Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:20 AM/EST
To a lot of people the whole Smarter Planet concept that IBM has been promoting of late might sound like the latest in a long line of empty marketing slogans. But the thing about IBM that you have to...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:19 AM/EST
With the healthcare industry now pledging to reduce trillions of dollars in costs over the next 10 years in response to pressure from the Federal government, it's pretty clear that IT is going to play a substantial role in...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:49 AM/EST
If time is money and business intelligence is about finding out where the money is, then it stands to reason that time to value is going to be a critical issue when it comes to rolling out business intelligence...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:13 AM/EST
The single greatest shortcoming of IT is the simple fact that the technology for the past 30 years or more has not been able to keep pace with the dynamic conditions surrounding any business process. IT professionals have historically...
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Friday, April 24, 2009 11:33 AM/EST
Even before IBM was considering buying Sun, it looks like Big Blue has been gearing up to deliver a punch to Oracle's solar plexus. Last year IBM quietly became an investor in EnterpriseDB, a company that delivers a commercial...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:47 AM/EST
Not too long ago there were a lot of customers that felt they were being made offers they couldn't refuse when it came to Microsoft Volume Licensing contracts. No one really had a good handle on exactly what they...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 11:28 AM/EST
IT organizations are spending a massive amount of time these days working on business intelligence applications and new risk management systems. Unfortunately, it does not appear that much of this work is happening in tandem. If anything, most organizations...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:53 PM/EST
One of the bigger cost issues associated with enterprise applications is all the money spent on consultants to help roll out these applications and all the subsequent upgrades. In fact, some people would argue that you are never really...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:11 AM/EST
One of the more challenging things about storage is the amount of data that individual departments or classes of workers are trying to manipulate. It's increasingly becoming routine for these departments to store terabytes of data, and naturally, they...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:06 AM/EST
There's a lot of talk about what's wrong with healthcare and how it uses IT these days. What's odd about it is that as politicians talk about the challenges associated with IT in this sector; they make it sound...
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