Category: White Papers

White Paper Title: Information is a strategic business asset – are you managing it as such?

Author: Arja Julia-Numi from Tieto Corportation

White Paper Link: https://www.tieto.com/sites/default/files/files/information-management-white-paper.pdf

Summary:

The paper is discussing a very important topic regarding information management and define it as the “right decisions and actions at the right time based on correct information” (Arja Julin-Nurmi, 2013). Nowadays organizations receive huge information through their business processes, now the question is how the organization handle the information, process the information and had the information ready on time for right decision making.

Quality of the Research:

The quality of the research is very good as the research question stated clearly and the topic of research is very important and interesting.

The work is original based on the author experience and the company experience in this field.

The author includes all the key points behind having a valuable information system and the component of this information whether it is business data, business information or business knowledge.

The Research Method:

The paper uses qualitative research method based life example from their work. Also, based on implemented projects and the paper gave 4 successful examples.

Quality of Presentation:

It is very good paper and the presentation is very good from start to end, I liked the title of the paper as it includes a question to let reader think about the answer and encourage him/her to read the article. Then the paper continues by describing the issues and set a solution for them all.

References:

Arja Julin-Nurmi. (2013). Information is strategic busniess asset – are you managing it as such? White paper: Information Managemnt, 1-10. Retrieved from https://www.tieto.com/sites/default/files/files/information-management-white-paper.pdf

 

White Paper Title: Protecting Corporate Information in the Cloud

Author: Symantec Corporation

White Paper Link: https://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/white_papers/protecting-corporate-information-wp-21354920.pdf

Summary:

The paper is about protecting corporate information in the cloud, it describes how the cloud is increasingly used and the IT managers of the companies should make sure where the information stored and who is accessing it and, they mentioned the correlation engine which will track all data changes and suspect any misuse or access.

At the end, the paper showed the importance to use cloud security in which Symantec solutions is one of the clear choices (Symantec Corporation, 2015).

Quality of the Research:

It’s rather than research, it is concept paper in which Symantec highlight the use of the cloud and the security issues around it. It discussed very clearly the 3 keys that cloud security relies on which are identity protection, data protection and correlation engine.

Quality of Presentation:

Even though the white paper presented to market Symantec solutions and products but it contains a very important and helpful information to the reader to understand the security related to the cloud and how the cloud is the new generation which no one can live without it as many applications nowadays running in the cloud.

 Additional Notes:

It gives a real-world example showed how cloud security works, in my opinion it is very interesting to know specially about correlation engine.

References:

Symantec Corporation. (2015). Protecting Corporate Information in the Cloud. White Paper from Symantec, 1-5. Retrieved from https://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/white_papers/protecting-corporate-information-wp-21354920.pdf