Recent Transaction Processing White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet
Recent Transaction Processing White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet

• HP eSupport Agreement Manager/HP SIM: HP eServices
  This vignette shows how HP eSAM and HP Systems Insight Manager Helps to access the needed support, when one need it to save time and money.
• PCI-DSS: Avoiding the Data Theft Disaster
  This new whitepaper considers the topical issue of how to ensure your customers credit and debit card information is securely stored and protected. The paper focuses on how to use cryptography to achieve PCI-DSS compliance and avoid a business threatening cardholder data theft.
• Enterprise Payments Vendors: The Integration Approach to Global Payments
  As banks define new or updated payments strategies, they are considering their technology strategies and the vendors who support them. The formulation of this strategy hinges on whether banks retain existing legacy systems, implement new payments applications, or perhaps start an enterprise-wide payments reengineering program with a combination of technology choices. In the past, such choices were limited to a short list of vendors with applications catering to specific geographic regions or payment types, but TowerGroup has identified a broad bifurcation of solutions providers: payments framework providers and payments application providers. In this Research Note, TowerGroup reviews the major payments framework vendors through company profiles and information on solution offerings and any relevant partnerships. Learn more about: The nature of payments application partnerships The International Standards Organization (ISO) 20022 payments data model The common technology elements in the form of integration tools, business activity monitoring (BAM), and state management shared by all enterprise payments solutions possess The fallacy of the "one-size-fits-all" approach to enterprise payments.
• The Truth about File Transfer: Risks and Rewards
  80% of the world's business data files are exchanged through aging, piecemeal file transfer architectures. In this Webcast, learn how you can decrease the risk of breakdowns and break-ins to your enterprise and increase the rewards of growth and profitability. Hear first hand how real-life executives are redesigning their organizations to get more - more security - more visibility - more reliability - out of their file transfer solutions.
• BPC Banking Technologies Prefers IBM Platform for Its SmartVista Card Processing Solution
  BPC Banking Technologies, an Advanced IBM Business Partner, stands at the forefront of the electronic payment industry with its software solutions designed for banks, national payment networks, card associations, processors, payment gateways, e-government and retailers worldwide. The installed base of BPC transaction processing and card management solutions currently supports more than 12,000 automated teller machines, 70,000 points of sale, 22 million cards and five million transactions per day across 12 time zones. As often as possible, BPC deployed these solutions on IBM technology.
• Examining the Costs of Threats
  This whitepaper targets financial institutions and the threat posed to online banking enterprises as well as their customers. The report shows how online banking is an increasingly popular new medium, which has drawn the attention of multiple online thieves. Finally, they propose initial solutions and strategies for online banking companies to combat these attacks and purge their own resources to find areas of weakness.
• User Registration and Login Methods
  Today, developers can choose among several different methods to allow users to register and gain access (login) to their Internet-based application. Although some are more popular than others, the method selected should be appropriate to the nature of the online application and the type of user expected, as well as provide for application security, data security and dynamic data filtering. The purpose of this article is to review the most popular methods for online registration and login, the individual components of those methods, and to provide a general guide to web application developers incorporating user registration and login into their applications.
• Get the Fraud out! Learn what you can do to reduce soaring claim costs.
  Insurance Webinar Replay: Get the fraud out! Insurance fraud can be committed by policyholders, third-party claimants, service providers and employees, costing insurance companies billions of dollars a year. This free one-hour web seminar offers effective strategies and innovative techniques for deterring fraudulent activities.
• Security and Privacy -- Made Simpler
  Security and Privacy -- Made Simpler advises on how to incorporate basic security and privacy practices into your everyday business operations, offering you options, tips and advice that are right-sized for smaller businesses and will help you get started.
• Integrating Automated Cash Collections with SAP Solutions
  Many business processes run on input to and output from SAP software. Each step in a process involving a manual touch point causes friction that costs time and money. Esker DeliveryWare reduces this friction, helping companies maximize profitability by automating and streamlining document-intensive business processes from beginning to end. Download this white paper to learn how Esker's DeliveryWare can save your company time and money.
• Maximizing Site Visitor Trust Using Extended Validation SSL
  Legitimize trust in e-business with new Extended Validation SSL Certificates. Extended Validation SSL triggers a green address bar in Microsoft IE7, which helps prove site identity. Get the green bar and higher sales by reading the technical white paper: Maximizing Site Visitor Trust Using Extended Validation SSL.
• Mobile Marketing based on ToruCa
  This white paper introduces ToruCa, an information capture service for mobile phones, developed by NTT DoCoMo, Japan's leading mobile carrier. ToruCa service is enabled through NTT DoCoMo's credit card payment platform called iD. Recently McDonald's Holdings in Japan announced that it will install iD platforms to its outlets to allow payments with mobile phones and jointly promote marketing with NTT DoCoMo using ToruCa as a marketing tool. The partnership between McDonald's and NTT DoCoMo is presented as an example in this white paper to explain about mobile marketing based on ToruCa.
• RFID: A Business Revolution Providing Strategic and Competitive Advantage
  RFID technology has been in use for many years, but is now finding a mass-market application in supply chain and asset management systems. Currently, the majority of focus is at the palette or case level while individual RFID tagging is reserved for more expensive items. Businesses using RFID will require applications that can manage massive data flows. It may be more cost-effective to build these elements into the network. Providers are offering assessment, design, implementation, and end-to-end managed RFID services.
• Extreme Transaction Processing: Technologies to Watch
  Extreme transaction processing (XTP) is an emerging application style aimed at enabling the implementation of large-scale, business-critical, transactional applications on the basis of distributed architectures implemented by leveraging commodity hardware and standards-based software. This Gartner research discusses a set of emerging XTP-enabling technologies, including Azul Compute Appliances.
• Webcast: The Growing Need for Extreme Transactional Processing (XTP) in the Real-Time Enterprise
  This on-demand Webcast from Azul Systems features Massimo Pezzini, Research VP and Distinguished Analyst for Gartner. Pezzini discusses Extreme Transactional Processing (XTP) and how it enables companies to respond faster to business events. He also describes the business drivers behind the escalation of transactional workloads and explains why Gartner is expecting the deployment of Java-based transactional processing applications to double by 2011. Joining Pezzini is Ram Appalaraju, VP of Marketing for Azul Systems, who highlights how Azul Compute Appliances can help you make the most of your business-critical Java investments.