D-Link Joins Forces with Leading Security Distributor Tri-Ed to Offer D-Link's Full Line of IP Surveillance Solutions to North America Security Integrators

D-Link Joins Forces with Leading Security Distributor Tri-Ed to Offer D-Link's Full Line of IP Surveillance Solutions to North America Security Integrators

D-Link's end-to-end IP surveillance solutions, including cameras, storage and switching, will be available on shelves at all 46 Tri-Ed branch locations across the U.S. and Canada

                                                                          

 

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Dec. 14, 2011 /CNW/ - D-Link, the cost-effective, standards-based unified networking solutions provider for small business and medium enterprise IT environments, today announced a partnership with Tri-Ed, the largest independent security distributor in North America. Security integrators will have access to D-Link's end-to-end portfolio of business class surveillance solutions and Professional Services through Tri-Ed's extensive network of security system integrators, with stock hitting the shelves later this month.

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Through this partnership, D-Link joins Tri-Ed's group of industry leading manufacturers offering IP, CCTV, access control, intrusion, sound, communications, structured cable, and home automation products. As the largest independent North American security distributor, Tri-Ed offers greater value and convenience for its customers and suppliers, with 46 locations across the U.S. and Canada.

"Tri-Ed prides itself on providing security integrators with industry-leading solutions from leading manufacturers, and D-Link is no exception," said Paul Swan, Tri-Ed's vice president of sales and marketing. "Through its Professional Services program, breadth of products, end-to-end solutions and ease-of-integration in what is a rapidly growing market, D-Link offers our customers a wide range of solutions to meet their needs."

"D-Link is committed to the physical security market, designing its IP surveillance solutions with the features that meet customer requirements, including industry leading camera technology and best-of-breed software compatibility for easy integration into existing security platforms," said Albert Ling associate vice president of North America Business Development, for D-Link. "We are excited to offer our IP surveillance solutions through Tri-Ed, expanding our reach into this market and providing existing D-Link reseller partners with additional value."

Easy Transition to IP with Professional Services

The IP surveillance market continues to grow, with IMS Research forecasting IP cameras to outsell analog beginning in 2014[1]. However, industry experts also recognize some security integrators are hesitant to make the switch from CCTV because they do not have expertise in IP networking. D-Link's Professional Services program provides a wealth of high-value presale, installation and post-sale support services, including access to experts who are uniquely qualified to assess a customer's application requirements and assist with simple and complex installations, including multi-location IP surveillance installations. Security integrators can leverage Professional Services for added profitability as they develop their own IP practice.

End-to-End Solutions Are Easy to Integrate
Known as the leader in IP networking[2], D-Link is the only company to offer small- to medium-sized businesses a complete end-to-end IP surveillance solution, including cameras, network switches, wireless access points and a variety of network storage solutions designed specifically with video archival in mind. Security integrators will benefit from the company's industry-leading camera technology, which includes feature-rich megapixel IP cameras in the most sought-after form factors including box, dome, bullet, cube, pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) and speed dome. Further, D-Link recently announced the DSN-4000 series xStack® Storage iSCSI SAN Array family and the ShareCenter® Pro family of unified network storage solutions which are well suited for archiving video, and delivering performance, scalability and ease-of-deployment.

Availability
Tri-Ed customers will have access to D-Link's complete IP solutions portfolio, with products available in its U.S. and Canadian branch locations, beginning later this month. For more information about D-Link's IP surveillance offerings, visit http://ipsurveillance.dlink.com.

About D-Link

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2011, D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for home, small business, mid- to large-sized enterprise environments, and service providers. An award-winning designer, developer, and manufacturer, D-Link implements and supports unified network solutions that integrate capabilities in switching, wireless, broadband, storage, IP Surveillance, and cloud-based network management.  For more information visit www.dlink.com, www.dlink.ca or connect with D-Link on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dlink) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/dlink).

ShareCenter, xStack, D-Link and the D-Link logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of D-Link Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other third-party marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2011.D-Link. All Rights Reserved.

