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- The clouds are gathering for Coupa
- Sometimes I read something and it makes me smile from ear to ear, most often because it generates another of those ah-ha moments that keep tech people motivated. Reading Vinnie Mirchandani's SCARS: SaaS and Cloud Allowance Rebate System was one of those moments. Much as I am tempted...
- Tags: E-procurement, Procurement, Coupa, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Manes: no bones about it, 'SOA' (as we knew it) is still dead
- "I never intended to say that organizations shouldn't do SOA (they MUST!), but SOA teams are hard pressed to get funding for their efforts unless they focus on delivering services that generate measurable business value." - Anne Thomas Manes Anne Thomas Manes...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6
- Novell recently launched a new version of PlateSpin Recon, version 3.6. I've been watching both Novell and PlateSpin, the company Novell acquired a while ago (see Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor? and Additional thoughts on Novell acquisition of PlateSpin) for a long time. It is pretty...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., PlateSpin Recon 3.6, PlateSpin Recon, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant
- In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull right, Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and distributing a fix to user deployment of the patch. According to this Dennis Fisher report...
- Tags: Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Patches, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Top 10 undergraduate courses for the CIO track
- If you’re thinking about becoming a CIO, you can lay a good foundation by taking courses that translate into the skills and knowledge you’ll be using every day. Seasoned CIO Jay Rollins offers a list of essential classes that will help you get ready for the job. For more posts...
- Tags: Business Process, CIO, Operational Planning, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Financial Accounting, Databases, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Four important SOA metrics that need to be watched
- One of the challenges of seeing ROI from SOA is failure to measure. Many SOA projects are launched in which managers don't know how well the initiative may have succeeded beyond anecdotal evidence. It may, for all anybody knows, a raging success. Likewise, how do we really know when an...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Green tech calculators you can count on, literally
- For those seeking practical tools that can help them get a better handle on the energy and carbon dioxide emissions they're producing, I have not one but three different online calculator type tools to point to in this blog entry. They aren't exactly comparable, but serve different purposes that might...
- Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Blog Entry, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Productivity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Trade group releases initial green storage measurement guidelines
- This will be the year in which IT managers, data center administrators and other constituents who care will finally get some more industry-wide visibility into what their green IT or eco-efficiency expectations should be for storage, servers and other data center level technology. Up this week: The...
- Tags: Results, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-24
- SOA: it's only rocket science
- What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet, Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROI
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROILooking in all the wrong placesThe real problem with ROI is that many IT shops are looking for the ROI within IT instead of the business. I totally disagree with the survey that states reuse is where the biggest ROI is. IT...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI, SOA, information technology, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Green is really just another way of saying 'energy-efficient'
- OK, we all know that when it comes to green tech, it's REALLY about lean tech. Right? I mean, I'm sure that's why many of the IT managers who read this blog even bother spending time. That's what CDW figures, too, so in addition to the...
- Tags: Power Management, IT Professional, CDW Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...
- Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better
- Loraine Lawson just posted some thoughts about the results of a new qualitative study, sponsored by SAP and conducted in conjunction with the University of St. Gallen, which suggests that businesses are starting to see some results from SOA initiatives. Most organizations simply don't know what...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
- Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- A Six Sigma Approach to Efficient Retail Banking Operations
- In 2007, a major bank embraced Iontas' Focus software suite as part of its Six Sigma initiative to streamline front-office operations. The bank was experiencing high turnover and struggling with varied execution styles among tellers. Compounding the challenges, the bank had no baseline metrics on teller activities that they could...
- Tags: Bank, Banking, Banking Operation, Iontas Business & Technology Optimization, Financial Services, Six Sigma, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-05-02
- Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art
- Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...
- Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Using a Customer Experience Framework to Connect IT Capability to Business Results
- Ultimately, any initiative to improve IT effectiveness or increase IT capability will go only as far as its business case. The deeper into technology infrastructure one goes, the more tenuous the link to improvement in business performance metrics such as revenue, expense and profit. Its research reveals that an important...
- Tags: Information Technology, Customer Experience, International Data Group, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Another green tech lobbying group you should make it your business to follow
- The other day, I mentioned the Technology CEO Council and the various things the group has started lobbying for when it comes to support the advance of green technology. Another collaboration that will inform the future of green tech, at least as far as legislation goes, is the working relationship...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Information Technology, Suspect, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
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