The View from Here: Improving the Business Shouldn’t Put Anyone to Sleep
July 30, 2008
IT and other departments must communicate in order to successfully deploy VoIP, unified communications and other sexy applications. But improving communications can pay even greater dividends when the light shines on more subtle–some might say dull–areas.
Announcing the Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Resource Guide
July 28, 2008
The important topic of disaster recovery/ business continuity is addressed in the fourth resource guide from The IT-Finance Connection. This is a huge area that has a simple goal: keeping organizations operational in the face of severe weather, terrorism, blackouts, pandemics and other cataclysmic events.
Operational Risk Management — You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Monitor
July 24, 2008
Security isn’t static. Monitoring operations–how employees behave, how systems change and other ongoing activities–is a valuable counterpart to guarding electronic devices and networks. Understanding and implementing a comprehensive approach leads to a far higher level of real security.
Podcast: Gaining Trust and Buy-in Keys for CIOs
July 23, 2008
C-level executives don’t always understand that they aren’t experts, that projects must scale and that a robust technical empire wasn’t built in a day. Bradman Group CEO Robert Bradman says a CIO must help them see the big picture. The good news is that once they do, these executives generally do what’s in the best strategic and tactical interests of the organization.
Announcing The IT-Finance Connection Resource Guides
July 21, 2008
The Web offers mountains of information– mountains that tend to bury those beginning to explore new approaches. A series of resource guides from The IT-Finance Connection–three are up, seven or more are coming—are designed to get communications between IT and other departments off to a strong start.
Satisfying the Need for Speed
July 14, 2008
Ethernet has been making headway as a wide-area networking protocol for several years. 
The emergence of “Ethernet 2.0″ is adding benefits and increasing efficiencies. Greg Gum, the Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at ANDA Networks, describes the evolution and provides four tips on selecting a service provider.
Managing Assets More Complex as Financial Institutions Go Global
July 8, 2008
Demands are exploding on financial services firms. They must provide a greater number of services more quickly and over far greater distances. Decision makers, in conjunction with the CIO, must decide whether to meet these needs themselves or seek help. Juniper Networks’ executives Michael Segal and Michael Rothschild say that the best option is managed service providers.
Read more »Data Management: Finding Common Ground between Business and IT
July 1, 2008
Nothing is more important than a company’s data. It’s ironic, then, that it is scattered throughout most organizations, fully the responsibility of neither the IT or finance departments. Tony Fisher, the president and general manager of DataFlux, says that a data steward will end this haphazard treatment and turn data into a potent and tactical corporate asset.
Podcast: IT Can Help the CEO and CFO Get to Yes
June 30, 2008
The advantages of VoIP over traditional phone services are growing as the technology becomes more sophisticated. Optimum Lightpath’s Glenn Calafati and David Strauss–Director of Product Development and Vice President of Marketing, respectively–say that IT can play a vital role in ensuring financial folks truly understand these benefits.
Podcast: Deep Communication Leads to the Best Mobilization Strategies
June 25, 2008
Mobilizing the workforce is more a business than technical challenge, says Shane Yu, Avaya’s Director of Unified Communications Consulting. Extensive cooperation and communications between the CIO and CFO, CEO and others is vital at every step – from the strategic decision about how much mobility is really needed through tactical issues such as security and device management and control.
Around the Net: October 5 to 9
Big IPOs Due this Week from Verisk and Santander: Read More at Market Watch…
Banks Building Business Intelligence: Read More at eFinancial Careers…
Heavy Lifting: Read More at Information Management…
Finding Your Niche in On-Demand BI: Read More at IT World Canada…
British Telecom Picks Jaspersoft for Analytics: Read More at CNET…
E-Medical Data valuable to Healthcare Industry: Read More at InformationWeek…
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Read More at PC Quest…
--Carl Weinschenk
