Business strategy
Greater IT Agility is the Biggest Desire from Business Leaders
The annual InformationWeek Analytics Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey shows that they need systems that can be quickly adapted to support changing requirements–to get the most out of an acquisition, enter a new market, or find new customers.
Read MoreBest Web Face Forward
A recent survey revealed almost half of business technology professionals run more than five separate online sites. This was according to the InformationWeek Analytics 2010 Corporate Web Presence Survey. So how good are we at multi-tasking?
Read MoreRepositioning Information Science
One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.
Read MoreGoogle vs. Microsoft in Court
Google and Microsoft have ended up in court over the Government’s decision to adopt Microsoft’s BPOS at the Dept of Interior without letting Google bid for some of the action. As a result, Google is heading to court.
Read MoreOnline Community Attracts Technology Stars
Informatica Corporation, provider of data integration software, shares a growing momentum for the Informatica Marketplace – an online community that connects vendors, partners and individual developers to enable them to share data integration solutions within an open and comprehensive ecosystem of more than 120,000 active users.
Read MoreUPS, First DAMMY Award Recipient
Developer of solutions for digital media management, ViewCast Corporation, announced that UPS’s Communications Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, powered by ViewCast Media Platform Digital Asset Management software, was the recent recipient of a 2010 DAMMY Award in the category of Best Storage, Archive and/or Preservation Solution.
Read MoreOracle Purchases ATG
Oracle has acquired Art Technology Group, smoothing the path into e-commerce. Art Technology is one of the leading providers of e-commerce software and this deal is expected to close by early 2011.
Read MoreXBRL US Gets New CEO
The national consortium for XML business reporting standards, XBRL US, has announced that Campbell Pryde, the current Chief Standards Officer and head of development, has been named President and CEO.
Read MoreWhere Are They Now?
Tech companies come and go. There are always tech savvy entrepreneurs with big ideas looking to fill a need in the market and investors looking to get the huge returns that only come from investing in tech startups.
But tech is risky, markets are volatile, and oftentimes what seems like a good idea is not always as good once implemented in the real world. A good example of this is the dot com boom and subsequent bust in the early 21st century. You could get funding on a back of the envelop business plan. Billions of dollars were invested in tech startups with big ideas and big dreams. Many of these dreams were shattered when investors realized they were not getting the same returns they had hoped.
Read MoreWhat to do with all this data?
Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.
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