http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:31 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-19T22:22:31Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/managing-return-on-it/?cs=37633     Doug Brockway is the founder and Managing Principal for Advance Consulting . He blogs on IT management topics at Working on Step 2 . In “The New Voice of the CIO, a recent report from IBM’s Institute for Business Value, one key concept is that IT roi executive_suite business_technology cost_containment strategic_planning it_best_practices Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:31 GMT doug.brockway@gmail.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/managing-return-on-it/?cs=37633 2009-11-19T22:22:31Z 1 day, 2 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/managing-return-on-it http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37633 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/whats-your-compliance-iq/?cs=37594 Apparently, Bernie Madoff doesn’t have Internet access in the Butner Federal Correctional Complex. Which might explain why he hasn’t taken our Compliance IQ quiz . Not that I would expect Madoff’s score to be all that tweet-worthy. Anybody serving business_technology external_and_internal_audits risk_management compliance_costs lumigent litigation grc Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:18:21 GMT john.capobianco@lumigent.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/whats-your-compliance-iq/?cs=37594 2009-11-18T21:18:21Z 2 days, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/whats-your-compliance-iq http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37594 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/tis-the-season-to-abandon-your-shopping-cart/?cs=37590 While past seasonal trends suggest that e-commerce conversion rates rise in the holiday season, there is some evidence that this year may be different. Will the 2009 holiday season be the biggest abandonment year on record? SeeWhy tracks shopping cart business_technology social_networks e-commerce seewhy forrester it_market_analysts advertising_and_marketing Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:10 GMT charles.nicholls@seewhy.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/tis-the-season-to-abandon-your-shopping-cart/?cs=37590 2009-11-18T18:49:10Z 2 days, 5 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/tis-the-season-to-abandon-your-shopping-cart http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37590 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/virtualization-initiatives-getting-bogged-down/?cs=37492     David Lynch is vice president of marketing for Embotics . Server consolidation initiatives created a strong ROI for organizations and proved to be the impetus that server virtualization needed to gain broad market adoption.  But as organizations business_technology server_consolidation embotics it_management_automation server_virtualization Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:12:59 GMT dlynch@embotics.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/virtualization-initiatives-getting-bogged-down/?cs=37492 2009-11-17T16:12:59Z 3 days, 8 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/virtualization-initiatives-getting-bogged-down http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37492 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/a-smarter-way-to-work-automating-decisions-through-business-process-and-rules-management/?cs=37485       Jean-Francois Abramatic is Director of ILOG Products at IBM . Follow the subject of Business Process Management (BPM) for a while and you will be told repeatedly that BPM delivers considerable competitive advantage, especially in terms of ibm bpm systems_engineering brms business_technology business_rule_management_system business_process_management Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:02:48 GMT jfabramatic@fr.ibm.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/a-smarter-way-to-work-automating-decisions-through-business-process-and-rules-management/?cs=37485 2009-11-16T15:02:48Z 4 days, 9 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/a-smarter-way-to-work-automating-decisions-through-business-process-and-rules-management http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37485 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/it-jobs-surviving-the-technical-interview/?cs=37489 Most information technology job interviews involve a phone interview, technical interview and sometimes a personal interview. The phone interview is an introduction with the purpose of determining if there is a preliminary match. The job expectations business_technology technical_interview staff_recruiting_and_retention Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:25:29 GMT jobfinder@networkjobsolutions.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/it-jobs-surviving-the-technical-interview/?cs=37489 2009-11-13T18:25:29Z 1 week, 6 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/it-jobs-surviving-the-technical-interview http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37489 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-cloud-is-your-friend-answers-to-misconceptions-of-cloud-computing/?cs=37456     David Moorman is president of DynaSis Integrated Systems , a managed IT services provider. Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology business_technology cloud_computing dynasis data_management smbs data_center server_virtualization data_security Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:46:41 GMT maryann.denton@dynasis.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-cloud-is-your-friend-answers-to-misconceptions-of-cloud-computing/?cs=37456 2009-11-12T21:46:41Z 1 week, 1 day ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-cloud-is-your-friend-answers-to-misconceptions-of-cloud-computing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37456 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/whats-different-about-the-cio-job/?cs=37444     Doug Brockway is the founder and Managing Principal for Advance Consulting . He blogs on IT management topics at Working on Step 2 . IBM recently concluded that in order to be successful, a CIO does three things: Make innovation real, raise the executive_suite strategic_planning ibm roi business_technology innovation cio Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:24:52 GMT doug.brockway@gmail.