Don Tennant

Five Tips for Taking Control of Cloud Chaos If you’re eager to tap the promise of the cloud, and you’ve managed to successfully navigate through the experimentation and proof-of-concept stages to actually go live with an application in the cloud, congratulations. But if you think you’ve overcome the biggest hurdle, and that it’ll be all […]

Top 15 Health Care IT Vendors With all the heat that the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—otherwise known as “Obamacare”—has been taking lately, you might think that a technology company whose flagship product was spawned by Obamacare might be having second thoughts about hitching itself to that particular wagon. But a few minutes with Zach Silverzweig […]

Five Secrets to Impress a Job Interviewer I’m thinking that if anyone is qualified to offer advice on hiring software developers, it would be the CEO of a successful software development company. So I turned to Isaac Shi, CEO of Golden Section Technology, a boutique software development firm in Houston, to get his thoughts on what […]

Five Secrets to Impress a Job Interviewer Here’s an irony for you: IT professionals, who are at the forefront of championing advances in the application of technology in any number of pursuits, are decidedly old-school when it comes to the way they present information about the technology they’re so keen to champion. That realization hit […]

Eight Tips for IT Career Longevity If you’re an IT hiring manager, and you’re reviewing a job candidate’s resume, you would be well-advised to give more weight to the certifications the candidate holds than to the work experience he has under his belt. That’s the view of Subhash Tantry, president of Mettl, a provider of […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers I’ve found over the years that the IT professionals I have the greatest respect for are those who have the guts to speak openly and candidly about such things as vendor performance and project failures, so that their peers can benefit from their experiences. […]

Third-Quarter IT Reality Check – Budgets, Hiring, Trends In a post last week, I wrote about Lisa Falzone, co-founder and CEO of Revel Systems, who made the point that women need to be more willing to at least try to venture out the way she did, and the way her male counterparts do. She’s right, […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes If you are a senior data analytics professional working in the heath care sector, what does the Ebola situation mean to you? To one such professional, it means the potential for an all-hands-on deck response that would break down data-sharing barriers and shift the data-analytics focus from “blocking and tackling” […]

Seven Tips to Attain Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work I don’t know how many female tech CEOs are in Silicon Valley, but I do know they’re a rare breed. And the ones who are as successful as Lisa Falzone are exponentially fewer and farther between. As co-founder and CEO of Revel Systems, an […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off I’m attending the Teradata 2014 Partners Conference in Nashville this week, and the time sink has already proven to be worth it, if for no other reason than that I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with Mark Cothron, data architect at Ace Hardware Corp. […]

Seven Symptoms of Bad Meetings and What You Can Do About Them I’ve never spoken with the creators of PowerPoint, Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin, but if I ever get the opportunity to do so, the first question I’ll ask them is why they think the phrase “death by PowerPoint” has become so widely used […]

How to Select a Sales Automation Solution As Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual industry event, gets underway in San Francisco today, one of the companies on the show floor that is likely to get its fair share of attention is SteelBrick, a startup that’s jumping on what it sees as an irresistible opportunity: plugging the CPQ (configure, […]