Oracle Announces Next Generation of Oracle® Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics

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Oracle Announces Next Generation of Oracle® Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics

New Features Expand Visibility into Clinical Programs to Help Increase Productivity and Clinical Effectiveness while Helping to Reduce Costs

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Focused on helping health sciences organizations increase the productivity and effectiveness of their product development programs, Oracle Health Sciences today introduced the newest version of Oracle® Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics.

Driven by input from industry partners, the comprehensive business intelligence application includes new functionality that expands visibility into clinical programs and studies, improves the quality and timeliness of clinical trial data and helps to simplify and prioritize the rapidly expanding responsibilities of study managers, clinical data managers, and site monitors.

The enhanced solution helps to increase resource utilization by delivering advanced dashboards specifically tailored to clinical trial roles. It features expanded drill-down functionality and key performance indicators that identify areas requiring action or attention, such as targeting underperforming sites.

The solution enables organizations to merge data from multiple clinical trial sources, providing a unified view across operational systems on a single screen. New de-duplication technology supports reports that combine both clinical operations and data management information to monitor enrollment progress, optimize productivity at site visits and help to reduce monitoring-related travel expenses.

Oracle Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics also delivers visibility across the entire portfolio of clinical trials, which enables greater insight into subject recruitment and site performance to empower managers and clinical monitors to better target resources to key sites which will help accelerate trial completion.

With more than 100 pre-built reports and over 500 pre-built measurements and attributes for custom reporting, Oracle Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics can provide immediate business benefit out of the box, while providing an extensible framework for adding additional metrics aligned to targeted business processes.

• To enable anytime, anywhere access, the solution can be used in conjunction with Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile application for Apple iPhone and iPad to give mobile users access to the latest performance management information.

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“Clinical trial sponsors and their CRO partners, navigating increasingly complex and lengthy development cycles, are intently focused on improving data quality and clinical program productivity while reducing costs,” said Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “The newest version of Oracle Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics, which features integrated content, expanded dashboards, and optimized reporting, delivers the insight that study sponsors, managers, and monitors require to achieve these goals and accelerate the delivery of new products to the market.”

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American Restaurant Industry Starts to Simmer, Says GE Capital

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27 March 2012

American Restaurant Industry Starts to Simmer, Says GE Capital

Increased consumer spending and foot traffic boost expectations

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--27 March 2012-- The American restaurant industry is starting to simmer. Consumers are spending more on meals, and foot traffic at establishments is improving, albeit from a diminished base, according to the 22nd edition of the Chain Restaurant Industry Review, released at this week’s Restaurant Leadership Conference by GE Capital, Franchise Finance. As sales trends recover, operators are translating those positive feelings into a greater willingness to invest in their businesses. And with increasingly accessible credit, they’re able to commit to higher capital expenditures.

“The restaurant industry has come through the upheaval of the past several years by listening closely to the consumer and adapting to their changing tastes – and they’ve done it well,” said Agustin Carcoba, president and CEO of GE Capital, Franchise Finance. “Depending on their segment, brand and focus, operators have emphasized food quality, service quality, menu options and other factors that will lead to renewed growth this year and in the years ahead. Even better, operators did it all while managing operational costs.”

Consumers spent $406.6 billion at restaurants in 2011. For 21 consecutive months, they spent more at restaurants than grocery stores, and that trend is expected to continue. Last year, quick-service restaurants (QSR) accounted for 48.0 percent of that figure, while full-service restaurants (FSR) counted for 48.1 percent. The QSR category includes limited service, fast casual, take-out locations and snack and non-alcoholic beverage bars, while FSR includes family, casual, high-end casual and fine dining establishments.

Operators’ improved expectations can be partially attributed to positive results that were sustained throughout last year. QSR same-store sales grew 3.2% last year – ahead of the FSR rate of 2.4%. QSR benefitted from eight consecutive periods of growth due to more consistent traffic, while FSR relied more on menu price increases and higher average checks.

“Restaurateurs are no longer in survival mode; now they’re planning for the future,” said Trey Brown, commercial leader of GE Capital, Franchise Finance. “To capture that growth and maintain a competitive advantage, they’re investing in their businesses by building new stores, remodeling existing ones or investing in new equipment.”

