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- JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool
- Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...
- Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Ever wish you could fire your IT boss?
- What if it were your boss out here instead of you?Are you tired of having IT managers who don't know diddly about how to do your job or who lack even the most basic technical skills? Are you exhausted from their pie-in-the-sky idea of what a project deadline should be...
- Tags: Job, Boss, Information Technology, Projects, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- BOINC (zip)
- BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. Many different projects can use BOINC. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. Participants can participate in multiple projects; they control which projects they participate in, and how their resources are divided among these...
- Tags: Project, BOINC, Projects, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Management, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-03-24
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- Can open source sustain a talent agency?
- Want to start an open source talent agency? Not an employment agency, a talent agency. Seek talent, represent it for projects, and pass the work off for a cut of the money. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Talent, Advertisement, Agency, Talent Agency, Workforce Management, Open Source, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A guide to cutting IT costs
- Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...
- Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-21
- News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Internet, Open Source
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- 5 reasons to kill IT projects
- A survey of IT experts revealed 43 percent of their organizations had recently killed an IT project. Here's the list of reasons, with commentary. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman, Project, CIO
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- 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
- What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China
- A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...
- Tags: China, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, EER, Harry Fuller
- 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
- Lanamark Vready
- Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, dropped by to tell me about Vready, a new service his company is offering. I've spoken with representatives with many smaller organizations and think that Lanamark has a good grasp on the problems these organizations are facing when they choose to embark on the journey...
- Tags: Server, Lanamark, VReady Assessment Report, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Enterprise Mashups: Fostering growth with existing resources.
- In business, no two challenges are the same. To be effective now and in the future, organizations must be able to adapt with speed and agility. Read this white paper to learn how enterprise mashups can help you use existing IT assets and projects to solve situational problems and take...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Mashup, Collaboration
- White papers 2008-11-19
- What really happened to the candidates' computers?
- Now that two weeks have passed since the end of the presidential campaigns, it is worthwhile to take a look at what I think should have one of the biggest cybercrime stories of the year. As Ryan blogged the day after the election, both the McCain and the Obama...
- Tags: BusinessWeek, Computer, Attack, Government, E-mail, Vertical Industries, Security, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up
- More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Solution, Information Technology, On-demand, Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, GRC, Virtualization Technology, PPM Solution, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Study: Don't repeat IT mistakes from last downturn.
- A report released today by research firm voke, Inc. makes a point that probably shouldn't need to be made these days - but, given the economic climate, it's probably not a bad idea to say it anyway. Resist the IT downturn slash. Former Gartner...
- Tags: Information Technology, Outsourcing, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- 11 "Laws of IT Physics"
- These important 11 "Laws," which were presented to Congress, help explain what makes IT projects succeed or fail. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Law, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman, Project, Planning
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- BearingPoint's Q3 earnings call - part 1
- To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint's BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...
- Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture
- The Free Software Foundation's latest version of the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL surprised me a little -- but in a very good way. The FSF has ceded some control and allowed for GFDL content to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This is a major win...
- Tags: Free Software Foundation, Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, BY-SA, Wiki, Online Communications, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle room
- The Senate introduced a bill establishing guidelines for transparency and reporting on troubled IT projects. Here's why this is a big deal. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, U.S. Senate, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman, Project
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Microsoft offers zero percent financing on Dynamics ERP and CRM
- Microsoft is taking a play from automakers as it tries to stoke demand for its enterprise applications--zero percent financing. The company said Thursday that it will offer zero percent financing for 36 months to Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM software. The fact that technology vendors are increasingly...
- Tags: Financing, ERP, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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