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Interviews

December 2009

December 31, 2009

IDC: ERP Systems' Lack of Flexibility a Costly Problem

Ann All spoke with IDC analyst Mike Fauscette, who authored a white paper sponsored by ERP software provider Agresso that found companies' inability to easily modify their ERP systems is disrup... More >

December 30, 2009

The Best Cloud Case: What Functions You Should – and Shouldn't – Consider Moving

Loraine Lawson recently interviewed Judith Hurwitz , president of business consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates and co-author of the recently released "Cloud Computing for Dummies ." In part ... More >

December 29, 2009

Use Vendor TCO Models as Starting Point, Not Last Word

Ann All spoke to Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone about one of her pet peeves, total cost of ownership models that don't take all costs into account.   All: So you believe companies shou... More >

December 24, 2009

Fragmentation Pushes Against Convergence

The assumption has been that all roads lead to the smartphone. The reality may be, however, that some do and some don’t. While smartphones are gaining in functionality, a counter trend is emerging: C... More >

Citrix: Technology, Policy Provide Choice in Employee-Owned Computer Plan

Susan Hall spoke with Michael McKiernan, director of worldwide operation, planning and procurement for Citrix Systems about employee-owned computer initiatives. About 10 percent of Citrix's global wo... More >

December 23, 2009

Making Sarbox Compliance Simple: Six Sigma and World-Class Best Practices

Lora Bentley spoke with Teresa Bockwoldt, CEO and co-founder of Sarbanes-Oxley and SAS compliance solutions provider Vibato , about how the company -- and its methodology -- came to be.   Bentl... More >

Bring Your Own Computer: Intel Calls for Split Personality

Susan Hall talked with Dave Buchholz, Intel IT technology evangelist, about the company's work on what it calls "BYOC [bring your own computer] done right."   Hall: Tell me about what Intel’s d... More >

Baby Steps and Integration Strategy Key When Moving to the Cloud

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Judith Hurwitz, president of business consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, about her research on cloud computing. Hurwitz is the co-author of the recently rele... More >

December 22, 2009

How Employee-Owned Computers Work in the Real World

Susan Hall spoke with Harold Mann, co-founder of Mann Consulting , about his experience with allowing employees to use their own laptops for work. The Los Angeles-based IT consultancy has offered em... More >

December 21, 2009

Cloud Storage: Blending the Old with the New

Arthur Cole spoke with Roger Frey, director of Microsoft solutions marketing, NetApp .   Cole : Microsoft and NetApp have had a close working relationship in the past. What does this new agreem... More >

Building Better Business Services with BPM and SOA

  Richard Mark Soley, chairman and CEO of the OMG , and the executive director of the recently combined SOA & BPM Consortiums , explains to Loraine Lawson why SOA and BPM work together to ... More >

December 18, 2009

White Space Channels Move Closer to Reality

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Rick Rotondo, the co-Founder and CMO of Spectrum Bridge .   Weinschenk: What are white spaces? Rotondo: They are TV channels left over after the digital tele... More >

December 17, 2009

Making Data Mining More Accessible

  Ann All spoke with Dominic Pouzin, a principal at Data Applied , a provider of business intelligence and data mining solutions.   All: Obviously cost has kept all but large companies fr... More >

December 16, 2009

Social Networking Policies Vary with Industry, Security Requirements

Lora Bentley spoke with James Herr, an associate in the Louisville, Ky., offices of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald , regarding how corporate social networking policies take shape. A lot depends on ... More >

December 15, 2009

Enterprise Networking: Looking Forward to 2010

Arthur Cole spoke with Seamus Crehan, vice president, Dell'Oro Group, Inc.   Cole : It seems like many analysts seized on some relatively modest gains in server and network equipment to proclai... More >

December 14, 2009

Are You Ready for Regulation of Targeted Advertising?

Lora Bentley spoke with Anzen analysts Megan Brister and Jordan Prokopy via e-mail regarding behavioral advertising - what companies are doing, what regulators want to do and what we, as advertisin... More >

December 11, 2009

Getting Hospital Communications off the Critical List

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Gregg Malkary, the founder and managing director of the Spyglass Consulting Group . This week, Spyglass released a study, "Healthcare Without Bounds: Point of Care ... More >

IT Among Hardest Hit in Loss of Back-Office Jobs

  Ann All spoke with The Hackett Group Chief Research Officer Michel Janssen and Erik Dorr, who authored a report on the recession and job loss. They found nearly 630,000 back-office jobs will... More >

December 8, 2009

Patient Privacy Rights Wants You to Know How Health Data Is Used

Lora Bentley spoke with Ashley Katz, the executive director for Patient Privacy Rights , a national non-profit consumer health privacy watchdog, just before the organization released its privacy rep... More >

December 7, 2009

The Cloud Helps Businesses Confront UC Complexity

Carl Weinschenk spoke to In-Stat Analyst Dave Lemelin. Lemelin and In-Stat released a study last month, "Global Unified Communications Emerges From the Cloud."   Weinschenk: What’s driving UC... More >

Building up the Backbone

Arthur Cole spoke with Shehzad Merchant, senior director of strategy, Extreme Networks . Cole : A lot of companies, yours included, are looking at 100 GbE as a fabric for cloud services. Please tell... More >

Deloitte: Old-School Innovation No Longer Cuts It

In the first part of this interview with John Hagel , co-chairman of Deloitte's Center for the Edge , he told Ann All that on an economy-wide level, U.S. companies’ return-on-assets (ROA) has plumm... More >

December 4, 2009

MuleSoft's New Offering for Data Integration

MuleSoft – the company responsible for the open source Mule ESB – recently announced a new  solution, Mule Data Integrator . IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson asked Ken Yagen, Mule's senior directo... More >

December 3, 2009

Deloitte: Productivity Improvements Don't Drive Profit

Ann All spoke with John Hagel, co-chairman of Deloitte's Center for the Edge , which recently released ts 2009 “Shift Index,” an economic indicator identifying three waves of disruption that are sha... More >

December 2, 2009

Corporate Social Networking Policies Made Simple

Lora Bentley spoke with Mitzi Wyrick, an attorney in the Louisville, Ky. office of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs , regarding what corporate social networking policies should include and how they should... More >

December 1, 2009

Why Informatica 9 Reflects A 'New Way of Thinking' About Data

You've heard about Informatica 9 , but in this interview with Loraine Lawson, Ash Parikh explains in detail how the new platform is a response to customers' real-world data integration problems ... More >