http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard Mike Vizard's Blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:34 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-20T19:19:34Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/marketing-management-becomes-a-service/?cs=37663 The marketing department and the IT organization are frequently at odds on two fronts. The first issue has to do with the fact that the marketing department usually feels they don’t get enough attention from IT compared to the rest of the business. The software_as_a_service saas salesforce.com advertising_and_marketing business_technology aprimo Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:34 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/marketing-management-becomes-a-service/?cs=37663 2009-11-20T19:19:34Z 15 hours, 31 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/marketing-management-becomes-a-service http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37663 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-sad-state-of-security/?cs=37639 Every once in a while, a survey comes along that puts things in perspective. Such is the case with a survey published this week by the Ponemon Institute that basically highlights the fact that IT innovations are outpacing the ability of security firewall lumension security_breaches business_technology ponemon_institute systems_management cloud_computing network_perimeters mobile_devices ponemon_institute Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:49:41 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-sad-state-of-security/?cs=37639 2009-11-20T13:49:41Z 21 hours, 30 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/the-sad-state-of-security http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37639 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/keeping-your-e-commerce-pants-up/?cs=37634 One thing that drives the people who manage e-commerce sites crazy is spending an inordinate amount of money driving people to their sites, only to find they don't buy anything there. And they're not sure why these people left their site. Were they the business_technology runa e-commerce omniture search_engine_optimization conversion_marketing seo Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:09:17 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/keeping-your-e-commerce-pants-up/?cs=37634 2009-11-19T22:09:17Z 1 day, 12 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/keeping-your-e-commerce-pants-up http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37634 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/composite-applications-to-define-enterprise-software/?cs=37604 Oracle has been quietly doing building out a set of reusable composite business processes that span multiple Oracle applications, including some of its most recent acquisitions. The basic idea is fairly simple: Oracle has identified a range of common oracle application_integration_architecture aia business_process enterprise_application business_technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:35:19 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/composite-applications-to-define-enterprise-software/?cs=37604 2009-11-19T14:35:19Z 1 day, 20 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/composite-applications-to-define-enterprise-software http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37604 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/mutual-need-drives-sap-microsoft-alliance/?cs=37601 Although any time that Microsoft and SAP cooperate on anything it leads to idle speculation about a possible merger, every now and again even these two giants actually wind up doing something that is just driven by the requirements of mutual customers. enterprise_performance_management sap business_objects enterprise_software microsoft business_intelligence epm excel oracle microsoft_office Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:52:56 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/mutual-need-drives-sap-microsoft-alliance/?cs=37601 2009-11-19T03:52:56Z 2 days, 9 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/mutual-need-drives-sap-microsoft-alliance http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37601 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-harsh-economics-of-cloud-computing/?cs=37575 With every major vendor lining up to provide cloud computing services, the feeding frenzy is well under way. The only question is how many of them will survive what promises to be a rapid vetting process that should lead to another major round of cloud_computing reverse_auction business_technology amazon virtualization Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:31:59 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-harsh-economics-of-cloud-computing/?cs=37575 2009-11-18T15:31:59Z 2 days, 19 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/the-harsh-economics-of-cloud-computing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37575 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/new-survey-highlights-ignorance-of-hitech-act/?cs=37553 One of the problems that we seem to have as a society is that we pass legislation without people really comprehending how it will affect them. Now that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ( HITECH ) Act is now the law of hitech_act hipaa himms security_breaches business_technology id_experts Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:38:49 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/new-survey-highlights-ignorance-of-hitech-act/?cs=37553 2009-11-17T17:38:49Z 3 days, 17 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/new-survey-highlights-ignorance-of-hitech-act http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37553 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-need-for-new-hierachies-of-end-user-computing/?cs=37543 Not too long ago, deciding what type of client to deploy was easy, but managing them was hard. As we go forward, it looks like managing them will get easier, but deciding what type of client to deploy is becoming more difficult. Today we not only have virtualization cloud_computing vmware citrix microsoft virtual_servers thin_clients netbooks rich_client