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- Change the Culture, Save the Organization: The principal financial group Revitalized Its Culture by Adopting a Project Management Approach
- Balancing change with tradition proved to be an essential part of the Principal Financial Group's forward-looking strategy. The Principal needed to transition from its ad hoc approach to a more structured project management environment that included standard methodology, resource evaluation, project planning, collaboration, and project review and analysis. After compiling...
- Tags: Principal Financial Group, Primavera Systems Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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- Fortune 500 Financial Services Company Saving Money, Ensuring Data Access With McDATA Storage Network
- The Des Moines, Iowa IT Team of the Principal Financial Group The Principal was seeking a data infrastructure model that would consolidate several rapidly growing but distinct application environments into one infrastructure. The infrastructure would need to provide improved storage and management efficiencies, non-stop connectivity and enable uninterrupted scalability of...
- Tags: McDATA Corp., Principal Financial Group, Financial, Network, Financial Service, Data Access, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Financial Planning, Hardware, Finance
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- How principal financial group Achieved Operational Excellence in IT Service Management
- This webcast explains how principal financial group achieved operational excellence in IT service management.
- Tags: Principal Financial Group, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
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- Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA
- Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...
- Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- No, really, we're studying physics
- I've only recently discovered the joys of roller coasters; according to my 13-year old, I have a very manly scream. I guess that's a compliment. Regardless, I'm taking my physics class to Six Flags New England (made possible in part by a generous donation from Rocky's Ace Hardware,...
- Tags: Physics, Insurance, Financial Planning, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge
- In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- DIY phishing kits introducing new features
- What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- 10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)
- Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Ask.com buys Dictionary.com; Bolsters reference content
- Ask.com plans to buy Lexico Publishing Group, the company behind Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for an undisclosed sum. The fourth largest search engine briefed a few reporters on its plans such as News.com's Stephen Shankland. The deal is expected to be officially announced Thursday. ...
- Tags: Ask.com, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
- According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London. This will mark the first time at least publicly that someone has released a...
- Tags: Black Hat, Cisco IOS, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Robert McMillan, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
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