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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- 10 ways to evaluate your IT management software
- Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-05
- Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show
- Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...
- Tags: Human Resources Inc., Katherine, Herewith, HR Tech, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Web conferencing blues
- Cynocast may be a solution in some casesHiI recently checked out cynocast (see http://www.cynocast.com/).No software is installed. It uses a quite ingenious flash operation to run their software in up 10,000 participants browsers.This is their claim (copied from their web site:[i]"CynoCast is end to end 100% Flash technology. It runs...
- Tags: Channel management, Tools & Techniques, Web conferencing, Grouputer, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Ubuntu adds desktop support for small businesses
- Ubuntu adds desktop support for small businesses Ubuntu adds desktop support for small businesses And yet no one cares because no one wants linux. It just doesn't offer what small businesses need to survive in this economic climate and grow their business.Good Move - won't change anythingAs per the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, small business, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- JCH Cuts Budget Planning Process From 130 Days to 80 Days With Centralized System
- Due to rapid business expansion and intensifying competition, JCH found that its legacy budget management system did not offer the sophisticated features necessary for detailed planning and in-depth analysis. It did not provide the high quality data needed for informed decision-making on strategic and operational matters. This resulted in poor...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance
- Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...
- Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- The value of enterprise architecture in tough times: report from Open Group (2)
- Is enterprise architecture the right strategy for tough economic times, or should organizations throw away the deliberative long-term planning to fight more immediate fires? Here are more dispatches from John Meyer of The Open Group, reporting on the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, held last week...
- Tags: Open Group, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Foote Partners, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Some important truths about pen-testing
- Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks†of their own, or others’ technologies to test...
- Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations
- LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Bain survey finds tech and telecom execs are least worried
- Bain & Company released its 12th Bain’s Management Tools & Trends Survey results from interviews with 1400 top executives around the world. One of the findings was that tech and telecom execs were the least concerned about long-term impact from the recession and are the most...
- Tags: Bain, Recession, Telecommunications, Survey, Exec, Workforce Management, Productivity, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- IBM on Sustainability: Time For Real Time
- Its hard not to be impressed with the strength of focus coming from IBM these days on sustainability. I'm ususally pretty sceptical about sustainability marketing efforts and IBM have a high hurdle to jump to reach a point of public credibility. But on the other hand technology companies, more than most sectors, are obliged to lead...
- Tags: Sustainability, IBM Corp., James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- ERP Solution Gives Engineering Firm Strategic Insight Into Project Costs and Profits
- Founded in 1979, David Evans and Associates provides engineering, design, and construction management services for large commercial, residential, and public sector building projects. For years, the company used separate systems for project management and accounting. The lack of integration among its various systems required employees to manually reconcile account information,...
- Tags: ERP, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Dell is going shopping: Pondering the data center and services targets
- Dell CEO Michael Dell said the company is likely to spend some of its $10 billion in cash on an acquisition that would give it more of a foothold in the data center or expand its services. The one bright spot of Dell's first quarter was the...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Market Capitalization, Data Center, Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Experian QAS Leverages Siebel Sales Platform to Drive Annual Revenue Growth
- Experian QAS wanted to maximize sales effectiveness by accelerating the sales process, leveraging cross- and up-sell opportunities, and gaining real-time lead and pipeline visibility across all channels and gain a complete, up-to-date lifetime view of each customer. The challenge was to run real-time analyses of revenue and profit margins and...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Experian, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- eDiscovery Legal Minefield Migraines
- With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption. Legal...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Electronically Stored Information, E-mail, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Collaboration Return-On-Investment
- "Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Spotlight on Austin: Dachis Corporation's Peter Kim
- South by Southwest Interactive SXSWi kicks off tomorrow in good ol' Austin, Texas. While a lot of companies from all over creation are heading down south to network and display and launch new technologies, there's a bevy of innovation and creativity coming out of the city as well. I...
- Tags: Austin, Social Media, Endgame, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- A Real-World Approach to Planning the Right Workforce for Tomorrow's Organizations - Part 2: Getting Down to Business: How to Workforce Plan
- There are a number of barriers to be overcome before the Strategic Workforce Planning SWFP process can be effectively implemented. These obstacles include difficulties with quantifying the return on investment of Workforce Planning: a perceived lack of planning resources in some organizations, insufficient attention to the future from management, inadequate...
- Tags: Workforce, Aruspex, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-03-12
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