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It seems like everywhere you go these days, end users want to have more intelligence about the business. But the question that seems to be coming up more often is if there is a difference between wha... More >
One of the more significant developments in the intelligent use of IT to help rein in costs kicked off this week in the form a new Web site that allows patients to compare pricing for healthcare serv... More >
Just about every organization has someone who indulges in the following illicit behavior. Because the e-mail system is not capable of supporting large file attachments, certain individuals will find ... More >
Software licensing is a topic that a lot of people like to discuss, but seems to change very little. Customers would sorely love to have a more usage-based model for paying for software, versus payin... More >
Digital asset management has proven to be a significant challenge for any organization. There can be lot of different versions of the same video, storage costs can be substantial, and there isn’t alw... More >
One of those issues that is always a source of frustration in the enterprise is the quality of the data we spend so much time and money processing. The quest to make sure we have high quality data is... More >
There’s no joy at Information Builders Inc. as the mighty predictive analytics application has struck out. Prior to the start of the baseball playoffs, one of IBI’s leading lights in the area of pred... More >
Once in a while you come across the juxtaposition of two news stories and you can’t help but be left wondering just who is minding the store these days. The first story was a report from the CBS tele... More >
As enterprise software continues to evolve, you can’t help but wonder if the way we have traditionally thought about enterprise application software has become obsolete. For the past 20 years or more... More >
With more retailers then ever grumbling about the cost of Payment Card Industry (PCI) security and the increased complexity associated with the IT infrastructure need to run these sites, it’s becom... More >
The biggest problem we have with data is not collecting it and storing it; it’s analyzing it. This is why business intelligence applications are at the top of every IT priority list. But the problem ... More >
One of the more frustrating things about the way we manage security is the gap between when vulnerabilities are disclosed and when the IT organization can actually deploy the patch that remediates th... More >
There is only thing worse than being threatened with having to pay protection money: paying for the protection and still getting robbed. That’s pretty much sums up how a lot of people feel about the ... More >
With all the hoopla surrounding the launch of Windows 7, there are some basic facts of operating systems' life within the IT organization that are not going to change now that Microsoft has a credibl... More >
The whole issue of sustainability is gaining momentum all across the corporate hierarchy. But while most people think sustainability is all about the impact a company may have on the environment, it’... More >
A new survey commissioned by IT services company Avanade shows that 56 percent of the IT organizations surveyed view cloud computing as a strategic imperative. Although 43 percent said they view cl... More >
Although the vast majority of the time it turns out that a shopping cart is abandoned online because someone was using it as a glorified price checker , it still would be a nice to be sure about exa... More >
While all the focus of the moment seems to be on the potential benefits of Windows 7 , once Microsoft officially releases Windows 7 it’s going to fall to the IT help desk to start cleaning up after ... More >
When the XML file format initially came out, it was hailed as a way to finally overcome our interoperability issues. After all, it was a self-describing, data-neutral file format that would make it... More >
There are those inside and out the enterprise content management (ECM) space who would argue that the whole category is a figment of some marketer’s imagination. There never has been a real end-to-en... More >
As previously discussed, there is an emerging trend emerging where some corporations are actually downsizing their applications as a way to cut costs in these difficult economic times. Doing this i... More >
Every time there is a report of some major theft of intellectual capital, all eyes invariably turn back to the IT department. And the question that usually gets asked is that with all the money we sp... More >
Is nothing sacred? Turns out that the latest round of phishing attacks plaguing end users look like legitimate e-mails coming from the internal IT department. The folks at Trusteer Research issued a ... More >
It’s always hard to say just what factors leads a customer to cancel a major project with a vendor. But the news that the state of Indiana has canceled a $1.34 billion contract with IBM to automate... More >
You can’t help but wonder what some companies are thinking when it comes to electronic commerce. All too often, it feels like companies think all they have to do is create the electronic equivalent o... More >
In a lot of people’s minds, the primary role of the business analyst is to translate the requirements of the business application into something a developer can understand and explain to the business... More >
As virtualization technology continues to evolve and IT organizations gain a greater appreciation for how a business process works end-to-end, you can’t help but wonder if we’re on the cusp of a majo... More >
Although everybody in corporate America is not likely to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 overnight, there is enough fatigue surrounding Windows XP that companies are starting to plan their migrat... More >
