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Doing Risk Management Right

There are some things that I don't want to end - a great book, an exciting movie, a nice bottle of wine. But there are other things that I would prefer that never came up-dental emergencies, gutter cleaning and answering telemarketing calls. Neither of those lists is exhaustive, and I'm sure you have your own personal favorites.

However, I'd guess that for many business and IT managers, risk management would be something they'd want to add to that second category. Unless you enjoy ruminating on disasters, spending large amounts of time or resources planning for events which may never happen, or just have dark and pessimistic side, risk management isn't fun.

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Adobe LiveCycle

Adobe Systems has established its products as the ubiquitous desktop client for viewing dynamic forms and documents, most notably with its Adobe Reader and Flash Player. With more than 900 million connected desktop computers and devices utilizing Adobe client software, there is no doubt that Adobe products are an integral part of the business landscape.

In 2004, the company launched LiveCycle, a set of servers designed to make forms and documents more interactive, extending PDF to back-end processes. The latest version, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, merges this with the Flex and Flash capabilities from Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, providing companies with the ability automate business processes with customer engaging forms and user interfaces.

To see the entire product brief on Adobe LiveCycle, click here.

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Featured Research - Free Software Configuration Management

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is a critical core infrastructure tool for all software development organizations. While often taken for granted or below senior management's radar, SCM is an extremely important component of an organization's software infrastructure.

Historically, a significant number of organizations have used open-source SCM, such as RCS, CVS and more recently Subversion, to form the backbone of their development environments. However, such solutions can have hidden costs associated with them.

Learn more about hidden costs and configuration management by reading the full report.

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