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Data Center Projects: System Planning

whitepaper System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system.

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

Exploring Rational Method Composer and Rational Portfolio Manager Integration: Reinforce Process Within a Project

whitepaper Rational Portfolio Manager V7.0 is an enterprise solution for project portfolio management, allowing for real-time qualification, management, and monitoring of proposed, in-progress, and historical projects within an organization.

Tags: software engineering

[16 May 2008]

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

whitepaper The Oracle system enabled Tibet Tianlu to improve financial management, cut month-end closing time, reduce payroll processing time by 60%, cut project evaluation and approval time by 40%, and increase inventory turnover by 25%.

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Oracle Case Study: Hyatt Hotels

whitepaper Hyatt Corporation wanted to develop a centralized web based application to manage the capital project planning and execution for Hyatt properties. Also the application must significantly reduce and simplify the overall capital project planning and...

Tags: web development and design

[15 May 2008]

ParkwayHealth Singapore Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 40%

whitepaper In early 2007, the organization began a project to implement a number of Oracle E-Business Suite modules at its central data center. In 2004, ParkwayHealth decided it was time for a complete technology refresh.

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 3: Getting Started With Application Development Methodologies

whitepaper Balancing disciplined command and control rigor and flexible, agile techniques is a critical component of a successful application development project. The choice of method may be dictated by the organization or the nature of the project.

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Manage the Unmanageable: The Importance of Governance in the Project Life Cycle

whitepaper Why is it that when one sets out to develop a product - be it an operating system, a device driver, an internal application, or even just a Web page - one can't seem to get programmers to deliver on time, on budget, and with the level of quality...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment Early on in her career after joining what was then Lloyds bank she initiated and ran the bank's Y2K programme - a mammoth 800 man year project covering 29 UK and 21 international subsidiaries. The key to that was people and stakeholder management...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News Integration is what the team in Beijing is doing most of the time, including project management, systems architecture and design, integration testing and IT security. The team members behind the IT systems are preparing to move from their...

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo For his next project, Swade says he plans on building Babbage's Analytical Engine.but this time, in a virtual space. The British government initially funded the project but withdrew funding when they saw very little progress made.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Galileo phones home

News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. Galileo project manager, Javier Benedicto, said the successful...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

Show and Tell: Combining Pictures and Words to Create Full Project Management Capability

whitepaper Ineffective or failed project delivery is the bane of every IT user and tales of budget overruns, cancellations and time lags are legion. Requirements Definition (RD) and Requirements Management (RM) are at the center of successful project...

Tags: methodology

[09 May 2008]

Optimal Trace Architecture

whitepaper Optimal Trace offers the first project definition solution that both business and technical users find finally meets their needs. Optimal Trace is a key strategic solution for driving project success.

Tags: collaboration tools

[09 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

Comment As silicon.com has recently spent a lot of time writing about one mega-project - Heathrow Terminal 5 - that didn't go according to plan, I was keen to hear from the Olympic team about the hurdles they have to leap to make sure they didn't suffer a...

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News The project will cost around £30m and will be the largest of its kind in Europe, according to H2O. Uses of the network will include real-time traffic monitoring via CCTV, improved IT in schools and videoconferencing to help social workers carry out...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Childnet CEO Steven Carrick-Davies said: "The purpose of the project was to promote the positive aspect of the internet and provide some balance to other messages out in the public perception. The charity was commissioned by the Department for...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

News On the IT side this is supported by 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers, 5,000 results systems terminals and 4,000 printers, all looked after by 4,000 IT staff including volunteers, in a project which began in 2003.

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Pharmaceutical Firm Streamlines IT With Easy-to-Deploy Microsoft Client Security

whitepaper Working with BT INS - a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - AMRI deployed a beta version of the software in a pilot project and later began deploying the market-release version enterprisewide. These problems made the solution difficult and time...

Tags: network security

[07 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment If they had been - assuming public sector project management skills haven't changed - the abacus would have taken 10 times as long, cost billions and only managed to count up to four. It seems that pretty much ever since the invention of the wheel...

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News The initial driver of this part of the project is to reduce the amount of time maintenance staff waste in locating portable medical equipment, such as defibrillators, infusion pumps and blood monitors.

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

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