The level of liquidity available in the restaurant space continues to improve. Merger and acquisition activity – an indicator of the popularity of the restaurant industry among investors – increased last year. Total syndicated volume in the restaurant space increased more than 26% to almost $12 billion in 2011. Strategic buyers returned, such as American Blue Ribbon Holdings LLC, Darden Restaurants and Landry’s Inc. Private equity firms were also active; for example, Golden Gate Capital acquired California Pizza Kitchen.

“We expect restaurants to continue to be appealing acquisition targets because of the ongoing increases in food dollars spent away from home, as well as the scalability of this business model,” Brown added.

About GE Capital, Franchise Finance

GE Capital, Franchise Finance is a leading lender for the franchise finance market via direct sales and portfolio acquisition. With more than 30 years of experience and $10 billion in served assets, we serve over 3,000 customers and over 18,000 property locations. We specialize in financing mid-market operators with multiple stores in the restaurant and hospitality industries. Our team of industry experts will work with you to help develop your own growth plan with access to our proprietary industry research and customized tools. More information is available atwww.gefranchisefinance.com.

GE Capital offers consumers and businesses around the globe an array of financial products and services. For more information, visitwww.gecapital.com or follow company news via Twitter (@GECapital).

GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.

Nikon Corporation Takes Control of eDiscovery Process with Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform

Nikon Corporation Takes Control of eDiscovery Process with Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Mar. 26, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Nikon Corp (TYO: 7731), the leading Japanese manufacturer of optical instruments, has chosen Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform for in-house eDiscovery. Nikon is leveraging Symantec’s flexible, cross-border solution to perform early case assessments and first-pass review in order to mitigate risk and reduce the overall costs of eDiscovery. With Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform, Nikon is able to rapidly and accurately filter, process, search and analyze data in multiple formats and languages.

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“Using Symantec’s Clearwell product in-house allows us to dramatically decrease costs associated with early case assessments,” said Takuya Shirahata, executive staff, 1st section, 2nd intellectual property department, Nikon Corporation. “Processing and analyzing the increasing volume of data for our case is a huge undertaking, but with the help of Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform we are able to process the data in a matter of days. The product’s easy to use interface, double-byte support and transparent search capabilities provide our legal team with quick and continuous visibility into case facts, which allows us to meet appointed deadlines and stay within budget.”

Japanese customers continue to select Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform for the product’s battle-tested technology and features that provide critical capabilities such as robust support for double-byte and Japanese encodings. In addition, the product provides the flexibility necessary for cross-border eDiscovery cases typically faced by Japanese customers, where litigation often demands multi-jurisdictional support and requires data to be processed in Japan and other countries such as the United States. For instance, Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform can be deployed on a hosted basis or onsite, which allows eDiscovery to be conducted in Japan without having to send data to the U.S. for processing. This enables customers like Nikon to maintain control over potentially sensitive data and avail themselves of business hour support in-country.

“The global impact of litigation is leading corporations around the world to closely evaluate their eDiscovery strategies and take greater control of escalating costs,” said Trevor Eddy, senior director, Information Intelligence Group, Symantec Corp. “Through extensive research and development, Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform has been built to meet the unique eDiscovery needs of our Japanese customers. By bringing eDiscovery in-house, Nikon is able to leverage Symantec’s innovative technology to better manage the eDiscovery process and simultaneously reduce costs.”

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News Release from IBM - Smarter Computing

Leading Global Insurer Positions for Growth in Romania with IBM Smarter Computing

Real-time operational visibility helps SC AXA Life Insurance improve customer care and enterprise performance

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BUCHAREST, Romania - 14 Mar 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that AXA Insurance, a global insurer with over 95 million clients in 61 countries, has turned to IBM and its smarter computing model for a massive four-year systems integration project in Romania designed to streamline business processes, reduce IT costs, and uncover new business opportunities.

Romania's insurance sector is playing an increasingly significant role in the country's economy. Moves by the government to strengthen its regulatory body and increase program funding from the European Union are creating new demand for insurance coverage. Last year, for example, the government introduced compulsory home insurance regulation that covers approximately three million households. However, according to data recently released by the government-backed PAID Agency (Pool of Insurance Against Natural Disasters), currently there are only 510,000 insurance policies in the country.

