Business is Not All About Measurement

August 31, 2009

berg In theory, IT consolidation is great. It can improve coordination and let the organization understand precisely what is going on in the field. IT consultant and IT-Finance Connection Advisory Board member Cliff Berg says that real world problems arise when the desire for control and measurement becomes an obstacle to the performance of the task at hand. This, he says, can lead staff to seek non-approved and hidden resources.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire

August 27, 2009

newspaper icon In the August 27 issue: Guess? tries on Vertica, CAP launches, MResult grows, TM Forum: CSPs, Sybase to serve Amazon’s cloud, HighJump’s new dashboard, Spectrum Bridge’s SmartWaves, Teradata gets a Chile reception and more…

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire

August 25, 2009

newspaper icon In this issue: Teradata goes virtual, Balanced Insight’s new release, Levementum and Pentaho Partner, Dataspace works with Information Builders, Cherokee Automotive Group gets analytic, Cyon Tabs Tableau, iDashboards scores with the feds and much more…

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The Risk/Performance Equation

August 18, 2009

burnett The integration of risk and performance management is a goal that organizations should work toward, says Butler Group Senior Research Analyst Sarah Burnett. Burnett, who is a member of The IT-Finance Connection Advisory Board, says that the increasing complexity of software applications makes achieving this tight coupling a challenging task.

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Podcast: Continuous Intelligence Builds on BI

August 10, 2009

morrell Continuous intelligence and business intelligence are complimentary approaches to helping organizations make more informed decisions. John Morrell, the Vice President of Product Marketing for Aleri, tells The IT-Finance Connection that the two disciplines are, in essence, bookends: CI keeps the company informed of what is happening at a given moment, while BI offers vital historical context. (Podcast time: 21:03)

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Five Minutes of News: Sybase IQ 15.1

August 3, 2009

Last month, Sybase introduced version 15.1 of its IQ family. Lisa Hopkins, the Director of Product Marketing for Sybase IQ, tells the IT-Finance Connection that the new product operates in software and takes a column-based, in-line approach. She says that Sybase IQ 15.1 saves 75 percent of the time used by previous versions of the family. Those older versions, she says, speed applications by 10 to 100 times. (Podcast time: 12:08)