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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

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

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

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

Experts: Don't clamp down on social media

Experts: Don't clamp down on social mediaAbusing social media.Our company tried implementing IM, which is a feature of our collaboration suite, but it was not to be. The temptation to use it for its social value instead of its business value was too great. So much so it cost...

Tags: social media

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Directory of CIOs on Twitter

The first step for turning Twitter into a useful business tool is finding a good group of people to follow. If you are an IT leader then this list of CIOs on Twitter can be an invaluable resource. by Jason Hiner

Tags: CIO, Twitter, Productivity, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-06-19

Windows 7 E - Will it harm IE's user share? I don't think so!

Windows 7 E - Will it harm IE's user share? I don't think so!Yes, you smelled this one out pretty good. MS is trying to pull a fast one But, I do not think the EU will fall for it.It will take five years before any changes in Win7 effect...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Fedora 10, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows 7 E, Mozilla Firefox, user share, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Iomega: EMC's entry to be at the center of your home

A little more than a year ago, EMC acquired Iomega for $213 million. Today EMC's master plan is coming into focus. Iomega is to EMC what Linksys is to Cisco: An avenue to become ubiquitous in your home. EMC thinks the consumer and home office market will...

Tags: Iomega Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...

Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-09

EMC CEO Tucci pens dear Data Domain workers letter

NetApp and Data Domain have agreed to merge in a stock and cash deal valued at $1.9 billion, but the deal is in limbo as shareholders weigh a $1.8 billion all cash offer from EMC. In between there's a lot of campaigning for the various Data Domain interests. Enter an...

Tags: NetApp Inc., EMC Corp., Worker, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks

I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Intuit drops restrictions on Quickbooks app development

Intuit, the makers of the Quickbooks financial software for businesses, is jumping on board the open source app frenzy. The company this week announced Federated Applications, an enhancement to the Intuit Partner Platform that allows any software developer to use the tools of his or her choice to create applications...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBooks, Small Business, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Elecont Weather Forecast and Barometer for Pocket PC and Smartphone 1.0.904 (Mobile)

Elecont Weather is 10-day Weather Forecast with Barometer, Weather Alerts, Hour by Hour weather forecast and current weather conditions plug-in for Home/Today screen. The forecast is displayed with animated effects and multiple icon sets / layout types. Weather data is supplied by WSI Corp. the leader in weather-driven business solutions....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, PC, Smartphone, Elecont Software, Elecont Weather, Weather Data, Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-03