http://www.it-financeconnection.com Businesses Thrive When IT and Finance Communicate Effectively Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:08:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Network World writer Denise Dubie offers an interesting report on a study from Forrester Research that looked at the relationship between top level executives and IT. Several things come through. The first is that IT is not doing a great job of marketing itself internally. That is no great surprise. IT ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/management/it-do-its-job/ Spam, always a problem, is getting worse. There is more of it, and the bad guys are using it more effectively to steal vital data and enlist innocent computers in huge botnet armies. ZEROSPAM founder David Poellhuber tells The IT-Finance Connection that IT departments that the key to a successful ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/online-security/zero-spam/ Sandy Kemsley at Intelligent Enterprise has a nice post up on things that a CIO should say to a CEO over coffee. Actually, she is reporting on a presentation by Forrester Research founder and CEO George Colony, who spoke at the PegaWorld conference. Check out the post for the specifics on ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/management/renaming-it/ With a slowing economy, finance departments are already issuing the call for IT executives to reduce spending and develop new programs for cutting costs. Problem: IT finds itself in a quandary: how will it find innovative ways to respond to this financial challenge without compromising its ability to effectively ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/resource-planning/asset-tracking/ Last week, I blogged about the need for clear communications between the IT and business departments during the financial crisis. The bottom line is that chaotic economic times require close cooperation to determine which projects have to be done, which can be eliminated and which can be delayed.Add politics to ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/management/the-view-from-here-politics-adds-another-layer-of-uncertainty/ Banks and financial services providers must comply with a vast number of internal, external, national and international regulations. With the recent rise in regulatory oversight, executives and boards require clear visibility into risk exposure and compliance status to effectively manage the organization’s long-term strategies, avoid large fines and build a ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/governance/compliance-benefits/ The market uncertainty of the last few months – which culminated in the dramatics of the past two weeks – drives home the need for IT and the CEO and CFO to communicate effectively. CEOs, CFOs and CIOs have to be on the same page about which projects are vital and ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/management/the-view-from-here-communications-during-a-crisis/ Software as a Service (SaaS) is starting to capture people’s interest with the emergence of more advanced enterprise applications that are often used in a ‘pay as you go’ manner and accessed easily over the Internet. It provides businesses of all sizes with a new choice in terms of the architecture ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/saas/building-a-business-with-software-as-a-service/ Business transaction management enables assessment and control of IT functions and equipment through the experiences of end users. The emerging category, says Motti Tal, the executive vice president of marketing, product and business development at OpTier, leads to higher customer satisfaction and reduces the number and severity of outages. [audio:optieroct7.mp3] http://www.it-financeconnection.com/management/podcast-the-benefits-of-business-transaction-management/ Small businesses lose billions of dollars each year due to data loss from hardware or system failure, human error and software corruption.  Natural disasters account for one percent of all data loss.  Although the probability is small, the impact can be overwhelming.  In fact, companies that aren't able to resume ... http://www.it-financeconnection.com/disaster-recoverybusiness-continuity/the-need-for-data-storage/