functional requirements in comment and analysis
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment By demand, we mean people who work with business unit and functional managers to understand and shape their system's requirements. Typically, they are project managers or business analysts who know both business and IT, are adept at drafting system... [09 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment I spend about 20 per cent of my time preparing and reviewing audit remediation requirements to ensure we are meeting our principal obligations. Databases must be protected yet functional - users must be able to confirm identity, yet cannot see... [25 Feb 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: All about Itil
Comment Yes, I know it hits all the functional needs, it fits my price requirements, it's the right colour, it does the toast in the morning - but does it do Itil? Every once in a while, a new term comes along that sounds like just another acronym but... [28 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How small businesses buy IT
Comment In many cases it will be the managing director (MD) or FD who oversees the IT requirements of a SME. They accumulate a portfolio of products from many vendors that they pull together to comprise a functional IT system for their customers - for... [03 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Bringing IT in line with the business
Comment If the infrastructure must be upgraded to meet the SLA, there is a ready-made business case tied to corporate business requirements. ITSM then takes those requirements and translates them to a series of service level agreements (SLAs). [07 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simple prescriptions for data headaches
Comment However, managing document creation by email begins to have limitations when multiple parties need to see and comment on the data, and the data is subject to scrutiny via regulatory requirements. These have been of significant benefit in some parts... [05 Apr 2006]
SME Philes: 6 questions CIOs should ask themselves
Comment Or that the vendor community is accused of failing to meet business requirements, when companies themselves fail so often to understand or plan for their actual requirements? Many boards are unaware what value a true CIO could add to their company... [10 Nov 2004]
Through the fog... Software configuration management
Comment This type of SCM entails tools that are essential for co-ordinating development teams as they transform ideas and requirements into functional software programs. The software development process is notorious for not producing what was originally... [11 Sep 2003]
Through the fog... The Functional Infrastructure
Comment All of a sudden, the problems of taking large monolithic 'solutions', often with requirements for the changing of business processes to match the pro/prescription of the underlying application becomes a bit of an albatross around the neck of those... [01 Sep 2003]
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