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Survey: technology investments boost odds of success

If you're looking for evidence that technology investments can make a difference in your company's success, a survey made available by The Economist Intelligence Unit and underwritten by Oracle may help supply you with some ammunition for your argument. (Available for download here.) Overall, 78% of survey...

Tags: Information Technology, Technology Investment, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-26

ROI for Network Performance Management

Besides being technically savvy, today's network professionals must be aware of the business factors surrounding their department's activities and responsibilities. This means two things - becoming aware of the way in which the networking team supports the business directly, and understanding how to characterize infrastructure equipment and management technology investments...

Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Network, ROI, Technology Investment, Team Management, Networking, Management

White papers 2009-02-16

Dynamic, Risk-Based Assessment of Customers and Transactions: Identifying, Investigating and Reporting Suspicious Patterns of Behavior With SAS Anti-Money Laundering

The events of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks have increased regulatory emphasis on Anti-Money Laundering AML in order to stem the flow of illicit financial activity. Many institutions initially made modest technology investments in order to meet minimum AML requirements. However, this minimalist approach can't provide an enterprisewide view of...

Tags: Staffing, Financial, SAS Institute, Technology Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2007-02-01

HP's technology investment strategy

Following CEO Mark Hurd and newly retired CFO Bob Wayman, HP CTO Shane Robison discussed the companys $3.6 billion annual R&D technology investment before the crowd of securities analysts this morning in New York City. In keeping with the Hurd era of accountability and management by metrics, Robison was quick...

Tags: technology investment, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hewlett-Packard, Utility computing, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Defining the Business Value From Your Technology Investment

The value promised by adopting a new technology should always be placed in the context of quantifiable business objectives and their priorities to the organization. The questions to keep asking are how does this technology contribute to meeting an objective, and what is the measure of this contribution? More importantly,...

Tags: Technology Investment, Technology, Operational Planning, Investment, Business Operations, Finance

White papers 2006-03-16

Momentum Webcast: An Introduction to Software Asset Management: Optimize, Secure and Build (Level 100)

Software Asset Management SAM is a relatively new concept for many businesses in the United States. Increasingly, companies seek to optimize their technology investments and ensure better corporate governance, which requires a better understanding of the value of their technology assets. Microsoft Software Asset Management enables to put the people,...

Tags: Asset, Software, Webcast, Technology Investment, Microsoft Corp., Software Asset Management, Microsoft Software Asset Management, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Webcasts 2005-08-23

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Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server

Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, OK IT, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")

Smart Boards...Are Smart Boards such a great idea? Those projectors are all good and nice but there are other ways to achieve the same thing...The Interactive whiteboard is a compelling technology for teachers, it closely mimics what they're already used to. But there are weaknesses. Firstly using a whiteboard is...

Tags: Projectors, Tablets, Notebooks, projector, unusual day

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Survey: cloud interest grows triple-fold; cost may not be main factor

buble bust...anyone learns from 2000 and so IT burst?Current interest in private cloudsHi Joean interesting piece, and thanks for the link to my post? This current enthusiasm for private Clouds is also interesting? and I am left wondering how long it will continue.It's presumably a mix of security concerns (real...

Tags: Marketing research, cloud computing, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Citigroup Uses FAST to Accelerate Delivery of Customer On-Boarding Application

Citi had invested significant time and resources in creating its certified 'Gold copy' customer database. This was not merely a technology challenge. The team wanted to create an intuitive, easy to use search system that by reducing the time spent searching for customer records, would re-enforce the value of the...

Tags: Team, Customer Information, Microsoft Corp., Citigroup Inc., Team Management, Management

Case studies 2009-10-23

A Case for Enterprise-Wide Solutions for AML and Anti-Fraud

Navigating the ever-changing/dynamic financial services industry successfully for most institutions translates into growing revenue while simultaneously controlling costs. From revisiting business models to evaluating how best they can improve analytics and risk management strategies, banks today are metamorphosing into institutions encompassing a variety of businesses such as insurance, securities, investment...

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Banking, Financial Services, Finance

White papers 2009-10-22

Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales

Over-reaction of marketThis Apple news will be diluted once Windows7 ships this week. Plus, with the new Zune HD and Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple's days are definitely numbered. Microsoft is poised to take control of all markets once and for all. I would sell AAPL if I were a shareholder...

Tags: Investment, Digital music, Digital media, Financial accounting, Personal finance, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple stock price, Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., market capitalization, stock

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels

Welcome to 2010 with the same resources you had back in 2006 and 2007 (if you're lucky). Now go out and be useful to the business. That cheery outlook was delivered by Gartner in its 2010 CIO Agenda talk. Some pep talk, guys. Gartner analyst Mark McDonald...

Tags: IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19