborating with other remote teammates, Google Apps enables productivity in the cloud no matter where your employees are. While a variety of tools are available to facilitate remote access to company resources, few enable real productivity anytime, anywhere, across virtually any device in the same way as Google's web-based suite of applications. Learn about ways that Google Apps breaks down barriers of distance, time, hardware, and software to enable maximum productivity, regardless of your employees' locations or means of accessing company resources. Join this webcast to learn: What applications are included in Google Apps, how digital assets are stored in the cloud, and ways to improve adoption How assets stored in Google Apps are accessed, edited, shared, and created, regardless of proximity or standardized hardware and software Ways Google Apps enables collaboration across distributed teams, including remote workers and independent contractors Register Today! Note: This premium editorial content is underwritten by Google Apps. The registration information you provide will be shared with this sponsor.
A revolutionary approach to IT service management
Serena Service Manager helps you keep IT and business in sync. Serena Service Manager represents a new, process-driven approach to IT service management-one that allows IT and business to work together, in harmony. With Serena Service Manager, your IT organization can automate its end-to-end IT service delivery process, provide a simple yet powerful interface to all service desk users and gain complete visibility into the status of issues across the entire service life-cycle. Serena Service Manager delivers: Lower total cost of ownership Faster issue resolution and complete visibility Improved user satisfaction and agent productivity Download a complimentary Ovum Analyst Report, Why Serena Service Manager Should Make Your ITSM Short-List, to learn how the industry's most flexible process-based IT service management solution can help you.
Selecting a Web Conferencing Vendor
The Web Conferencing market has matured and the new features to evaluate are real-time communications as a service platform and mobile functionality. Among the products evaluated, Adobe Connect and Cisco WebEx are the clear champions, and remain so even when product price for performance is accounted for.
Adobe® Connect™: Bringing Together Video and Next-Generation Web Conferencing
Many businesses can achieve the benefits of face-to-face meetings through an investment in a video or web conferencing solution, saving the company both travel time and resources. Selecting the right technology to replace in-person meetings begins with understanding your organizational needs and pairing these needs with the optimal conferencing solution. Adobe Connect offers an affordable award-winning web conferencing solution with multipoint video and advanced audio, as well as an expansive set of collaboration features. Because there are no barriers to entry, it allows for effective and highly interactive online meetings, training, and events, regardless of the location of the presenter or participant.
Live Webcast: Improving Patient Care and Efficiency with a Converged Medical Infrastructure
In our aging society, the explosion of medical data is proving to be a very real challenge for many different types of health care organizations. Compliance with HIPAA regulations and data storage and security issues are all becoming major concerns for Healthcare IT organizations. While it can be challenging to deal with these issues, implementation of a Converged Medical Infrastructure can effectively address them, while simultaneously delivering significant benefits to both patients and health care providers. CBS Interactive presents Improving Care and Efficiency with a Converged Medical Infrastructure, a live and interactive panel discussion about the primary considerations for implementing to a CMI. Discover why improved scalability and flexibility in your infrastructure is the key to dealing with rapidly growing data storage and regulatory compliance requirements Understand the importance of Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA) in your medical infrastructure Gain insight into how the right plan means easy and rapid implementation Learn about the best practices for reducing support and data conversion costs Join guest panelists from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, IDC Health Insights, GE Healthcare, and Hewlett-Packard for this interactive panel discussion, Improving Care and Efficiency with a Converged Medical Infrastructure, to learn more about these real world Healthcare challenges and how a CMI can help you deliver improved patient care, better medical outcomes, and increased efficiency for your organization. Register today! Note: This premium editorial content is underwritten by HP Intel. The registration information you provide will be shared with this sponsor.