desktop_virtualization Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:44:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-need-for-new-hierachies-of-end-user-computing/?cs=37543 2009-11-17T15:44:25Z 3 days, 19 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/the-need-for-new-hierachies-of-end-user-computing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37543 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/time-to-cut-the-client-cord/?cs=37507 One of the most time-consuming, frustrating things that any IT department has to deal with is the provisioning and ongoing management of PCs and their resident applications. Likewise, among users' biggest frustrations are the limits the IT department virtualization hypervisors virtual_machine desktop_virtualization mobile_computing data_security business_technology virtual_client Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:33:22 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/time-to-cut-the-client-cord/?cs=37507 2009-11-16T15:33:22Z 4 days, 20 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/time-to-cut-the-client-cord http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37507 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/a-new-era-of-application-provisioning-freedom/?cs=37501 One issue that regularly separates the IT department from the business is the fact that the end users need the IT department to provision access to specific files and applications. This, in turn, puts a lot of pressure o the IT department because in all sailpoint activeroles application_governance self-service_applications usage_management_and_monitoring quest_software dazzle citrix_systems business_technology aveska Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:11:13 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/a-new-era-of-application-provisioning-freedom/?cs=37501 2009-11-16T13:11:13Z 4 days, 22 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/a-new-era-of-application-provisioning-freedom http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37501 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/it-and-the-productivity-debate/?cs=37494 During the good times, we used to be treated to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan standing before Congress and attributing more than 10 years of economic growth to investments in IT that steadily increased the nation's productivity. The IT productivity collaboration_software workforce_management federal_reserve greenspan department_of_labor business_technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:09:52 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/it-and-the-productivity-debate/?cs=37494 2009-11-13T20:09:52Z 1 week, 14 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/it-and-the-productivity-debate http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37494 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-future-of-high-definition-video-conferencing/?cs=37462 Like all technologies before it, the future of high-definition video conferencing appears to be about to be defined by segmentation. At the top end of the market right now we have Cisco with its TelePresence systems. The only thing that is as impressive telepresence hewlett_packard logitech cisco_systems webex web_video_and_voice_conferencing tandberg high-definition_video_conferencing lifesize mitel collaboration hp adobe_system polycom microsoft network_infrastructure business_technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:27:59 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/the-future-of-high-definition-video-conferencing/?cs=37462 2009-11-13T13:27:59Z 1 week, 21 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/the-future-of-high-definition-video-conferencing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37462 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/when-disaster-strikes-login-here/?cs=37445 When it comes to disaster recovery, the reason that so many companies struggle so much usually has very little to do with the technology. There are plenty of solutions out there today that can make the whole process of recovering pretty straightforward hurricane_ida business_continuity swine_flu business_technology saas incident_command_systems preparis disaster_recovery first_responder h1n1 virus Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:23:04 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/when-disaster-strikes-login-here/?cs=37445 2009-11-12T17:23:04Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/when-disaster-strikes-login-here http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37445 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/dis-unified-communications/?cs=37430 The trouble with unified communications is that for the most part, there is nothing very unified about it. Instead, most vendors sell a core system that requires all kinds of add-on packages in order to work. There’s no better example than the unified cisco shoretel avaya ip_phone instant_messaging telecommuncations_vendors microsoft business_technology unified_communications Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:48:58 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/dis-unified-communications/?cs=37430 2009-11-12T14:48:58Z 1 week, 1 day ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/dis-unified-communications http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37430 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/impulse-shopping-comes-to-smartphones/?cs=37413 IT organizations that support e-commerce applications have to get ready for more random behavior coming from the increasing number of smartphones tied into a social network. With more smartphones that can more easily browse Web sites will come a new e-commerce_software rim blackberry iphone server_provisioning palm apple virtualization palm_pre business_technology smartphones e-commerce Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:01:12 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/impulse-shopping-comes-to-smartphones/?cs=37413 2009-11-11T19:01:12Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/impulse-shopping-comes-to-smartphones http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=37413