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Enterprise Applications

June 10, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:42 AM/EST

Revenge of the Business Systems Analyst

One of the most frustrating things for anybody tasked with being in charge of integrating various systems is that they can pretty much easily see what needs to be done, but the amount of work that goes into making...

June 9, 2009

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:54 AM/EST

Self-Service Can Leave Customers Feeling Empty

The thing about anything involving self-service is that it's not usually particularly gratifying. And yet, all over the Web we see companies trying to reduce their customer support costs by deploying self-service applications that are all basically designed to...

June 8, 2009

Monday, June 08, 2009 1:02 PM/EST

Simplifying the Compliance Process

Everybody knows that compliance is something that needs to be dealt with, but nobody is exactly sure how to best go about it. Unfortunately, the pressure to do something about builds daily. It's pretty clear by now that current...

June 4, 2009

Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:52 PM/EST

Making Business Intelligence Applications Smarter

One perplexing oxymoron of IT industry is the simple fact that most business intelligence applications are not all that smart. These applications do a great job of capturing all the data needed to understand the business, but the analytic...

June 3, 2009

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:03 PM/EST

Putting an End to the Vicious Cycle of Business Intelligence

When it comes to business intelligence, the mean time between making the initial investment and getting a meaningful return on it is way too long. What most IT organizations first get when they invest in a business intelligence application...

June 2, 2009

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:25 PM/EST

The Demise of Report Writers and Spreadsheet Jockeys

The time may have finally come to put report writers and spreadsheet jockeys out of the collective misery of IT. With advent of simpler to use business intelligence tools, IT organizations now have a way to give end users...

May 21, 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:59 PM/EST

Managing Applications at a Higher Level

One of the challenges that IT organizations have when it comes to managing applications is understanding what end users are really trying to accomplish. More often than not, end users will complain about cumbersome applications or intermittent performance issues...

May 18, 2009

Monday, May 18, 2009 4:33 PM/EST

Reporting Tools Bring Transparency to Federal Stimulus Plan

Although only a small percentage of the money that the Federal government plans to spend to bolster the economy has actually been allocated, local governments are already trying to figure out if they will be getting their fair share....

Monday, May 18, 2009 6:37 AM/EST

In-Memory Analytic Tools: Too Fast to Ignore

One of the biggest beneficiaries of all the massive new amounts of processing power that we have available in any number of 64-bit servers is the whole field of data analytics and business intelligence. As a result, we've seen...

May 13, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:49 AM/EST

SAP Signals BPM Intentions

One of the things that make it very tough to be in IT during a downturn is that business executives start to wonder about the value of investing in IT more than ever. The question about the value of...

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