Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
A new survey from an important content management association finds that, although Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration and document sharing server is racking up sales, many deployments lack thorough planning. The report, from the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), queried some 624 of its members regarding deployment of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) SharePoint Server. “A recent…
Companies across the globe are struggling to survive the latest economic downturn. Those companies and organizations that are best positioned to not only survive but strive in this economy are those that are most aware of their information assets and can proactively affect change by quickly adjusting their operations based on changes in market conditions….
The first thing most people in IT leadership think of at the mention of SOA governance is the service registry because software vendors have so successfully promoted the view of automating SOA governance through their respective products. Effective SOA governance requires more than just a service registry and, in fact, is much more dependent on…
IT asset management (ITAM) as a business practice was long thought to fall solely under the technical side of the organization; with little to no regard for standard business practices and disciplines. IT was, and still is, foreign territory to executive management and therefore immature compared to other business practices―lacking executive buy-in and having no…
When Marilyn Carlson Nelson was CEO of Carlson Companies, the privately held hotel, restaurant, travel and marketing giant, she used technology strategically to expand the company. In fact, the company has invested more than a billion dollars in technology, a sum one would not expect for what doesn’t seem like a high-tech enterprise. “When I…
In the groundswell of economic pressures, companies big and small are looking to the Cloud for relief. The buzz is everywhere: Cloud computing can cut costs, speed implementations, and scale quickly. The buzz, however, may be slightly off-the mark … at least in product pitches. “Just like SOA hype was vendor fueled and thus became…
In 2009, expect a strong focus on IT management initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings in a tight economy; the continued deployment of technologies that enable IT to be managed as a business; and new management challenges introduced by the growth of emerging technologies. “While there are obvious concerns surrounding the global economy, we expect…