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Cloud security depends on the human element

The fact is that most organizations have created an artificial barrier between IT professionals and business professionals. The line of business professionals, management and executives are more valued than the techies running the IT shop. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Security, Line Of Business, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-23

MSDN Webcast: Designing Creative DHTML, Silverlight UIs: Simple, Visualized & Intuitive (Level 300)

The presenter of this webcast shows off the new point and click Visual WebGui Control & Theme Designer. This designer joins the well known drag and drop Visual WebGui Form designer. It offers the fastest, most intuitive way (no Javascript, no HTML, no CSS, no XAML) of developing and designing....

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Silverlight, DHTML, Webcast, Line Of Business, Microsoft Corp., Scripting Languages, CSS, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Webcasts 2009-06-16

MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development: The Embedded Database for Building Mobile Line of Business Applications (Level 200)

The presenter of this webcast provides a great introduction into using Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft SQL Server CE database development to create line of business applications, with a focus on database techniques for occasionally connected scenarios. Windows Mobile computing has started to extend past the reach of the...

Tags: Technique, Microsoft Developer Network, Application Development, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Webcast, Mobile, Line Of Business, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows Mobile Computing, Productivity, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-04-29

Microsoft identity-management product running a year late

Microsoft is telling customers and partners that it has pushed back the final delivery date of its "Identity Lifecycle Manager 2" from early 2009 to the first quarter of 2010. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Line Of Business, Microsoft Corp., Identity Management, ILM2, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Small Enterprise Integration-VAR Solutions

Often, implementation of an enterprise class application such as document management software does not gain wide use within a company, organizational acceptance, or full return on investment without tying the entire business process together. For these three elements to be realized, it is often necessary to complete the puzzle by...

Tags: Line Of Business, Cabinet NG, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

White papers 2009-03-15

Engineers are from Mars, Marketers are from Venus

If you're familiar with the relationship book 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' and work with technology, you may have noticed the fundamental differences in the way people think about software. In companies of all sizes, the challenges of working to keep existing...

Tags: Line Of Business, Information Technology, Friction, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Ready-to-Run Software to Use ScaleOut StateServer

High availability and support for rolling upgrades are critical requirements for this application. Although Ready-to-Run Software's client utilizes ASP.NET and ASP.NET session objects in their application, they do not use SQLServer for their line of business database, and the cost of licensing a clustered SQLServer for storing only session objects...

Tags: Line Of Business, Microsoft ASP.NET, Farm, ScaleOut Software, .Net, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

Improving IT Economics: Thinking 'Lean'

Applying 'Lean' principles originally designed in manufacturing and perfected by the likes of Toyota and Motorola better enables IT to identify and eradicate anything that is wasteful within IT management. In the words of 'Lean', anything wasteful is work that adds no value to a product or service that organizations...

Tags: Line Of Business, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-11-01

Cognizant Boosts Internet Access, Productivity With Advanced Proxy Server Technology

Fast and efficient access to the Internet is critical for the over 59,000 employees of Cognizant, which provides consulting, information technology, and business process outsourcing services to customers around the world. In view of the company's rapid growth, the IT department wanted to find a proxy server technology that would...

Tags: Security, Internet Access, BPO, Line Of Business, Microsoft Corp., Proxy Server, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Internet, Operational Planning, Servers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Hardware

Case studies 2008-08-01

Avengers, Assemble! Marvel's first strategic IT plan comes from superpowered collaboration between the CIO and the lines of business

Read this Profit Magazine article to see how Marvel Entertainment is working to expand its existing Oracle footprint to merge and unify existing data with the ultimate goal of improving data accuracy and reducing the time to market of data. See how and why Marvel Senior...

Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., Line Of Business, Information Technology, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Branding, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

Case studies 2008-05-01

SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...

Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-28

News to know: Windows 7; eBay; Space race; Java

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 and Windows Live to get tighter Ed Bott: Vista virtualization: The bigger picture Via makes way for 64-bit chips Larry Dignan: eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Line Of Business, Java, eBay Inc., Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Cyberthreats, Open Source, Security, Spam And Phishing, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2008-01-24

IBM's AptSoft acquistion opens SOA event processing to line of business personnel

IBM has beefed up it's business process management BPM offerings in the service oriented architecture SOA space with today's announcement that Big Blue is acquiring AptSoft Corp., Burlington, Mass., a provider of business event-processing software. The move also extends event-processing capabilities to line-of-business personnel. Business event processing identifies event...

Tags: Event, Line Of Business, SOA, IBM Corp., AptSoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-01-23

IBM and Kapow on how enterprises exploit application mashups and lightweight data access

Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. The choices among enterprise application development and deployment technologies has never been greater. But what's truly different about today's applications is that line of business people can have a greater impact than ever on how technology supports their productive work....

Tags: Web, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Data, API, Information, Data Access, IBM Corp., Mashup, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Why Did SAP buy Business Objects?

There’s been a lot of back and forth about this deal, covered admirably by Dennis Howlett, Dan Farber, and other bloggers, but precious little on what it means to blend a premier applications company with a premier business intelligence vendor. I think it’s worth trying to get inside the though...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Line Of Business, Business Objects, SAP AG, ERP, Tool, IBM Corp., Productivity, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Helping a Service Provider Deliver Software as a Service More Effectively

nGenX, a subsidiary of Q-Comm Corporation, delivers office productivity and line of business applications on a "Software as a Service" basis to small and midsize organizations around the world. nGenX wanted to grow its business and expand its capacity to meet customer needs, but its existing service delivery infrastructure would...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Line Of Business, Load Balancing, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking

Case studies 2007-08-10

Federal Enterprise Architecture: A New Perspective on Infrastructure Optimization

This Government Insights White Paper presents a new scenario for infrastructure optimization. It identifies key government drivers that are forcing government to transition from a siloed business model to a more collaborative, fully integrated line of business service delivery model as exemplified by Centers of Excellence. The analysis describes the...

Tags: Optimization, Line Of Business, Enterprise Architecture, International Data Group, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-11-01

Selling SOA: different strokes, different folks

Selling SOA: different strokes, different folksCentral vs Line of BusinessCentral IT tends to be more focused on control, compliance, interoperability, cost of IT operations and provisioning.Line of Business tends to be more focused on opportunity, agility, flexibility and applications.Miko

Tags: Selling SOA, line of business, Central IT

Discussion threads 2006-08-10

MSDN Webcast: Creating a Windows Mobile Line of Business (LOB) Application (Part 06 of 13): The User Interface (Level 300)

Parts Four and Five of this webcast series discussed how to create and manage a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition database for an application that runs on a mobile device. In this webcast, User Interface UI for the sample application is created. The attendee will learn about techniques such...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Webcast, Line Of Business, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Webcasts 2006-02-08

MSDN Webcast: Developing Rules Driven Workflows (Part 7 of 7) (Level 300)

Rules can be a powerful business tool when combined with workflow. In this webcast, you will learn how to develop more advanced activities that support the modeling of rich business behavior such as human workflow. Understand when to use rules for business logic, and see how rule policies allow for...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Line Of Business, Workflow, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

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