Even though the economy is not nearly as robust as it once was, many companies are looking forward to do some robust business via their Web sites during the upcoming holiday season. The proble... More >
Capturing knowledge and managing it has always proved elusive inside any organization. And never is that more apparent than during a company meeting where one person gets up and explains in detail ... More >
If you believe in the power of predictive analytics and statistics , then the Los Angeles Dodgers are about to win the World Series. According to the folks that make WebFocus predictive analytics so... More >
Just like people trying to cope with a drop in income, corporations these days are downsizing their corporate lifestyles. In the context of enterprise applications, that usually means moving downstre... More >
When it comes to managing IT, most organizations appear to be more comfortable maintaining the machines than they are managing the business process. That’s unfortunate, because as far as the business... More >
One of the things that business people are most enthralled with these days is the simple ability to send an alert to just about anybody at any time using any medium. Unfortunately, just because somet... More >
As part of an effort to highlight the inherent inefficiencies of existing storage systems, Pillar Data System this week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco is organizing what it describes as a pea... More >
As we move into the holiday shopping season, a lot of fuss is usually made about the supposed abandonment of shopping carts on e-commerce sites. The l atest insights about all this suggests that on... More >
When you think about the devices where some level of embedded intelligence could help make huge gains in improving productivity, the possibilities seem almost endless. On one side you have lower-cos... More >
Try as any one vendor might to build the perfect platform for collaboration, the very definition of collaboration will require a lot of interaction across various collaboration platforms. Today we ha... More >
The problem with most supply chain systems is that process that the company actually uses is never quite the same as the one modeled in the system. This is because the supply chain system is usually ... More >
Much is made over the historic divide between IT and the business, but the great divide that nobody ever seems to want to acknowledge is the divisions within the business that conspire to make a holi... More >
This may come as cold comfort to a lot of people who have always suspected as much, but a survey released today by Progress Software finds that 72 percent of about 400 organizations in the U.S. and... More >
One of the issues that nobody seems to want to really address inside or outside of IT is who exactly is responsible for identity management . With a specific domain, everybody wants to manage access... More >
Amazon may deserve most of the credit for popularizing the basic concept of accessing storage as a cloud computing resource, but the battle over intelligent storage cloud computing services is just b... More >
As the gap between IT and the business continues to narrow - albeit slowly - there’s an increasing understanding that IT needs to bend to the requirements of the business, rather than the other way a... More >
The problem with most of the products that have been developed to help end users collaborate is that most of them started from one particular aspect of collaboration and then branched out. As a resul... More >
Given the multitude of approaches available when it comes to creating a virtual desktop, there’s little wonder that there is a lot of confusion surrounding the subject of desktop virtualization. Citr... More >
One of the biggest opportunities that IT has to add value is to build composite applications that unify multiple business processes. Although not easy to build, these applications, generally known as... More >
In theory, IT should make it easier to merge one company with another. But as times goes on, it appears that the complexity of IT is becoming a major impediment to mergers and acquisitions. The lates... More >
Every time there is a major inflexion point in terms of IT, there is usually a corresponding change in competitive edge. With the arrival of cloud computing as a new type of IT platform, some folks a... More >
One of the things that keeps a lot of people tethered to their desks is that the wireless networks they have installed are not very robust. For one reason or another, coverage can be spotty at best a... More >
While most of the focus on collaboration applications running in the cloud has focused on the battle between Google and Microsoft , IBM has quietly been stealing a march on both. IBM today rolled ou... More >
As the amount of data that needs to be managed continues to grow at alarming rates, IT organizations are increasingly faced with some major challenges when it comes to backup and recovery. But what... More >
Turns out one of the most dangerous things you can do on the Web these days is follow everybody else. After the launch of Google Wave as a service available to 100,000 beta users this week, one of ... More >
With the pending arrival of Windows 7 and the fact that so many companies observe today as the start of a new fiscal year today, it might be worth considering how the concept of PC ownership is evo... More >
It seems like there are more self-help books for CIOs than any other profession on the planet. Unfortunately, most of these books deliver little more than trite pieces of advice on leadership that ar... More >
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