http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all * Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:04 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-20T12:08:04Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/times-still-tough-for-software-vendors-though-less-so-for-saas/?cs=37638 When I interviewed Saugatuck Technology CEO Bill McNee back in July, following the release of second-quarter financial results, most enterprise software vendors were suffering but on-premise vendors were feeling a far more severe pinch than their saas mergers_and_acquisitions budgeting business_technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:58:23 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/times-still-tough-for-software-vendors-though-less-so-for-saas/?cs=37638 2009-11-20T12:58:23Z 9 hours, 57 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/times-still-tough-for-software-vendors-though-less-so-for-saas http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37638 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/cant-cfos-cios-just-get-along/?cs=37628 Is it any wonder CIOs and CFOs often find themselves at loggerheads? CIOs spend money, while it's the CFO's job to save it. Granted, CIOs purchase and implement technology that helps companies achieve their business goals. But it's still a classic  executive_suite business_culture budgeting business_technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:56:33 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/cant-cfos-cios-just-get-along/?cs=37628 2009-11-19T20:56:33Z 1 day, 1 hour ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/cant-cfos-cios-just-get-along http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37628 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/it-hiring-in-health-care-about-to-heat-up/?cs=37611 Yesterday I wrote about how IT salaries in sectors receiving federal stimulus funds, notably health care and education, are holding steady while other IT salaries are falling. (They are actually flat, according to Computerworld 's 2009 Salary Survey, business_technology staff_recruiting_and_retention compensation workforce Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:31:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/it-hiring-in-health-care-about-to-heat-up/?cs=37611 2009-11-19T18:31:37Z 1 day, 6 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/it-hiring-in-health-care-about-to-heat-up http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37611 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/plenty-of-chatter-on-salesforces-chatter/?cs=37597 Marc Benioff, you are so busted. Though the Salesforce.com CEO is "waxing over Twitter" at the Dreamforce conference currently under way in San Francisco, tweets ZDNet blogger and Asuret CEO Michael Krigsman, he doesn't use it much himself . social_networks business_technology collaboration_software marc_benioff salesforce.com crm_solutions Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:16:06 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/plenty-of-chatter-on-salesforces-chatter/?cs=37597 2009-11-18T20:16:06Z 2 days, 1 hour ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/plenty-of-chatter-on-salesforces-chatter http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37597 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/room-for-improvement-in-twitteracy-of-fortune-100/?cs=37589 Though a growing number of Fortune 100 companies are tweeting, few of them can aspire to be a member of the Twitterati , the ranks of "the Tweet elite, whose feeds attract thousands of followers and whose 140-character spews capture the attention of twitter social_networks business_communications advertising_and_marketing customer_service business_technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:51 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/room-for-improvement-in-twitteracy-of-fortune-100/?cs=37589 2009-11-18T19:27:51Z 2 days, 3 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/room-for-improvement-in-twitteracy-of-fortune-100 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37589 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/sectors-in-which-it-salaries-are-holding-steady/?cs=37578 Some industries are more recession-proof than others. In the current downturn, health care and government employment seem to be faring well when compared with other sectors. Back in March when I interviewed folks from online job boards Dice.com, staff_recruiting_and_retention compensation workforce business_technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:49:24 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/sectors-in-which-it-salaries-are-holding-steady/?cs=37578 2009-11-18T16:49:24Z 2 days, 6 hours ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/sectors-in-which-it-salaries-are-holding-steady http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37578 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/offshoring-stands-out-in-services-spending/?cs=37563 Last November I wondered whether economic troubles in the United States would hurt or help the business of offshore services providers. If all spending dropped, such companies would suffer. But they could benefit if companies saw them as a way to forrester_research budgeting offshoring it_market_analysts technology_markets business_technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:09:36 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/offshoring-stands-out-in-services-spending/?cs=37563 2009-11-17T20:09:36Z 3 days, 1 hour ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/offshoring-stands-out-in-services-spending http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37563 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/dysfunction-shows-in-texas-outsourcing-contract-with-ibm/?cs=37557 Reality TV used to be one of my guilty pleasures, though I haven't gotten hooked on any shows since becoming a mother. My husband and I often joke that when we retire, we'll spend at least a year catching up on all the TV