IDC analyses IAM buying criteria and deployment at Coppin State University. Coppin State replaces "first generation" IAM solution to obtain benefits needed for today's agile enterprise: ease of integration, rapid deployment, simplified compliance, flexibility.

Based on research conducted by Frost & Sullivan, the white paper discusses impacts of collaboration on business performance. These impacts are based on a Collaboration Index, which measures how collaborative businesses are, and illuminates the relationship between collaboration and business performance. Is also explores the enterprise needs for joint work and how study respondents see collaboration meeting them. Finally, the paper outlines conclusions and implications about collaboration and how it can improve business performance. Free with registration, compliments of Microsoft.

This IDC white paper reveals research that supports a model designed to assist organizations in assessing how well they are maximizing the potential business value of integrated communications solutions. IDC Canada set out to measure the relationship between best practices and the business value derived from communications solutions implemented by Canadian organizations. Free with registration, compliments of Telus.

An interruption to the continuous operations of business can come at any time, take a range of forms, and have varying degrees of impact. This IDC white paper is the second of a three-part series which together explore good planning, future direction and options available to businesses in preparing their business resilience, IT security and disaster recovery plans.

The third of a three-part series of IDC whitepapers that examine the risk management challenges facing organizations today, the threats posed by inadequate IT security (people, process and technology), inadequate adherence to the various and growing list of regulations. It describes how organizations can mitigate the potential damage caused by these factors through outsourcing all or part of their IT security requirements to a Managed Security Service Provider.

This paper is a guide to understanding the role of the IT department in the management of electronic documents and support of e-discovery, given new legislature described as "SOX for the CIO".

The time to develop a plan of action for the Canadian rules on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("CSOX") was December 31, 2006, and to put them into operation by end of December, 2007. This paper seeks to show how the Canadian Securities Administrators' rules map to the equivalent US legislation, and how ESM can help in managing CSOX compliance in Canada..

Organizations need to be prepared for the receipt of the 'nightmare access letter' from an irate consumer who knows a little too much about privacy and information technology. This white paper provides an overview of the principles relating to safeguarding and access and includes an example of an access letter, offered as a tool for C-level executives on the forefront of dealing with privacy breach fallout.

IT Risk is a growing component of total Operational Risk. IT Risk Management, which includes security, availability, performance and compliance elements, each with its own drivers and capacity for harm, is emerging as a separate practice. This study examined IT Risk, along with the technology and process controls used to mitigate it, in a year-long study based on in-depth structured interviews with more than 500 IT professionals around the world. Download this comprehensive report now.