Overwhelmed by Data? This Tool Could Help

Similarly, BPM can make mid-sized organizations much more efficient, since the various processes will be finite and manageable. For large enterprises, though, the value of BPM is less obvious, and when it is deployed, it’s often done so within specific information silos, minimizing the gains. This is why analysts like Teubner have begun speculating about…

Combing Compliance, Controls and ERP

Indeed, businesses can apply what they learn during compliance to make sure they are fully leveraging and optimizing all the functionality available within the ERP as they work through the stages of a typical implementation: design, build, test and deploy. Design The design stage typically includes an evaluation of the existing application(s) and internal controls,…

Combing Compliance, Controls and ERP

Most corporate executives no doubt view their organizations’ recent efforts to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as one of the more significant management challenges they’ve ever faced. They also know that compliance has come at a high cost. To assess the effectiveness of internal controls, organizations had to invest an extraordinary commitment of human and…

Global Privacy Compliance: An Oxymoron?

The word “football” means one thing in the US, another thing in Australia and something very different in most of the rest of the world. The same is true with the word “privacy.” In the U.S., our private personal data is the property of the people who hold it. In most other parts of the…

Managing Remote, Cross-Cultural Teamwork

Invest in training that broadens your team’s multi-cultural awareness. Effective multi-cultural training will help give your team the openness to other perspectives and awareness of their own cultural filters needed to work more effectively in a diverse environment. Not long ago, I attended one of these programs, facilitated by PRISM International where participants from the…

Managing Remote, Cross-Cultural Teamwork

Over the course of the past few years an increasing number of U.S. companies have been drawn toward offshore outsourcing primarily by the huge opportunities for cost reductions. Back in 2003, according to Gartner, between 150,000 and 200,000 call center and business center jobs were offshored and this figure did not include the software development…

Workforce Planning Key to Tomorrow’s IT

While companies currently have an abundance of skilled IT workers to choose from, these companies must implement a workforce planning process to be prepared for an upcoming workforce shortage, according to people3, a Gartner, Inc. company. “With future job growth being concentrated in highly skilled and knowledge-based work, and estimates of 21 million new jobs…

Final Day to Nominate Your Favorite Enterprise Products

No matter how talented your IT staff, ultimately it is dependent on technology to get the job done. That’s why the quality of the software, hardware and services used by IT pros goes a long way toward determining not only the effectiveness of any given enterprise, but the success of an entire organization. Datamation has…

Outsourcing & Offshoring Here To Stay

Despite some high-visibility setbacks and backlash from politicians and the public, Global 1000 IT executives and the providers of IT outsourcing services say outsourcing, both onshore and offshore, is here to stay. In fact, of those participating in DiamondCluster International’s 2004 IT Outsourcing Study, 86% expect the use of offshore IT outsourcers to increase over…

The Next Linux Cometh

Linux creator Linus Torvalds was up to his old tricks again Monday, releasing a new Linux kernel that he developed with maintainer Andrew Morton. The software release, available online at www.kernel.org, is the test9 release version of the Linux 2.6 kernel, and is designed specifically for use on the corporate enterprise level. The release also…