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Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine

Who's on 1st? Thank you, thank you, thank you to the folks at TechMarketView for finding the most inane testimony yet in the still amusing Satyam fraud saga. The story, and you’ve got to read the source document in The Times of India, is...

Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Indian, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-02

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-30

IBM's latest campaign against paper

You've got to love all the statistics that high-tech companies use to express the return on investment of their green IT offering du jour. Here is a new-ish one from IBM: the average office worker uses roughly 10,000 sheets of copy paper year. (Notice that does not mention printer output,...

Tags: IBM Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Outsourcing, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Xnntp 0.7.4 (Mac)

Xnntp is a offline newsreader with a focus on collecting and indexing informations. Native Cocoa Newsreader. Multi-Windowed. Mime compliant. CoreData Based Easy to use.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Consulting, Xnntp, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2009-06-25

HP adds new consulting services to smooth the enterprise path to cloud adoption

The HP Cloud Discovery Workshop is designed to help enterprise IT organizations learn about the cloud as a strategic service delivery option and how to leverage it as part of a broader IT service delivery strategy. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Consulting Service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Consulting, HP Cloud Discovery Workshop, Strategy, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-24

EDS's David Gee on the spectrum of cloud and outsourcing options unfolding before IT architects

Is EDS, in fact, a cloud provider? And how will IT departments properly factor their decisions on what to keep on-premises in data centers versus placing assets and workloads on someone else's cloud infrastructure? by Dana Gardner

Tags: Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spectrum, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-19

Who said outsourcing was a security risk?

Telephone wires, India by Phil Fersht

Tags: Security Risk, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Outsourcing? Avoid long-term deals

Gartner says the good news for companies that plan to outsource is that the cost of doing business will decrease. But that's the bad news, too - outsourcing partners may go out of business. Organizations should monitor the health of outsourcing partners and avoid long-term contracts, according to research...

Tags: Gartner Inc., Supplier, Prices, Managed Hosting, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Emerging Technologies, outsourcing, India, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-06-17

Using Outsourced Infrastructure to Enhance Your Customers' Web Experience

Did you know that the majority of your users will abandon your site if they have to wait more than eight seconds for a page to download? This is a troubling data point as rich experiences increase the weight of your pages and their resulting load times. Watch this program...

Tags: Web, Outsource, Experience, LimeLight, Outsourcing, Leadership, Channel Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-06-16

How badly are your business applications performing?

Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics: ...

Tags: Consultant, Performance, Business Application, SAP AG, Consulting, Performance Issue, Transaction Performance Issue, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Trishear3D 4.4 (Mac)

A program to run forward, three-dimensional trishear models. Trishear is a kinematic model for fault-propagation folding. Trishear3D is freeware, but only for academic purposes. If you want to use the program for consulting, please contact me.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Nestor Cardozo, Trishear, Trishear3D, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2009-06-12

No Surprise - Firms selling off Indian centers

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that major corporations are selling off their Indian IT and back office centers as part of belt-tightening moves. This really isn't a big surprise. Why? If well-designed and operated, these centers become assets of the firms they service. They would...

Tags: Firm, Center, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Asset Management, Financial Services, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-11

ClickTime 6.1 (Mac)

ClickTime is a web-based service for employee time and expense tracking. Users can access the system from any web connection Generate reports online instantlyEmpowers managers to monitor projects in real-timeAutomatic email reminders encourage timely completion of timesheetsIt's an outsourced service; no server to install at your office

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Outsource, Clicktime, ClickTime 6.1, E-mail, Outsourcing, Channel Management, Online Communications, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-11

RCC Donations 1.0v1 (Mac)

RCC Donations is a FREE FileMaker Pro 10 template made from your friends at Richard Carlton Consulting Inc. that allows for the straightforward tracking of donations right out of the box. The solution was designed with the FM Starting Point user interface, another one of RCC's templates, and was created...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Solution, RCC Donations, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2009-06-09

Offshore Outsourcing

As all companies face increased competition due to globalization and unforgiving market forces, the use of offshore development partners is becoming a compelling way to maintain market share and boost profits. Moving development offshore - once a risky proposition - is now a well understood, highly defined process. Using Bamboo's...

Tags: Offshore Outsourcing, Bamboo Technologies, Globalization, Outsourcing, Benefits, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources

White papers 2009-06-08

RCC Donations 1.0 (Windows)

RCC Donations is a free FileMaker Pro 10 template made from your friends at Richard Carlton Consulting that allows for the straightforward tracking of donations right out of the box. The solution was designed with the FM Starting Point user interface, another one of RCC's templates, and was created after...

Tags: Solution, RCC Donations, Outsourcing, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-08

Weekend Stuff: Twittering houses and eco reporting

Some weeks back I met James Governor, Chris Dalby and Mark Charmer in London. James will be well known to some readers as the brash, outspoken industry analyst who has branched into eco issues with Greenmonk. Chris is a geek who has a house that Tweets (see 1...

Tags: Video, Consulting, Chris, Corporate Communications, Mice, Outsourcing, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Choosing a Vendor: 8 Key Points to Consider When You Need to Outsource

Even marketing departments at large companies will need to outsource some functions to firms who are more creative and resourceful in specific areas. Most of the time, this is a win-win: you complete projects that your department doesn't have the capacity to do while creating a relationship from...

Tags: Outsource, Vendor, SkillSoft, Marketing Research, Outsourcing, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2009-06-05

Weather Machine 1.1 (Mobile)

With Weather Machine You can see all the weather details you need, including maximum and minimum temperatures, perceived temperature, speed of the wind and its direction, atmospheric pressure, dew point, UV Index, humidity, and probability of rain. You can view the current situation of each locality, have forecasts of the...

Tags: Mobile, Consulting, Photograph, Massimiliano Torregiani, GPS, Outsourcing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Sustainable change or SOX 2.0?

I had not intended riffing on my colleague Vinnie Mirchandani's piece: How ERP vendors can change the world. Seriously. We'd discussed the topic over the phone earlier in the week and at the time it was clear he had a solid position which Larry Dignan duly picks up. But there...

Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Consulting, Vinnie Mirchandani, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Regulations, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-02