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Evaluating 404 IT Deficiencies: A Practical Approach That Works: As accelerated filers race to the finish line for year one compliance with Section 404, much work remains in the area of testing exceptions and evaluating deficiencies. Our previous webcast - 404: IT Issues that Really Matter - focused on scope, documentation and testing issues associated with application controls, general...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Information Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management; Webcasts
Case Study: Bluetooth on Trial: Ernst & Young has conducted trials internally on a number of Bluetooth products from different vendors. It now believes the chief benefit of the technology is to make it easy for visitors from outside a company to connect to IT systems. Ernst & Young believes Bluetooth has shown a lot...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless; Case studies
Advancing With e-Business Allam Homes: Allam Homes is one of Australia's largest residential construction companies. Most of the site supervisors had no previous experience with computers and there was some resistance to the new technology. The purchase of user-friendly software with a simple pushbutton interface, eliminated the need for extensive training and encouraged staff to...; Tags: Mobile-phone, Ernst & Young LLP, Phone, Mobile, Wireless Communication, E-business, Allam Homes, PDAs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing; Case studies
404: IT Issues That Really Matter: This webcast covers IT-related issues concerning General Controls, Application Controls, 3rd Party Reporting, Spreadsheets/End User Computing, and much more. It will focus on the important IT issues that are challenging companies today and provide practical approaches to address them.; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Information Technology, Strategy, Management; Webcasts
Advancing With e-Business: ITW Buildex: Established in 1917 (as W.A. Deutsher Pty Ltd), ITW Buildex is a leading manufacturer and supplier of self-drilling screws. Having decided to implement an automated ordering system, the company discovered that the business service provider of the original ERP system could not offer a suitably advanced ordering module for the...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Internet, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies

Advancing With e-Business: Kell & Rigby Pty Ltd: Kell & Rigby was established in 1910 by carpenters William Kell and Leslie Rigby. Kell & Rigby found that both customers and suppliers, particularly government organisations, were increasingly demanding higher levels of system integration to enhance the transparency of construction and project management processes. To achieve this goal, Kell &...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, E-procurement, Procurement, E-business, Purchasing & Procurement, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Case studies
CoPs Driving Performance and Innovation: Best Practices of Ernst & Young, L.L.P., Flour Corp., and the Federal Highway Administration: Today, as more organizations attempt to draw knowledge assets and people together in communities of practice (CoPs), managers and executives want to use them to run their global businesses in new and innovative ways. This article explores the rapidly evolving methodology of CoPs, from planning and creating to maintaining and...; Tags: Innovation, Ernst & Young LLP, Performance, Knowledge, Administration, APQC, Best Practice, Strategy, Management; White papers
Case Study - Datacentre Consolidation at Ernst and Young: Ernst & Young AG is one of Germany's leading certified accounting companies, and is part of Ernst & Young Global operations. The company decided to embark upon a radical act: IT decided to bring the IT servers of its national data centres in Eschborn near Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Rotterdam under...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Consolidation, Reed Business Information, Strategy, Management; Case studies
Professional Services Firm Cuts Hardware and Software Maintenance Costs by 88 Percent: The distributed workforce of the Malaysian practice of Ernst & Young faced a crisis: employees needed remote access to the company's 50 Lotus Notes-based business applications, but they experienced issues with application accessibility, usability, and performance. And, the infrastructure costs associated with this system were spiralling. The firm needed a...; Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Professional Services, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, IBM Corp., Ernst & Young Malaysia, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Programming Languages, E-mail Servers, Remote Access, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, Application Servers, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Operating Systems; Case studies

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Is electronic tracking for students a good idea?: A pilot program in Texas is testing GPS tracking devices to combat truancy in chronic offenders who might otherwise be sent to detention facilities. According to an article in the New York Times (free registration required), not only does the program seem to be working, but also doesn't seem...; Tags: Student, GPS, Leadership, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Neil Young gives his name to a spider: Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University (ECU) professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...; Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Health care debate is a neverending story: Health care debate is a neverending storySupply and demandOf course there's a way to balance the two. It's called the Market. Get third-party pay out of the equation, and demand and supply laws will come into effect.The reason demand is so high is because prices are artificially low. Whenever you...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo: In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout....; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Are we all just cognitive surplus?: Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...; Tags: Surplus, Shirky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wiki, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless: Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthlessSomething is worth exactllywhat someone else is willing to pay for it.Couldn't be because they stink?Their revenue shortfall and lack of growth could just as likely be traced to their notorious right wing bias. As the neocons fall...; Tags: MySpace, social media, advertiser, social networking, advertisement; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
LG 47LG60: LG has been quietly gaining market share producing both plasma and LCD flat-panel HDTVs over the last couple of years, but there's nothing quiet about the LG60 series. The 47-inch 47LG60 reviewed here incorporates two unique design quirks that basically scream "look at me!" among the rows of nearly indistinguishable...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LG 47LG60, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV; Product reviews 2008-05-07
JavaOne '08: Neil Young chronicles music career: Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, Professional Development, Programming Languages, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Neil Young, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Shakey Pictures, Java; Videos 2008-05-06
Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance: Leading up the the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Do we need another CERT?: Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ...; Tags: Vulnerability, CERT, Windows Machine, Dana, Security, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Sometimes it takes a thousand words: Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". (NT).Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper; Discussion threads 2008-05-06