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IT governance has a well-deserved reputation for being extremely complicated, expensive, and time-consuming. But today’s CEOs and governing boards expect accountability, strategic alignment, cost saving, and contributions to overall growth from IT departments, all of which can be facilitated by IT governance. This white paper will examine the fact that, for the first time ever, there is a faster, less expensive, lower risk way to make IT governance a reality. Instead of implementing bloated server-centric software solutions that require expensive consultants and customization, companies are turning to applications delivered ondemand over the Internet. On-demand software delivers many benefits, including lower costs, faster implementation, and higher quality solutions. Request Free!

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Removing the Barriers to IT Governance: How On-Demand Software Changes the Game

Businesses and government agencies have invested heavily in enterprise applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and enterprise content management (ECM), but continue to struggle with finding ways to allow individuals to access and interact with the data stored within them. The basic web-based interfaces provided for many self-service applications are unintuitive and have limited capabilities, causing users to abandon them out of frustration. And people who need to interact with information from multiple applications to perform their jobs, such as financial advisors, procurement managers, and case workers, usually have to access and drill down on data from each application separately, reducing their productivity and impacting their ability to make informed decisions. Self-service applications that include wizard-style guides or rich internet applications (RIAs) make it much easier for people to accomplish their tasks, whether it’s opening a new account, ordering parts from a supplier, or registering for a government service. Built-in intelligence and rich media options provide users with whatever level of assistance they may require, increasing their likelihood of success. RIAs can also be used to build employee productivity applications that deliver customizable, composite views of multiple applications, displayed within the context of the task they are accomplishing—all in a single, easy-to-use interface. Request Free!

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Adobe LiveCycle solutions for intuitive user experiences

Current web applications exist in an environment markedly different from the early days of businesses entering the Internet. They have become essential tools interconnecting organizations in ways never anticipated when the first web browsers were designed. These changes have occurred so rapidly that, in many ways, we’ve failed to adapt operational processes to meet current needs. This is particularly apparent with web application security, where although most organizations have some security controls in place, few organizations have comprehensive web application security programs. Author: Rich Mogul (Securosis, LLC) Request Free!

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Building a Web Application Security Program

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

Asankya, a leading provider of high-performance for a new generation of Internet applications that need high throughput, security and two-way delivery, has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Silver in the Enterprise Service category.  Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

“Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Asankya exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle,” said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. “Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year’s competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high tech community.  We wish Asankya continued success and look forward to them defending their title during the next awards period.”

According to Asankya CEO, Scott Ryan, “Asankya take pride in enabling the secure delivery of mission-critical applications in the cloud for enterprises, SaaS providers and agencies of the Federal government, and we are pleased to be recognized for our technology advancement and innovation.”

About Asankya’s Award-Winning RAPIDnet Application Enabling Network

Asankya’s RAPIDnet is the premier Application Enabling Network for the high-speed delivery of secure Internet applications. The breakthrough Asankya RAPID Protocol uses multiple pathways across the Internet to deliver large improvements in throughput and consistency while maintaining the security and availability that enterprise applications require. This enables Asankya’s customers to take advantage of public cloud economics while preserving the security and speed benefits of private networks.

Asankya’s RAPIDnet is the only application delivery service that accelerates encrypted traffic, optimizes bi-directionally, and improves the performance of both TCP- and UDP-based applications. The RAPID Protocol, the cornerstone of Asankya’s RAPIDnet, is a breakthrough parallel networking technology that increases throughput across the Internet by using multiple pathways, solves transport inefficiencies inherent in TCP, and reduces network load by removing duplicate packets. The research leading to RAPID was initially funded by the National Science Foundation, developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and first utilized by the U.S. Intelligence Community.

About Tech Awards Circle

Tech Awards Circle was established this year to truly honor the ‘best of the best’ in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. To prevent these judges from being unduly influenced by vendors, they have agreed to remain anonymous. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.

About Asankya (www.asankya.com)

Asankya enables high-performance for the new generation of Internet applications that need high throughput, security and two-way delivery. The company’s RAPIDnet Application Enabling Network is utilized by leading SaaS companies, cloud storage providers, private enterprise cloud users and key government entities. Asankya is venture-backed by Veritas Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel, Seraph Group, Georgia Research Alliance and Ridgewood Advisors. Asankya is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.