Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:42 AM/EST
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...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:54 AM/EST
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...
Monday, June 08, 2009 1:02 PM/EST
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...
Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:52 PM/EST
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...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:03 PM/EST
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...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:25 PM/EST
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...
Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:59 PM/EST
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...
Monday, May 18, 2009 4:33 PM/EST
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
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...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:49 AM/EST
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...