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HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

How BSM Has Evolved to Meet the Needs of Today's CIO

Off late, BSM was introduced as an approach for managing IT from a business perspective. Today, it has become a reality as technologies and processes have helped companies move well beyond aligning IT with the priorities of the business. Business leaders are finding that BSM does more than simply support...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Business Leader, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-05-01

Spin, Baby, Spin â€" Oracle’s case for spending in a tough economy

How recessions should alter vendor behavior Oracle had a recent show here in Chicago. Attendees were given a very nice breakfast, a keynote from an Oracle executive and an opportunity to kick the tires on scads of Oracle products. The keynote address was...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Information Technology, Business Leader, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Controlling Corporate Energy Consumption via the Enterprise Network

Business leaders are defining sustainability initiatives that reduce their electrical power consumption and CO2 emissions in an effort to not only reduce energy costs, but to also be respectful of global environmental concerns. To assist business leaders, IT suppliers are delivering products that consume less energy while offering new IT...

Tags: Sustainability, Information Technology, Enterprise Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Business Leader

White papers 2009-01-06

Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?

Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?Headcount cutters reaping what they deserve!There isn't an American corporation that hasn't treated their IT organization like dirt for the past 8 years. IT groups are cut to the bone and beyond, given impossible tasks with no budgets, and often flushed completely...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, Business leader, IT Groups

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?

Too much Web 2.0 and Internet skills hiring at the cost of mission-critical systems? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Recession, Information Technology, Leader, Micro Focus, Recruiting, SOA, Survey, Business Leader, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves

Late last week an important milestone for the Internet was quietly reached as the number of available open Web APIs crossed the 1,000 mark, according to the popular API tracking service, Programmable Web. by Dion Hinchcliffe

Tags: Web, API, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe, Business Leader

Blog posts 2008-11-04

The Outsourcing Decision for a Globally Integrated Enterprise: From Commodity Outsourcing to Value Creation

A new brand of outsourcing is essential for organizations intent on leading in today's global economy. Globalization and rapid advances in technology have shifted the measure of success, driving companies to rethink how they acquire and deliver services. Business leaders are questioning the company's ability to do everything well and...

Tags: Business Leader, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-01-01

Information Management: Better Information for Winning Decisions

Business leaders must make decisions. But the decisions they make will only be as good as the information they have. Information that is incomplete or out-of-date will lead to bad decisions. Information that is accurate, timely and meaningful will empower business leaders to make decisions that enable their organizations to...

Tags: Information Management, Decision, Business Leader, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-11-01

Five ways to destroy a software implementation

Liam Durbin, CIO of GE Fanuc Automation, writes in CIO magazine about five common scenarios that can cause software implementations to fail:1. Just replace the homegrown system with a packageâ€"no need to involve the functional teams.Saying “noâ€� to customization is bitter medicine for your business partners. They will make contorted...

Tags: Software, Leader, Software Implementation, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Additional Resources

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Organic Social Networks, the Yankees and....Wha'? (UPDATE: WE WON OUR 27TH WORLD SERIES!)

Needless to say, being a Yankees fan of the entirely driven and committed sort, I'm biting every nail on my hands off and frankly, if I could reach my feet, would go at those nails too (Ugh.). I do that every time that the Yankees are in the playoffs or...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Twitter Inc., CRM, Games, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?

Many of us believed that Palm was on the ropes and getting ready to go down for the count at the end of 2008, but they came out swinging at CES with the announcement of the Pre and WebOS. Motorola was a leader in the mobile phone business for years,...

Tags: Palm Inc., Motorola Inc., Motorola DROID, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Motorola DROID on Verizon: Is this the iPhone killer you're looking for?

No it isn't.It needs two things to even dent the iPhone, much less kill it. It needs a REAL equivalent to iTunes & App store. It needs to have a crazy simple interface. I haven't seen anything which leads me to believe Droid has either of those.Well, they will not...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

E-book reader news and releases round-up

The last two weeks have been especially busy for the e-book reader industry and probably pretty frightening for Amazon. Here's a quick round-up of what's been released and what we have to look forward to this holiday season: 1. Barnes & Noble Nook:...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., E-books, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation

Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...

Tags: global warming, climate change, food

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Windows 95 wiped out last PC competition

Installed only on IBMAt least, isn't that what wiped out OS/2?OS/2 was a great OS, but everyone heard about Windows through marketing and away the lemmings go. The interesting twist is that Apple's limited hardware base is still getting them more customers. Apple is starting to show up as...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, UNIX, Microsoft Windows 95, PC, operating system, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels

wowOne would think with our new leader money wouldbe flowing with millions of new jobs all overthe place.Since millions have lost jobs since his automakertake overs and giving banks Billions if not trillionsof dollars that went no where.Now free healthcare for all, that is right free withno cost to anyone....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, evil, reason business, Microsoft Corp., information technology, IT budget

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

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