ITBE Staff

The latest edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics exposes the widening gap between companies that make good on their promises to clean up, and those that don’t. While some of the top electronics manufacturers are failing to keep their environmental commitments, others are innovating and making significant gains in phasing out toxic chemicals, […]

‘CoDestiny’ Excerpt This excerpt offer best practices and tools to help companies solve difficult growth challenges by unlocking the secrets of the customer chain. In “CoDestiny: Overcome Your Growth Challenges by Helping Your Customers Overcome Theirs,” global strategy experts Atlee Valentine Pope and George F. Brown, Jr., offer best practices and tools to help companies […]

Business intelligence (BI) emerged 20 years ago as a tool for aiding decision-making. Originally seen as the preserve of analysts and board-level executives, it has slowly evolved into a more democratic medium as organizations have come to realize that decision-makers at all levels and in all departments need access to timely, relevant information. Today, a […]

If you're still using recruiters to find potential job candidates, it's time to join the 21st century and get on the social media train! Namely: LinkedIn. LinkedIn just keeps getting better and better–and continues to attract more professionals looking for employment and lucrative or beneficial contacts in the business world. LinkedIn has earned a reputation as […]

While there’s a lot of interest in Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 in the enterprise, it doesn’t look like there will be any wholesale migration to new Windows desktops. Instead, a new survey of 953 IT professionals, conducted by Dell KACE, a provider of desktop systems management tools, finds that customers are taking a […]

IT automation is always a touchy subject in any enterprise. From the perspective of the IT staff, IT automation is generally seen as code for reducing the size of the IT staff. But with the advent of cloud computing, IT organizations are going to be try to scale IT applications and the systems they run […]

Data Center Relocation Project Wrap-up Checklist This checklist will help you get your arms around the daunting task of moving your data center. Key issues covered include disposing of unnecessary features, proper equipment disposal, and returning leased assets. Relocating the Data Center is a large undertaking that involves a great deal of old and new […]

Most everyone will agree that gadgets that help improve day-to-day productivity are essential in the fast-paced business world.  Last spring, Paul Mah highlighted some must-have peripherals that he considered to be excellent tools for helping workers be more productive.  We’ve revisited that list and identified 10 more must-have gadgets you may want to consider adding […]

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down the reasons in nine easy to understand facts. Click through for nine easy to understand facts about why […]

Project Privacy Checklist Easily determine whether the IT department is ensuring the privacy of information collected during projects. A project privacy checklist allows the IT department to quickly and easily determine if it is taking appropriate measures to ensure the privacy of information that it collects for the services, projects or offerings that it is […]

Over the past five years, many organizations have decided to abandon their legacy Lotus Notes/Domino environments and transition to a platform based on Microsoft collaboration technologies (Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office). Many of these organizations, though, have hesitated in tackling the most difficult part of this transition: migrating their applications from Notes to SharePoint. Some […]

While unified communication technologies are well represented in the enterprise, there appears to be very little consistency in terms of which UC technologies are broadly applied. IT organizations are deploying a mix of UC products as they see fit. A new study of 121 IT organizations conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of Azaleos, a […]