 

[1] IMS Research: The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment, July 2011

[2] Gartner Market Share: Enterprise Ethernet Switches Worldwide, 2010, March 2011 Research Report

 

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4G LTE Revenues Projected to Exceed $265 Billion Globally in 2016, finds Juniper Research

 

Early traction expected in the enterprise segment

Hampshire, UK - 14th December 2011: According to a new report from Juniper Research, worldwide service revenues generated by LTE mobile networks are forecast to grow rapidly once networks are launched, exceeding $265 billion by 2016. Whilst the total number of LTE consumer subscribers will be higher than enterprise in 2016, it is a different picture from a revenues viewpoint, with the consumer segment accounting for under half of total revenues.

Tiered usage plans to attract premium users

The introduction of premium service tariffs to provide high end enterprise users with required guaranteed connections and/or service levels was identified as key to derive incremental revenues for LTE.

The new 4G LTE Strategies Report found that early LTE adopters will be “top end” users who are currently in the higher echelons of monthly spend. This will be the case in developing countries as much as in developed countries. Report author Nitin Bhas added: “We believe that high end enterprise users in developing countries will be much closer in spend to similar users in North America or Western Europe and certainly very distinct from the bulk of the population that contribute towards the high level regional ARPU levels for all generations, including 2G.”

LTE business models – opportunities aplenty

In its benchmark report, Juniper Research examines the LTE revenue opportunity, evaluating four service pricing scenarios and three business models based on service usage. High traffic subscribers using video, web and email services will be the critical early adopter segment to benefit from LTE. All scenarios demonstrated the potential to generate incremental revenues and ARPU.

Other findings

·         LTE enterprise ARPU is forecast to experience lower rate of decline than consumer ARPU.

·         Western Europe, North America and Far East & China will account for approximately 84% of total revenue worldwide by 2016.

·         LTE service revenue to represent in excess of 26% of total service revenues from all mobile services across all generations by 2016.

Mobile Research

The LTE ~ Global Standard, Global Revenues whitepaper is available to download from the Juniper website together with further details of the full study.

Juniper Research provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing consultancy, analyst reports and industry commentary.

Jessica Hanslip

Juniper Research

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jess.hanslip@juniperresearch.com

Veeam Releases Data Protection Survey

 STUDY REVEALS NEED FOR CHANGE IN ENTERPRISE

DATA PROTECTION STRATEGY

Veeam’s 2011 Virtualization Data Protection Report Offers Insights

Into Enterprise-level Server Replication

 

Columbus, OH, Dec. 13 2011 – Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today released the full findings from the “Virtualization Data Protection Report 2011”, its second annual report on the impact of virtualization on data protection, backup and recovery strategies.  According to the independent survey of 500 chief information officers (CIOs) virtualization has the potential to transform data protection. In order to achieve this, greater strides need to be made in server replication; particularly in support of disaster recovery, an area where IT risk is escalating.

 

Key findings were:

 

  • 94% of CIOs say virtualization can transform data protection strategies
  • Top three barriers preventing increased server replication include cost of hardware (given by 60% of respondents), cost of replication software (52%) and complexity (42%)
  • For enterprises that deploy server replication, in the event of outages CIOs estimate cost savings on average of $417,391 per hour
  • 87% of CIOs say that recovery times from large-scale disaster are growing as the number of business critical servers within the enterprise increases

 

“At a time when virtualization is helping drive greater efficiency in server costs, many would assume that some of these barriers to server replication would fall. However, this is simply not the case,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO, Veeam Software. “80% of CIOs said that due to the agent-based approach of traditional replication solutions, there is minimal difference between physical and virtual machines when it comes to the actual volume of data that can be replicated. From our perspective the key issue uncovered in our 2010 study remains in 2011: the physical world mindset is being applied to virtualization. This limits not only the true potential of the technology, but also enterprise efforts to improve data protection strategies.”

 

Server replication, unlike general backup, is a process of copying data to production standard hardware that can be brought quickly online in the event of an outage. The top reasons for server replication include: protection from data loss (given by 85% of respondents), protection from hardware failure (70%), protection from regular human error (49%) and protection from data centre failure (49%). Currently 22% of enterprises do not use such an approach. However, in those enterprises that do use server replication it only protects on average 26% of business critical servers.

