Stories about: CVS

Although some would trace back the roots of software as a service to mainframe timesharing, what we would now call SaaS, or on-demand computing, is really experiencing its second coming.

Knowing when to summarize and when to be specific is the key to writing a resume that stays in a recruiter's keep pile.

As an undercover agent with the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, Aaron Graham saw firsthand how counterfeit drugs can slip into the pharmaceutical supply chain. Graham, now VP and chief security officer for Purdue Pharma, once posed as the manager of an "institutional pharmacy" selling drugs at a discount to secondary wholesalers who were then supposed to sell them to nursing homes. Soon after he began, his phone started ringing. Dozens of smaller pharmaceutical wholesale companies were calling, desperate to buy his drugs. These secondary or "grey market" wholesalers scour the country and the world for low-price drugs they can sell back to major wholesalers for a profit. In addition to trawling for institutional pharmacies, some secondary wholesalers have been known to purchase counterfeit drugs from criminal organizations in places such as China, Thailand or Colombia.

It's a long climb to the top - and when you get there it can be lonely.

The Digital Preservation team at the National Archives is looking to migrate its Xena preservation software to the new OpenDocument format with the next release of the software, in turn being the first Australian government agency to do so.

Legal professionals in NSW will soon access NSW court reference material via the new Judicial Information Research System (JIRS) application developed entirely in-house with Linux and open source technologies.

Keeping offshore IT projects on track is never easy, but outsourcing specialist Hugh Walcott has learned his lessons the hard way - so you won't have to.

Harvard's Marco Iansiti, who has studied the technology strategies of nearly 100 companies, says: Keep your integration expertise in-house.

You know how to hire and retain, but do you know how to let people go?

Organisations need smart governance mechanisms that keep IT and government agencies jointly accountable and responsible for linking technology to their most important strategies.

Folklore says Henry Ford would not hire anybody who could "make it past Personnel". He was a gut feel kind of guy, an approach that makes most of today's recruiters cringe in horror. One can only wonder what Ford would think of their latest tactics: psychometric assessment, behavioural interviews, personality profiles, emotional intelligence scores, IQ measurement and vocational interest exams.