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Web development is a broad term for any activity to developing a web site for the internet. However, among web professionals, “web development” usually refers only to the non-design aspects of building web sites, like writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services. For larger businesses and organizations, web development teams can consist of hundreds of web developers. Smaller organizations may only require a single permanent or contracting webmaster, or secondary assignment to related job positions such as a graphic designer and/or Information systems technician. Since the mid-1990s, web development has been one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The growth of this industry is being pushed by large businesses wishing to sell products and services to their customers and to automate business work flow. In addition, cost of Web site development and hosting has dropped dramatically during this time. Instead of costing tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case for early websites, one can now develop a simple web site for less than a thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and amount of content. Smaller Web site development companies are now able to make web design accessible to both smaller companies and individuals further fueling the growth of the web development industry. As far as web development tools and platforms are concerned, there are many systems available to the public free of charge to aid in development. Web development takes into account many security considerations, such as data entry error checking through forms, filtering output, and encryption. Keeping a web server safe from intrusion is often called Server Port Hardening. Many technologies come into play when keeping information on the internet safe when it is transmitted from one location to another. Malicious practices such as SQL injection can be executed by users with ill intent yet with only primitive knowledge of web development as a whole. Not only this, but scripts can be exploited to grant unauthorized access to malicious users trying to collect information such as email addresses, passwords and protected content like credit card numbers. So,now a days,Web Development is very much essential for every industries. Because, almost every companies or organizations have their own personal website,Besides these web developers,those companies or organizations can not create their websites,so they can not show their personal information at the front of the world. References: www.webdevelopersjournal.com/ www.articlecity.com/articles/web_design_and_development/ www.webspacestation.com/software-web-development-articles.html
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Mediware Information Systems, Inc. announced today that it will acquire Healthcare Automation Inc. and Advantage Reimbursement Inc. (ARI) and continue the company’s market expansion strategy to increase its penetration of the home care solutions market. The two organizations, acquired from a single ownership group, provide software and outsourced reimbursement services to home health providers, specifically home infusion and specialty pharmacies. Terms of the deal include a cash payment of $5.5 million, with an additional cash payment of up to $1.5 million if performance targets are met. Mediware expects to complete the acquisition before December 15.
“The additions of these organizations to Mediware are an exciting expansion of a growth strategy that includes strategic acquisitions, developing new products, and expansion of our existing customer base,” said Thomas Mann, Mediware’s president and chief executive officer. “Adding to the acquisition of HOS just over a year ago, our home infusion customer base will increase to more than 450 facilities.”
Home health products and services became a focus for Mediware last year with the acquisition of Hann’s On Software (HOS) and the Ascend pharmacy management system. These products help ensure safe and efficient drug therapies in small acute care and outpatient hospitals, as well as home infusion providers and specialty pharmacies.
The HAI acquisition expands Mediware’s market penetration by adding complementary pharmacy, home medical equipment, home healthcare and billing capabilities. In addition, advanced mobile technologies document care plans and medications at the time the therapy is administered. HAI also brings remote hosting capabilities that lower the operating costs for these solutions.”Research into the specialty pharmacy market indicates the segment is growing at an impressive 20% annual rate,” continued Mr. Mann. “These types of services are becoming increasingly popular as they allow therapies to be continued on an outpatient basis to lower the overall cost of care. While cost management is always a concern, medication safety remains our industry’s highest priority and Mediware’s substantial medication management experience provides a significant advantage over other vendors in the market.”The ARI acquisition adds an outsourcing business that manages reimbursement and collections throughout the United States to Mediware’s product portfolio. This provides the company with an additional recurring revenue stream as well as a wealth of industry knowledge regarding reimbursement practices and changing regulations. ARI will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mediware.”These are well run businesses, with excellent customer relationships and a proven track record of success,” said Mr. Mann. “I’m very happy that we will retain all employees and look forward to investing in growth for this market to become the top vendor for solutions, service and customer satisfaction.”Key leaders for each business are being retained, including the group’s CEO, Ken Pereira, and other operational leaders. Mr. Pereira will become a Mediware vice president and general manager, leading the Company’s new Alternate Care Solutions group.The acquisitions of HAI and ARI represent the fourth and fifth Mediware acquisitions in 24 months. Mediware’s strategy is to acquire sound businesses with products and services in or adjacent to the company’s core markets. Prior acquisitions include:
Integrated Marketing Solutions provided donor recruitment technologies to blood centers. IMS formed the basis for
Mediware’s Blood Center Technologies product group that provides integrated technology for blood and plasma centers.
