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- Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
- Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...
- Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-23
- Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4
- Safari? What Safari ? :-)http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/39495-safari-4-beta-first-browser-to-hit-100-score-in-acid3-testI know, Steve doesn't like Apple but you're supposed to be a journalist? ;-)Google chrome?IE like Microsoft is stumbling around in a new ecosystem in which spending thousands of dollars is not an option.Plus, it locks you into a insecure OS platform with...
- Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Spell Check, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTML5, JavaScript, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Live Webcast: Saving 70% with Google Apps over Microsoft Exchange with MattsonTechnology
- Matthew Hough, Global Director of IT for Mattson Technology, made the switch from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps for his 500-person company. With offices on 3 continents, Mattson Technology designs,manufactures, and markets the semiconductor wafer processing equipment used to make integrated circuits. Google Apps has changed the way Mattson...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing
- Webcasts 2009-11-17
- Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity
- Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...
- Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Windows Server 2008 R2 finally gets its day in the sun
- I'd like to know more....about when respective updates to SBS and EBS solutions will be coming.EBS, SBSHi. stay tuned for the next post. you aren't going to like the non answer. MJEasy Migration from Windows Server would be greatThat would be the best feature!!!!Use RHEL or somethingPeople do not understand...
- Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Mission-Critical Services, server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Microsoft 'builds a branch to Java developers" with Teamprise buy
- what I don't get it is...why would anybody using Eclipse would want Visual studio too.Eclipse is not...... the only IDE in existence. And Java is not the only language in existence. Some compagnies uses several technologies. I saw Linux and windows servers running side by side and operating in a...
- Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, Eclipse, compagny, Java, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Java developer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- SAP regaining its mojo?
- Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...
- Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Citigroup Uses FAST to Accelerate Delivery of Customer On-Boarding Application
- Citi had invested significant time and resources in creating its certified 'Gold copy' customer database. This was not merely a technology challenge. The team wanted to create an intuitive, easy to use search system that by reducing the time spent searching for customer records, would re-enforce the value of the...
- Tags: Team, Customer Information, Microsoft Corp., Citigroup Inc., Team Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-23
- Art of the software deal can get messy
- Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Microsoft Uses Sync Framework to Create New Collaboration Solution
- As Microsoft, the world leader in software for personal and business computing, prepared the next version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications it wanted to combine the functionality of two of its most popular collaboration tools: Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Groove. The company's development teams, however, faced...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-10-19
- Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting
- Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
- Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head
- I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld. The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees? Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- T-Mobile Sidekick data outage tests mettle of 800,000 customers, carrier
- And before the gloating over a MS screw-up goes too far......try this one on for size, regarding Apple Snow Leopard hosing ALL data when logging in as a "guest". http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139250/Snow_Leopard_bug_deletes_all_user_dataLOL...LOL...ROTFLMAO :DThat's the cost of secrecy...secrecy enables you to get by just swiping your deficiencies under the rug but that...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, secrecy, Microsoft Corp., Lol, straight face, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces
- The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...
- Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- SMART Selling in the SaaS world
- What we all could learn from Sonar6 Post #3 from the HR Technology show SaaS software as a service is supposed to cost less. At least that’s what all the vendors tell me. It’s also supposed to be easier to use and easier to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Katherine Jones, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy
- Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Life In The Vast Plane...
- Why is it that laptops and the internet have been around for a generation and yet the infrastructure we live in still doesn't support them? I'm talking primarily about travel. A vast portion of the working population are regularly on the move, particularly flying, for face...
- Tags: Professional Services, Jet, Laptop Computer, Economy Class, Corporate Governance, Internet, Wireless LANs, TVs, Aerospace & Defense, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
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