How do you know if your Talent Management Strategy is Creating Value (IHRIM Article)
Keeping up with the speed of business is no small task. Organizations today have constant and increasing pressures from shareholders, stock analysts, customers, and employees to execute better, faster, and cheaper, while continuing to increase value. The natural cycle of talent management creates an everchanging priority list coming from multiple directions for HR. For an HR organization to adequately respond to the demands, it must address the entire talent lifecycle as a whole through an effective and well planned talent strategy. This Oracle/IHRIM article outlines the main components for building a successful strategy and understanding and measuring the benefits.
Mobile Applications for Human Resources: The Future is Here! (IHRIM Article)
Is your organization using mobile apps for HR yet? Do you know if you should be, or even could? If you want to run mobile HR apps, do you know the best business process candidates to run mobile? Mobile apps for HCM are still coming into their own right, and this article will give help you define a strategy for rolling out apps and understand which HR functions are best suited for them.
Is Your Current HR Service Delivery Model Working?
This whitepaper examines the HR service delivery challenges facing organizations today, outlines a common approach to delivering world-class HR service, and details the technology necessary to transform workforce service delivery.
Everything You Need to Know to Go Global with PeopleSoft HCM
Oracle's PeopleSoft applications are designed to meet the needs of all organizations, whether they operate in one or many countries. Oracle provides secure global human resources management solutionssolutions that enable multinational organizations to meet specific requirements unique to a country or region. This white paper will give you a better understanding of the strategy for deploying PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) global applications.
Revisiting Strategic Versus Non-strategic Cooperation
The authors use a novel experimental design to disentangle strategically- and non-strategically-motivated cooperation. By using contingent responses in a repeated sequential prisoners' dilemma with a known probabilistic end, they differentiate end-game behavior from continuation behavior within individuals while controlling for expectations. This design allows them to determine the extent to which strategically-cooperating individuals are responsible for the so-called end-game effect. Experiments with two different subject pools indicate that the most common motive for cooperation in repeated games is strategic and that the extent to which end-game effects are driven by strategically-cooperating individuals depends on the profitability of cooperation.
Everyone Is A Winner: Promoting Cooperation Through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
The authors test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other groups. However, it has the disadvantage that incentives to outperform others are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. They find that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if incentives to compete are strong.
Negative Externalities And Equilibrium Existence In Competitive Markets With Adverse Selection
Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework the authors demonstrate that externalities between agents â?' an agent's utility upon accepting a contract depends on the average type attracted by the respective principal â?' can solve the equilibrium existence problem, even when the size of the externalities is arbitrarily small. Their result highlights the degree of control a principal has over the attractiveness of his contracts as an important feature for equilibrium existence, thereby offering a new perspective on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection.
Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management
Designed from the ground-up using the latest technology advances and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle's thousands of customers, Fusion Applications are 100 percent open standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way we innovate, work and adopt technology. Delivered as a complete suite of modular applications, Fusion Applications work with your existing portfolio to evolve your business to a new level of performance. In this AppCast, part of a special series on Fusion Applications, you hear about the unique advantages of Fusion Human Capital Management, learn about the scope of the first release and discover how Fusion HCM modules can be used to complement and enhance your existing HCM solutions.
The Fading Abnormal Returns Of Momentum Strategies
The authors find increasingly large variations in returns from momentum strategies in recent years. Momentum strategies did not earn significant excess returns during the period of 1993-2004 which was due to their poor performance over the period from 2001-2004. Using sub-samples of smaller capitalization stocks increases momentum portfolio returns and reduces return volatity. They also evaluate momentum portfolios that are formed prior to the end of month portfolio formation universally used in the academic literature.
Bank Competition And Economic Stability: The Role Of Monetary Policy
This paper analyzes the dual role of monetary policy for economic efficiency and stability in a model of endogenous bank competition. Multiple equilibria emerge from the complementarity between bank and non-financial firm decisions. Adverse aggregate or idiosyncratic liquidity shocks may cause a breakdown in which the economy collapses into no-production equilibrium. Less bank competition improves the profitability of banks and makes the economy less vulnerable to adverse shocks but it also distorts the efficient allocation of capital.

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