http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:31:25 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-03-12T21:31:25Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/new-definition-delivered-for-api-more-to-come/?cs=40024 You may know what an API is, but you may not know just how critical they are becoming in the rapidly expanding world of mobile computing. Open APIs are, well, opening up new possibilities when it comes to building apps that integrate harmoniously with open_api application_integration business_continuity apis cloud_computing saas definitions mobile_applications Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:31:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/new-definition-delivered-for-api-more-to-come/?cs=40024 2010-03-12T21:31:25Z 2 days, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/new-definition-delivered-for-api-more-to-come http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40024 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/hello-knowledge-network-community/?cs=40026 I'm John Storts and I'll be your friendly, neighborhood Moderator here in the Knowledge Network. At IT Business Edge, we're always looking for new partners to help spread the word about the latest tools, technologies, and trends that help you do definitions knowledge_network knowledge_network_moderator business_communications Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:18:40 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/hello-knowledge-network-community/?cs=40026 2010-03-12T20:18:40Z 2 days, 4 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/hello-knowledge-network-community http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40026 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/does-your-company-struggle-with-facebook-check-out-this-user-policy/?cs=39967 Here at IT Business Edge, we've found that writing about corporate policies for dealing with social media to be good for traffic. Former moderator Patrick Avery found social media policies to be among the most popular tools in the Knowledge Network social_networks user_policies business_technology facebook Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:16:59 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/does-your-company-struggle-with-facebook-check-out-this-user-policy/?cs=39967 2010-03-10T23:16:59Z 4 days, 2 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/does-your-company-struggle-with-facebook-check-out-this-user-policy http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39967 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/track-risk-from-identification-to-control/?cs=39821 Risk management needs to become a standard part of IT governance, with IT and the business discussing it on a regular basis, not just when the business pushes it, author Michael Harris told IT Business Edge's Ann All .   (In the Knowledge risk_management business_technology Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:00:54 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/track-risk-from-identification-to-control/?cs=39821 2010-03-04T20:00:54Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/track-risk-from-identification-to-control http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39821 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/definitions-help-you-communicate-clearly/?cs=39805 Some IT terms, such as service-oriented architecture and cloud computing , tend to mean different things to different people. That's why the Knowledge Network tries to help you sort things out with its definitions documents.   Here are some of saas service_level_agreements soa business_technology definitions cloud_computing network_performance_management Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:39:23 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/definitions-help-you-communicate-clearly/?cs=39805 2010-03-04T15:39:23Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/definitions-help-you-communicate-clearly http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39805 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/whats-your-policy-on-wireless-networking/?cs=39670 Despite the proliferation of mobile and wireless devices used for business, few companies have a plan to adequately manage them, wrote IT Business Edge's Carl Weinschenk last September. He refers to "letting employees run around the town – or the user_policies wireless_network_management business_technology Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:19:52 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/whats-your-policy-on-wireless-networking/?cs=39670 2010-02-25T21:19:52Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/whats-your-policy-on-wireless-networking http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39670 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/effective-policy-manages-devices-that-extend-the-network/?cs=39587 In his post last September, "Mobile Policy Wonks Needed," blogger Carl Weinschenk makes the point that smaller businesses are adopting mobile technology beyond their ability to keep it secure. And having a comprehensive and effective policy for users network_performance_management indiana_university business_technology user_policies Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:17:18 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/effective-policy-manages-devices-that-extend-the-network/?cs=39587 2010-02-22T20:17:18Z 2 weeks, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/effective-policy-manages-devices-that-extend-the-network http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39587 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/put-your-project-to-the-test/?cs=39555 IT Business Edge's Ann All writes that companies increasingly are picking some aspects of agile development to follow in their projects, but not them all.   Forrester analyst Dave West is quoted in a DevX.com article saying: Though agile is business_technology project_management Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:17:39 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/put-your-project-to-the-test/?cs=39555 2010-02-19T19:17:39Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/put-your-project-to-the-test http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39555 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/diagram-your-project-leadership/?cs=39381 Project management expert Michael Taylor has provided yet another tool to the Knowledge Network to help you keep your projects on track. With his Taxonomy of a Project Diagram, Taylor lays out who creates project leadership – and how – and the five project_management management_philosophies business_processes strategic_planning business_technology it_best_practices Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:14:34 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/diagram-your-project-leadership/?cs=39381 2010-02-11T19:14:34Z 1 month, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/diagram-your-project-leadership http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39381 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/excerpt-offers-insight-into-intelligent-system-automation/?cs=39254 Automation will overtake offshoring as the "next big thing" as companies continue to look for more ways to cut their expenses, Ken Jackson, president of Americas for automation specialists UC4 writes in a guest opinion piece. That's a vision of the business_technology business_process_management it_management_automation cost_containment Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:09:26 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/excerpt-offers-insight-into-intelligent-system-automation/?cs=39254 2010-02-05T21:09:26Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/excerpt-offers-insight-into-intelligent-system-automation http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39254 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/when-its-ok-for-someone-other-than-account-holder-to-gain-access/?cs=39252 In a guest opinion piece, Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint Technologies , discusses the evolution of identity-management tools toward business intelligence software for compliance.   He writes: Business intelligence’s success bodes privacy compliance_software_packages user_policies business_technology identity_management risk_management Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:29:43 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/when-its-ok-for-someone-other-than-account-holder-to-gain-access/?cs=39252 2010-02-05T20:29:43Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/when-its-ok-for-someone-other-than-account-holder-to-gain-access http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39252 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/skip-luck-and-plan-for-it-service-quality/?cs=39136 In their new book, “ Achieving IT Service Quality: The Opposite of Luck ,” co-authors and IT experts Chris Oleson, Mike Hagan and Christophe DeMoss make clear that service quality has nothing to do with luck -- it's all a matter of preparedness and it_best_practices itil business_technology Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:58:14 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/skip-luck-and-plan-for-it-service-quality/?cs=39136 2010-02-01T21:58:14Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/skip-luck-and-plan-for-it-service-quality http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39136 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/plan-your-hardware-or-software-release-to-keep-everything-running-smoothly/?cs=39053 Before you're ready to let new hardware or software "go live" in your organization, you need to protect the existing system until everything is properly configured. That calls for a plan.   A new document in the Knowledge Network, Release project_management business_technology Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:16:29 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/plan-your-hardware-or-software-release-to-keep-everything-running-smoothly/?cs=39053 2010-01-28T20:16:29Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/plan-your-hardware-or-software-release-to-keep-everything-running-smoothly http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39053 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/agile-development-gains-traction/?cs=39019 Blogger Ann All wrote about a recent survey by Forrester Research in which 46 percent of IT pros said agile software development was used at their companies.   She describes it this way: Unlike the traditional waterfall software-development business_technology agile productivity_software primers software_and_web_development project_management it_best_practices book_excerpts enterprise_software Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:42 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/agile-development-gains-traction/?cs=39019 2010-01-27T18:01:42Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/agile-development-gains-traction http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39019 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/start-the-new-year-with-clean-intellectual-property/?cs=38961 The new year presents a prime time to start anew with clean IP in mind , writes Katherine Chin Quee, a legal consultant at IP management company Protecode , in a guest opinion piece. She writes: [Recent] enforcement actions drive home the importance intellectual_property business_technology software_licensing open_source_enterprise_software Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:27:44 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/start-the-new-year-with-clean-intellectual-property/?cs=38961 2010-01-25T21:27:44Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/comment/start-the-new-year-with-clean-intellectual-property http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/kn/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=38961