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ITIL® Practitioner: Agree and Define Management: View Available Dates and Locations In this course, you'll focus on implementing and managing the Agree and Define processes and functions for achieving control and stability within an IT infrastructure. You'll explore the processes of Service Level Management and Financial Management with our experts in class,...; Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Certification, Practitioner, Financial Management, ITIL, Quality, Process Improvement, Financial Accounting, It Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations; Training 2008-01-01
Impressionists SlideShow (exe): More than 90 impressionists paintings including work by such Art School favorites as Cassett, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Pissaro, Renoir, Sisley, Seurat, Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh and many others including works from a wide range of lesser known practitioners. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Practitioner, Slideshow; Software downloads 2007-11-29
Feds to pay more if you have automated records: The federal government says it will pay more for Medicare patients' care as their clinics get electronic medical record equipment. (Cartoon for Slate by Glenn McCoy.) The announcement is part of the government's push to have "most" doctors on EMRs (or EHRs) by 2014. The extra money is...; Tags: Electronic Record, Federal Government, Medicare, Practitioner, Electronic Health Record, Money, E-health, Government, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Database Security Best Practices: Implementing the Missing Piece: Management and practitioners are consistently struggling against the ever increasing threat of IT security infringements. The need for data and database security may be an obvious one, however, there are many difficulties to overcome in finding effective safeguards - this whitepaper is designed to help practitioners who need to...; Tags: Database, Practitioner, Embarcadero Technologies, Security, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2006-09-14
Visual Studio Team System: Adopting a Value-Up Paradigm: In practice, most software processes require manual enactment, where collecting data and tracking progress are expensive. Up front, such processes need lots of documentation, training, and management, and they have high operating and maintenance costs. Most significantly, the process artifacts and effort do not contribute in any direct way to...; Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Practitioner, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Development Tools, Team Management, Productivity, Workforce Management, Management, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources; White papers 2006-08-23

Information Architecture 101: A Crash Course for the Enterprise Architect - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization: What is information architecture? The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AlfIA), an Information Architecture (IA) industry body of practitioners, states that IA is "...the design of shared information environments," especially as it relates to Web sites, intranets, online communities, and software. A chief practitioner of IA, talks about IA being...; Tags: Practitioner, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Strategy, Web Site Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Management, Internet; White papers 2006-05-23
Integrating Presence and Location Services Using SIP: In semi-nomadic professions such as medicine, practitioners move through office buildings carrying personal computing and communication devices. These practitioners make use of fixed computing and communication resources in the rooms they visit. Organizations have strong financial incentives to help their mobile professionals find each other, communicate effectively, and make efficient...; Tags: SIP, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Practitioner, Author, Instant Messaging, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Online Communications, Emerging Technologies, Marketing; White papers 2005-06-14
Strategic Planning for BCM: By applying strategic planning methodology when developing business continuity policy and standards, practitioners can gain acceptance of their program proposals at the executive level and enjoy greater program success. Most business continuity practitioners are well aware of recent regulatory initiatives (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II) driving improvements in both corporate governance...; Tags: Practitioner, Business Continuity, It Services, Strategic Planning, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law; White papers
A Practitioner's Perspective: TelCove on SOA Best Practices: TelCove, a subsidiary of Level3 communications, was challenged by rapid business growth as result of corporate mergers and acquisitions. TelCove successfully adopted SOA to support the resulting high degree of stovepipe implementations across multiple product lines and technologies. Since then, they've been able to reduce development times from two to...; Tags: Practitioner, TelCove, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts

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Simple EMR (exe): Simple EMR is an easy to use, single user Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software good for a private clinic, a solo practitioner or any physician who wants to manage his patient data and appointments quickly and efficiently. It features management of patient records and ancillary/images, patient appointments, ICD-9CM, extensive drugs...; Tags: Patient, Digital Cairo Software, Simple EMR; Software downloads 2008-04-29
Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins: In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...; Tags: Console, OSS, Open Source, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-04-18
5 reasons IT is soooo slowwww: 5 reasons IT is soooo slowwwwIT departments are anti-nimbleIT departments by their very structure and responsibilities are unable to be nimble. They have been required to develop, manage and maintain large & complex systems with high levels of reliability and resilience. This mindset and process orientation works against...; Tags: IT IS, IT Attitude, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-04-09
Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in": Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes US software "lock-in" reduces both competition and technology innovation, thereby hurting the Australian technology market. Speaking at an Australia 2020 Local Summit, Senator Lundy's remarks made clear her commitment to open source at the expense of "proprietary" systems. Her comments also...; Tags: Software, Senator, Open Source, Software Company, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-04-09
The Open Source Commandments: Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...; Tags: Industry, Microsoft Corp., Pharaoh Rameses, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-04-09
ITIL® v2-to-v3 Service Manager Certification Bridge Exam Prep Boot Camp: Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsThis Boot Camp provides a fast track to update your ITIL Service Manager qualification and gain recognition at the new ITIL Expert certification level, ...; Tags: Certification, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations; Training 2008-04-01
Analyst: why even the best SOAs are 'stalling': Analyst: why even the best SOAs are 'stalling'Most companies don't want to wait years...for their investment to bear fruit. To many things can happen in that length of time. This is why SOA will never be as good in practice as it is in theory.If you have pusshed SOA...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA; Discussion threads 2008-03-16
Google Earth for the body: This is the expression used by an IBM researcher to describe the software he developed for visualizing electronic health records (eHRs) in 3-D. In a long article, IEEE Spectrum describes the IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), which maps the information in a patient's eHR to a 3-D image...; Tags: Software, 3D, Google Inc., Patient, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, Google Earth, Image, IBM Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-01-12
ITIL® Practitioner: Support and Restore Management: View Available Dates and LocationsThis ITIL Practitioner training course focuses on the ITIL processes of Incident Management, Problem Management, and Service Desk functions. Learn to optimize the quality of service by applying the ITIL best practices, and learn to more effectively respond to incidents and problems as...; Tags: Service Desk, Problem Management, ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations; Training 2008-01-01
ITIL® Practitioner: Release and Control Management: View Available Dates and Locations In this course, you'll focus on the implementation and management of the processes and functions involved in achieving control and stability within an IT infrastructure, including effective Change and Release Management processes based on an effective Configuration Management system. You will...; Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Information Technology, Atlanta, Configuration Management, ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations; Training 2008-01-01
Google on Privacy: Hasty But Reasonable: A recent Israeli court case has Google divulging the identity of an anonymous blogger. To find out the implications for US law we asked two US and Israeli attorneys, David Mirchin and Russell Mayer, for their opinions here's what David had to say. Russell's opinion can be found here. ...; Tags: Poster, Google Inc., Privacy, Identity, Russell, Cahill, Case Law, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2007-11-28