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What Price Innovation? 05/11/2007 13:44:31
CIOs say they want more than the traditional “your mess for less” relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn’t it happening?CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening? - +
Strategies for Dealing With IT Complexity 24/12/2007 10:30:47
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. - +
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? - +
10 tools to manage SOA 26/10/2007 12:28:21
Vendors step up to address the governance, quality and management technology triangle that ensures successful implementationsService-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories. - +
Doing Your Sums on . . . Build, Buy or Rent 05/11/2007 13:32:30
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SAP intends to give customers and partners a significant update on its planned on-demand software, known as A1S, at an event taking place in New York on September 19.
Aimed at small to midsize businesses (SMBs), A1S is a totally new offering based on SAP's NetWeaver middleware, and is due to ship in early 2008. In broad brush strokes, SAP has described A1S as an entire suite of hosted business applications including sales, financials and procurement software, which it will initially manage remotely in its data centers.
The applications vendor has spoken vaguely about A1S over the course of this year on many occasions, but has yet to provide specific details about the software in terms of both its technological make-up and pricing. More recently, SAP has been promising to release further information about A1S, including its final product name, some time in September.
A1S will be SAP's third offering in the SMB space, joining two existing ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) applications suites -- All-in-One targeting large midmarket companies and Business One for small businesses.
Hosting the A1S event at the Nokia Theater in New York's Times Square will be SAP CEO Henning Kagermann and Deputy CEO Leo Apotheker, according to a company spokesperson. Also on hand will be Peter Zencke, an SAP board member, who also heads up the company's research activities and Hans-Peter Klaey, president of SAP's SME (small to midsize enterprise) business unit, as well as other SAP executives.
The executives will present "a comprehensive overview" of A1S and live demonstrations of the technology, and will be joined on stage by customers and partners, the SAP spokesperson said.
The timing of the event came down to logistics as to when executives, customers, partners and the venue were available, the spokesperson added.
SAP's event happens to coincide with the closing day of Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual user conference, taking place in San Francisco.
SAP's A1S will compete with Salesforce.com's established on-demand CRM software as well as hosted offerings from NetSuite and Microsoft's Dynamics Live CRM.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
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. - +
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.
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Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security
Enterprises have forged ahead with the rapid evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 without addressing the inherent security risks. It is imperative for organisations to continue to embrace new technologies to survive, but security must shift from being an after thought to a primary consideration. Read on to find out more.
