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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? - +
Doing Your Sums on . . . Build, Buy or Rent 05/11/2007 13:32:30
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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? - +
9 Paths to Higher Performance 10/12/2007 14:09:23
When an organization brings together talented people in a creative, collaborative environment it fosters a culture of high performance, which in turn leads to superior business resultsLike high-achieving individuals, some organizations seem to have the Midas touch. Virtually every initiative they touch earns them gold and even those that fail never seem to cost them much of anything at all - +
Process Trip 04/02/2008 13:07:03
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Burwood City Council in Sydney has rolled out an enterprise search solution claiming it has improved productivity tenfold.
The local government authority is using ISYS Search Software for its ability to provide a contextually relevant excerpt with each result and its out-of-the-box functionality.
Burwood Council's senior manager of information services, Ernie White, said the organization is utilizing ISYS:web to enable search via its Intranet and ISYS:desktop to power search functionality on network drives, databases and individual users' workstations.
White said every organisation seeks the 'information at your fingertips' paradigm, but software is required to get there.
"Fingertip access to all of our information has improved productivity tenfold and provides us with flexibility and opportunities to shape our infrastructure in the future," White said.
Established in 1988 and headquartered in Sydney, ISYS customers include Qantas, the WA Department of Justice, and eTrade Australia.
According to IDC research, a company that employs 1000 information workers can expect more than $US5 million in annual salary costs to go down the drain because of the time wasted looking for information and not finding it.
The research found most enterprises are not using the most up-to-date search applications. Not only that, enterprises aren't using the applications they have as effectively as they should.
"They've never invested a whole lot in it," says Matthew Brown, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.
"Companies will spend lots and lots of money on architecting portal systems, Intranets, dashboards and databases and everything else. Search, typically, for internal applications, companies don't spend a lot of time on it," he said.
The Butler Group analyst, Richard Edwards, blames a lack of metadata as one of the key problems.
"Ninety percent of the documents that are created have no useful metadata," Edwards said.
"Until we get more of that metadata it is going to be an uphill struggle to get better results out of these very capable search technologies."
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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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Email Archiving Implementation: Five Costly Mistakes to Avoid
Email Archiving is essential for managing email data, but is potentially expensive to implement. Read on to discover the five key areas where email archiving costs can be contained, including data capture methods and default configuration methods.
