Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- IT as whiners: The great debate
- Over at TechRepublic, Patrick Gray has managed to rouse a hornet's nest of IT managers. What did Mr. Gray say wrong? He called IT folks a bunch of whiners. In his first post, Gray told folks to stop whining and noted that technology types have an image...
- Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Patrick Gray, Business Alignment, Strategy, Quality, Management, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
Additional Resources
- Kodak ESP 5250
- Problems with specialty paperBe very careful in buying this Printer. If you use any specialty paper such as Avery Business Card or Mail Labels, Kodak does not support them. The auto paper detect feature will not recognize the paper and will reject it. If you can get it to print...
- Tags: Printers, Eastman Kodak Co., specialty paper
- Discussion threads 2009-11-28
- Strategic Secret Weapon for Tightening Business & IT Alignment: Modeling!
- Achieving alignment between an organization's core goals and the IT infrastructure that supports an enterprise's strategic direction is an ongoing challenge. Learn how aligning business processes with data from information systems enables the development of a model-driven approach that will ultimately lead to heightened agility and greater productivity across the...
- Tags: Business Process, Information Technology, Sybase Inc., Modeling, Operational Planning, Strategy, Databases, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-11-01
- Edraw Max 5.0 (Windows)
- Edraw Max enables students, teachers and business professionals to reliably create and publish kinds of diagrams to represent any ideas. Edraw provides you a versatile, easy, quick and professional solution to let you enjoy your working. In a corporate environment, the folks over in human resources need to be able...
- Tags: EDrawSoft, Microsoft Windows, Graphics, Edraw Max, Edraw
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms
- Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs - announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels
- Welcome to 2010 with the same resources you had back in 2006 and 2007 (if you're lucky). Now go out and be useful to the business. That cheery outlook was delivered by Gartner in its 2010 CIO Agenda talk. Some pep talk, guys. Gartner analyst Mark McDonald...
- Tags: IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- How event driven architecture changes the SOA service flow
- Does event driven architecture EDA represent the next phase of SOA? This is a subject of continuing debate, but Udi Dahan makes the case for EDA as the next logical stage of SOA. In a recent post, he connected the dots between SOA and EDA, suggesting that EDA will...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
- Spot onHi Oliver -Thanks for adding your perspective to this and for referencing our Community Maturity Model. I think you are spot on in calling out the fact that current initiatives and strategic intent are fairly unbalanced right now in terms of resources and ownership. Companies are recognizing...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Services or subtasks? SOA and BPM may mean the same thing
- We've been debating on these pages whether SOA and business process management go together, or if they're actually two very different disciplines. Jason Bloomberg recently provided his take on the SOA-BPM discussion, saying that SOA and BPM are structurally the same. They may, in fact, be an...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
- Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...
- Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Taleo, Talent Management and What’s Wrong With ERP Spending
- Is your career worth at least one security patch? This week, Taleo is conducting its user conference in Las Vegas. They are announcing their Taleo 10 product this week to coincide with the show. Rarely do I get to see a software vendor...
- Tags: Talent, Taleo Corp., ERP, Talent Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Workforce Management, Professional Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Forrester's Randy Heffner: only one percent turned off by SOA so far
- Nailed ItGreat article, providing reassurance that SOA is very much alive and kicking and underscoring the notion that SOA exists at a strategic business level. With regard to approaching SOA from a "service portfolio management" perspective, I'd like to add that ITIL can really help set a nice foundation for...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, ITIL, Middleware, Enterprise software, IT Services, Forrester Research Inc., SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Successfactors: Execute, Execute, Execute!
- Successfactors SFSF the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace 'Business Execution Software', which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here...
- Tags: Talent, Performance, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, Business Alignment Category, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Mid-range European ERP portending the future?
- On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...
- Tags: Revenue, Public Sector, Vendor, SAP AG, Agresso, COA Solutions, COA, Maintenance Revenue, Saas/on-demand, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- RSA Security Solutions Speed Up Business for Liquigas
- Liquigas Distribuidora S/A is a private limited company founded in 1953 and operating across Brazil. The challenge was to improve security infrastructure to protect confidential corporate data from unauthorized access and to accelerate the business process and maintain company's market leadership position with remote connection to company network. Liquigas deployed...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Liquigas Distribuidora S/A, Leadership, Security, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- News to know: Dell; Word; Firefox; iPhone China; Snow Leopard
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Dell continues to bet on 2010 enterprise refresh cycle; Confirms working with China Mobile Sam Diaz: "Inadvertent...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Word, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Sam Diaz, E-books, Microsoft Windows 7, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- New era enterprise architects need sweeping skills to straddle the IT-business alignment chasm
- The burgeoning impact of cloud computing, the down economy, and the interest in projecting more value from IT to the larger business is putting new requirements on the enterprise IT department. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- In Search of a Silver Bullet for Risk Management
- With government funding of the financial services sector in full swing nearly the world over, all eyes are focused on how financial institutions manage their businesses and control their risks. For the foreseeable future, the industry can expect elevated levels of distrust, scrutiny and regulation. While the campaign to improve...
- Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Financial, Compliance, Risk Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Management
- White papers 2009-08-13
- Three big reasons CRM initiatives fail
- You Can Summarize It Like This...Michael,Well researched post. However, there is one thing that you allude too in your three points and Paul mentions between the lines but you are missing in your list.It is the only reason CRM fails, actually, which produces all those problems you mention in...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), CRM, CRM Initiative
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...
- Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
Doc delivers the scoop on today's enterprise content management, printer maintenance, and all other issues related to document management. It's the DocuMentor Blog.
A simplified IT environment isn't just less complex. It's also more reliable. Standardize on a single Linux platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, and get the world's most interoperable Linux
