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...
Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:42 AM/EST
How to better manage IT vendors and getting more value out of ERP tops the week's agenda. Six Crucial Mistakes IT Organizations Routinely Make When Managing Vendors There are a handful of openings that IT organizations routinely create that allow...
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 5:04 PM/EST
Everybody knows that on some level that all those printers strewn about the enterprise are wasting paper and energy. The simple fact of the matter is that most fleets of printers and other output devices in the enterprise are...
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...
Monday, June 01, 2009 11:51 AM/EST
The future of IT of services companies may have a whole lot less to do with integrating systems and a whole lot more to do with orchestrating services. One of the industry's leading systems integrators, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC),...
Monday, June 01, 2009 11:21 AM/EST
It seems pretty quaint right now, but there was a time when backup and recovery was basically a task that needed to be intermittently performed. For the most part, IT people generally didn't care how long the process actually...
Friday, May 29, 2009 11:48 AM/EST
With all the focus on saving costs in IT, the lowly job scheduler is suddenly a primary area of focus. Once considered a sleepy systems management category dominated by companies such as CA, BMC and IBM, the entire segment...
Friday, May 29, 2009 8:08 AM/EST
There's a whole lot of evangelism for all things related to green computing these days, but a new double-blind survey from Symantec suggests IT organizations are well past the need for being educated about the need to adopted Green...
Friday, May 29, 2009 7:14 AM/EST
If ever there were two technologies that represented the opposite ends of the IT spectrum, it's the mainframe and the smart phone. That's why it's noteworthy to see Unisys giving customers the ability to manage a mainframe using an...