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Can You Believe in ROI?: Demonstrating ROI is particularly important because most IT organizations are focusing their attention on becoming a source of business value, equal to other revenue-generating departments in the company. This approach requires a heightened focus on the value of every dollar IT spends, and the ability to describe value in terms...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, ROI, Demonstrating ROI, Roi/Tco, It Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It service Management; White papers 2007-12-03

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Sun creates its own solar system of eco partners: Going back to my roots in writing about and for IT resellers, VARs and systems integrators with today's entry. That's because Sun Microsystems became one of the first high-tech companies a few weeks back to include its business partners in its ability have a green tech dialogue with its customers....; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Retail, Virtualization, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable: Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separableWind Kills tooWind turbines kill birds too. So fossil fuels aren't the only bird-unfriendly source of energy out there.There are always trade-offs. People who let housecats roam free are responsible for more bird deaths than any oil company anywhere. ...; Tags: clean technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-05
Webcast: Best Practices for a Successful SOA Implementation: Pundits claim that you will reap returns on your SOA investments only after the implementation reaches a critical mass. Oracle Fusion Middleware customers have repeatedly demonstrated phenomenal ROI from the get-go. It is a potent combination of seasoned implementers and underlying product capabilities that have ensured tactical as...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, SOA, Best Practice, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts 2008-05-05
Sugar on Windows looking inevitable: Now that Walter Bender has resigned from OLPC, Technology Review featured an article on the group's new president, Charles Kane. The article makes it very clear that OLPC, under the direction of Kane and Nicholas Negroponte, will definitely be seeking to deploy Windows on XOs and future products from...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Bender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-04

Images: In 'Iron Man,' CGI is a major element: Paramount's new film based on the popular comic book hero is heavy on the computer-generated imagery provided by Industrial Light & Magic.Iron Monger faces down Gwyneth Paltrow in a scene from Iron Man. :ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Snow, who led the visual effects team on Iron Man,...; Tags: Team, Film, Animation, CGI, Computer, Paramount, Scripting Languages, Productivity, Software/Web Development, Web Development, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-01
The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now: The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his...; Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, TCO, Sales, Leo Apotheker, Leo, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-04-30
AOL's ad revenue growth stalls: AOL's ad revenue growth stallsI expect ad revenue to stall everywhere...on the Internet. I believe advertisers are going to realize that they are not getting the returns on the $$'s that they invest in online marketing.I would be interested to see some numbers comparing different methods of advertising and the...; Tags: America Online Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-30
Tomorrow: TomorrowWe are sure that Portal is the platform to do Enterprise 2.0I totally agree that the mashup & community concepts will continuously develop and with Generation 2.0 there will internet users just expect all to be delivered on their own MyPage. Financials / Insurance, Media, Travel etc. will all eventually...; Tags: Portals, Web technology, portal; Discussion threads 2008-04-28
Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing: Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computingDion Hinchcliffe bolsters WOA's roleZDNet blogger Dion Hinchcliffe had some email comments, repurposed (with permission) here:I find it intriguing that even amongst this group that WOA is considered an artificial construct or "pie-in-the-sky", when it's just the opposite.WOA simply...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, cloud computing, podcast, WOA, SOA; Discussion threads 2008-04-27
VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy: VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...; Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
SalesView from InsideView: feature or product?: I've had several conversations with InsideView in an effort to understand how its recently released SalesView product fits into the scheme of enterprise applications. Described as leveraging the convergence between social media and enterprise applications, SalesView is designed to provide sales people with fine grained information...; Tags: CRM, SalesView, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Forrester: Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 priority by 2013; Smaller businesses reticent: Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research. The report, released on Monday and penned by Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young, shows a few notable trends that...; Tags: Social Networking, Web, Network, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Google's paid click growth rates: Reasons for the decline; Earnings on deck: Google's first quarter results on Thursday will be closely watched for the impact of the search giant's anemic paid click growth rates, but Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post already has a few explanations. In a research note, Post outlined the takeaways from five search engine marketers, who...; Tags: Google Inc., Earnings, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Thought leadership grows around advancing 'WOA plus SOA' as enterprise-cloud duo: Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but rather to examine how WOA -- also...; Tags: Leadership, SOA, WOA, Dion, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA: The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....; Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art: Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform (ExP). Here is how...; Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Transforming Your Sales Calls into Interactive Online Demos: What's the secret to effectively demonstrating a product or service to prospects anytime, anywhere without the assistance of a bottomless travel expense account? And, assuming you grab their attention, how do you compete with office distractions long enough to inform and engage prospects during a sales call? ...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales; Webcasts 2008-04-16
First my kid hates Linux, now I have to buy laptops with Vista: First my kid hates Linux, now I have to buy laptops with VistaQuestionCan home users do that, too? My sister bought a new home system with Vista and hates it. I don't know anything about Vista but what I read here and on other technical forums, none of which seem...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux Now, laptop computer; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
Integrated health management: Eighteen luminaries (including Google co-founder Larry Page) recently developed a list of 14 Grand Engineering Challenges which they consider "essential for humanity to flourish." A couple of the challenges seem a bit...odd (Enhance Virtual Reality, Reverse Engineer the Brain), but one stands out from the rest (at least, for the...; Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Ed Gottsman; Blog posts 2008-04-10