Hann’s On Software added to existing pharmacy management capabilities with a robust medication management solution
targeting smaller healthcare organizations. HOS expanded Mediware into home health technology solutions.SciHealth added a powerful business intelligence solution used by more than 100 hospitals. The Insight product, which allowshospitals to create performance managing dashboards, launched a new product group for the company as well as enhances the overall usability ofMediware’s other software systems. Mediware delivers interoperable best of breed software systems that integrate with electronic medical records to improve efficiencies and address safety concerns to enable healthcare organizations to improve care processes while decreasing costs. Core Mediware solutions include blood management technologies for hospitals and blood centers; medication management solutions for hospitals, behavioral health facilities, infusion and specialty pharmacy providers; and business intelligence based performance management solutions for clinical, regulatory and financial aspects of the broader healthcare market. For more information about Mediware products and services, visit our web site at www.mediware.com.
Bureau of Collection Recovery LLC announced that it has successfully completed a SAS 70 Type II Audit, a stringent auditing standard for service organizations.SAS 70 Type II was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for service providers who wish to prove a high level of control effectiveness to independent auditors, and has become one of the most widely recognized auditing standards for service companies. The Type II audit is more in depth than a standard Type I audit in that the report not only states what the control objectives are but reports on the detailed testing of the service organization’s controls over a defined period.”Completing the SAS 70 II audit demonstrates our ongoing commitment to our customers,” said CEO Marty Sarim, “Our clients entrust us every day with their most important asset, their customer. The SAS 70 report successfully demonstrated that we have well designed control objectives and that the company has processes and procedures in place to execute on those objectives. BCR has always been a leader in the receivables area and is proud to offer a solution that that is unmatched in the industry.”
The report covered a 6 month period ending in . The report looked at 4 major control areas, consisting of 26 control objectives that were tested and verified. The 4 main control areas were; General Computer, Environmental Security, Organization Administration and Business Process.About Bureau of Collection Recovery, LLC Bureau of Collection Recovery, LLC incorporated in 1986. BCR is a leader in the Accounts Receivable Management Industry (ARM); specializing in Telecom, Bank Card, Retail Credit Card, Early Out and post Charge Off. BCR is located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with branch offices in Willmar, Minnesota and Delhi, India; with combined capacity of 775 seats. BCR deploys best of breed technology, UniversalSystems, and experienced leadership to ensure superior service and results.
Quest Software, Inc. has announced today the launch of its first set of Software as a ServiceWindows management solutions. Quest OnDemand will be hosted on Windows Azure, securely managing IT environments by leveraging Microsoft Corp’s Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0. The first solutions are currently available in beta.Quest Recovery Manager OnDemand for Active Directory provides backup and object-level recovery of Active Directory data. It is designed to enable flexible, scheduled backups without manual intervention, facilitating quick and scalable recovery of Active Directory data. Quest InTrust OnDemand securely collects, stores, reports, and alerts on event data from Windows systems, helping organizations comply with external regulations, internal policies and security best practices. Both products are expected to be generally available in Q1 2010 on a subscription basis without requiring on-premises deployment and maintenance.
