multiple systems in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence
Comment It uses a logical set of procedures to process source data from multiple systems to consolidate and analyse this data in a specific way. What's worse, our collective incompetence at making systems and applications work properly has spawned an... [16 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment O is for Operating systems In the not too distant future, you will be able to add 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE), mobile WiMax, multiple in multiple out (MiMo) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to the mix. [12 Jun 2008]
Heather Jackson
CIO Profile She worked in IT for Burton Group where she was involved in the end-to-end redevelopment of key business systems, for George at ASDA as IT director, for Boots the chemist within IT development, and for Capital One as UK IT director. [11 Jun 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment On top of all this, few organisations have document accounting systems that accurately measure the true usage for printing and imaging. These groups typically operate independently, resulting in organisations owning a range of printing devices from... [22 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment We can only hope we shall see a return to sanity with the advent of new and leaner operating systems, and efficient code writers guided by sound design principles founded on well understood and documented human factors. [16 Apr 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment It follows that effective and efficient exception monitoring then becomes a critical necessity but, all too often, is an after-thought in systems design. But a ruthless overhaul of poor banking systems is crucial to putting rogue traders out of... [15 Apr 2008]
SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...
Comment Teradata is one, but also the other major systems integrators. There are some big concerns around the complexity of software now and I think there's a big responsibility on the vendor community to focus on quality and support as systems get more... [02 Apr 2008]
Systems management hits impasse
Comment Systems management is at a dead end. What this means is that those responsible for systems management strategy need to step back and ask themselves several key questions. The need for greater accountability means strategies for IT systems... [13 Feb 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment Multidealer systems that allow institutional investors to trade with dealers but not with each other. Cross-matching systems that allow buyers and sellers to trade or periodically match orders anonymously. [30 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Does anyone have Vista on 'mission critical systems'? And multiple reboots, plus an hour's wait while cleanup takes place because you have to remove the previous version of SP1 is not acceptable. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users... [17 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management - partly because banking systems are supposed to be too complicated to provide real-time information. Any delay in systems administration can have serious consequences. [02 Jan 2008]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment In a recent case Newcastle City Council's computer systems allowed the download of 54,000 customer credit card records. Paul Bentham explains how this is not just about malicious hacking and has more to do with systems design and process.silicon... [13 Sep 2007]
BI for all
Comment Organisations are capturing and storing data from a multitude of sources such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems - and are also seeing a proliferation in unstructured formats such as text... [18 Jul 2007]
Ken Harvey
CIO Profile In 2004 Ken Harvey became group general manager and group CIO of HSBC with responsibility for an annual global IT budget of almost $5bn and the development, implementation and operation of the bank's IT systems. [06 Jun 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment Highly available supply chain systems that are easy to access by thousands of participants using multiple standards are not a core expertise of most retailers and manufactures - providing such systems is a job for specialists like GXS. [04 Apr 2007]
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