 

Worryingly, CIOs estimate the cost of outage to the remaining 74% of the business critical server estate that is not replicated at $436,189 per hour. With the average server recovery time at 4 hours, this means that each major outage of business-critical data costs an enterprise over $1.7 million.

 

Timashev added:  “The report reveals that tough decisions are being made around what is deemed as truly business critical data. These decisions will become even more difficult as businesses generate more and more data and in turn expose greater risks. In fact the study revealed that in 79% of enterprises the current tools used for disaster recovery, a critical component of enterprise data protection strategy, will become less effective.”

 

Challenges such as these are highlighted in Veeam’s second annual survey report. The full report is available for download at www.veeam.com/survey.

 

About the survey

Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company, surveyed 500 CIOs from organisations across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France that employ more than 1,000 people. Request a copy of the full report by registering at www.veeam.com/survey.

 

About Veeam Software

Veeam Software develops innovative solutions for virtualization management and data protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Veeam Backup & Replication is the #1 VM backup solution. Veeam ONE is a single solution for real-time monitoring, capacity planning, change tracking, documentation, and management reporting of vSphere environments. Veeam nworks extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Learn more by visiting www.veeam.com.

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NetBase and SAP Join Forces to Deliver Social Media Analytics to Global Enterprises

NetBase and SAP Join Forces to Deliver Social Media Analytics to Global Enterprises

WALLDORF, Germany and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 12, 2011 - In order to help global enterprises capitalize on the use of social media data, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and NetBase today announced that SAP will resell NetBase's solutions as the SAP® Social Media Analytics application by NetBase.

SAP Social Media Analytics, sold and supported by SAP as a solution extension product, delivers marketers more accurate real-time analytics for understanding their markets and customers through the social Web. It processes billions of social media posts across millions of sites globally to extract structured insights and metrics that enterprises can use to quickly discover market needs and trends, quantify perceptions about products, services and companies, and effectively track their success in the market.

"The social Web provides marketers with an unprecedented opportunity to transform the way that we understand our consumers and go to market," said Stan Sthanunathan, vice president, Marketing Strategy and Insights, The Coca-Cola Company. "The companies that can listen carefully to what the market is saying, understand these perceptions clearly, and act confidently are the ones that will gain competitive advantage. Hundreds of solutions claim to capture consumer sentiment, but NetBase stands alone in its ability to help us get to the bottom of opinions, emotions and behaviors."

A Reliable Way to Make Smarter Business Decisions Faster
With real-time social insights, SAP customers will now have a fast, reliable way to:

  • Rapidly monitor and understand market reaction to new product launches
  • Quantify market perceptions about products, services and companies
  • More accurately identify strengths and weaknesses in competing products
  • Track the success of marketing campaigns
  • Discover insights and uncover trends in consumer preferences

"SAP customers have recognized that social media offers them great potential beyond listening to and engaging with their customers," said Sanjay Poonen, president, Global Solutions, SAP. "We believe that sophisticated sentiment analysis is at the core of a variety of business decisions. NetBase offers scalable, more accurate technology; tools that are easy to integrate with SAP solutions; and iterative analysis capabilities that will allow businesses to take advantage of social media as a strategic data source. By teaming with NetBase and other partners, we continue to offer customers increased choice and flexibility through our vibrant global partner ecosystem and further extends SAP's social enterprise strategy."

According to a report written by Zach Hofer-Shall, analyst at Forrester: "Too many companies remain trapped by merely monitoring or passively collecting social media. Few actually reach Social Intelligence: driving their marketing and business strategy using the data that social media creates. Today, companies underutilize social data and often leave it sitting in its own silo... By keeping social media in listening silos, [companies] are missing the biggest opportunity to connect social data with other customer data for deeper Social Intelligence." 1

Scalable Social Intelligence Platform for Understanding Market Sentiment, Perceptions and Passion
SAP Social Media Analytics is a cloud-based solution that is able to process more than 95 million social media posts per day. It uses an advanced natural language processing (NLP) engine to read and categorize each one of these posts according to the opinions, emotions and behaviors that the market is expressing. Unlike solutions that require the user to specify a subject before collecting data, more than one year's worth of this normalized data is available on demand in ConsumerBase, a massive social intelligence warehouse. Built-in dashboards tap into ConsumerBase to deliver up-to-date metrics that go far beyond social media buzz to contain a detailed breakdown of opinions, behaviors, sentiments, passion intensity and key conversation drivers, compared to the competition, with trending over time. Other tools require users to specify their subject and set up complex linguistic rules before they can begin collecting and analyzing data. With SAP Social Media Analytics, analysts can search ConsumerBase directly and conduct on-the-fly analysis on any subject of interest, applying multiple filters based on time, demographics or insight types and view individual source comments.

