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Data without any context isn’t all that useful. Unfortunately, most of the data that we do collect in the enterprise has little to no context. To compensate for this, IT organizations have been inves... More >
When it comes to cloud computing, it’s pretty apparent that we’re rapidly heading toward commodity services . Obviously, most cloud computing services can’t survive by merely trying to compete on sc... More >
Following the rapid expansion of software-as-a-service, there appears to be a SaaS offering for just about every conceivable process. And now that corporations have come to see SaaS as a pretty stand... More >
During this holiday season you will probably notice a massive explosion in the number of digital display systems posted everywhere as part of an attempt to get people to buy one thing or another. Tod... More >
There's a lot of subtlety at work among providers of data analysis tools and data warehouse platforms that appears to signal more open-ended approaches to business intelligence software to come. SAS ... More >
Every once in a while, two trends converge, creating something much more than the sum of the two parts. For the past two years, just about every IT organization has been aggressively cutting costs. T... More >
As everybody from academics to factory workers fret over the prospect of a jobless economic recovery, now might be the time to take a good long look at the state of business innovation. If we’re ever... More >
There is a general crisis in confidence among e-mail users these days. Just about everywhere you go, you hear people talking about not putting anything sensitive in that format. Their concerns stem f... More >
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 attent... More >
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 i... More >
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... More >
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 fai... More >
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... More >
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 pro... More >
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 ... More >
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 deplo... More >
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' bi... More >
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, put... More >
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... More >
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 Tele... More >
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 ... More >
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... More >
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 tha... More >
Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between when somebody really doesn’t understand something and when they just don’t want to understand something. Such is the case with cloud computing, which from t... More >
One of the challenges with the proliferation of sensors such as RFID tags is coming up with a practical tool for tracking all the data that comes streaming out these them. For example, IBM has rolled... More >
The only time data has any real value is when it is compared with other data. Unfortunately, the data we usually need to compare is locked up in disparate applications. Through the adoption of variou... More >
Forty-plus years into the information age, it’s become pretty clear that the way we ask end users to access and manage information is fundamentally broken. Everywhere you go, you will find end user... More >
The biggest challenge IT organizations most often face is not automating the business process, but rather discovering what the actual business process is. More often than not, discovering what the bu... More >
It seems like just about everybody, whether it’s Google, Microsoft or Zoho.com, is looking to provide end users with some form of access to a shared set of productivity applications on the Web. The t... More >
For better or worse, IT organizations can take a collective sigh of relief now that the feared audit of their operations seems to fading as a requirement. As Congress moves to put more exemptions i... More >
One of the sadder facts about life in Corporate America is that we’ve become pretty sloppy when it comes to managing people. During the good times, there wasn’t much call for focusing on workforce o... More >
There are a lot of data warehouses out there that can no longer keep up with the pace of the business. Most data warehouses were built on the assumption that performance would hardly be an issue. The... More >
For all the great talk about saving money by moving to cloud computing models or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) , you can’t help but wonder if economics are really driving these trends or wh... More >
In the grand scheme of things, the IT industry as a whole doesn’t account for a huge amount of the carbon that is spewed daily into the atmosphere. But the IT industry as a whole stands to benefit gr... More >
Most everybody would agree that working with Microsoft PowerPoint software probably ranks as one of the most frustrating things anybody encounters on a daily basis. There are, of course, masters of P... More >
The IT industry as a whole still has a long way to go in terms of making the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) process cohesive. But a survey being released today seems to indicate tha... More >
All too often, it takes a high-profile case such as the accusations surrounding insider trading involving the Galleon Group to get organizations to think about the security of their most sensitive d... More >
Somewhere, somehow, all the equipment and services that make Internet bandwidth being consumed in ever increasing amounts has to be paid for. Although we can count on to some degree advances in netwo... More >
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