Overview
Chemicals is an intensely competitive and increasingly globalized industry. The chemical industry has created a global infrastructure with growing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and trade between parent firms and their subsidiaries. FDI is essential for global merchandise trade and global modern manufacturing in the ongoing integration of the world economy. The chemical industry has a pragmatic interest and economic stake in FDI.
As organizations struggle to cope with the exponential growth of data, especially in the unstructured and decentralized file space, the urgency to gain better control, visibility and transparency of file...
The purpose of this Communication is therefore to broaden the debate by
encouraging contributions from consumers, businesses, professional organisations, public administrations and institutions, the academic world and all interested parties. Part...
The share of developing countries in world trade and investment has increased considerably since 1980 and this is reflected in an enhanced role in the formulation of trade policy in...
The European Chemical Industry, represented by CEFIC, and the European Chlor-Alkali Industry, represented by Euro Chlor, strongly support the development of an internationally binding Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs),...
CEFIC supports efforts to include language on "general exemptions" in the draft text of the 'International Legally Binding Instrument on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) being negotiated in a series of...
CEFIC fully supports the view that companies should implement, develop and strengthen SHEQ Management Systems. Such systems, when appropriately applied, are key for efficiently achieving, maintaining and demonstrating SHEQ control...
This IDC White Paper analyzes the latest technology and market developments in the x86 server space, which has been significantly impacted by the spread of virtualization solutions and the rise of energy issues. The paper puts AMD's latest 45nm quad-core AMD Opteron Processor, codenamed "Shanghai," in context in this environment and analyzes its opportunities in the European market.
VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery byproviding you rapid, reliable and cost-effective disasterrecovery:? Makes disaster recovery affordable through consolidationsavings and re-use of existing servers for your disasterrecovery site? Provides rapid recovery that is hardware independent,simpler to backup and recover, and enables quickprovisioning of your disaster recovery site? Simplifies the ability to test thereby enhancing disasterrecovery plan reliability
When deploying new software configuration management (SCM) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or tools. The result is a well-executed blunder. This paper promotes some high-level best practices that reflect the authors' experiences in deploying SCM.