In addition, Quest will roll out a Windows Azure-based SharePoint site report solution, Quest Site Administrator Reports OnDemand for SharePoint, which will give administrators the ability to run overview reports on an unlimited number of sites across their organizations. This solution will be available at no cost.”Quest has been a long-time partner and leader in Windows management solutions. The evolution of adopting its on-premises solutions to SaaS proves once again that Quest is committed to leveraging the latest technology to proactively lead their customers to the next level of IT efficiency,” said John Chirapurath, director of the Microsoft Identity and Security Business Group at Microsoft. “The fact that the Quest OnDemand solutions are built upon the Microsoft technologies such as WIF, ADFS 2.0 and Windows Azure demonstrates the company’s focus on the importance of business-ready identity and security services in cloud computing.”Quest OnDemand solutions leverage the Windows Identity Foundation for all identity management, authentication and authorization and are hosted on the Windows Azure platform for secure storage of customer data. In addition, ADFS 2.0 enables authentication by creating a federation between a customer’s on-premises Active Directory and the Quest OnDemand solutions. The combination of these technologies provides customers with secure and seamless service.”Quest has helped IT manage on-premises Windows environments for more than a decade, and now many of our customers are making the strategic decision to manage these environments with cloud-based services,” said Dmitry Sotnikov, manager of new product research, Quest Software. “Adapting to SaaS solutions will give them the security and management capabilities they need, while eliminating on-premises maintenance and minimizing upfront costs.”During the Professional Developers Conference, Kim Cameron, chief architect of Identity at Microsoft, will present “Security + Services Identity Roadmap Update” on Nov. 17 at 11:00 a.m. PT. Quest’s Dmitry Sotnikov will demonstrate the Quest OnDemand framework and Recovery Manager OnDemand solution during this session.AvailabilityOrganizations can register to participate in the OnDemand betas and find more information at Notes to EditorAbout Quest Software, Inc. Now more than ever, organizations need to work smart and improve efficiency. Quest Software creates and supports smart systems management products-helping our customers solve everyday IT challenges faster and easier.
the leading provider of software-centric unified storage solutions, today announced a strategic reseller agreement with PC Connection. Through this agreement, PC Connection is now able to offer RELDATA’s 9240i, a feature-rich, software-centric unified storage system that consolidates storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS), allowing organizations to consolidate, virtualize and protect application data for multi-vendor and multi-site storage environments from a single management interface. The reseller has already sold its first RELDATA storage system and built an impressive $1 million pipeline for the products.
“Our partnership with PC Connection validates mid-market customer needs for simplified management and improved utilization of storage infrastructures in virtualized private cloud computing environments,” said Peter Cmaylo, senior vice president of worldwide sales for RELDATA. “Our solution’s value lies in the fact that it complements and can work with other storage systems that have already been deployed. RELDATA and its customers are thrilled to be working with a world-class company like PC Connection that has such significant expertise and leadership in addressing the storage technology needs of today’s businesses.” RELDATA’s 9240i unified storage system, powered by the RELvos 2.4 operating system, provides consolidation of NAS and SAN while virtualizing industry standard SAS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage resources. RELvos provisions block data and file storage services on application requirements. Using RELvos’ modular architecture, customers can: rapidlly architect multiple, scalable shared storage pools for on-demand, IP SAN, NAS and multi-vendor platforms; seamlessly expand storage capacity; and consolidate underused storage assets. The 9240i is offered with RELDATA’s exclusive “Save as You Grow” pricing model, competitively designed to provide customers with a cost-effective, long-term growth strategy. Software is licensed at the system level by feature, with no price increases based on capacity. The 9240i system’s pricing requires no minimum or fixed bundles. This allows customers to grow virtual clouds with the freedom to pay only for what they need. About RELDATA RELDATA delivers software-centric unified storage solutions that give organizations the power to seamlessly consolidate, virtualize and protect business data across multiple site and multi-vendor platforms to minimize compliance risk, reduce storage management complexity, improve data availability and business productivity while preserving current storage investments. The RELDATA Unified Storage Engine (USE) platform integrates block and file storage into a scalable, highly available, optimized storage management solution that leverages cost-effective iSCSI networks. With RELDATA, organizations can dynamically expand their existing tier one and two storage infrastructures with synchronous and asynchronous migration, replication, snapshot and mirroring, while seamlessly delivering new applications to meet their business continuity requirements and reduce administration and software licensing costs. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, RELDATA solutions are available through a global network of value added resellers. For more information, visit www.reldata.com.
