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New IT project failure metrics: is Standish wrong?

The Standish Group's Chaos Report describes two-thirds of IT projects as being "challenged." Now, three academics have published a report suggesting these numbers are flawed, and that only one-third of IT projects actually fail. If this new report is accurate, it represents a significant departure from common perceptions of IT...

Tags: Project, Volatility, Information Technology, Author, Project Manager, Standish Group, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 9: Architecting Applications for Volatility - Design Applications That Remain Adaptable for Changing Conditions

Architecting an application requires an understanding of the environment that the application will be deployed in. One must make assumptions about who will use the application and how they will use it. For environments with factors that create uncertainty and a potential for change, this paper discusses approaches and tools...

Tags: Volatility, Application, Investment, Finance

White papers 2007-06-26

Forex Trade Utilities (zip)

Forex Trade Utilities is a small and useful market tool for calculating the values of Pivot Point, Two Days Volatility and Cost Average. It saves time and you don't have to calculate these parameters manually or use the online calculators.

Tags: Volatility, X-logic, Forex Trade Utilities, Productivity, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2006-11-08

We're asleep at the wheel

We're asleep at the wheelthe biggest invader is spywareanymore, i spend more time clening that off pc's and laptops then virusesYou Think Ofall the vulnerabilities that security can provide,and then gain at the trait of wich security if for - to keep data safe. So I ask you,why does it...

Tags: Investment, Cyberthreats, security, volatility

Discussion threads 2004-06-18

Consolidating the IT Infrastructure

Volatility is now a permanent feature of business life. So although change is normal, the growing - and increasingly technology-driven - speed and unpredictability of change have pushed many enterprises to the very limits of manageability. One technology-driven strategy for delivering business value quickly and reliably is Oracle's...

Tags: Volatility, IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Intel Itanium 2, Server Consolidation, Processors, Portals, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Internet, Management

White papers 2003-12-01

More than You Ever Wanted to Know about Volatility Swaps (But Less than Can Be Said)

In this report we explain the properties and the theory of both variance and volatility swaps, first from an intuitive point of view and then more rigorously. The theory of variance swaps is more straightforward. We show how a variance swap can be theoretically replicated by a hedged...

Tags: Swap, Volatility, Variance Swap, Investment, Finance

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Want cash? Buy SaaS

US software vendors that want to impress their stockholders with enhanced cash inflows should look to acquire SaaS vendors, according to Jérôme Fougerat, regional director of M&A specialist Corum Group, based in Seattle WA and Zurich, Switzerland. That's why SaaS companies have been holding their value better than other software...

Tags: Software, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Europe, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Market disconnects

Last November 12th, the day of the 1:4 reverse stock split, Sun's shares closed at $20.33 for a market cap of around $15.7 billion. Six months later, on May 12th, they closed at $13.42 for a market cap of about $10.3 billion - a 34% decrease over...

Tags: Shareholder, Market Capitalization, Trader, Sun Microsystems Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-27

U.S. has more sun but Europe has more solar power...for now

Courtesy EER. A new study of the Concentrated Solar Power industry shows Europe to be far ahead, with major growth in the U.S. a couple years away. Emerging Energy Research found several reasons for the growth on Concenrtated Solar Power...but first a brief explanation....

Tags: Solar Energy, Europe, Chip, CSP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Slot Hold Variance Calculator (zip)

Finally, a small program to help slot auditors and regulatory staff determine the actual expected hold % of a slot machine based on handle pulls and PAR sheet. The program uses standard deviation and Z-score, combined with volatility from the machine's PAR sheet and total handle pulls (MTD, YTD, LTD,...

Tags: Computer Consultant, Sheet, PAR, Investment, Games, Finance, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-02-14

Analyst: four SOA consulting red flags that spell trouble

ZapThink's David Linthicum, who nailed the SOA-business alignment problem so well at last week's Open Group's Enterprise Architecture forum, points to another matter creating headaches for organizations: consultants offering expensive "SOA" solutions that end up being far less than promised. Consultants have a long proud history of...

Tags: ZapThink LLC, Consultant, SOA, Consulting, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-04

High-end flash drive goes mainstream

High-end flash drive goes mainstreamSorry, what mainstream are you referring to?We currently have both flash and DRAM SSDs in our storage architecture, they've been there for several years. They are in both HP and EMC arrays. We use DRAM SSDs for high-volume high-volatility data, and Flash SSDs for high-volume low-volatility...

Tags: USB flash drive, High-end flash drive, storage, disk

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

FinKit (dmg)

FinKit provides 50 financial calculations assets capitalized cost, classic, and MACRS depreciation; bonds bond book value, duration, price and yield, zero-coupon bond price, and yield; term date, date series, year fraction, time between dates; interest between dates, compound interest factors; probability, pure endowment, whole life annuity, temporary life annuity, whole...

Tags: Payment, Bond, Annuity, FinKit, Investment, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2007-12-03

HP: Bearer of good enterprise spending news?

When Hewlett-Packard reports its fiscal fourth quarter results Monday it'll be expected to deliver a dose of optimism about enterprise technology spending. After all, we know the bad news. Financial services companies are pulling back on spending with giants like IBM and Cisco. And if those two bellwethers are...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Document Management, Real Estate, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Accounting, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Jambaz: Playing to improve investing performance

Playing games is a great way to keep your mind sharp. Brain Age, a Nintendo DS game, says it can "keep your DS brain in shape" (I don't think I have a DS brain) using the techniques of a Japanese neuroscientist. I'm always looking...

Tags: Game, Performance, Stock, Jambaz, Widget, Games, Investment, Personal Technology, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-27

What Can 2007 Teach Us About 2008?

2007 was a tumultuous year for U.S. businesses and employees, filled with extreme highs and disappointing lows. Private equity garnered nearly $400 billion in mega deals in merely six months, and news of multiple billion-dollar acquisitions (Chrysler, Alltel and CKX) illustrated a trend of public companies going private. However, financial...

Tags: Private Equity, Financial, Survey, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing

White papers 2007-10-01

Faster memories made of nanowires

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed self-assembling nanowires which will allow to access data 1,000 times faster than current technologies such as Flash memory. They've used nanowires made of germanium, antimony and tellurium which can switch between amorphous and crystalline structures -- the equivalent of 0's and 1's....

Tags: Memory, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-19

How to make millions from hacking

It's simple really: just use the stock market's herd mentality against it. Pick a large company that is information dependent and whose shares have shown significant volatility over the last few months. Then hack its systems, short the share, cause their systems to fail in publically embarrassing ways, and buy...

Tags: Sun, Security, Enterprise Policy, Development

Blog posts 2007-06-29

CA website sells state bonds directly to public

It seems like you can buy anything online these days, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Californians can now buy bonds online, reports the Sacramento BeeThe promotional campaign to get Californians to purchase bonds at the state-run www.BuyCaliforniaBonds.com represents another California breakthrough - the first site...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Web

Blog posts 2007-06-14

DerivateRechner (msi)

Certificates and other structured products are the innovation of the last years in the fincancial sector. DerivateRechner Derivative Calculator can simulate payoff profiles of structured products. To get you started easily a number of structures are predefined. You can see pay off charts from synthetical shares, coverd call writing or...

Tags: Environment, Certificate, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2007-06-08