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The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy

Comment That is the strange thing about process that I am learning as I work in different organisations: different places have different tolerances for process efficiencies and you must determine the best fit for your operation.

Tags: project management, process

[12 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 4: What's the Best Software to Implement as a Service if You're Just Starting SOA? - IBM Luminaries Provide Personal Insight Into Advancing the Practice of IT Architecture to

whitepaper One may be convinced that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is right for one's IT system - or one may not be. But let's say for the sake of argument that one has decided to start the design and implementation of one's own SOA system.

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Nationwide Building Society to Make Significant Savings Through Improved Purchasing Processes

whitepaper Nationwide Building Society wanted to leverage best-practice financial and purchasing management to gain real-time monitoring and control, and drive accountability as well as realize efficiencies by streamlining, standardizing, and automating key...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Vehicle Liquidation Company Reduces Security Exposure With Services Engagement

whitepaper The Software Update Management engagement provides best practice guidance to build and maintain a reliable software update process. IAA lacked the best practices and operational guidance needed to reliably perform security update deployments.

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

SThree Achieves 33% Revenue Growth as Sales Consultants Get a Clearer View of Customers

whitepaper The challenge was to standardize sales and marketing 'Best practice' across all brands and support a Group requirement that the system can be developed in house to meet changing future needs. SThree wanted to enable sales consultants to deliver...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Tibet Tianlu Achieves End-to-End Control of Financial and Human Resources Operations

whitepaper It also adopted best practice business guidelines, streamlined processes, and introduced advanced management concepts. Its rapidly expanding portfolio of work prompted Tibet Tianlu to reconsider the way it managed its business.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Best Practice With Structured Requirements

whitepaper Analysts report that poor requirements management accounts for as much as 71 percent of software project failures. The main cause is the gap between what the business team wants and how it communicates this, and what IT understands and delivers.

Tags: data mining - analysis

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News The strategy will focus on examples of best practice and Suffolk suggested that IT "champions" with a proven record of cutting carbon should be a model for Green IT for the public and private sector. He said: "The problem is that people do not know...

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

Using ISO 27001 for PCI DSS Compliance

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) isn't dramatically different to the requirements of the best practice security standard - ISO 27001, except that PCI doesn't mention any of the prerequisites required for a management...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Technical Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with HP Servers and Storage

whitepaper Based on thoroughly tested best practice configurations, you will hear about each of these key projects: Backup and Recovery Best Practices This interactive session is a technical introduction to several key Exchange 2007 engineering projects the...

Tags: disaster recovery

[07 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment Arriving at this point allows for effective planning and the true development of standards and best practice. Open source lacks true and defined standards, best-of-breed capabilities, fully functional integration and knowledgeable staff to support...

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey

whitepaper Since PCI DSS was launched, it has helped to expose serious security shortcomings, companies' failure to follow security best practice and a general lack of awareness of the security threats facing organizations today.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

Backup and Recovery Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 With HP Servers and HP StorageWorks Array and Tape Products

whitepaper Best practice recommendations based on extensive lab test results; encompassing configuration, design, process, and considerations This paper provides users in enterprise environments the data to effectively understand the options as well as the...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up Best of all, almost no one mentions the 'incident' any more. In practice, they are more like XP machines that come with an already paid-for upgrade to Vista when and if the customer chooses to do so. Take your best shot in the caption competition...

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: New Application Deployment Using SMS 2003 to Deploy Office XP - Level 200

whitepaper The New Application Installation Solution Accelerator uses Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 to provide IT organizations the best practice implementation of Office 2003 onto a desktop client running a previously installed operating system...

Tags: monitoring systems

[02 May 2008]

Configuration Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 With HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4000 and HP Blade Servers White Paper

whitepaper Overall best practice recommendations for storage layout based on real performance results Read this best practices paper that leverages HP servers, storage, and management software by providing the recommended best practices for configuration of...

Tags: infrastructure management, sql, sql server, virtual

[02 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Active Directory and Compliance Standards (Level 300)

whitepaper The presenter also covers best practice standards outlined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), and the International Organization for Standardization...

Tags: security standards

[01 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Deploying ISA Server 2004 to Protect Internal Network Segments From RPC-Based Attacks (Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast outlines best practice ISA Server architecture and real-world deployment scenarios, and details how to successfully deploy ISA servers as internal firewalls in the organization. One of the most serious threats to internal corporate...

Tags: network security

[01 May 2008]

Google bots are crawling in a new way

News The best of Google Earth The new Google indexing practice involves only "high quality" websites and doesn't run on sites with 'robots.txt' files or other standard mechanisms of warding off indexing software.

Tags: search, google

[16 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects

Comment I am working on stabilising the projects, setting and managing clear expectations and delivering them using all the best practice I can muster. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says the...

Tags: testing, measuring value, failure, projects

[14 Apr 2008]

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