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- CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened
- Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...
- Tags: CCHIT, eHR
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Media Center gives digital cable tuners a new lease on life
- Blu-ray ...... I'm surprised to see you mention Blu-ray ... While I have Blu-ray capability, I've taken the upscaling route because I have a vast DVD library and after objectively looking at it, can't see the benefits. Going from DVD to upscaled DVD is an improvement, but when I compare...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Consumer electronics, Media Center PC, CableLabs, digital cable tuner, cable, cable tuner, DVD, CableCard, BIOS, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- SAP to bounce?
- Larry Dignan pinged me to say the financial analysts are showing renewed interest in SAP with several positive comments on the likely outcome to its Q2 results, due for release on July, 29th: That take is a mixed bag in the things are less worse camp. The biggest argument...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Squaring the SAP certification and maintenance circle
- The Great Certification Debate as I like to call it has been kicked off among SAP Mentors [disclosure: I am an SAP Mentor] and beyond. How that gets articulated over time remains to be seen but to me it is inextricably linked to both project success and lower TCO. It...
- Tags: Certification, SAP AG, SI, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Quality, Outsourcing, Finance, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating
- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Ltd., and four of its senior executives for stock option backdating. The SEC's complaint alleges that Ontario, Canada-based RIM, its former CFO Dennis Kavelman, former VP of Finance Angelo Loberto, and Co-CEOs James Balsillie and...
- Tags: Stock Option, Research In Motion Ltd., Stock, SEC, Backdating, Stock Options, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up
- Windows 7 chiefs: We messed upIt certainly would be nice if they were aseasily moved by the idea that many hold about the gutting of the start menu, and the forced install procedures. Instead of treating people as though they are becoming more sophisticated and knowledgeable, Microsoft is treating the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 chief, UAC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- How much should government commit to open source?
- How much should government commit to open source?If open source is as good as you believe......then companies offering open source solutions will win those contracts for medical records etc. So you can say its already been done...if they can actually win that is.Huh?How would that help the economy?How would...
- Tags: Obama, open source, government
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- 10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009
- 10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009AMEN!I'm a 15 year IT veteran managing Windows machines (and I'm even RHCE on 4.0) without any MS Certs.I'd bet my paycheck on my real world skills are better than most MCSE's when it comes to Windows technologies. You see it's...
- Tags: Quality, training and certification, Strategy, NETWORKING, Network administration, IT-certification, information technology, certification
- Discussion threads 2009-01-02
- So about these long breaks
- So about these long breaksThe 'ol Year Round debateI'm a product of a year round model in which we had 5 weeks in summer and 3 weeks several other times a year. My first "traditional" 3 month summer break didn't come until Jr. High (7th grade for me). In the...
- Tags: summer break
- Discussion threads 2008-12-18
- Study: 68% of IT projects fail
- Study: 68% of IT projects failI used to work for the federal government......we never got anywhere near a 32% success rate. More like 10%.This is OK since IT in US is not a business but humanitarian aid to India.ntRE: Study: 68% of IT projects failIs this problem down to the...
- Tags: Strategy, Now Let, IT Projects Fail, PMI, IAG, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- OS earns highest-ever gov't security rating. Does that make it "most secure?"
- I have to admit that I had never before heard of a certification called EAL6+ High Robustness until the folks at Green Hills Software reached out to tell me that they were about to get it for their operating system, formally called INTEGRITY 178B. EAL6+ High...
- Tags: Security, Certification, Operating System, EAL, Quality, Operating Systems, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- ITIL Service Management Practices V3 Qualifications Scheme
- ITIL is Best Practice IT Service Management which is used by many hundreds of organizations around the world. A whole ITIL philosophy has grown up around the guidance contained within the ITIL books and the supporting certification and qualification scheme. The ethos behind the development of ITIL is the recognition...
- Tags: ITIL Philosophy, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-10-12
- IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate
- IBM move reopens Open Office XML debateWhich side attacked?I have the impression that requiring Microsoft to go through the standards process was an attempt to make it more difficult to sell Office. The strategy: governments and perhaps other organizations could mandate that formats used for saving documents had...
- Tags: Vertical industries, XML, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., government, Microsoft Office, Open Office XML debate, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense. If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Organize-It, PCI, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Marketing Research, Storage, Hardware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Put some IT pros in jail
- Put some IT pros in jailAgreed to the fullestWhen I described the WH email issue with a friend, I said flatly "I would have walked in and fired every person I laid eyes upon." There is NO excuse for that level of incompetence, none whatsoever!Too bad there aren't licenses we...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, software engineering, jail, information technology, software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- PCI Compliance gets clarified and neutered (further)
- At one point, I thought that PCI certification was a great thing. Now I realize that it's not really about security at all... it's about money and responsibility and transferring ownership of risk. The PCI certification just got a clarification: "6.6 Ensure that all web-facing applications...
- Tags: Web, XSS, PCI, Web Application, TV, Attack, PCI Compliance, Web Application Firewalls, WAF, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Gartner report forecasts bad news, good news for open source
- The Gartner Group has released a preview of a forthcoming report, The State Of Open Source 2008, that contains both good news and bad news for open source. The report is expected to be released next month. First, the bad news: ...
- Tags: Software, Gartner Inc., Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Wintel Vista conspiracy screws customers: Another win for Apple
- The latest PC market scandal - that Microsoft, Intel and some PC makers knew that the "Vista Capable" logo certification program was a lie and that some chipsets for popular machines couldn't support the new Aero interface stuff - must be music in the executive suites down in Cupertino. The...
- Tags: Wintel, Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Story, Intel Corp., Chipsets, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
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