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- Harvard study: for healthcare, IT doesn't seem to matter
- AgreeThe problem ?is mainly that computer systems are built for the accountants and managers and not built to help doctors, nurses and patients,?That totally nailed the problem. Yes, I work in healthcare and that is exactly the problem. The systems are written, installed and maintained by IT folks who are...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, HEALTHCARE, patient, health care, tool, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- ZapThink explores the four stages of SOA governance that lead to business agility
- By formalizing its approach to governance by following SOA best practices at the EA level, an organization can leverage resources in a more agile manner. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: ZapThink LLC, SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity
- Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...
- Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Massive But Agile: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse - Forrester Report
- Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to expand the scale, scope, and deployment roles for their enterprise data warehouse EDW investments. Information managers are adopting EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing the agility to optimize this critical infrastructure to ever-changing analytic workloads. This...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Best Practice, Forrester Research Inc., Aster Data, Information Manager, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-10-02
- What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)
- What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...
- Tags: Research & Development, Collaboration, Groupware, Content management, Enterprise software, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., billion-dollar business, R&D, Microsoft SharePoint
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- The Movers & Shakers Conference...
- I tend to think of Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which happened last week in Pasadena, as a conference for industry titans. Last year's event was held amid tight security and featured the likes of Rupert Murdoch News International , Philippe Daulman Viacom and Jeff Bezos Amazon in...
- Tags: Conversation, Conference, Twitter, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value
- Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration Framework, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Adding agility to Compuware's Changepoint
- Compuware made a number of announcements re: Changepoint yesterday. Changepoint is the company’s project portfolio management solution. Changepoint is primarily targeted to mid-to-large IT organizations. Briefly, the company outlined a number of product directions for the near-term as well as showcased its Accelerator for agile development projects. ...
- Tags: Changepoint Corp., Compuware Corp., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Eight Steps to Implement Agile Software Product Testing Practices
- The new economic reality puts spotlight on agile software product development. Agile provides the opportunities to reduce cost of development and achieve payback on the investment sooner than in the traditional approach by allowing decisions on the product future before making the full investment. Software Product Testing in an agile...
- Tags: Software, Software Product, Agile Software, Proteans Software Solutions, Product Development, Product Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing
- White papers 2009-05-14
- Effective enterprise security begins and ends with architectural best practices approach
- In a down economy, it's not simply the fact we have to worry about privileged users and our employees, blah, blah, blah. We also have to worry about these new technologies that we're adapting to become more agile as a business. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Security, Best Practice, CSO/CISO, Security, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-02-14
- Welcome to Project Management 2.0
-  This is a TechRepublic guest blog from Andrew Filev. Project managers should be leading projects not being project secretaries. Project Management 2.0 may be the way to reduce unnecessary, routine work. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- Let’s have a look at a typical...
- Tags: Team, Project Manager, Project Management 2.0, Andrew Filev, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, E-mail, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Manes: let's get more 'concrete' about service orienting
- More on the Architecture Formerly Known as SOA: Anne Thomas Manes created quite a kerfuffle across the blogosphere this past week with her pronouncement that SOA [as we know it]Â is "dead," at least as a concept for addressing efficient delivery of services across enterprises. ...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-10
- Effective Management of Static Analysis Vulnerabilities and Defects: Best Practices for Both Agile and Waterfall Development Environments
- This paper discusses how to effectively implement and measure the success of static analysis tool, development and QA teams need to define goals and metrics early. With consensus on these key goals, teams can then install a project plan that will enable them to immediately start making progress towards those...
- Tags: Team, Environment, Vulnerability, Best Practice, Coverity, Analysis, Development Environment, Team Management, Management
- White papers 2008-12-13
- A Foray Into Cloud-Based Software Testing
- Modern Software Development entails many challenges e.g. rapidly changing business scenario, rising complexity, shorter time to market, ensuring agility without compromising on the quality. Agile methodology for Modern Software Development includes many practices such as automated source code analysis for reviewing the architecture / design / code review, frequent build...
- Tags: Software, Software Testing, Patni Computer Systems Inc., Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2008-11-24
- Adapting the Scrum Project Management Method for Geographically Separated Teams
- Scrum, an iterative, incremental process of software development that's commonly used with agile development, was originally developed by Ken Schwaber. It combines an iterative approach to development with other useful practices, including special meetings, a definition of roles, and specification of the artifacts. As originally developed, Scrum assumes that the...
- Tags: Project Management, Team, Scrum, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2008-11-18
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Management Excellence: A Step-by-Step Strategy to Success
- To differentiate themselves from competitors, organizations must move beyond operational excellence to become smart, agile, and aligned. These are the characteristics of a company that has achieved management excellence. Oracle has developed the strategy-to-success framework to help business leaders organize, plan, measure, and report for management excellence. The strategy-to-success framework...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Management Excellence, Performance Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Agile Development Secrets - Steps to Succeed With Agile Practices
- The attendee of this webcast will learn more about how to successfully adopt the principles of agile development, with just enough tools and process to fit the project's or the organizational style. The presenter will discuss how to attain the benefits of agile methods and the approach one can take...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2008-10-30
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