Business Cannot turn its back on Deployment of Social Networking Technology. Who Must set Policy?
By Peter B. Giblett In his article in Baseline “CIOs Must learn to Deal With Social Networking” Art Johnson argues that ‘CIOs can’t turn their backs on (Social Networking) technologies, which can provide many benefits. For example, the use of instant messaging has been a valuable tool for our employees.’ I agree that business cannot [...]
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The Evolution of Enterprise Mobility
Businesses are demanding more support for workplace mobility than ever before. The corporation of 2008 is unlike that of 5 or even 10 years ago. According to Forrester Research mobility for employees was the number one goal of corporations. For IT that means making the off-site working ideals aspired to a decade ago a reality. [...]
Is a SaaS based BI Solution Really Viable?
According to Gartner 25% of all software will be delivered through an SaaS based service by 2011. At the same time Business Intelligence usage is expected to rise 130% by 2010. Many SaaS vendors are currently planning to incorporate BI in parallel to their applications, some are partnering with BI vendors to make this happen. [...]
The Data Warehouse Must be Included within the Disaster Recovery Plan as a Critical System!
It was a flood on the famous River Thames in the suburban town of Staines just outside London England nearly 20 years ago that originally got me thinking about the impact of a disaster on a business. Through regular checks on proximity of water to the air-conditioner unit we knew that that we were just [...]
Is any Business Benefit Gained by Adopting Collaborative Technologies within the Workplace?
Not too long ago few, if any, in the workplace could really justify accessing the web from their workplace. Justification would normally relate to access to externally hosted services that added value to the corporation, or alternatively to conduct research or resolve problems, and for the IT department download patches and upgrades. Over time applications [...]
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