About PC Connection, Inc. PC Connection, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, owns three sales companies: PC Connection Sales Corporation, MoreDirect, Inc., and GovConnection, Inc., headquartered in Merrimack, NH, Boca Raton, FL, and Rockville, MD, respectively. All three companies can deliver custom-configured computer systems overnight. Investors and media can find more information about PC Connection, Inc. at
WhiteHat Security, the leading provider of website risk management solutions, today released the eighth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report, a high-level perspective on major website security issues that continue to compromise corporate data across all industries. WhiteHat’s report, assembled from real-world website security data, cites the Top 10 website vulnerabilities and provides insight into the evolving challenges facing organizations today. WhiteHat’s Statistics Report provides an opportunity for businesses to understand the most prevalent vulnerabilities so they can develop and implement an effective website risk management program, reduce exposure and improve their overall security posture. WhiteHat created the report to educate the business community and general public about the most prevalent vulnerabilities that can lead to website compromises.Unsurprisingly, only 36 percent of websites in the report currently do not have any serious vulnerabilities. From a historical perspective, this percentage drops to 17. Through its research, WhiteHat found that the characteristics of websites currently without any serious issues were nearly identical to those with them, with the exception that they had about half as many from the start. This proves to be significant in that no website can be deemed immune — all websites have an opportunity to be compromised. These odds are reduced when the business decides to proactively identify and remediate their vulnerabilities.
“It is extremely interesting to see that all the websites that are no longer vulnerable are so similar characteristically in technology and site format to those that have vulnerabilities,” said Jeremiah Grossman, founder and chief technology officer, WhiteHat Security. “The big difference right now seems to be that these organizations set an internal mandate to actively fix their flaws and reduce the potential for damage to their website, reputation and customers.”
Recent attacks on thousands of Web properties including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace also validate WhiteHat’s findings that these platforms have what hackers are eager to steal — user supplied data. With 86 percent of these sites hosting urgent, critical or high severity vulnerabilities, social networks lead all verticals. A close second, education websites are also highly vulnerable, with 83 percent having at least one serious vulnerability. This is not surprising, as educational institutions have many public-facing applications and often do not have significant resources dedicated to website security.
WhiteHat’s latest report contains data collected between January 1, 2006 and October 1, 2009, and finds that the percentage of high, critical or urgent issues continue to slowly increase. WhiteHat also finds that 83 percent of websites have had a high, critical or urgent issue over their lifetime and 64 percent of websites currently have a high, critical or urgent issue. Of the 22,000 vulnerabilities identified, almost 9,000 remain open, which means encouragingly that the majority — over 13,000 — have been closed. As in previous reports, Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection continue to be fixtures in the Top 10 list along with many other common classes of attack. The report also shows that fix percentages are climbing for some and decreasing for others. In particular, more organizations are repairing technical issues such as SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting in larger volumes, an indication that awareness is building regarding the prevalence of easy exploitations of these specific vulnerabilities.
The report statistics were gathered through the deployment of WhiteHat Sentinel, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based website risk management solution, providing the most accurate vulnerability information in the industry. WhiteHat Sentinel executes rigorous and ongoing website security assessments on more than 1,500 websites that helps companies protect their brands, comply with PCI Compliance and avoid costly and damaging breaches.
WhiteHat founder Jeremiah Grossman will host a webinar to reveal and analyze more of the report findings on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET. For more information, visit WhiteHat’s site at www.whitehatsec.com and see the upcoming events section. You can also register at https://whitehatsec.market2lead.com/go/whitehatsec/stats111209.
