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You’re trying to build a world-class IT team, but everyone’s going after the same talent pool. What mix works best? Should you grow your own, draft your players or barter your way to the line-up you want to field?CIOs should never forget that while new technologies have a maturity cycle, the maturity cycle for human beings in IT is even longer - +
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Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business.Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business. - +
Your World. . . Hacked 02/10/2007 10:51:23
As your business becomes more collaborative and global, the risks to your company’s trade secrets rise proportionally. Fortunately, there are new strategies to protect the data that allows you to competeThe call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network
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Payroll application vendor Sage Micropay has acquired local rival Flagship for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition will incorporate the Melbourne-based company's Wage Easy payroll system into Micropay's product roadmap while all staff conditions will remain unchanged.
Sage Micropay managing director Craig Osborne said it will target both companies' products, which share the Delphi development platform, at mid-size enterprises in retail and hospitality markets.
"The Wage Easy brand is well known and respected in the hospitality sector and there are a number of large hotels that currently use the product," Osborne said. "Hospitality and retail markets represent strong growth opportunities for Sage MicrOpay, particularly for our payroll services business."
"Wage Easy and MicrOpay Meridian products share a common software development platform which will enable development teams to utilize the combined intellectual property across both products."
Wage Easy's strong network of Melbourne-based resellers will be retained.
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This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
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SOA and Agility
Organizations need agility to maintain strategic advantages in businesses operating on faster and faster time-scales. The difference between gaining and losing market share may very well depend on the ability of organizations to deploy updated or new applications before their competitors. Read on to discover how SOA-based application development can meet the promise of reduced application development and maintenance costs through service reuse.