To leverage this opportunity, New York-based AXA Insurance established a presence in Romania in 2009 by purchasing Omniasig Life Insurance. Then to integrate Omniasig's systems with its own, AXA turned to IBM Global Technology Services in Romania. Under the agreement signed last year, IBM will provide systems integration and management services to help streamline risk management, consolidate data to provide the company with a single view of customers, and work to lower operational costs by automating several pieces of the insurance process. IBM will facilitate the smarter computing project through its data center in Petrom City.

"While more businesses and individuals in Romania recognize the importance of having insurance coverage, penetration rates still have a considerable way to go if they are to reach those of developed markets," said  Violeta Ciurel, President and CEO, AXA Insurance Romania. "AXA Insurance Romania wants to be part of that growth in Romania."

Also as part of the agreement, IBM will migrate Omniasig's client system to a centralized ERP SAP solution and standardize business-use rules across IT applications to enable workload optimization and integration. The moves are designed to create a more open, flexible, scalable, efficient, and secure system that provides AXA Insurance Romania with greater visibility into, and control over, insurance policies as well as help reduce internal investment costs.

"IBM introduced its Smarter Computing approach to IT last year as a way for organizations to realize greater efficiencies, improved reliability and better performance, all at a lower cost," said Bogdan Balaci, Country General Manager, IBM Romania. "Through this engagement, AXA Insurance benefits from IBM's expertise in creating a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure that will enable the company's aggressive growth initiatives in the Romanian market."

News Release from Symantec - Runaway Data Growth

Symantec Helps Organizations Get Control of Runaway Data Growth

Data Insight 3.0 Creates Accountability for Unstructured Information Governance

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 12, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Data Insight 3.0, the latest version of its solution that improves information governance by providing intelligence into ownership and usage of unstructured data such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails. Enhancements to Symantec Data Insight help organizations transform storage operations and simplify information governance processes to reduce costs, reduce risk and achieve compliance.

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• New Release: Symantec Data Insight 3.0
• Creating Accountability to Take Control of Runaway Unstructured Data Growth

According to Gartner, the growth rate of data is 40 to 60 percent; but for unstructured data in the enterprise, the growth rate can be up to 80 percent¹ and is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and protect. IT organizations are faced with seemingly impossible data governance objectives to reduce costs, reduce risk and achieve compliance. IT lacks the business context for the data and must engage the data owners who best understand the value of the data. However, challenges in understanding who owns the data and how it is being used impact IT’s ability to operationalize data governance.

Symantec Data Insight addresses these challenges by continuously monitoring data usage and enabling rule-based inferences for data ownership. Understanding how data is being used enables effective unstructured data management operations – facilitating tasks such as reclamation and chargeback. By assigning data ownership, IT organizations can establish a framework for collaboration with the business to address data governance objectives. Since the initial launch, Symantec has seen broad adoption and use of Data Insight to reduce storage costs, simplify protection of critical data, and meet compliance.

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Transform Storage Operations

Symantec Data Insight’s detailed data usage analytics of unstructured data, such as growth, frequency of access, inactive data, and user activity are essential to reducing storage costs and streamlining unstructured data storage operations such as reclamation, tiering, migration to cloud storage and capacity planning. Rapid growth of unstructured data and the emergence of Big Data are significantly increasing the magnitude of the operations challenge. Data Insight is particularly well-suited to support large-scale data management operations with its highly scalable and parallel architecture. With optimizations in collection, indexing and query algorithms, Data Insight delivers actionable analytics with enhanced performance across large data sets.

Empower the Business

Symantec Data Insight helps storage, security and compliance professionals empower the data owners inside the business to better manage and protect unstructured data through a new data custodian management feature.

• Data Custodian Management: Data Insight helps automate the discovery and management of custodians for unstructured data within the business. IT can automatically engage the business owners or custodians with valuable usage, permissions, and classification reporting and analytics, empowering the business to become better stewards of an organization’s resources.
• Managing Data Growth: Data Insight automates custodian reviews of inactive or orphan data facilitating storage remediation actions, such as deletion, archival, or migration as well as assisting with data retention guidelines based on data ownership classification. Data Insight’s ownership and usage capabilities help organizations build a consumption-based chargeback model to promote accountability for efficient use of the storage.
• Protecting Confidential Data: Symantec continues to strengthen the integration between Symantec Data Insight and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. Features such as risk scoring and sensitive data alerts, combine Data Loss Prevention’s content-awareness with Data Insight’s usage and permissions analysis to help prioritize remediation of data based on risk. Data Insight’s custodian management feature will streamline the risk remediation process, especially important given the rapid growth of unstructured data.
• Governing Access to Data: Through Data Insight’s integration with the Aveksa Access Governance suite, organizations can easily establish business processes to control who can access key data resources across the enterprise. By incorporating the ownership and access information discovered by Symantec’s Data Insight into the Aveksa system, organizations can more easily and efficiently achieve compliance and better enforce access policies.