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/whats-different-about-the-cio-job/?cs=37444 2009-11-12T19:24:52Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/whats-different-about-the-cio-job http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37444 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-dawning-of-the-it-automation-era/?cs=37375     Ken Jackson is President of Americas for UC4. Over the next five years, IT automation will overtake offshoring as the next major efficiency trend in IT. For many companies, offshoring has been a way to reduce IT costs by lowering the cost of labor business_technology uc4 cost_containment it_best_practices workforce business_process_automation it_management_automation sales_force_automation crm_solutions erp_systems Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:25:32 GMT ken.jackson@uc4.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-dawning-of-the-it-automation-era/?cs=37375 2009-11-10T19:25:32Z 1 week, 3 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-dawning-of-the-it-automation-era http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37375 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/data-quality-management-for-the-insurance-industry-a-practical-approach/?cs=37287   Most industries are heavily dependent on data, since it is vital and forms the basement for revenue generation, cost controls and risk management. In particular, the insurance industry’s reliance on an efficient data management is many degrees business_technology structured_data_integration unstructured_data_integration data_quality insurance_industry Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:12:43 GMT rajasekar.ramanathan@aig.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/data-quality-management-for-the-insurance-industry-a-practical-approach/?cs=37287 2009-11-10T15:12:43Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/data-quality-management-for-the-insurance-industry-a-practical-approach http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37287 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/have-we-lost-control-of-the-business-intelligence-investment/?cs=37281 Business executives know that one of the surest ways to lose management control is to skip the standard practice of auditing business investments. Unfortunately, that is exactly the current state for business intelligence. Spending on business business_technology business_intelligence external_and_internal_audits roi Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:35:54 GMT d99miller@yahoo.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/have-we-lost-control-of-the-business-intelligence-investment/?cs=37281 2009-11-05T20:35:54Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/have-we-lost-control-of-the-business-intelligence-investment http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37281 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-expanding-footprint-of-the-privileged-identity-management-challenge/?cs=37271 Companies have traditionally focused their privileged identity management efforts on assets like servers, routers and databases. However, that focus is expanding into other areas such as point-of-sale (POS) applications, remote sensing equipment and internal_threat compliance cyber-ark passwords business_technology identity_management Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:19:22 GMT adam.bosnian@cyber-ark.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-expanding-footprint-of-the-privileged-identity-management-challenge/?cs=37271 2009-11-05T17:19:22Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-expanding-footprint-of-the-privileged-identity-management-challenge http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37271 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/getting-a-rein-on-untethered-applications/?cs=37199 The cost benefits of virtualization and cloud computing are very seductive. Fewer physical servers in the data center leads to reduced power and cooling costs, not to mention savings on server hardware and related maintenance over time. At a time when business_technology xangati cloud_computing application_virtualization Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:16:51 GMT alan@xangati.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/getting-a-rein-on-untethered-applications/?cs=37199 2009-11-03T16:16:51Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/getting-a-rein-on-untethered-applications http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37199 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/a-model-for-cloud-backup-and-disaster-recovery-services/?cs=37177 Cloud storage is a compelling business delivery model that leverages key storage and data protection services while reducing costs by shifting IT spending from a capital expense to an operating expense. One of the most interesting aspects of cloud cloud_computing storage_management backup disaster_recovery storage_virtualization business_continuity business_technology services_vendors Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:55 GMT fadi.albatal@falconstor.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/a-model-for-cloud-backup-and-disaster-recovery-services/?cs=37177 2009-11-02T21:01:55Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/a-model-for-cloud-backup-and-disaster-recovery-services http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37177 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/introduction-to-project-management-best-practices-cobit/?cs=36809 The final entry to CA’s series on Project Management Best Practices is an overview of the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) methodology. Where both PMBOK and PRINCE2 are more project intensive, COBIT takes a top-down business_technology ca project_management cobit it_best_practices business_culture internal_governance pmo Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:20 GMT julie.tilke@ca.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/introduction-to-project-management-best-practices-cobit/?cs=36809 2009-10-30T00:01:20Z 3 weeks, 1 day ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/introduction-to-project-management-best-practices-cobit http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36809