series we missed due to outsourcing government_agencies ibm business_technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:34 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/dysfunction-shows-in-texas-outsourcing-contract-with-ibm/?cs=37557 2009-11-17T19:02:34Z 3 days, 4 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/dysfunction-shows-in-texas-outsourcing-contract-with-ibm http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37557 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/how-many-lost-jobs-will-come-back/?cs=37539 One of the worst things about the current economic downturn is the sense that we might as well throw out what we think we know, based on our experience with previous downturns. In the past, layoffs often preceded productivity increases and efficiency productivity staff_recruiting_and_retention business_technology global_markets Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:51 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/how-many-lost-jobs-will-come-back/?cs=37539 2009-11-17T16:54:51Z 3 days, 7 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/how-many-lost-jobs-will-come-back http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37539 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/advice-for-it-on-making-metrics-meaningful/?cs=37527 Much of my work here involves pointing out areas in which IT professionals and business users might not see eye to eye. Like world peace, everyone seems to wish for a seamless blend of IT and business cultures. Unfortunately, the IT/business blend key_performance_indicators business_processes business_technology it_best_practices Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:21:34 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/advice-for-it-on-making-metrics-meaningful/?cs=37527 2009-11-16T20:21:34Z 4 days, 3 hours ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/advice-for-it-on-making-metrics-meaningful http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37527 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/layoffs-send-h-1b-holders-back-to-india/?cs=37515 Though they're hardly an official economic indicator, demand for H-1B visas tends to bubble up in times of economic prosperity and flatten in times of decline. As I pointed out in a post from April, the number of H-1B visas rose and fell with the IT india reduction_in_force staff_recruiting_and_retention h-1b_visas workforce business_technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:38:55 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/layoffs-send-h-1b-holders-back-to-india/?cs=37515 2009-11-16T16:38:55Z 4 days, 6 hours ago 8 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/layoffs-send-h-1b-holders-back-to-india http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37515 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/is-the-cloud-already-a-commodity/?cs=37487 You could argue that the cloud is, by definition, a commodity. (Assuming, of course, that anyone could agree on a definition of the cloud .) Companies selling cloud services use commodity hardware and software to create immensely scalable google storage business_technology cloud_computing technology_markets Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:39:15 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/is-the-cloud-already-a-commodity/?cs=37487 2009-11-13T19:39:15Z 1 week, 4 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/is-the-cloud-already-a-commodity http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37487 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/it-spend-as-dieting-does-this-infrastructure-make-me-look-fat/?cs=37474 Visibility into IT usage and spending is a lot like eating right and exercising. Companies spend a lot of time talking about it, they know they should do it, many of them have good intentions of doing so, but few actually manage it. Yesterday I gave a cost_containment internal_governance it_best_practices procurement asset_management business_technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:48:12 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/it-spend-as-dieting-does-this-infrastructure-make-me-look-fat/?cs=37474 2009-11-13T16:48:12Z 1 week, 6 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/it-spend-as-dieting-does-this-infrastructure-make-me-look-fat http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37474 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/try-stroking-vendors-when-everyone-else-is-squeezing-them/?cs=37451 When the going gets tough, so do IT executives, especially when it comes to pushing vendors to lower their prices. But an overly tough approach can backfire, through vendors offering sub-par service or trying to offset short-term cost cuts by insisting vendor_management procurement outsourcing cost_containment business_technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:56:01 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/try-stroking-vendors-when-everyone-else-is-squeezing-them/?cs=37451 2009-11-12T20:56:01Z 1 week, 1 day ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/try-stroking-vendors-when-everyone-else-is-squeezing-them http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37451 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/group-uses-open-innovation-approach-for-new-it-framework/?cs=37448 There's lots of talk about collaboration within companies, and some companies are extending their collaborative initiatives beyond the corporate walls, to suppliers and other partners, to their customers and sometimes even to competitors. That last innovation it_best_practices intel standards_bodies business_technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:40:27 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/group-uses-open-innovation-approach-for-new-it-framework/?cs=37448 2009-11-12T19:40:27Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/comment/group-uses-open-innovation-approach-for-new-it-framework http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/feeds/comments?blogPost=37448