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Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management: EnvoyWorldWide's second annual survey, Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management, was conducted blindly among members of several business continuity organizations including the ACP Chapters in Washington and Utah, the Business Recovery Managers Association (BRMA), the Contingency Planning Exchange, the New England Disaster Recovery Information X-Change (NEDRIX), and the Three...; Tags: IT Services, business continuity, risk management, survey, contingency planning, disaster recovery; White papers
BlueScope Steel Teams With Capgemini to Address a Changing Environment: As part of its de-merger from BHP Billiton, BlueScope Steel was required to identify a cost-effective alternative for delivering the back office processing services that were previously provided by BHP Billiton Shared Services. Capgemini created a Business Process Outsourcing entity (BPO), which allowed these services to be transparently and successfully...; Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, Capgemini, BPO, back-office, business process, environment; Case studies
Capgemini Global Service Desk - At the Heart of AstraZeneca Clinical Trials Data Management: AstraZeneca PLC is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. AstraZeneca had legacy IT systems in place, which needed to: provide the Marketing and R&D companies with a common IT system to process clinical trial data in a controlled and secure manner and be able to check patient data, and...; Tags: IT Services, AstraZeneca Plc., service desk, Capgemini, clinical trial, data management, change management, help desk, patient, information technology, R&D, marketing; Case studies
Health Alliance Medical Plans: Health Insurance Provider Migrates to Microsoft Integration Solution and Reduces TCO: Accredited as Excellent by the National Committee for Quality Assurance for 10 years running, Health Alliance Medical Plans administers a wide variety of health plans for more than 245,000 individuals. The cost and difficulty of maintaining its existing application integration engine limited the organization's ability to exchange data securely with...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Middleware, application integration, health care, regulatory compliance, QA, HIPAA, health insurance, TCO, Microsoft Corp.; Case studies
PMO Enables Large Systems Management & Service Company to Improve Management of Mission-Critical Projects: An Account Manager for one of the largest systems integrators in the US was put in charge of overseeing two large, mission-critical accounts, one of them a set of $20 million-per-year IT development and maintenance projects for the U.S. Department of Education. The new Account Manager needed to improve the...; Tags: Headstrong Corp., U.S. Department of Education, monitor, strategy, tool; Case studies

Benefits and Costs of Research: A Case Study of Construction Systems Integration and Automation Technologies in Industrial Facilities: This report focuses on a critical analysis of the economic impacts of past, ongoing, and planned research on BFRL's construction systems integration and automation technologies (CONSiAT) major product. The CONSiAT major product is an interdisciplinary research effort within BFRL?in collaboration with the Construction Industry Institute, the private sector, other federal...; Tags: systems integration, agency, collaboration, analysis, benefit; Case studies
Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Consolidating the Bank's Scattered Offices Facilitates Cost-Effective It Services: Commonwealth Bank, one of Australia's leading financial institutions, wanted to enable greater collaboration throughout its business units. The goal was to enable employees to work more effectively and efficiently, facilitate rapid reconfiguration in response to evolving business requirements, and reduce the cost of changes to the work environment. A long-term...; Tags: Financial services, Electronic Data Systems Corp., IT services, environment, collaboration, bank, financial, information technology; Case studies
Working With Wyeth to Establish a High-Performance Drug Discovery Capability: Wyeth is one of the world's largest research driven pharmaceutical and health care products companies. The company wanted to improve its clinical data management capabilities to generate a better performance in its drug development processes. Accenture quickly set out to work with Wyeth to establish a first-of-its-kind business process outsourcing...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Accenture Ltd., Wyeth, BPO, health care, data management, high-performance, business process, performance; Case studies
Delivering Greater Availability, Reliability and Scalability: Dynamic Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Insures Success: When a leading Northeastern health insurance provider decided it needed disaster recovery and business continuity operations, EDS and alliance partner EMC designed an innovative dual-purpose strategy: leverage its existing data operations to serve its business continuity needs and enhance functionality. This involved optimizing the insurance company's customer relationship management application...; Tags: Data centers, IT Services, Storage, business continuity, Electronic Data Systems Corp., insurance company, EMC Corp., disaster recovery, data center, IT environment, mirroring, Web hosting, scalability, environment, alliance, insurance, backup, information technology, stra; Case studies