Comprehensive Coverage

Data Insight 3.0 now features a new integration point with Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0. Customers using Storage Foundation for file serving can now leverage Data Insight for their data management needs. Data Insight also features enhanced operations for NetApp network attached storage (NAS) and expanded coverage to support both CIFS and NFS protocols.

Data Insight provides comprehensive support for leading platforms such as NetApp NAS, EMC NAS, Windows File Servers, Microsoft SharePoint, and Unix File Servers with Veritas Storage Foundation file system. Data Insight also provides support for leading directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, and NIS/NIS+.

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• “Data Insight has given us a better understanding of how unstructured data is being created, used, stored, and retained,” said Starla Rivers, Sr. Information Security Architect, Sharp HealthCare. “With the integration between Data Insight and Symantec’s Data Loss Prevention solution, we are able to identify and manage data by content, access, age and risk. This allows us to work with the business custodians to protect that data through tighter access controls and a clean-up process. This is helping us with our data governance objectives of gaining efficiency and reducing risk.”
• “NetApp and Symantec are committed to delivering innovative solutions that help our mutual customers employ new strategies to manage, retain and protect growing data volumes,” said Chris Cummings, vice president, products and solutions marketing, NetApp. “The combined strengths of Symantec Data Insight integrated with NetApp’s high performance storage systems enables organizations to better understand who owns information, how it’s being accessed, and how it’s being used to accelerate the business. This in-depth understanding helps customers efficiently manage data growth, make better decisions and drive successful business outcomes at the speed of today’s business.”
• “Data Insight provides visibility into the who and how as context to 'eating the elephant.’ Our enterprise customers large and small find the task of classifying information somewhat insurmountable based upon volume, complexity, and lack of visibility,” said Marc Johnson, Practice Director for Data Center Management and Storage, Creative Breakthroughs, Inc. “Data Insight’s ownership and usage analytics help organizations link security, storage, and compliance in an unprecedented way. Never before have the walls crumbled between IT security and IT storage the way that Data Insight incites.”
• “With Symantec Data Insight and Aveksa integrated together, organizations can safely and efficiently delegate access decisions to the line-of-business custodians, while ensuring compliance with controls and constraints defined by Information Security,” said Deepak Taneja, CTO at Aveksa. “Symantec Data Insight provides information on data resource ownership, classification and usage, and Aveksa leverages this to provide business-user-friendly access activities, including certification, access request, and access remediation. The end result is a full lifecycle management system for controlling enterprise access to applications and data. ”
• “Data Insight demonstrates innovation and integration across Symantec’s security and storage portfolio,” said Vivian Tero, Program Director for Governance, Risk and Compliance, IDC. “Data Insight’s data ownership and usage analysis benefits both storage and security stakeholders, by enabling efficient management of data growth to reduce cost and simplifying protection of sensitive data, regardless of where it is stored.”
• “It is difficult for most organizations to identify the data owners for a majority of the unstructured data in their organization,” said Don Angspatt, vice president, product management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec Corp. “Data Insight 3.0 enables our customers to not only identify data owners but also automatically engage them to reduce storage management costs, achieve compliance, and facilitate data protection, thereby increasing the effectiveness of an organization’s data governance initiatives.”

Pricing and Availability

Data Insight is available immediately. Estimated pricing starts at $5,000 USD with either a per-User or per-TB licensing option.

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• Press Release: Symantec Takes On Unstructured Data with Data Insight for Storage
• Press Release: Symantec Simplifies the Detection and Protection of Enterprises’ Most Valuable Information
• Press Release: Symantec Answers “Whose Data Is It Anyway?”

