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Saurabh Harmony Business Analysis

As future unfolds for an organization, it should be the organization's Endeavour to blend new thoughts and ideas into their Organization culture. The organization culture of harmony embodies the spirit of free flowing organization thought process. A freely thinking organization means a well structured IT infrastructure. Since IT enables a...

Tags: Information Technology, Business Analysis, Harmony, Organization, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

ITIL, Business Analysis and the Enterprise Requirements Hierarchy

This whitepaper characterizes the relationship between the Business Analyst and an IT Service Management based IT organization. It also suggests a generalized model of requirements and how best practices, such as the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, contributes to meeting enterprise-level requirements. These requirements are based on key concepts from IT...

Tags: Information Technology, Business Analysis, ITIL, It Services, Service Level Management, Process Improvement, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2008-05-01

Business Analysis Essentials

Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and Locations In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst-the communication link between all business areas and a...

Tags: Technique, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Raleigh, Schaumburg, Business Analysis, Requirement, Productivity

Training 2008-01-01

The Executive Guide to Business Analyst and Project Management Terminology

Project management has been increasing in visibility both inside and outside the executive office. Now, with the emergence of business analysis as an independent field, understanding and using the correct terminology is more critical than ever. This glossary is a guide to the most commonly used business...

Tags: Business Analysis, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2007-11-06

Doux Group Accelerates Global Expansion Through Enhanced Business Analysis

An expert in poultry since its founding in 1955, Doux Group and its subsidiaries offer poultry products in more than 130 countries. In the midst of corporate diversification- and fighting the ill effects of a global bird flu scare-Doux needed to analyze the profitability of its entire enterprise on a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Business Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2007-10-01

Separating Analysis From Design: (Decide What's Needed Before Deciding How to Implement It)

Business analysis is about thinking what the solution should do, while design is about how to make it happen using the technology available. Bearing this in mind will make it easier to avoid blending these two phases. What and How. This will help to build more robust systems. What the...

Tags: Business Analysis, Analysis, IRM Training

White papers 2005-04-18

Additional Resources

Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]

Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]Project management as an enablerYou make the case that project management inhibits IT strategic business value. However, each tips you present to stop viewing IT in project-related terms are clearly articulated in the Project Management Institute's PMI project process rigor for anyone's Project...

Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Quality, video, information technology, project management, PMI, risk management plan

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

NetSuite + AdaptivePlanning = BPM disruption

This slipped under the radar but on June 10th NetSuite and AdaptivePlanning announced a marketing and integration partnership that will see NetSuite acting as a reseller for AdaptivePlanning's business performance management BPM solution. Why should this matter? So far, the saas/on-demand transaction app...

Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, NetSuite Inc., Adaptive, Business Intelligence, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Are we too impatient with SOA?

Jack Vaughan recently pondered the fate of major technology initiatives, and wondered if SOA is going down the same path as Grid and object-oriented computing. That is, it took some time for these initiatives to come to fruition, and benefits to be delivered. In the meantime, many grew too impatient...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Massachusetts Educational Data Warehouse provides a host of tools

Massachusetts is not the first state to create a data warehouse for educational data, but it is early to the field with a really robust set of tools for analyzing a variety of student information. For those of you new to data analysis (probably not many of you, but...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Data, Tool, Massachusetts Educational Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing: Too high, too low, or just right?

Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing: Too high, too low, or just right?These prices...after Vista? MS has cojones...It's disappointing that Microsoft is charging such outrageous amounts for their operating system for two reasons:1. The Vista debacle...no sign of a "mea culpa" from MS and there likely never will be. So much for...

Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Too-high, Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows 7 pricing, Microsoft Windows, service pack

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive Suite

Desktop virtualization (the combination of access virtualization, application virtualization and/or processing virtualization for client-side deployment) has not gotten the intense industry attention that its cousin, server virtualization, has and yet, a number of suppliers have pegged their hopes and dreams to that nascent market. MokaFive is one of those suppliers....

Tags: Desktop Management, MokaFive, MokaFive Suite, Desktop Management Cost, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation

It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants” Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services

The folks at Platform Computing are at it again.  This time, they've announced a product to support cloud computing in the form of infrastructure as a service IaaS. They're calling it Platform Infrastructure Sharing Service ISF. As often is the case with a new product from a...

Tags: Platform Computing Inc., Platform Infrastructure Sharing Facility, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-24

POS Imonggo 2.58 (Windows)

POS Imonggo is not only a POS system, but also a complete retail management solution that enables you to operate and manage hundreds of retail stores. The all-in-one POS Imonggo software combines point of sale, inventory management, sales analysis and business intelligence functions into an easy and intuitive user interface....

Tags: Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, Imonggo POS Software, POS Imonggo, Sales Strategy, Sales

Software downloads 2009-06-24

Oil shortages are over, we're gonna squeeze it from diatoms

Oil shortages are over, we're gonna squeeze it from diatomsI won't gripe about the lawyer crack.You can even throw in used car salesmen an politicians.Interesting thing about diatoms. They live in water. The article you linked to neglected to mention whether or not the diatoms in question live in ocean...

Tags: carbon, carbon dioxide, pollution

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Tech giants deny helping Iran eavesdrop

A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia is denying reports that Iran uses its Web-monitoring technology to censor and spy on its citizens' online activities. A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia Corp., two large European technology firms, is denying reports that Iran uses its Web-monitoring technology...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Iran, Internet, Government, spying, Nokia, Siemens AG, Declan McCullagh CBSNews.com

News items 2009-06-23

Report: consumer confusion over netbooks and notebooks

A report issued by the NPD Group this morning found that there's some confusion over the differences between a netbook and a notebook - and that's leading to some consumer dissatisfaction. The research firm found that 60 percent of consumers who purchased a netbook thought it...

Tags: Notebook, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-23

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23

New version of Oracle PLM tool helps IT streamline product development

In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That's bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Supplier, Agile Software, Tool, Product Development, Product Marketing, Channel Management, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-06-22