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- Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
- Note: Click the player to listen to my podcast interview with Steve Cakebread, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com. Steve comments on his company's strategy, discusses on-premises software, and presents Salesforce.com's vision for mobile devices. Salesforce.com's Tour de Force roadshow is traveling around the world...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Developer, Podcast, Outsource, Vision, Force.com, On-premises, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunch
- Survey: Your IT leaders are an antsy bunchOutsourcingOne of our idiot directors (actually, I don't mean to imply we have multiple idiot directors...rephrase...one of our directors, an idiot...) recently told a bunch of us that "we have no choice but to move to an outsourcing or offshore model - the...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, outsource, information technology, outsourcing, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Globalization's roots in the boom 90s
- I've always wanted to read Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat," a book that describes the globalization forces that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century, and in Friedman's mind, constitutes version 3.0 of a globalization wave that will be more intense - and move faster - than...
- Tags: Outsource, Telecommunications, Worker, Computer, Fiber, Thomas L. Friedman, Globalization, Outsourcing, Productivity, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Chrysler outsources parts of IT to Tata
- Chrysler, which recently became an independent company after separating from Daimler, has outsourced its IT to Tata Consultancy Services TCS in "a multi-year contract" worth about $120 million. The automaker is in the process of being remade by CEO Robert Nardelli, who was technology savvy as leader of Home...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Daimler AG, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Home Depot Inc., Information Technology, Outsource, Outsourcing, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Should HIPAA compliance be outsourced?
- Should HIPAA compliance be outsourced?Why is the sky blue?????Let's wait and see Dana...everything is in a state of flux and ALOT could change in the next year hopefully for the better!8+ Years of damage isn't going to change over night.RE: Should HIPAA compliance be outsourced?Will they confiscate office computers...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Outsourcing, Regulations, HIPAA, outsource, HIPAA compliance
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Should HIPAA compliance be outsourced?
- CynergisTek, a computing and security consultant, reported on its blog recently that HIPAA compliance audits will be increased this year, thanks to a contract the government signed with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. I admit that the significance of this went right by me at first. Then I went, "whaah?" ...
- Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Compliance, Outsource, Assumption, Nothing, Government, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Healthcare, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Outsourcing Predictions for 2008... in a nutshell
- Outsourcing Predictions for 2008... in a nutshellMessage has been deleted.Yin and yangBeing one of the people companies outsource support to doesn't make me feel any better about it some days. This is a very good analysis, although there are some technology trends that could alter the current landscape very...
- Tags: outsourcing, Outsourcing Predictions, nutshell, outsource, job
- Discussion threads 2007-12-20
- U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidates
- U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidatesHuh?Why was a hard disk containing all of this information from Britain or where ever that was doing in Iowa City, Iowa? Now Geography was never my best subject in school but to the best of my knowledge there is no Iowa City,...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Pearson, outsource, theory, U.K. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Gates outsources System Management Across Asian Sites and Gains 99.9% Availability
- In 2004, Gates Corporation directed that all disparate databases and applications software under Gates Unitta administration be replaced with an Oracle-based IT infrastructure. However, the age and diversity of hardware and software used in various Asian locations presented GUA with a challenge: either upgrade old IT hardware and software infrastructure...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Outsource, Tools & Techniques, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Monitor and Respond to Security Incidents With Innovative IBM Solutions
- IBM offers support for both in-house and outsourced security monitoring solutions. A real-time security event management platform for internal security operations centers and an audit- and compliance-oriented security information platform provide critical user data to a real-time incident recognition dashboard and/or a compliance dashboard to enhance audit and compliance initiatives....
- Tags: Monitor, Compliance, Outsource, IBM Corp., Security
- White papers 2007-12-01
- PricewaterhouseCoopers CIO: Graham Andrews
- ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Graham Andrews of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Thank you for joining us today and congratulations on being ‘highly commended' by the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year judging panel. Graham, how large is the...
- Tags: CIO, Phone, Open Source, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Outsource, Microsoft Windows Vista, Organization, Outsourcing, Virtualization, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Hardware, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Dynasoft TeleFactura Billing (exe)
- Web-ready, Dynasoft TeleFactura is the definitive voice/data billing and engine solution for any company needing a full-featured solution to manage/control the access of their voice/data customers. TeleFactura interfaces with any Radius/AAA-compatible equipment to give full telephony and gatekeeper engine capability. We also offer hosted and outsourced service options to mitigate...
- Tags: SIP, Telephony, Outsource, PSTN, Dynasoft TeleFactura, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Networking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Software downloads 2007-09-14
- Should Yahoo outsource search to Google?
- Should Yahoo outsource search to Google?yahoo search is okI don't udnerstand what is wrong with all these people who keep saying yahoo's earch problem this and that.I really think yahoo search is just fine. It can use some minute tweaks here and there but over all it works.They just haven't...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Google AdSense, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., advertisement, outsource
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Should Yahoo outsource search to Google?
- As Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang cooks up the company's strategic plan one piece of speculation increasingly pops up as an option: Yahoo outsourcing search to Google. Strategically, it's tough to picture Yahoo all recent posts following through on this idea. Financially, it may work. What ultimately happens remains to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Outsource, Robert Peck, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Couldn't enterprises outsource their internal white pages to FaceBook?
- I broke down yesterday morning. After receiving only a limited number of e-mail invitations to join the FaceBook networks of others and then resisting the viral temptation, Redmonk's James Governor wore me down and got me to join saying it would be good for the next version of Mashup...
- Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Outsource, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Outsourcing Systems Unit Allows ABB to Renew Its Business Focus
- ABB wanted to increase its core focus on power and automation. Having previously outsourced infrastructure to an external supplier, ABB began to look for a competent outsourcing vendor to partner with. The goal was to achieve an ideal, win-win solution for ABB as well as for the employees of Business...
- Tags: Capgemini, Outsource, ABB, Outsourcing Systems Unit, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-08-06
- Survey: IT outsourcing to intensify
- Survey: IT outsourcing to intensifyLooks to me like the finance department is being outsourcedSeriously, is it the IT department or the finance department that is being outsourced - payroll, human resources, general ledger, billing etc. Lets face reality, the IT departments haven't been working on that kind of thing for...
- Tags: Outsourcing, IT Services, outsource, finance department, IT outsourcing, payroll, survey, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- Schools fights IT outsourcing fears
- How much does outsourcing jobs overseas affect enrollment in IT courses in colleges? Computer degrees have seen a sharp decline since the dot-com bust and thats putting pressure on colleges to recruit students, reports the Tampa Tribune. Some teachers such as Kaushal Chari, the head of an information technology...
- Tags: Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Short Clip: Why "in-sourcing" is in
- BAE Systems Chief Information Officer Robert Fecteau explains why the company is moving away from an outsource solution. by ZDNet Editor
- Tags: Outsource, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, ZDNet Editor
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Delivering Collaborative Application Services as a Hosted Service Offering
- Based in Wilmington, Delaware, SharePoint Hosting has been hosting a reliable and affordable Windows SharePoint Services offering since 2001. Employees in smaller organizations need to share information and work together even when they may not be physically close to one another, but rarely do they have an infrastructure that supports...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services, Microsoft SharePoint, Outsource, Document Management, Groupware, Content Management, Microsoft Windows, Managerial Accounting, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Operating Systems, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-03-27
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