SAP and NetBase: Transforming Global Enterprises to the New Consumer-to-Business Operating Model
"Before social media, businesses were in control of their brand messaging," said Peter Caswell, CEO, NetBase. "Now, the market is saying what brands are really about. To keep ahead of the curve, next-generation companies need to adopt a new customer-to-business (C2B) operating model that runs at the speed of social media and can deliver what the market wants. NetBase has invested in the enterprise-ready social intelligence platform that C2B companies need. We are excited to be collaborating with SAP to help them make this transformation globally."

Visit the Ecosystem newsroom for more information on this announcement, including a video, "SAP and NetBase Team to Deliver Integrated Business and Social Analytics to the Enterprise," as well as blogs from Denis Descause, global business development lead for Ecosystem and Channels at SAP, and Lisa Joy Rosner, chief marketing officer at NetBase.

1Forrester Research, Inc., "The Road Map To Integrating Social And Customer Data" by Zach Hofer-Shall, October 25, 2011.

About NetBase
NetBase delivers the social intelligence that global enterprises need to make smarter business decisions faster, making it possible for them to become next-generation customer-to-business (C2B) companies. Built on the most advanced natural language processing (NLP) engine, our insight and analysis solutions help decision makers listen carefully to what consumers are saying on the social web, understand their opinions, passions, and behaviors, and act confidently to improve their social media P&L. Serving hundreds of corporate customers, our products were developed in partnership with five of the top 10 CPG companies, including Coca-Cola and Kraft, and are used by leading agencies, including GfK and J. D. Power & Associates. NetBase powers the weekly Sentiment Tracker report in the Wall Street Journal and its solutions are sold globally by SAP AG. For more information, visit www.netbase.com, @Net_Base, our Facebook page, LinkedIn, or YouTube.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 176,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of Sybase) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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Motorola Solutions’ MC2100 Mobile Computing Series Expands Industry Solutions Portfolio

Motorola Solutions’ MC2100 Mobile Computing Series Expands Industry Solutions Portfolio

Smaller, rugged device addresses growing value-tier mobile computing market and helps enterprises improve operational efficiency

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – Dec. 12, 2011Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, today introduced the MC2100 industrial mobile computing series, addressing the need for a smaller, rugged mobile computer that expands the range of solutions available for both large enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses.

MC2100 KEY FACTS

  • Motorola redefines the value tier for rugged mobile computers with five configurations of the MC2100 that include three different scan engines, options for batch and WLAN connectivity, and vertical-specific accessories.
  • The lightweight and ergonomic MC2100 is ideal for inventory management, stock replenishment, price marking, and shelf labeling.
  • The MC2100 will be the first value-tier rugged handheld in the mobile computing industry to support HTML5 via Motorola’s RhoElements application enablement framework.
  • The MC2100 mobile computing series leverages the same hardware platform as other Motorola mobile computing products to help simplify application support and integration into an enterprise environment.
  • Motorola’s MC2100 mobile computer will be available with the Service from the Start with Comprehensive Coverage program, providing coverage for normal wear and tear as well as accidental damage to internal and external components, significantly reducing unforeseen repair expenses.
  • Motorola’s MC2100 mobile computing series is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2012.

SUPPORTING QUOTES

Girish Rishi, corporate vice president and general manager of mobile computing, Motorola Solutions
“With the MC2100 mobile computing series, Motorola Solutions is leveraging its core mobile computing fundamentals and technology leadership to ensure value-tier and price-conscious customers will not have to compromise on ergonomics or functionality. The MC2100 will help improve operational efficiencies for our traditional enterprise customers and open up new market segments around the world from small- to medium-sized businesses.”

