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BrainBench: US IT salaries will grow 1-5% in 2004

62% of information technology workers surveyed expect raises of between 1% and 5% next year, according to a report published Thursday by Brainbench, which provides skills measurement online. Almost half of the respondents (42%) said that they had received a salary increase of between 1% and 5% this year. Another...

Tags: information technology, Brainbench

Blog posts 2003-12-18

Maintaining Talent for Market Leadership - How Wells Fargo Keeps Top IT Performers on Board and Moving Ahead

Wells Fargo is a 150-year-old financial services giant that is ranked #1 in multiple categories, from small business and agricultural lending to online financial services, insurance sales, and home equity lending. Like many large organizations, Wells Fargo develops top performers through one of two career development paths. An employee may...

Tags: Talent, Leadership, Wells Fargo & Co., Information Technology, Board, Brainbench, Professional Development, Financial Planning, Workforce Management, Strategy, Financial Services, Career, Finance, Human Resources, Management

Case studies

Skills Measurement for IT Talent - How Government Agencies Are Putting Commercial Best Practices to Work

From April 22 - 29, 2002, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM held its first IT Virtual Job Fair. The online skills measurement approach used in the IT job fair achieved some important goals. First, the measurement system supported a new competency-based approach to defining job qualifications. Traditionally, government...

Tags: Job, Agency, Information Technology, Government, Best Practice, Brainbench, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang to kick off Semantic Universe webcasts

Semantic Universe, the people behind the Semantic Technology Conference, have just announced a new series of free webcasts featuring Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang. These begin on 16 October with a 'Semantic Web Overview,' and initially continue through November with investigations of RDF and OWL. I have...

Tags: Webcast, Semantic Web, RDF, Podcasts, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook as social rule of thumb?

This new course I'm taking introduces sociology, and I assure all you budding sociologists who read that this new-found knowledge isn't going to my head. It seems for many, especially students who are forced into a semi-confined place as others, take precedent, that Facebook confirms events within our lives. ...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-13

The candidates on tech

Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....

Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Using your voice to pilot your computer

According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven...

Tags: Software, Pattern Recognition, Mouse, Voice Recognition, Voice, Signal Processing, Computer, Application Driver, Productivity, Mice, Telephony, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-13

IT warning: Turbulence ahead

The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...

Tags: Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-13

EU group demos quantum cryptography

Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...

Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords

When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-13

DOJ backs off ATI

More good news for AMD. The Department of Justice has officially closed its antitrust investigation into ATI, the graphics chipmaker it bought in 2006. The Justice Department was investigating practices in the hot-and-heavy battle between ATI and Nvidia. Coverage at PCWorld. AMD announced last week saw its...

Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up

There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...

Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge

Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet, according to a new report from Forrester. Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet. According to a new...

Tags: Software, Web, CIO, Tool, Web 2.0, Productivity, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Management, Forrester, budget, Jo Best, Silicon.com

News items 2008-10-13

Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101

Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering most hardware negotiations go wrong early on. A customer's maximum leverage occurs when a company is...

Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad

Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13