White papers examine current industry trends, products, and innovations. Here are some recent Infogix white papers, written by industry analysts – or Infogix experts.
March 2008, Infogix
Significant Information Risk Exposure Threatens Your Next Compliance Audit
Application-centric views of IT processing yield controls that lie within applications. Major unchecked sources of risk continue to exist between applications. This white paper discusses the significant information risk points found between applications and the characteristics of automated control systems that best mitigate information risk.
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October 2007, Infogix
Information Integrity: The Next Frontier for Data Warehouse Managers
Despite millions of dollars of investment, information within typical data warehouses continues to be inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent with source systems. As a result, consumers of reports and information from Data Warehouses experience low confidence and distrust. This white paper explores causes and suggests remedies that align data warehouses with principles of Information Integrity.
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May 2007, Infogix
Information Integrity: A Prerequisite for Other Information Management Initiatives
This white paper explains the complementary nature that Information Integrity solutions have in enabling the success of other key information management initiatives such as Business Intelligence (BI), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), and others.
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April 2007, Infogix
The Information Integrity Difference
This white paper explains what makes Information Integrity different from several other contemporary information technology offerings. Frequently, the promotional literature of information management products describe products that provide for enhanced data quality. This paper highlights differences between Information Integrity and Data Quality as well as clarifying the differences between Information Integrity Solutions and the capabilities of products outside the Information Integrity market space.
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August 2006, Infogix
What You Don't Know Does Hurt You: Five Critical Risk Factors in Data Warehouse Quality
This white paper exposes five of the top risk factors associated with today's complex data warehouses. It also outlines a strategy for addressing those risk factors and others. By understanding these risk factors and taking informed action to eliminate them, businesses will be able to avoid wasteful spending, improve total performance, and better maintain regulatory compliance.
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August 2006, Infogix
Life and Health Claims Monitoring Solutions
When it comes to life and health insurance, new trends in Medicare Part D and health savings accounts (HSA) create an opportunity for errors to enter the data system. Automated controls manage these areas accurately and expeditiously. When insurance companies use proven Infogix solutions, they improve operational efficiencies and reduce leakage.
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August 2006, Infogix
Property and Casualty Claims Monitoring Solutions
The property and casualty sector has a basic reason for needing error-free data – to improve their operational processes, secure increasing profits, and retain existing customers while they acquire new ones. Infogix is a leading provider of property and casualty claims monitoring solutions for managing transactions across complex processes. Its automated information controls enable insurance carriers to achieve real-time continuous visibility of all systems and transactions, ensuring claims are settled accurately and paid promptly.
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August 2006, Jim Jones, Perennius Ensemble
Controls for High Value Payments
This white paper identifies the characteristics of High Value (or Large Value) payments. It also demonstrates that traditional controls are "too little, too late" to manage the real-time processing of such transactions, and recommends a set of new controls to address the shortcomings.
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August 2006, Jim Jones, Perennius Ensemble
Operational Risk in Payment Systems
This white paper investigates the operational risks associated with the processing of payments. It also clarifies why traditional controls are no longer adequate to handle faster, and in some cases, real-time processing cycles, and recommends a new series of controls – known as Parallel, Autonomous Audit – as the solution to these problems.
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July 2006, Infogix
The Information Integrity Imperative
This white paper examines several dimensions of Information Integrity. It then explains why it is imperative that we mobilize interest, support, and appropriate resources to create and implement a new universal framework for achieving Information Integrity.
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April 2006, Infogix
Automated Operational Risk Controls
Operational risk is anything that is not a market or credit risk. It can be an isolated incident – such as a problem that causes a system to go down – or a pattern of repeated incidents that are both time consuming and threatening. Learn how applying automated controls at critical risk points to monitor vital information, processes, controls, and KRIs – in all applications, on all major computing platforms – can lower your operational risk.
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April 2006, Infogix
Automated Balancing and Reconciliation Solutions
Balancing and reconciliation errors often have serious repercussions. But even when they don't, the mere possibility of errors can cause management, customers, and stockholders to lose faith in key information. Learn how automated controls can help you balance data against all sources, platforms, and lines of business. And assure that the information you count on is accurate, consistent, and reliable.
