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Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
Does your executive search firm know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?Does your executive search firm know its MIS managers from its elbow? Does it even know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients? - +
Sweet Charity 12/06/2007 13:05:00
Charities can be potent mixes of passion, politics and penury. For CIOs working in the sector it can make for a challenging environmentA fifth of America's smallest not for profit outfits spend not a brass razoo on information technology. Most not for profits say they are starved of IT support. IT staff at these organizations are paid less than their peers in corporations and governments. - +
Knowledge Management 2.0 07/02/2007 13:18:35
New, focused, lightweight applications rewrite the rules about KM. The best part? People will actually use themBusiness runs, by default, on e-mail. It's always there, and it just works, so we end up using it for everything - as a telephone, as a filing cabinet and as a conference room. But the trouble with e-mail is that it happily gobbles up our ideas, crucial documents and business acumen and doesn't give them back. - +
How to Get Real About Strategic Planning 04/02/2008 12:50:59
Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such - +
Close Fast, Close Smart 26/02/2007 11:24:37
When it comes to closing the books, the benefits of speed are undeniable. And CIOs are uniquely positioned to help their organizations reap themAs long as they're meeting their regulatory reporting deadlines, most enterprises don't think a lot about closing their books more quickly.
Maybe they should start.
Increasingly, the speed with which an organization closes its books and reports its financial results is being looked at by practitioners, analysts and investors as a defining metric for evaluating whether the organization possesses the best possible processes and enabling technologies. And it turns out that many companies don't, even those making huge IT investments and supporting equally large IT departments.
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Organizations looking to get their feet wet with Web 2.0 technologies might want to check out an updated version of open source enterprise wiki software that developers say can help companies embrace collaboration and speed application development.
TWiki.org , a virtual open source community consisting of 26,700 members, 4,000 contributors and about 2 million enterprise users, this week announced a new version of its enterprise wiki platform, TWiki 4.1, code-named Edinburgh.
Version 4.1, available free for download under GNU General Public License (GPL), includes application extensions that enable users to create what TWiki.org representatives call "Situational Applications." The group defines Situational Applications as "enterprise software programs, created in short time frames and with limited budgets, for small groups with specific needs."
Wiki software enables many individuals to edit, delete or modify collective content on Web sites using a browser interface, expanding on the work of previous contributors. Putting wiki software to work in an enterprise company could enable collaboration among departments and supplement e-mail for communications on group projects, TWiki.org contends. According to Gartner, more than half of all U.S. businesses will be using wiki technology by 2009.
TWiki.org says its platform in particular adds structure to the "free-form world of wikis." With the software in place, wiki content can be browsed, searched, grouped, categorized, filtered and restricted for limited access, the group says. And with server-side plug-in APIs, developers and nonprogrammers can use the software to build applications.
The organization says it supports more than 250 plug-ins that help expand TWiki's capabilities. For instance, available plug-ins include BlogPlugin, which turns TWiki into a Weblog engine; SpreadSheet Plugin, a system for adding spreadsheet functionality; and Workflow Plugin, software for embedding project-tracking functionality within a wiki page.
TWiki 4.1 provides users the capabilities to include spreadsheet functions, dynamic tables, slide shows and Web 2.0 user interfaces in collaborative applications. The software enables a development process that incorporates the specific needs of application users, without "formal support from the IT organization."
According to TWiki.org, "relaxing" parts of the application-development process will help enterprise organizations reduce the "design, planning, scalability and integration requirements associated with traditional enterprise software projects."
"One key objective of the TWiki enterprise wiki platform is to enable each users to contribute to the company's collective knowledge and become a full participant in the application creation process," said Peter Thoeny, the TWiki founder who has managed the open source project since its inception, in a press release. "With streamlined support for third-party plug-ins, enhanced search capabilities and improvements to TWiki's AJAX-based user interface, TWiki 4.1 represents a significant milestone toward the achievement of that goal."
TWiki release 4.1 is available for download here >>
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Beyond Virtualisation - The Roadmap to 2012
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- What happens after virtualisation
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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Tools and techniques for superior test management
In recent years, the field of application testing has evolved. While the pressure to deliver high-quality applications continues to mount, shrinking development and deployment schedules and high turnover rates for skilled employees make application testing challenging. Read on to discover how to combat these problems and complete your application testing successfully.