George Zicman, senior vice president of sales, Quest Solution
"We are excited about the opportunities in the marketplace with Motorola's new MC2100 mobile computer. The MC2100 satisfies the demand by many of our customers for a rugged mobile computer with a color touch screen, data capture capabilities and Wi-Fi at a very competitive price. In conjunction with our WTMiP communications software and our VIA suite of software solutions, the MC2100 is an excellent fit to manage inventories and improve efficiencies for our retail and pharmaceutical customer base."

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CA Technologies Unleashes Next Generation of Application Performance Management

CA Technologies Unleashes Next Generation of Application Performance Management

Industry’s First and Only Unified Application, Infrastructure and Network Performance Solution Helps Put Customers Firmly in Control of the End-User Experience

ISLANDIA, N.Y., December 13, 2011 – CA Technologies has unleashed the next generation of application performance management with the availability of CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) 9.1, the industry’s first and only unified application, infrastructure and network performance solution. CA APM gives customers better control of the end-user experience by providing improved visibility across hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

“Unlike vendor offerings that require multiple domain tools and costly IT resources, CA APM is a single product designed to deliver a complete, 360-degree view of the end-user experience by linking business transaction performance to the dependent application, network and infrastructure components,” said Mike Sargent, general manager, Service Assurance, CA Technologies. “This comprehensive view empowers customers to be in complete control of the end-user experience, and rapidly isolate, diagnose and resolve problems across disparate technology silos.”

Powered by its unique transaction model, CA APM provides a single source-of-truth on business transaction performance that helps customers to:

• Get better control of the end-user experience with an increased understanding of how application, network and infrastructure components affect service quality; how effective the network is at delivering applications to users; and how well the hybrid-cloud infrastructure is delivering against business objectives and SLAs;

• Boost IT productivity and increase collaboration among diverse IT teams responsible for assuring optimal performance of revenue-generating services, avoiding expensive and time-consuming war-room approaches to problem resolution; and

• Adapt to constantly changing IT environments and simplify management of complex, composite application infrastructures by monitoring all transactions from start-to-finish across physical, hybrid-cloud and mainframe environments.

“More than ever, an enterprise’s online presence is mission-critical for customer acquisition and retention, revenue generation, customer service, and positive brand equity,” said Andy Schroepfer, vice president, enterprise strategy, Rackspace. “For that reason, our Rackspace® Critical Sites offering is leveraging CA APM and other service assurance solutions from CA Technologies to accelerate enterprise IaaS and PaaS initiatives. Intertwining CA APM for optimizing the application performance into our complete hosting solution enables us to improve service quality, predictability and efficiency.”

With its holistic view, CA APM is supporting customers as they transition to delivering business services versus simply managing IT components. CA APM provides the critical “assure” element in the Business Service Innovation value roadmap customized for each customer’s business goals: new levels of speed, innovation, performance and cost/risk efficiencies.

Key new features and benefits of CA APM include:

Get Complete Control of the End-User Experience

• Unified End-User Experience Monitoring: Unifies end-user experience and network performance monitoring through a single appliance that provides a single source-of-truth on how network behavior impacts the end-user experience, making it faster and easier to identify, diagnose and resolve transaction performance problems caused by the network.

• Expanded Support for Adobe Flex and Non-Web Applications: Expands visibility into and monitoring of Flex and non-Web applications to provide a more complete view of the end-user experience across a broad range of Web, non-Web and rich Internet applications.

Enhance Visibility AcrossHybrid-Cloud Infrastructure

 Infrastructure-Aware Application Triage: Expands visibility into dependent hybrid-cloud infrastructure components to quickly identify, diagnose and resolve transaction performance problems caused by networks, servers and databases. Performance data and infrastructure events are presented in an intuitive graphical map that provides a 360-degree view of components impacting the end-user experience, empowering organizations to accelerate problem resolution, boost IT productivity and increase collaboration among diverse IT teams.

• Private-Cloud Application Triage: Expands visibility into virtual infrastructure to proactively identify, diagnose and resolve transaction performance issues in private-cloud environments. Performance data and virtual infrastructure events are presented in the same intuitive graphical map to pinpoint and fix problems before end-users and revenue-generating services are affected.

