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Mitigate Disaster & Security Risks Using Enterprise Change Management

At one time, all the business applications critical to the enterprise resided on big iron in the data center. The IT professional could protect the essential business computing resources of the enterprise by adhering to simple principles. Back up the servers daily, keep off-site backups, prevent unauthorized access and manipulation...

Tags: Security, Business Computing, Configuration Management, Enterprise Change Management, Disaster Recovery, Data Management

White papers 2007-11-05

IDC Executive Brief: Driving Enterprise Change Management for Business Responsiveness

Multiple drivers are pushing market growth and adoption of integrated lifecycle and enterprise change management tools by G2000 organizations, including the emergence of a global economy and complex sourcing; regulatory compliance demands; technology and development shifts with the evolution of service-oriented architectures SOA; and the need for and creation of...

Tags: Serena Software Inc., Enterprise Change Management, International Data Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-05-01

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!

my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Boot-time, Waking Up, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks worth, Heck Yes

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Google Voice mails exposed for all to see and hear

If you believe the "explanation"then no problem, though honestly, I think we just witnessed another reason why "living in the cloud" is not for those with anything of importance that needs protecting.I doubt that Google intended for all of those private voice mails to be made public.RE: Google Voice mails...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Voice mail, voicemail

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Intel is ready for your fourth quarter business: Will you show up?

Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...

Tags: PC, Inventory, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

I've joined the Dachis Group

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...

Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA

Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Missing what open source cannot afford

FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...

Tags: open source, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?

In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, data plan, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., BIS, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Communications Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29