This white paper is a primer that explains exactly what podcasting is and how it can be used as an effective pharma communications tool. Podcasting for the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries also offers best practices guidelines for the creation and use of this new medium and links to healthcare industry websites that already deliver practitioner and consumer information via podcast.

Pharmaceutical & Biotech companies face challenges communicating with internal audiences, such as sales forces, researchers and clinicians, and external audiences, including physicians, KOLs and consumers. This white paper provides insight into how companies are using online events to achieve communication goals, and includes cost and benefit comparisons of web-based vs. face-to-face meetings for Direct-to-Physician Marketing, Sales Force Training, CME and Clinical Trials.

Small businesses are faced with a difficult task when it comes to selecting a business phone system. With VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, SMBs now have a cost effective, feature-rich alternative to traditional business phone systems. Learn how VoIP phone service offers businesses the flexibility to operate from geographically independent locations while providing powerful business class features and unlimited local and long distance calling for a low monthly fee.

More than just another technology, video conferencing and collaboration--together with data sharing and collaboration--allow increasingly dispersed organizations to pull their human and information resources together to create new ways of working, interacting, and responding to customers and partners. This guide discusses the tangible benefits of video conferencing and collaboration to drive organizational competitiveness.

For several years, the big question with Voice over IP (VOIP) was whether it actually worked, and if so, whether it worked well enough for corporate ears. Well, the answer is in: Yes! While voice typically is the first application implemented on a converged IP backbone, IT executives are beginning to explore new applications - such as video, unified communications, and other collaborative tools - that can also leverage the IP network.

Learn how BMC Transaction Management solutions provide a single, integrated view of your transactional data, the end user experience, and the IT infrastructure. This comprehensive solution enables you to improve customer service, identify and resolve problems faster, and streamline IT workflow. Find out more in this complimentary analyst white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, compliments of BMC Software.

Can new application delivery technologies eliminate slow application response times? In this report from IT experts at TCS, learn how to accelerate the performance of Oracle E-Business Suite by 15x.

This comprehensive report summarizes the results of several performance tests of the Oracle E-Business Suite, focusing on common Oracle transactions that substantially impact overall application response times.

In this eye-opening test summary from The Tolly Group, learn how a network appliance can accelerate the performance of both enterprise applications and public Web sites 15x or more.

This comprehensive report summarizes the results of a series of exhaustive tests designed to measure improvements in application performance achieved with a Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery system, a network appliance purpose-built to optimize the performance of applications. In technical detail, learn how the Citrix NetScaler solution accelerates the delivery of enterprise applications 15x or more, reduces user response times by 97%, and lowers bandwidth consumption by 98%, all without modifications to application code.

Learn how to address the common causes of poor Web application performance - low bandwidth, server resource constraints, security holes, and more - with a single solution.

A unified application delivery infrastructure enables dramatically increased application performance without the complexity and cost of deploying and maintaining multiple point products and technologies such as load balancers, SSL accelerators, or caching and compression technologies. Learn how to improve the performance of Web applications up to 15x and ensure continued application availability while dramatically reducing network complexity and operational costs.

In ?Achieving Compliance: Best Practices for Outward Bound Internet Content Protection?, you will find out how a best-practice information security framework will support the coordination of compliance strategy across multiple channels and guide control responses to multiple threats to all sorts of information assets.

This paper looks at the four major threat categories you should consider when architecting your XML Web services:

1. Message Transport Security
2. Denial of Service Protections
3. Content Based Attacks
4. People and Process

Mobile solutions can be built in many different ways, used on many different devices, operate over many different networks, and integrate with many different back-end systems.

This paper explores the differences between smart-client and thin-client mobile architectures, examining the details of common smart-client architectures in use today, including what type of back-end systems they integrate with, the types of devices they support, how data is managed within the architecture, and development languages that can be used to build the application.

In this report, you'll learn how Postini Encryption Manager offers an easier and more affordable method of securing email connections and content anytime, for any recipient, according to specified policies. The product gives message administrators unmatched flexibility and control to manage and enforce policy-based encryption without the cost and complexity typically associated with traditional PKI solutions.

This Postini white paper provides a concise summary of how message threats have evolved over the past year, changes in message management concerns and priorities, how organizations are responding to changes in message threats and regulations, and what to expect in 2006.

Two free white papers from Sonexis discuss the cost benefits and security implications of audio and web conferencing systems.

In most organizations, once conferencing is available, it becomes an integral part of business communications, and that's where the dollars start adding up - quickly. Make an informed decision and prevent overspending with this detailed white paper, Selecting a Cost-Effective Conferencing Solution.