Optimize and Simplify APM for Rapid Time-to-Value and Higher ROI

• Lean Agent: Optimizes the industry-leading CA APM agent technology to run even more efficiently and effectively in large, production and pre-production environments.

• Bullet-Proof Management: Strengthens and optimizes the CA APM Enterprise Manager for large, heterogeneous and complex hybrid-cloud environments to deliver even more value and higher ROI.

CA APM monitors all web and non-web transactions in real time as they traverse the hybrid-cloud infrastructure (physical, virtual, cloud and mainframe) to help proactively identify, diagnose and resolve problems before end users are affected and assure service-delivery levels meet business objectives. By mapping all transactions to the supporting infrastructure, CA APM provides a thorough understanding of the end-user experience that allows application support and network operations teams to pinpoint failing components and bottlenecks quickly, identify high-value transactions that may be at risk and prioritize incidents based on business impact. This business-centric approach delivers the vital visibility required to optimize the performance of critical transactions and revenue-generating services, and put customers firmly in control of the end-user experience.

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About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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SAS and TransUnion Create Unique Consortium Designed Specifically to Combat Financial Fraud

 

SAS and TransUnion Create Unique Consortium Designed Specifically to Combat Financial Fraud


Service will leverage historical financial data to generate predictive models aimed at tracking down fraudsters more effectively

TORONTO, Dec. 13, 2011 /CNW/ - SAS Canada, the leader in business analytics software and services and TransUnion, a global leader in credit and information management, today announced the development of one of the first consortiums in Canada that will leverage anonymized credit file information, in conjunction with application and fraud data from participating financial institutions to greatly enhance fraud detection.

Through the consortium, participating institutions will have access to a service that leverages TransUnion's database containing more than 20 million consumer credit bureau files and employs SAS' proven fraud detection technology, which includes business rules, social network analysis, predictive modeling, and anomaly detection. This combination of existing credit bureau data, credit and loan application data, and advanced software framework will help financial institutions spot fraudulent activity, especially undetected connections that exist between members of fraud rings.

"As an industry leader in both fraud protection and detection for both business and consumers, TransUnion is pleased to working with SAS on this Consortium, helping to enable the industry to stay one step ahead in the ever-changing fraud environment," said Sonja Schindeler, TransUnion's vice president, fraud solutions. "This initiative will also help us set a benchmark for fraud going forward regarding the degree, impact and cost it is exacting on institutions at every level."

The solution will incorporate historical data from participating financial institutions, including approved and declined application data, as well as information on incidences of known fraud. This information, along with TransUnion's credit bureau information, and other TransUnion fraud data, will be incorporated into a predictive fraud identification model.  SAS advanced analytics will drive the modeling process.

"These criminals are smart so we need to modernize our approach to combating them", said Dan McKenzie, Financial Crimes Solutions Specialist for SAS Canada.  "This joint effort will combine cutting-edge technology with rich historical data to give Canada's financial institutions a much broader and more accurate picture of fraud."

SAS Social Network Analysis (SNA), integral to the solution's success, is a powerful tool for understanding the structure of social and organizational networks. Also known as Link Analysis, SNA is the mapping and measuring of relationships between people, groups, their organizations, as well as computers or other information and knowledge processing devices, such as cell phones. In short, it analyzes data and presents findings that reveal such connections as "who knows whom," "who calls whom," and "who does business with whom." SNA  provides a unique network visualization that enables investigators to actually see connection points so that they can uncover previously unknown relationships and conduct more effective investigations. This technology, coupled with TransUnion's robust bureau files, will significantly boost fraud detection by putting all of the relevant information at investigators' fingertips.

By getting meaningful and actionable information in a timely manner, the financial industry will be better positioned to reduce fraud and risk exposure on a variety of fraudulent activity including, first party fraud, suspicious applications, account takeovers, and fictitious IDs.

