11/29/06: Healthcare Workplace--A Secure Single Point of Dynamic Interaction of People, Process and Information, with Encode guest speaker Jim Skidmore.
Imagine if you and your staff could easily find--in one location--all the information necessary to provide reliable, responsive and efficient patient care. Join us for lunch and we will show you how you can do just that using technology from IBM.
Designed for healthcare professionals with a desire to increase productivity and reduce costs, this event will teach you how you can provide quick access to important data and a consolidated view of clinical and non-clinical information, retrieve integrated patient information from anywhere, anytime, and optimize staff efficiency, provider decision making and quality of patient care.
Encode guest speaker Jim Skidmore and Steven Visconti of IBM will lead the discussion.
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7/18/06: Single Sign-On Made Easy--Reducing Costs and Complexities for Healthcare Organizations, a webinar with Encode guest speaker Daniel TumSuden, CISSP.
See how the newest IBM Identity Management solution improves productivity and drives rapid ROI. Learn how to make your systems easy to use, easy to maintain, and regulatory compliant. Understand how to automate the creation and removal of employee IDs, temporary help, or mobile users. Support diverse environments such as Citrix, Terminal Server, Medical Specific applications, and Web.
This free webinar is for healthcare professionals with desire to increase productivity and reduce costs, IT and LOB executives and technical professionals responsible for security, privacy, compliance, e-commerce applications and infrastructure. Topics to include healthcare organization trends, improving clinician productivity, enterprise single sign-on (SSO), biometrics and proximity devices, automated identity management, reducing help desk costs, regulatory compliance & HIPAA, password self-service options and security integration Q & A.
Encode guest speaker Daniel TumSuden, CISSP will lead the discussion on healthcare security needs.
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6/7/06: Best practices for integrating multi-factor authentication into existing web applications, a webinar presented in part by Encode.
The FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) has issued updated guidance that essentially states single-factor authentication is inadequate for high-risk transactions. This means financial institutions should be doing risk assessments and subsequently implementing additional authentication controls when appropriate (by year end 2006!) This webinar will briefly discuss the regulatory guidance, discuss multi-factor authentication technologies, and assess approaches and options for integrating multi-factor authentication technology into Web applications. This session should be of interest to anyone who needs to understand the FFIEC regulatory guidelines, or who is looking for Best Practices around integrating multi-factor authentication with heterogeneous Web applications.
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3/1/06: Encode signs a Platinum Partner Agreement with PassLogix.
On March 1, 2006 Encode began its partnership with PassLogix, the recognized industry leader in developing robust, easy-to-deploy sign-on solutions that deliver infrastructure support and high return on investment enterprises demand. PassLogix, which is headquartered in New York City, combines patented intelligence based technology with the expertise of having deployed solutions for hundreds of customers of all sizes and in all industries. PassLogix technology powers IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On, an integral part of IBM's Security identity management portfolio. Able to provide a simple authentication capability across all Microsoft Windows, Web, Java, UNIX Telnet, in-house developed, and host-based mainframe applications, the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On solution works in congruence with both IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, to provide a robust solution addressing the issue of password clutter throughout the enterprise.
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2/13/06: Encode signs a Premier Partner Agreement with Micromuse.
On February 13, 2006 Encode began its partnership with Micromuse, an IBM company that delivers industry-leading business and service assurance solutions to organizations worldwide. During the 14 years since the company's inception, its flagship Netcool brand has become synonymous with scalable, realtime, end-to-end management of complex IT and telecommunications infrastructures. Since their flagship Netcool/OMNIbus product launched in 1995, more than 1700 enterprise, government, and service provider customers worldwide have standardized on the Netcool platform for consolidated, realtime management of their mission-critical infrastructures.
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2/9/06: Encode signs a Premier Partner Agreement with SecurIT.
On February 9, 2006 Encode began its partnership with SecurIT a privately held company with offices in Gent, Belgium and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Their well proven products extend the capabilities of IBM Tivoli Security suite. SecurIT TrustBuilder is an extension for IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) that, “out-of-the-box”, satisfies custom, multi-factor authentication and administration requirements. SecurIT D-Man Monitoring Suite is the leading secure monitoring solution for e-business and security environments. SecurIT R-Man is an extension for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM) to manage roles in a more flexible way.
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6/13/05: Encode is among a select group of business partners nominated by IBM to deliver IBM Workplace/Portal Business Value Assessments (BVA) solutions.
Encode consultants plan and execute the BVA from an end-user perspective, employing a proven assessment methodology to help you gain the maxi mum benefits and insight for your organization. The BVA offering provides a set of tools you can use to prioritize and analyze the impact of making a Workplace/Portal investment, replacing an existing Workplace/Portal or adding additional functions to an existing Workplace/Portal. Through onsite and offsite interviews, work shops and e-meetings (typically taking no more than two to four days over two to four weeks in total), Encode consultants implement a proven, three-step module method. This process consists of preparation interviews, an onsite workshop and final presentation customized with one or more of four avail able modules to help you answer questions specific to your business needs. And because this comprehensive assess ment is modular, you have the flexibility to choose the modules that address your business needs.
The Business Value Assessment methodology can help:
Provide you with the information you need to make the correct business Workplace/Portal investment decision for your company
- C-level line of business, I/T executives and key operations staff
- Clear, agreed to business priorities and objectives
Align line-of-business (LOB) and IT management toward a common vision for a Workplace/Portal and associated deployment initiatives
- Scripted Day-in-the-Life demonstration of target workplace/portal and community members
- Customized to workplace/portal user communities, typical collaborations and familiar content and applications
Give you a high-level cost and benefit analysis to define the value of a Workplace/Portal solution in financial terms.
- High-level financial analysis that determines key value drivers and return on investment (ROI)
- Linkage to primary business goals, objectives, and initiatives
- Support and buy-in from key executives and stakeholders
Provide the information needed to justify launching a Workplace/Portal initiative in your organization.
6/1/05 : Encode selected by IBM to provide Portal Deployment Assessment services.
Encode is one of only 12 firms Nationwide selected by IBM to provide Portal Deployment Assessment services. The purpose of the Portal Deployment Assessment (or PDA) is to pro-actively address any potential implementation issues that may exist for customers that have either fully or partially deployed WebSphere Portal. The PDA itself is a set of activities and processes that are designed to accomplish the following tasks:
- Ensure customer's deployment is aligned with their business objectives.
- Proactively identify & address any technical issues and risks.
- Ensure our customers have the appropriate skills for implementation.
- Assign responsibilities and ownership of implementation tasks (if incomplete).
- Uncover new areas of interest and possible growth for IBM Solutions.
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