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July 31, 2008

Open Source Business Is All About Partnerships

Lora Bentley spoke with Dominic Sartorio, president of the Open Solutions Alliance , regarding the organization's recent market trends survey.   Bentley : What prompted this survey? Sartorio : ... More >

July 29, 2008

The Search for Valuable Data

Arthur Cole spoke with Paul Whitelam, director of product marketing, Endeca Technologies .   Cole : Few people doubt the growing importance of enterprise search, but there are an awful lot of c... More >

July 25, 2008

Outsourcing’s Impact on Customer Satisfaction: It’s Not Good

Ann All spoke with Jonathan Whitaker, an Assistant Professor of Management in the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. Together with co-authors M.S. Krishnan and Claes Fornell at ... More >

Security Not a Matter of Black or White

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mario Vuksan, director of research, Bit9 .   Weinschenk : Please define whitelisting and blacklisting. Vuksan : Whitelisting is a generic term today that encompasses ... More >

Social Networking Gets a Day Job

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dan Latendre, CEO, Igloo Software .   Weinschenk : What is corporate social networking? Latendre : [It is] using new Web 2.0 technology and philosophy to improve busi... More >

July 24, 2008

SOA Pays off in Quicker Time to Market, Business Agility for VetSource

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Craig Sutter, technical director for VetSource, on his company's decision to move to a service-oriented architecture and the lessons he learned from VetSource's SOA i... More >

July 23, 2008

Big Savings for Telework – but Only If the Job Is Done Right

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Charley Grantham, executive producer, the Work Design Collaborative, a think tank.   Weinschenk : How do you define working out of the office, and how much can it save... More >

July 22, 2008

Pulling Business Metrics from Social Networking

Susan Hall spoke with Padmanabh Dabke, chief technology officer for Spigit , whose software delivers business metrics from social networking sites such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus Connections... More >

July 21, 2008

The Power of Teamwork in Power Management

Arthur Cole spoke with Clemens Pfeiffer, CTO, Power Assure .   Cole : Power Assure provides server-level power management systems that automatically power servers up and down depending on data ... More >

The iPhone, Android and the Underlying Business Dynamic

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bill Hughes, analyst for In-Stat . Hughes recently authored a report, "The iPhone and gPhone: Shaking Up the Wireless World."   Weinschenk : What was the premi... More >

Mr. Compliance Officer, Tear Down These Walls

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Steve McCalmont, CEO and Founder, Avior Computing , which recently did a survey looking at how its customers handled compliance.   Weinschenk : What was the su... More >

July 18, 2008

Open Source Levels the Data-Profiling Playing Field

Lora Bentley spoke with Yves de Montcheuil, marketing VP at open source data integration provider Talend . The company recently released the first open source data profiler.   Bentley : Can you... More >

July 16, 2008

Alternative Benchmarking Approach Adds Direct Information Exchange

  Ann All spoke with John Parker, director of Improvement Services for the Corporate IT Forum , a confidential, vendor-free environment in which IT professionals can exchange practical and stra... More >

TIGTA Watches IRS, Often from Home

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Joseph Hungate, principal deputy inspector general, Office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration . TIGTA is part of the Treasury Department. &nb... More >

July 15, 2008

Information, and Social Networking, Is Power in the Enterprise

  Art Cole spoke with David Dines, analyst with Wainhouse Research .   Cole : Social networking is one of the hottest topics in consumer circles, but enterprises are still feeling their wa... More >

July 14, 2008

Network Management to the Edge

Arthur Cole spoke with Kenny Van Zant, chief product strategist, SolarWinds .   Cole : It seems that the more enterprises come to rely on distributed architectures, the greater the challenge to... More >

July 11, 2008

United, Internet Users Stand; Divided, We End up at Phony Sites

  Last week, news hit of a vulnerability in the Domain Name System that, if exploited by hackers, could lead surfers to phony Web sites. The flaw was found by Dan Kaminsky, the director of penet... More >

The Mobile Design Challenge

The intense development in the mobile sector is challenging designers, who suddenly have to create sites and applications for hundreds of devices that have drastically different characteristics. Bar... More >

Still a Big Gap Between Reality, Wishes for Web 2.0

  Ann All spoke with Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch, which evaluates content-oriented technologies and publishes head-to-head comparative reviews of leading solutions. In its Web CMS Report 20... More >

Empowering the Patient with E-Health Records

  Lora Bentley spoke with Dr. John D. Halamka, chair of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). The HITSP has recently certified interoperability standards for certain e... More >

Moving SOA Beyond Web Services and Integration

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink , which specializes in SOA consulting and seminars. Lawson continues her discussion with Schmelzer about Microsoft's SOA vision and why t... More >

High School Students Make Grade for Zoho

  Ann All spoke with Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet , the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. To date, Zoho has launched 16 different applications and more are in the works... More >

July 9, 2008

FMC: Some Progress, but Confusion Still Deep

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dave Lemelin, an In-Stat analyst. In late June, the firm released a study, “Enterprise FMC: A Lot of Activity, but Lagging Demand for Now.”   Weinschenk : Wha... More >

Cyber Security Awareness Rising in Academia

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bob Kirby, senior director, K-12, CDW-G. Late last month, CDW-G released the 2008 School Safety Index Self-Assessment Tool, which included information on academic at... More >

Telecommuting: Good Recruitment Tool, Used Wisely

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Frank Han, vice president, Robert Half Technology .   Weinschenk : What does Robert Half Technology see happening in telecommuting? Han : Overall, certainly te... More >

Social Networking Is Just Business

Lora Bentley spoke with Ross Johnston, new business development VP at Dotster .   Bentley : What features are businesses looking for in social-networking tools? Johnston : Businesses are really... More >

July 8, 2008

Why Integration Is a Good Reason – and Possibly the ROI – for SOA

  Loraine Lawson spoke with John Burke , principal research analyst with independent research firm, Nemertes Research . Previously, Burke shared what his study, “Service-Oriented Architecture... More >

How Microsoft Could Lead the Way on SOA

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink, which specializes in SOA consulting and seminars. Schmelzer recently received a briefing on Microsoft's SOA messaging, with Burley Kawasaki... More >

July 7, 2008

Sharpening up Blade Networks

Arthur Cole spoke with Dan Tuchler, VP, strategy and product management, Blade Network Technologies .   Cole : The more enterprises rely on blade architectures in the data center, the more comp... More >

July 3, 2008

Elevating Customer Service to the C-Level

  Ann All recently spoke with Bruce Temkin, principal analyst, Customer Experience, for Forrester Research , about the increasingly common practice of companies appointing senior executives who... More >

A New Generation: Where BI Meets Web 2.0

  Lora Bentley spoke with Nick Halsey, marketing VP, and Ian Fyfe, senior director of product management and product marketing, at Jaspersoft .   Bentley : How is Jaspersoft 3.0 different ... More >

July 2, 2008

Telecommuting Thrives, as Part of the Bigger Picture

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Gil Gordon, principal of Gordon Associates , a telecommuting and virtual office consultancy.   Weinschenk : How much is the price of gas influencing telecommuting gro... More >

Facebook Reawakens 'Sleepy' Serena Software

  Ann All spoke with Kyle Arteaga, vice president of Corporate Communications for Serena Software , a provider of application lifecycle management software, project and portfolio management sof... More >

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