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- IBM Web Seminar: Dynamic Process Change to Optimize Cost and Agility.
- Tune into this Web Seminar to hear BPM industry analysts, Dr. Bruce Silver and Amy Lipton share how dynamic BPM powered by the IBM® Smart SOATM approach can help you react quickly and drive ROI. After the seminar you'll receive a complimentary IBM BPM assessment for a targeted analysis of...
- Tags: Web, BPM, IBM Corp., Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
- Webcasts 2009-10-07
- Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
- Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...
- Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Would you march for Internet privacy?
- We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...
- Tags: Internet privacy, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- FaceFeed: the enterprise perspective
- Having seen some of yesterday's jocular references to the marriage between FriendFeed and Facebook hence FaceFeed in the title it got me thinking about the enterprise perspective - if there is one. Earlier in the day and before the announcement, I was listening to an old buddy of mine. We...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Channel Management, Leadership, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime
- On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, Demographics, Industry, Downtime, BC/DR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Security Scanning Tools Overview: An Introduction to the Tools
- This white paper describes features of the Open Source Vulnerability Assessment tools that are provided on line by HackerTarget.com. Vulnerability Analysis is an important part of the security process; it allows one to quickly gauge the current security posture of Internet facing server or web site. The tests allow one...
- Tags: Tool, Productivity, Security
- White papers 2009-08-01
- SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff
- Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...
- Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age
- Regular readers will know that I'm actually a pretty big fan of Wikipedia. I think it has as much, if not more of a place in student research than actual encyclopedias did for us Gen-Xers when we were younger: it's a starting point and a great source of background...
- Tags: Student, Scientist, Wikipedia, Scitable, Nature Education, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Will XP mode speed Windows 7 adoption in schools?
- Will XP mode speed Windows 7 adoption in schools?Windows 7 adoption will be much better than Vista for a lot of reasons, butthe XP mode will require a more expensive SKU, and more memory. The Upgrades will be more because Win7 in General causes a lot less problems than Vista...
- Tags: Operating systems, XP Mode, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 adoption, Microsoft Windows XP, XP mode speed, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Think Infor is only in maintenance mode? Think again
- Infor is one of those vendors I'd pretty much written off as a company that might be interesting. Rolling up a rag bag of distressed software vendors is not my idea of innovation but of financial engineering where you usually have to carefully watch the bang per buck coming out...
- Tags: Financial, Environment, SOA, Infor Global Solutions, Infor, Lock-in, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us
- In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...
- Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Cloud computing and boring innovation
- Last Friday, Ben Kepes at CloudAve got a something of a kicking from Dave Turner of CODA [Disclosure: CODA is a current client and is building financial apps on the Force.com platform] and Microsoft's Gary Turner. [I've known Gary more years than both of us would likely admit but Microsoft...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Gary Turner, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Get me out of this social media echo chamber, please!
- Get me out of this social media echo chamber, please!So What Companies shouldn't be in Social MediaJen.. I don't disagree but you just kinda threw that out... I have an assessment that companies can take to determine whether its right for them or not ( http://snurl.com/ayml3 ). What are...
- Tags: social media
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- When will we learn?
- When I wrote my tongue in cheek How to be less stupid in 2009, I picked on Mike Krigsman when I said: Get an RSS device implanted with Mike Krigsman’s IT Project Failures blog. Have you ever known anyone who could get a long running blog based on the...
- Tags: Buyer, Dennis Howlett, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Eric Kimberling, ERP, Mike, Panorama Consulting Group, Software
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- HP's SaaS PPM solution
- A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen â€" VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP’s offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP’s software...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Finally, an Apple notebook built with green credentials in mind
- I’ve been writing stories about Apple products for longer than I care to enumerate here, and have always been agog over the sheer creativity that’s associated with its product design. Too expensive, yes. Too heavy, absolutely. Self-indulgent, probably. But my second-hand, three-year-old PowerBook G4 notebook still draws comments (not all...
- Tags: Green Technology, Light-emitting Diode, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-18
- Effective Security with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance
- The Tripwire Enterprise solution provides organizations with powerful configuration control through its configuration assessment and change auditing capabilities. In this white paper, learn how, with Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can quickly achieve IT configuration integrity by proactively assessing how their current configurations measure up to specifications as given in ISO 27001....
- Tags: Security, Compliance, ISO, Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise Solution, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-09-10
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here’s the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
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