About WhiteHat Security Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, WhiteHat Security is the leading provider of website risk management solutions that protect critical data, ensure compliance and narrow the window of risk. WhiteHat Sentinel, the company’s flagship product family, is the most accurate, complete and cost-effective website vulnerability management solution available. It delivers the flexibility, simplicity and manageability that organizations need to take control of website security and prevent Web attacks. Furthermore, WhiteHat Sentinel enables automated mitigation of website vulnerabilities via integration with Web application firewalls and Snort-based intrusion prevention systems
The storage industry is still confused as to why cloud-based services are deployed within organizations, reveals a survey conducted at Storage Expo 2009 by Hitachi Data Systems. Despite this industry is still confused as to why cloud-based services are deployed within organizations, reveals a survey conducted at Storage Expo 2009 by Hitachi Data Systems. Despite this concern, businesses still believe that cloud technology will grow in importance for their organization The majority of survey respondents (79 percent) said that organizations deploy cloud-based services to save operating costs and just over half (57 percent) stated capital expenditure savings as a reason for deployment. Other reasons that respondents gave for deployment were business continuity (40 percent) and supporting business growth (32 percent).Nonetheless, respondents are still confident that cloud-based services will impact their organizations more in the coming year. The majority of those questioned (76 percent) said that the cloud would be important to its organization in 2010. This contrasts with only 56 percent that stated it was important at the moment. When asked the same question about virtualization, 98 percent said it would be important in 2010 and 95 percent believe it to be important now.Steve Murphy, vice president UK & Ireland, at Hitachi Data Systems expressed surprise at the survey findings, stating:”The results show an alarming misconception around the reasons why organizations are using cloud-based services. Due to the limited information about cloud deployments to date, there is little evidence to suggest that it genuinely results in cost savings for the organization. Until present security and compliance issues with cloud storage are resolved, moving to a cloud computing model might actually be costly to an enterprise in terms of data loss or fines for non-compliance. For these reasons, it is equally surprisingly that IT workers think organizations would deploy these services to achieve business continuity and business growth.”"The cloud looks set to be a major hot topic just as virtualisation has been and continues to be. It is not surprising that organizations will be investigating cloud-based services over the coming year, due to the hype surrounding the technology. There is certainly a case for the private cloud in the enterprise but public cloud-based services still have a long way to go before becoming a viable business proposition.”
The storage industry is still confused as to why cloud-based services are deployed within organizations, reveals a survey conducted at Storage Expo 2009 by Hitachi Data Systems. Despite this concern, businesses still believe that cloud technology will grow in importance for their organization in 2010. The majority of survey respondents (79 percent) said that organizations deploy cloud-based services to save operating costs and just over half (57 percent) stated capital expenditure savings as a reason for deployment. Other reasons that respondents gave for deployment were business continuity (40 percent) and supporting business growth (32 percent). Nonetheless, respondents are still confident that cloud-based services will impact their organizations more in the coming year. The majority of those questioned (76 percent) said that the cloud would be important to its organization in 2010. This contrasts with only 56 percent that stated it was important at the moment. When asked the same question about virtualization, 98 percent said it would be important in 2010 and 95 percent believe it to be important now.Steve Murphy, vice president UK & Ireland, at Hitachi Data Systems expressed surprise at the survey findings, stating:The results show an alarming misconception around the reasons why organizations are using cloud-based services. Due to the limited information about cloud deployments to date, there is little evidence to suggest that it c results in cost savings for the organization. Until present security and compliance issues with cloud storage are resolved, moving to a cloud computing model might actually be costly to an enterprise in terms of data loss or fines for non-compliance. For these reasons, it is equally surprisingly that IT workers think organizations would deploy these services to achieve business continuity and business growth.” ”The cloud looks set to be a major hot topic just as virtualisation has been and continues to be. It is not surprising that organizations will be investigating cloud-based services over the coming year, due to the hype surrounding the technology. There is certainly a case for the private cloud in the enterprise but public cloud-based services still have a long way to go before becoming a viable business proposition.”
