Thursday, February 17, 2011
Why CIOs fail -- and what they can do about it Even the most seasoned IT executives won't always be successful, but the elimination of chief information officer positions at some firms points to a credibility problem. How to turn perceptions around
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
10 ways poor training leads to ERP failure If you believe that training is or could be affecting the output of your ERP implementation, then you should immediately contact a reputable ERP training consultant
Monday, August 23, 2010
How to tame the social media tiger What social media aggregation and management tools can – and can’t – do for enterprises. A look at Syncapse’s SocialTalk platform and input from Labatt Breweries, Info-Tech and Gartner
Friday, May 21, 2010
IT should pay the power bill, reasons eBay exec The online seller's data centre chief makes the case for coupling performance and power management. Find out about eBay's own data centre
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Social Media for Business 101 Visability.ca hosts a one-day conference next week to introduce businesses to the social media space
Monday, April 05, 2010
US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency metric The US, Europe and Japan have agreed on a basic metric for measuring the energy efficiency of data centers.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
IT Leadership Boiled Down to 5 Elements A new book called World Class IT by consultant Peter A. High book takes the CIO's complex world and boils it down to five core principles that provide timeless advice for technology leaders
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Datacentre energy use monitoring often neglected Unless users create dashboards, they will not be able to reduce energy costs and meet compliance requirements, according to Gartner...
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Top 3 enterprise risk management trends As companies rush to adopt service oriented architecture, clouds and other distributed models of computing, determined insiders and outsiders are poised to seek out and exploit vulnerabilities of these technologies. Here's what you should look out for in 2009 
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Service-level agreements no longer enough When purchasing applications, storage and cloud services, the old ways of monitoring service level agreements are not enough. A case in point is British Telecom
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Software innovation versus the WENUS Big companies love to specialize, with one type of manager dedicated to handling processes and others focused on innovation. No wonder in the tension between status quo and progress, such firms are often slow to change and lethargic
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Tidal Software brings reporting to Scheduler tool A set of standard ready-to-run reports provide metrics on production day status, job history, user activity, as well as audit reports for change management and compliance initiatives
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Five tips for mastering data governance Business intelligence is a crucial tool for attracting and retaining customers, adequately measuring company performance, and delivering flexibility, challenges remain. One of the most important: data governance. To the rescue: five dirty data practices you may be guilty of, and five ways to clean them up.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
VMWare, Oracle renew benchmark challenge Virtualization technology vendor VMWare Inc. is taking on Oracle in a benchmarking challenge that started with the latter claiming its newly launched virtualization hypervisor is three times faster than VMWare's. Industry observers, however, say the rivalry isn't serious.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Green Grid delivers -- for members only A global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centres and information service delivery offers tools to bring down power levels. But they'll cost you at least US$5,000
Sunday, September 30, 2007
IT value lies in business performance IT has one key role in the organization – to improve business performance. Good CIOs understand that their conversations with senior management must centre on IT’s contribution to business value.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Microsoft to offer voice, video monitoring Microsoft takes on Cisco with the introduction of a new server for network performance monitoring. Why the Redmond firm says this product is better than Cisco's Call Manager 5.0
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Security experts evaluate scoring system An industry group tries to straighten out some issues with the standard for prioritizing response to potential software threats, but a Canadian consultant warns against "managing by the numbers"
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
BI cuts path through data jungle Making sense of the immense piles of disjointed data amassed by government is paramount. Translating public spending into meaningful results is what earns it credibility. System integration, information lifecycle management and other initiatives to re-order information processing will take years to come to fruition. What to do in the interim with existing data and systems?
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Clueless manager duped by demo After several meetings, all the various divisions and departments came to an agreement on a simple promotional site. A couple of weeks later, we were online. Everything would have been peachy, except for “Stanley.”
Thursday, August 03, 2006
WestJet flying high with Cognos BI WestJet has ditched the spreadsheets for a business intelligence and enterprise planning platform from Ottawa’s Cognos Inc. that the airline hopes will help it find that elusive single version of the truth to help it make better business decisions.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Meeting the data-quality challenge Ask any business or IT executive if high-quality data is important to the health of his organization, and the answer will be, "Of course." But each day, organizations around the world use applications and databases filled with inconsistent, outdated or inaccurate data. Companies routinely suffer from an inability to answer basic questions such as, "How many customers do we have?" "Who are our best customers?" "Which of our products provide the greatest profit margin?" and "What do we purchase, in what quantities and from whom?"
Monday, April 10, 2006
Analyst Outlook: Beyond operations to contribution Using the right measures to demonstrate the contribution of IS to the business shifts the perception from service provider to business partner. 
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
ILM step by step Hardware and software vendors like to define information lifecycle management, ILM, in terms of their own products. The fact is, however, that ILM is simply a philosophy of ensuring that the infrastructure chosen for the storing of data is periodically aligned with and thus relative to the actual business value of the data throughout its life. 
Friday, September 30, 2005
A new model for gauging IT success The old model of Return on Investment is inherently flawed. Consultant Greg Duffy suggests a new model, based on the impact of IT investments.