Finance & Administration Business Process Outsourcing: The client is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. Faced with significant pressure to maintain/grow the bottom-line there was a requirement to cut the cost drastically. Management has set aggressive target for time bound cost containment. Infosys provided required services in Accounts Payable and Accounts...; Tags: Operational accounting, Infosys Technologies Ltd., accounts receivable, accounts payable, outsourcing, finance, benefit, performance; Case studies
Aurora Municipal Center Aurora, Colorado: Municipal Center Sets New Standards With Systems Integration: The Aurora Municipal Center (AMC) is the heart of the Aurora City Center, a massive development and redevelopment project implemented by the City of Aurora, In addition, the City wanted to bring standardization to the way it operates and maintains its overall infrastructure including HVAC, building automation, security, and fire...; Tags: Johnson Controls Inc., HVAC, systems integration, knowledge, security; Case studies
Global Insurer Case Study: For a leading insurance and risk management company, dealing with the unexpected is all in a day's work. But the losses of September 11, 2001, so far eclipsed previous catastrophic events that a company realized its industry would be forever changed. To help reconfigure its own organization to meet these...; Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Electronic Data Systems Corp., insurance company, gap analysis, business continuity, risk management, insurance, team, industry; Case studies
Continuity of Operations Planning and Business Continuity Planning: Today's operational environment has become extremely complex. Users who are dependent on information systems and highly sophisticated technologies are often working at remote locations. In addition, many mission and operations functions are so highly specialized that only a preplanned fallback procedure can lead to restored operations. Therefore, organizations need a...; Tags: Business security, Strategy, contingency planning, business continuity planning, business continuity, information system, environment; White papers
The ABCs of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events - whether an event might be a hurricane or simply a power outage caused by a backhoe in the parking lot. The CSO's involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing...; Tags: Business security, IT Services, Strategy, CXO Media Inc., business continuity planning, business continuity, disaster recovery, disaster recovery planning; White papers
Dry Run Brings Plan to Life: Maintaining and implementing business continuity plans includes planning and coordinating certain plan exercises, and evaluating and documenting their results. For survival, every organization should develop processes to maintain the continuity capabilities and ensure that the plan remains in alignment with the organization's strategic vision and tactical direction. Security managers should...; Tags: Protiviti, business continuity, vision, security; White papers
Managing Risk in a Changing Environment: Ensuring Business Continuity Instills Confidence in Company, Stakeholders and Customers: Companies across the insurance industry suffered profound personal and economic losses during the September 11th attacks. This leading insurer wanted to take a proactive approach to dealing with similar disasters in the future. The company worked with EDS to build a comprehensive emergency response and recovery program based on EDS'...; Tags: IT Services, SECURITY, Electronic Data Systems Corp., business continuity, crisis management, emergency response, environment, tool; Case studies
The Relationship Between Business Continuity and Sarbanes-Oxley: What is the relationship between Sections 302, 404, and 409 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), and business continuity? In many situations, external auditors are providing inconsistent guidance regarding the issue. In addition, the terms 'data backup', 'contingency planning', 'disaster recovery', and 'business continuity' are being used: sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly,...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, IT Services, Regulatory compliance, Protiviti, business continuity, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, contingency planning, data backup, disaster recovery, SOA; White papers
Business Continuity in the Face of a Natural Disaster: This paper summarizes that like all risks, the effects of hurricanes and other natural disasters can be mitigated by proper preparations. Being properly prepared requires that all the risks are evaluated, and that the approach to risk mitigation is taken based on both likelihood of occurrence and the potential loss....; Tags: Strategy, Protiviti, risk, business continuity; White papers
Navy SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e): SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) made electronic procurement of engineering, technical and programmatic support services at NAVSEA a reality. The Navy Virtual SYSCOM (VS) Commanders (NAVAIR, NAVSEA, NAVSUP and SPAWAR) have decided to leverage the successes and efficiencies of the SeaPort-e business model by designating SeaPort-e the vehicle of choice for future...; Tags: IT Services, Accenture Ltd., support services, procurement, financial; White papers
Rules Widen the Scope on Business Continuity: Many businesses, especially those in heavily regulated industries, have long planned for major disruptions caused by natural disasters, but after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, business people realized they needed to consider business continuity from a broader perspective. The Securities and Exchange Commission also noted the need and...; Tags: IT Services, Protiviti, NASD, business continuity, Sept. 11, terrorist attack, industry; White papers