Cisco Helps Increase Mobile Efficiency
May 30, 2008
Mobility is great–as long as it is kept under control. Cisco says it can help.
Read more »Survey: Finance Still Bosses IT
May 30, 2008
Fifty-seven percent of CFOs get an “acceptable” return from the technology they buy, says a survey by the Financial Executives Research Foundation and Computer Sciences Corp.
Read more »SAS BI: From Mainframe to Windows
May 30, 2008
Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, has helped Scandinavian Airlines modernize its business intelligence platform by migrating from a mainframe environment to Microsoft Windows.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has realized that, to be able to deliver near real-time scenarios for reporting and analysis, it had to modernize its business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
The [...]
Brightidea: Social Networking at the Office
May 30, 2008
I spoke with Matthew Greeley, CEO of Brightidea.com, recently and came away impressed with its approach to delivering real value with Web 2.0 sizzle. It just released WebStorm 5.0, which uses social networking elements to capture information that companies can use to drive innovation.
You could think of it as a Facebook-like application with just the [...]
SaaS Oversees Web App Security
May 30, 2008
The HP Assessment Management Platform, due in August, will let companies hire the vendor and service provider to oversee Web app security analysis efforts.
Hewlett-Packard is taking a software-as-a-service approach to security in its latest push to help organizations secure their Web applications.
The company has plans to launch a service it calls the HP Assessment Management [...]
The Maturing of GRC
May 28, 2008
In the immediate aftermath of Enron, Adelphia and other scandals, the Governance, Risk and Compliance sector focused on very fundamental things–helping companies follow the law and stay out of trouble. Today, says Gordon Burnes, OpenPage’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, the sector has matured to become an integral part of an organization’s internal structure.
VoIP: Quality is King
May 27, 2008
Internet voice offers cost and flexibility advantages. However, it will go nowhere if quality is not the equal of the legacy phone network. That’s a tricky challenge, and IT and finance must be aware of the challenges. Simply, the infrastructure wasn’t designed for highly demanding voice services. In a pair of stories, Ditech Networks vice president Karl Brown examines the overall issue of voice quality and describes precisely how it is measured.
Podcast: Using Time(sheet Software) Wisely
May 21, 2008
Time sheet data is one of the most valuable commodities that a company owns. Journyx CEO Curt Finch says that this information can be instrumental in transforming IT, HR and accounting from cost to profit centers.
Building Better Reports
May 20, 2008
The report creation process is changing. Until now, IT put together reports that people on the business side invariably found lacking, says Doug Sheehan, a principal in Investment Conversions & Consulting. The more efficient approach is to create processes that puts reporting capabilities in the hands of the business people.
Color Guard: BlackBerry Teams With Big Blue
May 19, 2008
IBM and Research in Motion announce that the ubiquitous mobile device will offer Lotus Web 2.0 collaboration software.
