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“The situation seems paradoxical: in principle, allow external cloud services to raise the majority of customers, the security of certain applications and services to a higher level than previously,” says Wolfram Funk, Senior Advisor at the Experton Group. “Because external cloud service providers to offer their services for a variety of customers, they have the economies of scale that allow large investments in a highly secure infrastructure.”

Solid technical measures for the protection of cloud services are important and already largely used. More importantly, however, is the embodiment of the relationship with the cloud service provider and the associated activities that shape the framework for the technological design. “Risk analysis, service level agreements and provider management are firmly in view of Cloud Security is the key to success,” says Wolfram Funk. The ISO 2700x series, BSI IT baseline protection and ITIL to provide a suitable framework for this purpose.

The Experton Group has produced an action guide for those reasons, recommendations and checklists for cloud security governance, compliance and technical safeguards – and these are the ten rules for a high security of cloud services purchased externally:

• First, the internal organizational structure to bring up to scratch and to clarify responsibilities and roles for information internally. This also applies to the information security management and control (governance) of information security.
• The responsibility for information security as a whole and for coordination, management and quality control of external service always remains within the company – even with external cloud services purchased.
• A detailed risk analysis for the specific cloud-like service that is externally related, and perform under debate information and processes. This includes compliance risks with this book.
• If the business case consistent? Economic aspects, internal and customer-oriented process improvements and other potential benefit effect to the expected (remaining are compared) risks.
• Security Architecture: Defining the division of labor and interfaces between the provider and the company’s detailed. Are the technical and organizational security gaps?
• Processes for reporting, incident management and audit perpetuate the service provider.
• Can the Cloud service provider requested services are actually provided? Here is also to question whether he uses subcontractors, which could lead to a (negative) changes in risk exposure.
• Compliance with regulatory requirements and clarify it enacted by the provider, including with regard to the handling of data and storing them in certain regions.
• For safety, only those criteria should be agreed upon service levels that can be measured. The proposed method must be carefully examined.
• The customer should determine in advance what the exit conditions in the event of a provider change. A “vendor lock-in can be very expensive for the company in an emergency case.

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Also represented on the stand are the BI solutions for SAP R / 3 and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse as well as the comprehensive range around the BI platform from Infor, Oracle and IBM. In addition, the visitors can also directly at the stand to take the Free Limited special version of Cubeware Cockpit V6pro. The technology of Cubeware is open to all databases and legacy systems. Particularly in view of ever-expectant heterogeneous IT environments, this is an important factor in building a future-oriented BI solution is critical to success.

Cubeware Cockpit V6pro

The first featured Release 3 of Cubeware Cockpit V6pro Cubeware launching its new product feature “interactive maps support” on the market. Due to the dynamic display and interactive analysis of data in the context of position maps can be derived relationships and trends that would be from the clean data, or material not difficult to identify. Tickets analysis can be integrated directly into a Business Intelligence Dashboard or combined with other information presented.

Analysable cards are not only geographical maps, but also other visualization templates, including elevations for buildings or production facilities, where they are stored as shapes. Further innovations in the cockpit Cubeware V6pro Release 3 are also further developed the integration of relational data as well as “on-the-fly” aggregation and associative browsing for even more flexibility in the ad-hoc data analysis.

Cubeware Importer

Also visible is the Cubeware Importer. The fachanwenderorientierte OLAP ETL tool automatically extracts data from various source systems or data warehouses, merges, checks them and invites them modeled in an OLAP cube. With the Service Release 7.3, the existing mapping capabilities have been expanded even further. Thus, for example, can now be read dimensional structures and attributes from OLAP databases in mapping. This example supports the migration of, alteration or renovation of older cubes and simplifies this considerably. Also new: more documentation possibilities of import definitions and parameterization of mappings, which increases its range of applications.

As part of planning solutions Cubeware Importer also enables a flexible solution for the implementation of planning workflow and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) monitoring.

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The online survey on mobile Internet and mobile applications has been technically affine in February 2010 and conducted among 600 non affine panelists. “We take a look to this study, the use of mobile Internet and applications in Austria and magazines show the needs, preferences and open questions, the user,” said Martin Hannes Giesswein, head of Nokia Services and Retail Alps & South East Europe. And adds: “The results of this study also provide interesting insights into the company, which users in mobile apps appreciate and miss.”

Approximately one third (32%) of people questioned by mobile phone or smartphone to the Internet and 27% have some experience with mobile apps. Men are mobile is currently active, 38% use the Internet and is already 35% Apps. Among the women surveyed who are 20%, the mobile access to the Internet and met 12%, and mobile applications.

Navigation (55%) and “practical” helpers (48%) lead the ranking, such as calendar of the most popular mobile applications on the App-users. On average, the surveyed domestic users who are familiar with the small programs that install 9.6 apps on their mobile phones. 39% of the App-users have already paid applications downloaded. Reasons for not using apps are not interested (35%), mobile phones do not support the apps (30%) and unclear cost (26%).

Apps from domestic companies are required

27% of respondents already use mobile applications. The bulk of this comes directly from the App manufacturers (41%) and Transport Association Eastern Region (VOR) or Facebook. The surveyed App Users also access to the offerings of its highly mobile operator (29%) and the Ovi Store (28%). The already installed on the mobile phone provides access to the selection of each critical App Store (44%). In addition, the assured quality of the applications (33%) of surveyed users in the decision for an App Store important.

Tips and recommendations from friends (43%) and App stores (42%) are the main source of information for new applications. One in four (27%) App Installer learns about journals or magazines, what’s new family of applications.

Desired are mainly applications in the field of transport persons (23%) and schedule information. From the media industry (16%) would like the survey respondents little helpers, such as TV programs. Also on applications of management (15%), commerce and banking (10%) are happy to respondents.

Small displays and cost control is crucial

The main reasons why the internet on mobile is not yet used, are too small mobile phone displays (37%) and the uncertainty about costs (36%). Almost one in three currently sees no need yet for themselves, while not satisfied with one in five mobile phone, the technical requirements. Those who go into the mobile Internet to evaluate improved zoom options to better read website text to (90%), larger displays (86%) and touch screen devices (81%) as helpful.

Three out of four mobile Internet users is also important to control costs. They have their own data packets, or those in their mobile tariff is already included. Every second (53%) There is a volume of 1 GB of data, a data packet by more than 5 GB of use 7%. Only 5% do not deal with the issue. You do not know whether it is included in its tariff a data packet.

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