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Application Architecture Essentials, Part 1: Everything You Need to Know About Requirements Modeling

whitepaper Getting this part of the architecture correct requires that both people and technical skills capture and refine the right requirements. Discover the useful skills and tools for modeling requirements, and learn how to evaluate progress in competency.

Tags: programming languages

[11 May 2008]

Explore the Emerging Field of Business Technology and Its Impact on IT Professionals: Evolving From IT to BT

whitepaper Because globalization is having a huge impact on IT and the business view of IT, purely technical skills may no longer be sufficient to stay on top of upcoming waves of change. In this paper one will explore two compelling forces contributing to...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[11 May 2008]

Applying an Analytical Framework: Organize and Reuse Valuable Techniques, Tools, and Examples

whitepaper Fortunately, one can use analytical frameworks to collect and organize analysis patterns, tools, skills, organization techniques, examples, and the expertise of others who have solved similar modeling problems.

Tags: application development

[11 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News These smaller "tier two and three cities" will be needed to provide about 50 per cent of the required skills in both ITO and BPO, where talent shortage remains a large constraint, according to the report.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News Even if they can find cheaper labour or more generous tax incentives in other countries, they will struggle to find a similarly large supply of experienced technical and language skills. He said: "This is particularly beneficial for BPO [business...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment We'll still be here when they run out of options, we'll still have the skills they need in depth and we'll still be ignored because they think we are past it. Don't expect promotion if you're missing IT skills.

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News Women hold the key to plugging a critical skills shortfall that is affecting the entire UK tech industry, says the IT & Telecoms Insights 2008 report by e-skills UK based on Gartner research. The telecommunications industry's need for new skills...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Help Desk - Call Centre or Dispatch Centre?

whitepaper A detailed analysis is required of the traffic profiles, call types, business impacts, staff skills and shift arrangements to answer the question. The important thing is to know one's own environment and what is best for the business.

Tags: help desk

[12 Apr 2008]

Outsourcing Information Technology: A Business Perspective

whitepaper Understanding of where, when and how to successfully outsource, is proving to be one of the most difficult and important business skills needed for your company’s future. The future is not what it used to be and Outsourcing is, increasingly being...

Tags: outsourcing, outsourcing, edge, skills

[10 Apr 2008]

Delivering the Goods: Can a Learning Management System Help a Company Better Serve Its Customers? Rockwell Automation Found Theirs Could Do That - and More

whitepaper The factories that buy Rockwell's machines and software need to do a lot of training to keep users' skills current. For that reason, Rockwell has been in the customer-training business longer than most people have owned computers.

Tags: learning management systems, training, automation, rockwell

[10 Apr 2008]

The Essential Guide to Testing Your Disaster Recovery Ability

whitepaper Building a solid test plan for the disaster recovery environment will build the knowledge of the current environment by forcing a person to look into all the "Dark corners" of the infrastructure; it will improve the actual operational skills by...

Tags: disaster recovery, disaster, recovery, person

[10 Apr 2008]

Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 1: Enterprise Architecture Viewpoints - What's Best for Your Organization?

whitepaper One will explore the importance of aligning business and technical strategies, why communication skills are so critical to one's success, and how one can position themselves as a trusted advisor in the organization.

Tags: business management

[09 Apr 2008]

Monitoring Your Processes to Achieve Optimal Performance: Tips for Achieving Better Performance and Return on Investment Through Processes

whitepaper To truly arrive at a flexible Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, one needs a technical evolution of the organization's processes and, often, the skills to leverage existing technology investments.

Tags: infrastructure management

[09 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes

Comment If, like me, you have been excluded not because you lack skills or intellect but because you were part of the IT department, you will know exactly what I mean. Equally, when I engage in conversation about strategy and the CFO firmly states that I...

Tags: careers, boardroom, stereotypes, board

[07 Apr 2008]

Open source to go mainstream, says Gartner

News However, Gartner argues that at the operating-system level, Linux deployments are showing smaller benefits in total cost of ownership as it is applied to more demanding projects, because of the technical skills required to use it: "Much of the...

Tags: gartner, linux, open source

[07 Apr 2008]

Recession fears hit IT budgets

Comment The most in-demand skills are project managers and "business-savvy technologists". As with last year's CIO Agenda, the tech skills shortage remains a big problem for employers. Two-thirds of CIO Agenda respondents this year said they are having...

Tags: cio agenda

[04 Apr 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation

Comment The most influential reason seems to be that developers seek to enhance their skills and experience. Open source projects can be split into at least three different business models. The open source brotherhood prides itself on its collaboration and...

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment And what that means is we need programme management capability and the business consulting skills which align to the industry. We obviously had those skills before but they haven't been organised in that way.

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

Photos: High-tech Bangalore

Photo Some of the technical skills taught are seen here in these 'talent transformation' books. This is the home of one of India's biggest IT companies, Wipro, at the Electronics City high-tech business park in Bangalore, India.silicon.com visited...

Tags: bangalore, wipro

[02 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty

Comment Staffing, skills, costs and business dynamics are industry issues. IT skills shortages are ever increasing. Those in favour of outsourcing or offshoring critical IT functions are bound to take the high cost and skills issues into consideration.

Tags: recruitment, loyalty, skills, offshoring

[31 Mar 2008]

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