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- SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance
- SAP GRC Business ObjectsSAP is actively integrating Business objects into SAP GRC. Reporting gets much easier with Business ObjectsOneAccess-UserManager for SAPSAP Certified-Powered by Netweaverhttp://www.softsquare.biz/oneaccess/
- Tags: Reporting, SAP AG, GRC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- The flipside of SAPs recent success and a surprise
- SAP GRCSAP R/3 gave companies better handle on their financial data. Now SAP GRC is helping then gain governance and compliance of their DataOneAccess-UserManager for SAPSAP Certified-Powered by Netweaverhttp://www.softsquare.biz/oneaccess/
- Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, SAP AG, GRC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Visual Contacts 1.1 (Mobile)
- Visual Contacts is the new generation contacts manager. No specific importation nor synchronization operation is needed : contacts are read from your iPhone address book and the picture displayed for a contact is the one present in its contact card.Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App...
- Tags: Mobile, Contact, Apple iTunes, GRC, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-02-11
- BriefingsDirect analysts make 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligence
- BriefingsDirect analysts make 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligenceExpect everything weighed against ROI.IT for the sake of IT is going to be a thing of the past. Just because everyone is doing it is no longer going to be a good enough excuse. If you can't...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, Pricing, Enterprise software, information technology, SOA Cloud, Briefingsdirect, business intelligence, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-12-29
- SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up
- SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats upMetrisoft SaaS PlatformMetrisoft offers an Platform-as-a-Service PaaS for Microsoft ASP.NET. Supposedly this SaaS Platform reduces development time for custom ASP.NET SaaS applications by 25-50%. See http://www.metrisoft.com for more information.RE: SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats upCompwuare Changepoint has been hosting for years...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, SaaS competition, software-as-a-service, SaaS Platform, GRC, PPM
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Study: Don't repeat IT mistakes from last downturn.
- Study: Don't repeat IT mistakes from last downturn.What not to do in a down economyWell written article. A couple of points of interest:1. Open Pages is a software product not a SaaS and they like doing million dollar deals. The GRC SaaS vendor to watch is Axentis - but...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, GRC, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up
- More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Solution, Information Technology, On-demand, Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, GRC, Virtualization Technology, PPM Solution, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- GRC in the current economy
- Interview with OpenPages executive Gordon Burnes A couple of weeks ago, I ran a blog post concerning the recent Wall Street crisis and the role that compliance legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley had to play in preventing it. I contended that Sarbanes-Oxley failed and that the problem could be...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Risk Management, Openpages Inc., GRC, Gordon, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Financial cesspits and compliance
- Governance risk and compliance are not the most popular of topics. Until there is a monumental screw up that is. Then everyone with a GRC solution emails to remind me they have the solution that could have avoided last week's mayhem in the financial markets,which will fix the ongoing situation...
- Tags: Trader, Financial, Compliance, Investment Banking, GRC, Government, Financial Accounting, Litigation, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all
- Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at allStrong login ids too!ntDownloading nowThanks for the info Adrian. This is a great way for me to test the strength of all my passwords.RE: Either choose strong passwordsWhat do you consider the minimum for strong passwords? Most sites...
- Tags: Ophcrack, GRC, password, strong password
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle
- SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- BriefingsDirect SOA analysts explore converged governance and the new SOA Consortium
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance GRC platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mash-up, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber governance that...
- Tags: SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, management, IT Service Management, Interarbor Solutions, Enterprise 2.0, Application Lifecycle Management, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SAP, ITIL, IT Management, business intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
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- One second: The time it takes to wipe three years of work
- Not all that worriedWith the cost of drives these days, and with Raid cards or raid capable Motherboards at such cheap prices these days, I've setup mine with a RAID 1 mirror.Plus an automated weekly backup.I spend alot of time and money on my music (just sitting there ripping my...
- Tags: Backups, backup, Live Mesh, RAID, Acronis, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- New Adobe PDF flaw under attack; Patch coming Tuesday
- Note to all Knuckleheads....The vulnerability affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions on Windows, Macintosh and UNIXWhy announce at all? Just fix the thingI'm getting really tired of any company that gives the ostensibly obligatory "We're on that!" and then it's some time before the fix comes. These...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Adobe PDF flaw, flaw, Adobe PDF, operating system, Adobe Systems Inc., attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- C&S Migrates to a Common Scalable Platform, Driving Efficiency and Reliability While Improving Controls
- C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene wanted to control user access to critical data and monitor financial processes without manual intervention and maintain data continuity across multiple systems. The challenge was to eliminate requisite manual coding in maintaining critical mainframe systems and increase employee productivity across the organization to execute operations...
- Tags: C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., C&S, Mainframes, Financial Accounting, Servers, Hardware, Finance
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- In Search of a Silver Bullet for Risk Management
- With government funding of the financial services sector in full swing nearly the world over, all eyes are focused on how financial institutions manage their businesses and control their risks. For the foreseeable future, the industry can expect elevated levels of distrust, scrutiny and regulation. While the campaign to improve...
- Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Financial, Compliance, Risk Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Management
- White papers 2009-08-13
- SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance
- Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...
- Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?
- Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?24 season 9 plot thread?Jack Bauer has to foil an assassination attempt on Steve Jobs. Chloe arms him with a jailbroken iPhone that cripples every cell tower in Cupertino. Jack activates the iPhone, only to find out that Steve Ballmer has already...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., cell phone, Jack Bauer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Bleak Xmas Ahead: Where's the innovation I need to fill the stockings?
- I know this is the July Fourth holiday and I'm half a year away from gift giving. But, when I looked through the Sunday supplements in today's newspaper, I couldn't find anything to buy. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Squat. Yes, I scanned the Best Buy, Office Depot...
- Tags: Innovation, Incrementalism, Recipe, Herewith, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-05
- Two BPM interviews that show how robust custom development still is
- A Bright Light in High Tech Nice to see a tech sector bucking the economy I recently conducted two different interviews on the BPM business process management space. One of these was with Phil Gilbert, President of Austin-based, Lombardi Software and the other...
- Tags: Lombardi Software Inc., BPM, ERP, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
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