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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? - +
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
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Domain name and hosting company NetRegistry has selected the locally-developed Freeway open source e-commerce system to resell to its customer base.
NetRegistry chose Freeway after an "extensive review" of eight potential e-commerce platforms and plans to resell the products to its customers who need online stores.
Freeway is developed by Brisbane-based ZacWare, and was formerly known as osCommRes, a fork of the open source osCommerce.
ZacWare CEO Damien Hickey said Freeway is the world's most advanced open source e-commerce system for bookings and events - not only selling products online, but also services, events and subscriptions.
"As Freeway was released under the GPL open source licence system, it guarantees long-term supportability and adaptability - the nature of Freeway will enable NetRegistry to gain access to a world-wide open source developer network," Hickey said.
Hickey said huge changes are about to take place in the e-commerce software space with regards to Visa's Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) certification.
From January 1, 2008, Visa will introduce a series of mandates to eliminate the use of non-secure payment applications from the Visa payment system.
"ZacWare's Freeway e-commerce system is already compliant with these measures," he said.
NetRegistry chief operating officer Brett Fenton said Freeway is a natural fit for the company.
"By dealing with an Australian company, NetRegistry will be able to access a level of instant technical support that is much harder to reach when outsourcing overseas," Fenton said. "In addition, the open source nature of Freeway meant that ZacWare was happy to take our suggestions on board and adapt the software to suit our needs. This two-way dialogue will not only benefit NetRegistry, but our customers." NetRegistry will begin to deploy Freeway eCommerce in January, 2008.
ZacWare plans to expand its services to include a security monitoring tool for daily Visa PABP certification status of Freeway merchants.
The company is also developing an enterprise-grade hotel booking module which will remove a hotel's dependency on "high cost", hosted booking systems.
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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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