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Dell Helps Insteel Industries, Inc. Improve IT Efficiency While Reducing Costs

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Date : 3/7/2012

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• Manufacturing company chooses Dell and Dell Services for solutions from the desktop to the data center
• Dell enables Insteel Industries, Inc. to increase IT flexibility and agility, allowing for a rapid, two-business-day systems transition during an acquisition
• Insteel moves from RISC architecture to Dell x86 standardized platforms

Dell is enabling Insteel Industries, Inc., one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of steel wire reinforcing products for concrete reinforcing, to drive IT efficiency while providing a flexible infrastructure that can adapt quickly to immediate and changing demands. By implementing Dell solutions and services, Insteel increased manageability and reliability across its data centers, and will save more than $70,000 on maintenance costs by replacing aging equipment with new servers.

Insteel relies on technology solutions in the manufacture of its products 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Faced with a client refresh cycle and integration of a recent acquisition, the company selected Dell to help drive technology standardization across its nine manufacturing facilities to have better control over manageability and reliability of IT assets.

The infrastructure consists of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Dell PowerVault™ Storage, Dell Latitude™ laptops, Dell OptiPlex™ desktops and is complemented with deployment processes and onsite support from Dell Services.

Keeping facilities running 24/7
Viewing technology as delivering a competitive advantage, Insteel relies on Dell PowerEdge servers in all of its locations. The company deployed Dell PowerVault MD storage arrays and terminal servers to support flexible computing on the plant floor with easily expandable and high-performance infrastructure. Dell is also helping Insteel save time and increase efficiency as it transitions to Windows Server 2008r2. With new virtualized architecture, Insteel does not have to deploy new hardware as it moves off the Windows Server 2003 platform.

To support its ERP system, the company is transitioning from using PA-RISC platforms to Dell PowerEdge servers. This transition is expected to save the company about $70,000 on hardware maintenance costs over five years.

Insteel relies on Dell ProSupport™ for onsite service for its servers, desktops and laptops, helping to ensure mission-critical uptime in its plants. 

Maintaining remote client management
At the close of a recent acquisition, Insteel needed to bring new employees onto its network immediately. Through the Dell Ships Fast program, the company received Latitude laptops within 48 hours. Insteel then configured the systems, sent them out and created a mobile command post at each acquired facility. The acquisition closed on a Friday and by Monday each mobile command post was connected to Insteel’s network with its products shipped out of the company’s ERP system day one after the acquisition.

For the hardware refresh in the facilities, Insteel needed PCs with a small form factor due to limited space. After evaluating several options, the company selected Dell OptiPlex small form factor desktops. The OptiPlex desktops also offered the robust remote management capabilities Insteel required, enabling IT staff to resolve issues by remotely controlling client machines in multiple locations.

To accelerate deployment of the desktops, Insteel engaged Dell Deployment Services and used Dell Factory Image Load. The OptiPlex desktops were preconfigured with the company’s image, which saved 30 minutes of configuration time for each system. Dell Deployment Services managed the onsite installation of new PCs, enabling Insteel to get a complete facility up and running in eight to 12 hours. As a result, the company rolled out more than 80 Dell OptiPlex PCs in a four-week period and avoided having to add additional IT staff.

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“We look for a technology provider who can pretty much bring the complete solution to the table all at one time, and Dell was the natural choice for the business. The simpler we can keep our environment, the more easily our small staff can deploy packages, do operating system upgrades and troubleshoot problems. IT management is simplified and we feel like that gives us a competitive edge.” - Mark Coleman, Manager of Systems and Database Administration, Insteel Wire Products

“Our work with Insteel Industries is a true example of an end-to-end partnership,” said Bill Popp, Dell’s vice president of Manufacturing Sales. “From servers to storage, laptops to desktops and Dell Services at every point in between, our work with Insteel shows that making improvements throughout the entire IT infrastructure of a manufacturer can produce even greater results around efficiency and cost-savings. We have the expertise, solutions and hardware available to help at every step of a transition, which helped Insteel’s recent acquisition process take place faster and at a lower cost.”

“With a large scale deployment of several technologies as well as the integration of new employees from an acquisition, it could have been easy for a slight misstep to create major disruptions for Insteel,” said Doug Schmitt, vice president, Dell Services. “Dell Services provided deployment services and expertise to lower costs, avoid downtime and reduce installation times. Our onsite support helped ensure production was up throughout the transition and continues on an ongoing basis.”