About TransUnion
As a global leader in credit and information management, TransUnion creates advantages for millions of people around the world by gathering, analyzing and delivering information. For businesses, TransUnion helps improve efficiency, manage risk, reduce costs and increase revenue by delivering comprehensive data and advanced analytics and decisioning. For consumers, TransUnion provides the tools, resources and education to help manage their credit health and achieve their financial goals. Through these and other efforts, TransUnion is working to build stronger economies worldwide. Based in Toronto, with global headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois, TransUnion provides service and support throughout Canada.  Visit www.transunion.ca to learn more.

About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

The Canadian subsidiary of SAS has been in operation for 23 years. Headquartered in Toronto, SAS employs 263 people across the country at its Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montréal and offices. www.sas.com

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EasyVista Expands Operations in Canada to Support Increase Demand

 

EasyVista Expands Operations in Canada to Support Increase Demand


NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2011 /CNW/ - EasyVista Inc., member of the Staff&Line Group, a global SaaS IT Service and Asset Management leader, expands its presence in Canada following the addition of two new data centers, with dedicated local customer support, partners, affiliates and consulting services to support increased demand in the Canadian IT Service Management market.

"EasyVista is committed to serving the Canadian market bringing decades of experience supporting SaaS, multi-lingual and bi-lingual IT Service Management requirements," said Evan Carlson, Vice President Sales, North America.

The expansion in Canada is consistent with EasyVista's strategy to meet the growing global requirements of their increasing SaaS customer base. EasyVista partners with Canadian –based, fully redundant datacenters that are SAS 70 TYPE II, Tier 3/Tier 4 compliant and CICA 5970 certified, providing local expertise, risk reduction, and Green IT management. Additionally, EasyVista is extending its local presence with dedicated technical customer support and consulting services.

Customers benefit from EasyVista's ITIL and ISO aligned best practices and value-added SaaS services as well as EasyVista's global Cloud Management Center (CMC) which provides performance analytics, global benchmarking and reporting as well as service level metrics, availability and access management.

About EasyVista Inc.:

At EasyVista Inc., we apply the benefit of more than 20 years expertise as a pure player in the IT Management space in order to 'Make IT Easy.' Our EasyVista solution is easier to deploy, use and maintain than other products in the market, without any compromise to features and functionality or performance.

EasyVista, which is available in SaaS mode or license mode, is ITIL v3 compatible certified on 15 service management processes and covers all aspects of IT Management (IT Service Management, IT Asset Management, CMDB, automatic inventory, user portal) in a single, integrated and modular solution.

EasyVista Inc. is part of the Staff&Line Group.  With over 60 certified partners worldwide Staff&Line Group has a direct presence in 6 countries (USA, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal) and customers in more than twenty countries. The company boasts over 800 customers in practically every vertical sector including: banking, insurance, financial services, public sector, retail, healthcare, utilities, telecoms  managed service providers and IT consulting.  Staff&Line Group is quoted on Alternext – EuroNext Paris.  For more information visit www.easyvista.com, our blog http://blog.staffandline.com or on twitter, @easyvista.

EasyVista Global and US Media contact:

Valerie Brodie
Senior VP Global Marketing
+1-914-844-9076
vbrodie@easyvista.com

 

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Microsoft and Nissan Establish Strategic Relationship for Next-Generation Dealer Management System

Microsoft and Nissan Establish Strategic Relationship for Next-Generation Dealer Management System
New solution based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM to support Nissan’s relationships with its customers and partners.

REDMOND, Wash., and YOKOHAMA, Japan — Dec. 11, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. today announced a strategic relationship to collaborate and create a next-generation dealer management system based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Using the powerful foundation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the automotive industry expertise of Nissan, the two companies will blend dealer and customer relationship management and social collaboration tools into a solution that will help Nissan develop a stronger relationship with its customers, drive dealer sales and increase market share on a global scale. The solution will then utilize the Windows Azure platform, taking advantage of the economies of scale and flexibility offered by Microsoft’s public cloud offerings.

“Customer loyalty and retention are essential to the success of any business. Microsoft Dynamics CRM helps businesses better understand and build deeper relationships with their customers and partners,” said Kirill Tatarinov, president, Microsoft Business Solutions. “We look forward to working with Nissan to deliver a solution that effectively connects with their customers and to win in today’s business environment while also helping organizations such as Nissan meet the specific needs of the automotive industry.”