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April 2006, Infogix
Automated Data Warehouse Information Validation Solutions
Today, companies like yours use data warehouses to make many key business decisions. And since bad data leads to bad decisions, assuring the accuracy of the information in your data warehouses is a key business requirement – and a huge challenge. Learn how automated controls from Infogix can help ensure the accuracy of the your data warehouse information.
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March 2006, Jim Jones, Perennius Ensemble
Controls on Payments in the Back Office of Banks
This Paper reviews the controls invented to manage financial transactions from earliest recorded times, and demonstrates how they have grown in a haphazard fashion through the centuries. It then looks at the advent of computer systems, and shows that they started by mimicking controls found in the manual systems.
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March 2006, Infogix
Automated Payments Monitoring Solutions from Infogix
For most banks, their payments systems exist in "silos" due to acquisitions, disparate operations in different geographies, or legacy payment products that they have not integrated in any way. Learn how Infogix solutions focus on the information inside the payments process – not just the process itself – to ensure that all of your payments information and transactions are accurate.
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March 2006, Infogix
Integrity and Internal Control in Modern Banking Systems
This paper examines the nature of controls traditionally applied in the Banking industry to batch transactions. It then looks at the reasons why batch systems introduce the notion of risk into financial systems and why modern systems are moving towards real-time to overcome this risk.
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February 2006, Infogix
Infogix Makes the Grade in 2005 Customer Satisfaction Survey
Learn about the high ratings that Infogix received from our 2005 Customer Satisfaction Survey – including product, Account Team, support services, and overall customer satisfaction.
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November 2005, Infogix
Understanding Information Integrity Risk – A Critical Component of Information Risk That Must Be Mitigated to Assure Accuracy
If your information isn't trustworthy, nothing else matters. That's why every business must mitigate its information integrity risk – a critical component of information risk – to assure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of its information supply chains.
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November 2005, Infogix
Extending the Reach of Six Sigma with Automated Controls
Information driven decisions empower a workforce to improve processes and quality by orders of magnitude. In this white paper, Infogix Product Development Unit Manager Joe Dupree explains how automated controls further enhance your use of Six Sigma by increasing the span, timeliness, and accuracy of information – while also driving down the cost to assure this confidence.
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October 2005, Infogix
Information Supply Chains – What Are They And Why Are They Critical To Your Business
Over the years, businesses have learned how to carefully manage their supply chains of goods and materials. Supply chain management has, in fact, become a key business discipline. That's because effective management of supply chains helps reduce operating costs, optimize productivity, and increase responsiveness to changing customer needs.
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July 2005, Infogix
ACR/Instream™ 5.0 – Information Process Control for Real-Time Visibility
ACR/Instream provides automated process controls for your applications – and real-time visibility into your processes. By monitoring each step of your business processes, you can detect errors or delays as they occur. After implementation, you can expect improved processes – and reduced operational risk.
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April 2005, Former META Group Analyst Stan Lepeak
The Benefits of Controls Automation in Creating a Sustainable Compliance Environment
Regulatory compliance mandates like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Basel II are becoming more pervasive and onerous. In this white paper, former META Group analyst Stan Lepeak discusses how addressing these mandates has become a major force defining and directing business activities and investments. Key to all of these efforts is defining adequate information and process controls to ensure that the edicts of the mandates are enforced. While these controls have always existed, the goal now is to create the most efficient environment to manage them and ensure their effectiveness. Making compliance and controls management sustainable is a key goal for organizations, and one that is increasingly focusing on how to automate and streamline the controls environment.
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April 2005, Infogix
Next Generation Product Technology — The Rules Have Changed
The next generation of Infogix technology blends a service-oriented architecture with a shared services platform and a component-based architecture. In this white paper, Product Development Unit Manager Sumit Nijhawan describes this powerful, integrated technology, and discusses features that include XML-based rules, support for enterprise technology, complex data sources, and national languages, as well as multi-platform support in distributed environments.
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