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- How do you measure SOA success? Try IT backlogs
- Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software, has a simple and direct way to measure SOA success -- check out the level of IT backlogs. Hub shared this approach as part of a podcast interview I conducted as part of the run-up to recent InfoWorld Executive Forum. (Download MP3 podcast file...
- Tags: Hub, Information Technology, Backlog, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Local Government Improves IT Operational Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Although Baw Baw Shire Council IT Team had an incident management system, they did not have an up-to-date, internal Frequently Asked Questions FAQ page to direct users to proper channels when reporting incidents. All types of user requests were placed in the same queue, making it difficult for IT engineers...
- Tags: Information Technology, Backlog, Government, Microsoft Corp., Incident Management, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-10-01
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- How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?
- The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...
- Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Oracle first quarter expected to be mixed, but 'not a disaster'
- Oracle steps up to the earnings plate Thursday and could face a rough crowd. Wall Street is battered and has no tolerance for any earnings--even decent reports. No matter what Oracle says every word will be parsed to gauge the demand outlook. Adam Holt, analyst at Morgan...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Application License Revenue, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Government, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Dell repair adventure, day 5
- Dell repair adventure, day 5No Backup!I find it hard to believe that a IT consultant, one that finds it necessary to attend conferences does not have a backup options in place. A) Is the writer a independent contractor? I guess that I need more information about the writers...
- Tags: Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Understanding SOA and Business Mashups: Automate. Coordinate. Collaborate. No coding required!
- Featured Speaker: Tim Zonca, Master Masher and Director of Product Marketing at Serena Software Service Oriented Architecture SOA has been the talk of business process management, IT and enterprise architecture for the last decade, but the promise of SOA remains largely unfulfilled. Learn how Serena Business...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., Webinar, SOA, Mashup, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- Email is the enemy
- I'll always remember as a child a very old gentleman in Manchester, Northern England telling me about the Dickensian office he worked in during his youth - everyone sat in rows at desks equipped with ink wells and quills, writing and copying documents. The boss sat with a bullhorn on...
- Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Twitter's failure updates: not good enough
- Update 5/30/08 11:00am EDT: TechCrunch says "Twitter's doing an excellent job of actually communicating with users all of a sudden." That's nonsense. Yes, they've improved, but there's a long way to go to achieve failure communication greatness. Twitter's downtime, lack of reliability and...
- Tags: Technorati, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Blogging, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Edge systems need a dose of SOA, too
- On the peripheries of every enterprise are the "edge" applications, databases, and systems. A repository here, an embedded system there, an open source database over there, distributed servers everywhere. Corporate wouldn't give us the budget, so we went ahead and jury-rigged this thing together anyway -- so there. These systems...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Rosado, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- IT politics killed White House email project
- Data archiving in the White House is a serious business mandated by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was passed following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires the White House to maintain an historical archive of its activities, policies, and decisions. Despite...
- Tags: Information Technology, White House, Act, E-mail, Online Communications, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Where's the money in open source?
- Where's the money in open source?The comparison is not vaildMass production is a concept. Software is a work product. Those who mass produced still had to buy the work product of others to implement the concept assembly line components are not free of cost. The people that provided those parts...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Big Blue delivers big profits; Ups 2008 outlook
- IBM on Wednesday handily topped Wall Street estimates with net income of $2.3 billion, or $1.65 a share, on revenue of $24.5 billion. According to Thomson Financial, Wall Street was expecting a profit of $1.45 a share on revenue of $23.7 billion. IBM got help from a...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Virtual SCRUM Board (exe)
- Virtual SCRUM Board VSB is a software tool that helps Scrum teams manage the uncommitted backlog, sprints, stories and tasks. VSB empowers Scrum teams to fully participate in sprint planning and execution. VSB displays an up to date Scrum Board as team members update story and task statuses. The Sprint...
- Tags: Team, Board, Sprint Communications, Microguru, Virtual SCRUM Board, Team Management, Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-17
- Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped
- A new website entitled End Software Patents is attempting to galvanize public support to accomplish that goal. Here's the core of their argument: Patents differ from copyright in one key manner: independent invention is a valid defense against claims of copyright...
- Tags: Software, Bureaucracy, Software Patent, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Technorati fails, fixes, and fully discloses
- Technorati, a major blog indexer, recently shut down their spiders to fix severe data problems. From the blog post explaining the incident emphasis added: [A] small percentage of recently created blogs were having their data scrambled. An example of this appears in this blog post. The spidering outages allowed...
- Tags: Technorati, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- CRM Solution Helps Healthcare Connectivity Provider to Boost Revenue 115 Percent
- VisionShare - a provider of secure data connectivity for the healthcare industry - was outgrowing its home-grown systems. So, the company adopted Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Axonom Powertrak. The combination is a fully integrated solution that automates and speeds the customer installation process. The result: Backlog is down 51 percent,...
- Tags: Revenue, CRM Solution, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-02-13
- Writers strike pushes viewers to DVDs, video games
- Writers strike pushes viewers to DVDs, video gamesIt will be good for the writers to get their 'sticking' points addressedbut during that wait for the studios to cave time, a lot of people will prove to them that this is not like the 1st strike. There is a backlog...
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, video game, DVD, game, video
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- IBM's alternate universe: Big Blue sees great 2008
- Thus far 2008--all two weeks of it--hasn't been a pretty for the tech industry. Worries about the economy prevail. And even companies that had relatively good things to say like Intel get clobbered. It's ugly out there--unless you're IBM. IBM's earnings results for the fourth quarter Thursday...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Putting your HDD on a 80GB diet
- Putting your HDD on a 80GB dietAdvise: Consider cancelling the orderIt sounds to me like you didn't really think through whether or not the MacBook Air would actually fit your needs. In fact, it strikes me that this is exactly the type of problem that is apt to arise...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, MacBook Air, hard drive, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Should HIPAA compliance be outsourced?
- CynergisTek, a computing and security consultant, reported on its blog recently that HIPAA compliance audits will be increased this year, thanks to a contract the government signed with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. I admit that the significance of this went right by me at first. Then I went, "whaah?" ...
- Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Compliance, Outsource, Assumption, Nothing, Government, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Healthcare, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
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