Thursday | 8 January, 2009
Stories by: Thomas Wailgum
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Blog: Surprise, Surprise: SAP Promotes Enterprise Software Investment 15 December, 2008 11:38:00
In mid-October, I blogged about an e-mail top SAP executives sent internally that instructed all SAP employees to adhere to the following mandate: "Do not order any new IT equipment at this time." Software was included in the mix. The edict was listed among several other cost-cutting measures. - +
The Four Office Tools That Tech Workers Can't Live Without 12 December, 2008 11:11:00
As corporate budgets have tightened, your company has asked you to choose a maximum of four items to support your work. You will be provided only with these items. Can you get by without a BlackBerry? How much do you really need a desk? Your PC? Take a look at some interesting survey results. - +
Blog: 10 Stupid Things ERP Software Salespeople Say 08 December, 2008 10:53:00
Vinnie Mirchandani has witnessed his fair share of vendor negotiations first-hand—as a consultant to companies in the RFP and vendor-evaluation processes with his firm Deal Architect, as a global outsourcing executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and as a former Gartner analyst. He's helped his clients negotiate enterprise software contracts of US$5 billion and claims to have saved technology buyers millions of dollars over the years. - +
Blog: The Ugly Truth About "One Version of the Truth" 29 November, 2008 11:21:00
Just a guess: You've got a disconnected set of ERP software applications spread all over your enterprise. You've probably got a standalone SaaS CRM system for the sales folks. Perhaps you just bought a business intelligence package that's supposed to deliver analytics and reporting data to managers and operations people. (You're working on it now.) Throw in a data warehouse, under marketing's domain, and maybe a supply chain or procurement system, and you know what you've really got? A mess. - +
VoIP 101: An Enterprise Guide to VoIP and IP Telephony 20 November, 2008 15:17:00
What exactly is VoIP? Do you need it? How do you go about getting it? This overview of the promise and limitations of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provides the basics needed to get started. - +
CRM 101: An Enterprise Guide to Customer Relationship Management 20 November, 2008 10:33:00
Customer relationship management topics covering definition, systems, software and more. - +
Blog: 6 Stupid Mistakes Companies Make with Their Online Communities 14 November, 2008 12:43:00
Call 'em social networks, discussion forums, blogs, whatever. Some businesses have never learned to distinguish between participating in a conversation and trying to sell an online audience. Here's a free clue: the latter doesn't work. - +
Blog: Cloud Computing: Salesforce.com Barks, But Can It Bite Oracle from Behind? 10 November, 2008 11:36:00
There's an old Persian saying that goes something like this: The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on. - +
Blog: Are You Getting 70 Percent Off List Price from Your ERP Software Vendor? 04 November, 2008 13:50:00
Pity the poor software vendors these days. The economy is in full meltdown, IT budgets and workforces have been slashed, and buyers of ERP, CRM and supply chain management software have become even more demanding regarding their application purchases, especially during 2008. - +
Blog: Overstock.com's Four-Year ERP Nightmare 01 November, 2008 10:40:00
Overstock.com, the upstart unafraid to battle e-commerce goliath Amazon, has become semi-famous because of its brash and highly quotable leader, CEO Patrick Byrne, who once explained a US$14.2 million third-quarter loss to investors this way: "My bad." - +
Blog: Banks Target Troubled Borrowers Using Data-Mining Tools: Is That IT at Its Best or Worst? 24 October, 2008 13:10:00
Banks and lenders make no secret of the fact that they rely on their own and the credit-card companies' data mining, analysis and predictive-modeling software to scour databases chock full of consumer financial and personal information.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Rogue SSL certificate exploit puts VeriSign on the spot 07 January, 2009 11:04:00
Wishes "white hat" researchers had notified VeriSign before public demo.Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign's RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it's preventing it from reoccurring, and whether its other SSL certificate-generation services are at risk. - +
With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too 05 January, 2009 08:03:00
Pro-Palestinian hackers have defaced thousands of sites following attacks in Gaza.The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet. - +
5 ways to secure your Blackberry 18 December, 2008 12:58:00
What do Tom Cruise and the McCain campaign have in common? They have both been bitten by the loss of a Blackberry. Mobile expert Dan Hoffman gives advice on how to keep your cherished mobile device safe, even if it's out of your handsWhat do Tom Cruise and the McCain campaign have in common? They have both been bitten by the loss of a Blackberry. Mobile expert Dan Hoffman gives advice on how to keep your cherished mobile device safe, even if it's out of your hands. - +
Wireless VPNs: Protecting the wireless wanderer 18 December, 2008 11:04:00
Employees sipping café Java over their wireless laptops may think a VPN makes them safe and secure. With careful configuration, there's some chance they're rightEmployees sipping café Java over their wireless laptops may think a VPN makes them safe and secure. With careful configuration, there's some chance they're right. - +
Cyber Crime: The 2009 Mega Threat 17 December, 2008 12:09:00
What threats to a company's sensitive and confidential data are getting worse, staying the same or actually becoming more manageable?What threats to a company's sensitive and confidential data are getting worse, staying the same or actually becoming more manageable?
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