Friday | 16 May, 2008
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Five things to consider before committing to SAP 09 May, 2008 08:44:45
Understand SAP's business and product strategies before spending money on its softwareInstalling SAP applications is no picnic. Employees who are capable of deploying and maintaining SAP software are in high demand and practically form a whole profession by themselves. - +
Governments Urged to Learn From Businesses 08 May, 2008 12:49:44
Citizens are demanding better e-government services from their governmentsCitizens are demanding better e-government services from their governments - +
A Means to an End 06 May, 2008 15:28:45
What negotiation looks like when the players involved strive to make the deal work in practice — not just on paperWhen the negotiating team for international law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques began bargaining for a new data centre four years ago, almost no one in the industry was anticipating that the cost of cooling and energy in co-location centres was set to skyrocket - +
Cloud Computing: Tales From The Front 05 May, 2008 14:52:09
While CIOs begin to embrace the emerging technology of cloud computing, experts say IT staff will be more likely to resist, says Bill SnyderWriter Nicholas Carr will earn the enmity of even more tech veterans with his newest prediction: Cloud computing will put most IT departments out of business. "IT departments will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private datacentres and into the cloud," Carr writes in his new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. - +
Cloud-Based Services Are Too Difficult To Measure And Justify Enterprise Deployment 29 April, 2008 13:54:17
Cloud-based services are too difficult to measure and justify to be deployed by enterprises today, says Janice McGinnQuite frankly, I'm not a fan of cloudy weather. As a redhead with curls, clouds mean dampness and frizz, and something sleek and well defined turns into a nebulous hairball. Something sleek and well defined: now there's a laudable ambition for CIOs struggling with legacy, ERP, CRM, limited bandwidth and capacity. Most enterprises are still struggling to achieve that degree of integration, never mind incorporating Web 2.0, commercialising it effectively, and protecting brand.
Case Studies
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Family Matters 25 November, 2002 11:36:15
Struggling to cope with a rapidly growing caseload, CSA needed to develop an intelligent communication solution to improve its capacity to meet the needs of its clients - over a million separated parents around the country.The CRM strategy initiated by Australia's Child Support Agency had an unusual aim: to encourage clients to look after themselves and rely on the agency less. - +
At the Gateway 25 November, 2002 11:17:16
Australia leads the Asia-Pacific region in the transition to e-government.John Costello investigates how government organisations at all levels are using portal technology in a variety of ways to meet the needs of their communities. - +
Reclaiming E-Space 10 August, 2001 09:00:00
Successful bricks-and-mortars are looking for new ways to "e-deploy" their forces, armed with established vendor and customer relationships, brand recognition and infrastructure.Last year the experts were telling businesses:"If you can get your company to join the new economy, you may reap big rewards". Then came April's NASDAQ showers, and May's flowers still aren't blooming. So what's happening where bricks meet clicks?
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The World's Most Competitive Supply Chain 06 September, 2001 11:00:00
SCI is in the midst of an ambitious effort to streamline its supply chain - to give customers visibility into the manufacturing process, to monitor suppliers, to reduce inventory and to respond better to changes in demand.Contract manufacturers are under intense pressure to cut costs and streamline their supply chain. In a revealing interview, SCI CIO Vincent Melvin talks about whether technology can help.
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When Negotiating a Software Deal, Information Is Key 16 May, 2008 15:21:19
Spot-on procurementFor much of my career, I was involved with selecting and assessing software vendors and was often involved with the procurement of software. Later, I went over to the dark side and set up a software vendor, so I have been on both sides of the procurement fence. This has given me perspective on some of the things to do, and not do, during the process of buying enterprise software. - +
What Women Want 10 December, 2007 14:12:59
More young women would choose careers in enterprise IT if CIOs would market them as business, not technology, jobsWhenever a journalist asks whether or why women hate IT, grumps trot out the usual laundry list of cliches and stereotypes about women's supposed genetic disposition against maths and science, the lack of role models or the profession's geeky image. It is a problem that more women are not choosing technology careers, but I think we'll solve it only if we start asking the right question: Why should women want to be in IT? - +
Searching for Happy Customers 06 August, 2007 13:38:02
Hint: The answer is not always Google. CIOs share their hard-earned lessonsMess up internal search and you'll frustrate your employees. But mess up external search and you'll alienate your customers - +
IT and The Responsive Economy 29 May, 2007 11:25:21
Successful companies are learning to compete by being more agile and more responsive to continuous change and to the evolving needs of their customersThe emergence of the Internet and the Web have led to disruptive changes in companies' IT infrastructures. Ready or not, it's happening again. But this time, the changes will be bigger and they will come faster. IT departments will have to be more responsive because, at root, that's what these changes are all about. - +
An Architecture for the Future 07 May, 2007 13:36:15
You can’t build a robust, agile enterprise architecture on the fly. You gotta make plansToday, organizations need to learn to make workflow changes on the fly.
Otherwise, consumers and trading partners alike are ready to move on.
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The Five Deadly Sins of Unused Software 08 July, 2002 10:30:00
Companies spend too much money on software to see it turn into "shelfware". Here are five ways to make sure that you use all the software you buy.It's the technology equivalent of the self-timing bread maker - you know, the one that hasn't left the back of the pantry since 1997. Or the cross-country ski machine that's become a glorified laundry rack in a corner of your spare room. We're talking about "shelfware" - software that winds up sitting in some dusty file cabinet in the IS department, never to be installed, or software that's loaded onto an employee's hard drive but never gets used.
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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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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15 May, 2008 08:10:59
Plants SQL injection attack tool on bots, hacks business, education sitesA botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher. - +
Which IT security skills are most important? 14 May, 2008 09:21:43
There are two types of security skills that might be needed in a company: tactical security operations and strategic risk management.I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain "good security people." Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs? - +
Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says 14 May, 2008 08:36:43
Vulnerable encryption keys erased by HyBlue's IceLockThe vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday. - +
Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet 14 May, 2008 16:45:04
Content filtering gets budget go-aheadCommunications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial [[artid:420013177|national content filtering scheme|ISP filtering]] with a $125.8 million budget allocation announced today. - +
Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers 15 May, 2008 07:07:51
A hacker has written rootkit software that works on Cisco's routers.A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
F-Secure Represented On The International Advisory Board IMPACT 16 May, 2008 13:42:00
Quantum announces General Availability of Industry's First Solution Designed to Match De-Duplication Functionality to Specific B 16 May, 2008 10:44:00
Hansen Technologies Extends Contract With Tokyo Electric Power Company 16 May, 2008 09:44:00
More Than 140 Higher Education Institutions Worldwide Use RightNow on Demand CRM 15 May, 2008 18:06:00
DST International Names Rob Gould as Director of Business Development and Strategy for Australia 15 May, 2008 15:40:00
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