“Nissan delivers some of the most innovative vehicles in the automotive industry, and we bring that same innovation and passion to ensure customer and partner satisfaction,” said Andy Palmer, executive vice president, Nissan. “We are delighted to be working with Microsoft to deliver the next-generation dealer management system. Nissan is seeking a solution that will help meet our business needs, especially to better understand our customers and dealers. This will enhance our sales and brand power as we enter a new growth phase under our midterm business plan, Nissan Power 88.”

The new dealer management system will initially be rolled out to Nissan’s dealership networks in Japan and other strategic regions across the globe. The system will have the flexibility to be customized for the needs of a specific country, region or automotive manufacturer, with broader availability to be explored in the future. Nissan also intends to explore how Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Windows Azure can work together as a platform to deploy applications across the company’s global network and to standardize its information architecture on the cloud.

More information about Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be found at http://crm.dynamics.com. Those who want to follow and engage with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM community can do so at @MSDynamicsCRM, using #MSDYNCRM.

More information on Windows Azure can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure.

More information on Nissan can be found at http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/index.html.

About Nissan

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Japan’s second-largest automotive company, is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, and is part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. Operating with more than 248,000 employees globally, Nissan provided customers with more than 4.1 million vehicles in 2010, generating revenue of 8.77 trillion yen ($102.37 billion US). With a strong commitment to developing exciting and innovative products for all, Nissan delivers a comprehensive range of 64 models under the Nissan and Infiniti brands. A pioneer in zero-emission mobility, Nissan made history with the introduction of the Nissan LEAF, the first affordable, mass-market, pure-electric vehicle and winner of numerous international accolades, including the prestigious 2011 European Car of the Year award and 2011 World Car of the Year. For more information on our products, services and commitment to sustainable mobility, visit our website at http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/.

About Microsoft Dynamics

Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP solutions empower your people to be more productive and your systems to last longer and scale as your business grows, while enabling you to derive the insights necessary to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Trend Micro 2012 Threat Predictions: Attacks to Take on More Sophistication

Trend Micro 2012 Threat Predictions: Attacks to Take on More Sophistication

OTTAWA, Dec. 12, 2011 /CNW/ - The New Year will see cybercriminals act with even more persistency and sophistication, as the world continues to shift from the PC-centric desktop toward mobile and cloud computing. IT administrators will be driven to approach security with a data-centric framework - protecting the data, not just the systems -- according to Trend Micro's threat researchers and analysts around the globe. The company has just released its "12 Threat Predictions for 2012" report. Trend Micro's "12 Threat Predictions for 2012" include:

1. The real challenge for data center owners will be the increasing complexities of securing physical, virtual, and cloud-based systems.

While attacks specifically targeting virtual machines (VMs) and cloud computing services remain a possibility, attackers will find no immediate need to resort to these because conventional attacks will remain effective in these new environments. Virtual and cloud platforms are just as easy to attack but more difficult to protect. The burden will fall on IT administrators to secure their company's critical data as they adopt these technologies.

2. Security and data breach incidents will force companies worldwide to face BYOD-related challenges.

The Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) era is here to stay. With more corporate data stored or accessed by devices that are not fully controlled by corporate IT departments, the likelihood of data loss incidents caused by improperly secured personal devices will rise.

3. Security vulnerabilities will be found in legitimate mobile apps, making data extraction easier for cybercriminals.

Mobile platform threats usually come in the form of malicious apps, but in the future, Trend Micro expects cybercriminals to go after legitimate apps, finding vulnerabilities or coding errors that can lead to data exposure or theft.

4. More hacker groups will pose a bigger threat to organizations needing to protect highly sensitive data.

Online groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec rose to prominence in 2011, targeting companies and individuals for various political reasons. These groups are likely to become even more motivated in 2012. They will become more skilled both at penetrating organizations and avoiding detection.

5. The new social networking generation will redefine "privacy."

Young social networkers have a different attitude toward protecting and sharing information: They are more likely to reveal personal information online to a wider audience beyond their friends. In time, privacy-conscious people will become the minority—an ideal prospect for attackers.

Watch CTO Raimund Genes expand upon these predictions with further insight and commentary in this new video here.

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