In this contributed article, technical leader Kamala Manju Kesavan believes it is essential to periodically reassess your database strategy to ensure that it continues to meet your organization's evolving requirements. If migrating to another database solution is deemed necessary, approach the process methodically, leveraging best practices and stakeholder collaboration to maximize success and drive business value.
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An effective enterprise architecture (EA) practice can eliminate business-IT-alignment problems, bring order and purpose to an organization's use of technology, and lead an enterprise on the road to greater collaboration and innovation. The problem is that with these ambitious goals, EAs often face the daunting task of convincing business and IT leaders with operational responsibilities, near-term deliverables, and parochial interests to focus on the value of enterprise synergies. It's all too common to se
Court papers filed by the U.S. Government and Apple against a former manager detail a scheme that allegedly saw confidential Apple data supplied to Asian electronics companies over more than three years in return for kickbacks of more than US$1 million.
Are you content with the way IT is viewed in your organization? If not, you need to study the work of Dr. George Westerman, a Research Scientist in MIT Sloan's Center for Digital Business (CDB), who suggests you rethink the metrics you measure and how you communicate IT's value.
I've had the opportunity to visit several infrastructure and operations industry events already this year. Each targeted the same basic message: a return to innovation. But I have to wonder, are we really ready for innovation? The last 18 months have been marked by a consistent and constant effort to demonstrate return on investment (ROI). Why, as we now enter 2010, is there a sudden emphasis on innovation? The answer is what I refer to as "new shiny object syndrome."
For corporate IT managers, the start of the new year brings hope that budgets will grow, workloads will return to normal and the worst of the recession might be over.
Sony saw profitability return to its core electronics operations in the July to September period and increased its full-year profit forecast despite taking a hit from the strong Japanese yen.
Lawyers and CFOs appear to be laggards when it comes to using social media for marketing and promoting their expertise. Some think it is beneath them. Some think the leads and contacts they’ll get will be of little or no value. Most are just too busy to do the research and find out the truth: that marketing and presenting ideas in this way can generate strong leads and promote a professional as a subject matter expert in their field. Gone are the days when brand-building alone was the essential measure o
After one of the most tumultuous decades ever for stock exchanges, the new year is starting off on an optimistic note for the tech sector, where many vendors have gained back most of the share value they lost during the Great Recession.
A former manager at the Gartner research firm was sentenced to four years in prison for steering $3.1 million in multimedia contracts to two outside vendors in return for kickbacks.
Sony plans to end manufacturing of televisions in Europe this year and will sell its TV manufacturing plant in Spain to two local companies, it said Tuesday. The move, which is part of Sony's ongoing restructuring, will increase the company's reliance on outsourcing companies and it part of a plan to return its core TV operations to profitability.
Sony is hoping to return its PlayStation business to profitability next year with the help of new hardware devices and expansion of its network-delivered services platform, it said Thursday.
Acer, one of the world's top three PC vendors, reported a decline in revenue in the second quarter compared to the first quarter as the value of the euro fell.
The 2010 CIO 100 winners move beyond IT value, using technology to build new revenue streams, engage customers and speed decision making for lasting business growth.
Harlan Anderson, who founded Digital Equipment Corp. with Ken Olsen in 1957, has written a new book on his days as a computer pioneer: "Learn, Earn and Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer," published by Locust Press. In it, he chronicles his humble beginnings on an Illinois farm up through his first interactions with computers at the University of Illinois; large-scale projects at MIT's Lincoln Lab;, and then founding, growing and watching, from afar, the ultimate demise of DEC.
With quarterly IT sales results pouring in, vendors including IBM, Google, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel appear more confident than ever that the global recession's depressing effects on the tech market are lifting.
If you're old enough to remember the Cold War, you know what an arms race is. One side comes up with a new weapon, the other side matches it, and then the first comes back with something even bigger and so on and so on. That also describes the ongoing battle between computer users who value their privacy and the Web sites and their advertisers that don't.
As some analysts predicted, Apple today announced that Mac sales climbed last quarter, just three months after it was forced to report the first drop-off in six years.