Resources for IT Managers
Twitter and Federated Media have teamed up to create ExecTweets, a Microsoft sponsored site featuring Twitter feeds from “top business execs”. So far response has been mixed. Since this is an effort to make money off of Twitter some are bashing it for that reason alone. I think like any new service it will take some time to build. A lot will depend on the quality of the tweets as most … [Read more...]
The Business Process Management market continues to grow and expand. The 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites illustrates that the market is evolving. Gartner has revised its BPMS Magic Quadrant to focus the analysis on product support for the use cases, rather than product features and functions. This change has altered our assessment of the relative strengths … [Read more...]
VASCO Data Security Inc. a leading software security company specializing in authentication products, and the IT service provider datec24 Services are partnering to offer subscription-based DIGIPASS authentication to datec24 customers. Under the terms of the agreement datec24 will host VASCO’s IDENTIKEY® server. The IDENTIKEY server will be used to offer on-demand authentication to a number … [Read more...]
HP today announced HP SWFScan, a free tool to help Flash developers protect their websites against unintended application security vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of hackers accessing sensitive data. As companies modernize their applications to give users a better experience online, they are moving to Web 2.0 technologies, including the Adobe Flash Platform. With Adobe Flash Player … [Read more...]
Hospitals across the United States are beginning to embrace lean and Six Sigma business management strategies in attempts to reduce costs and improve productivity, according to a new national benchmarking study by ASQ. The ASQ Hospital Study, to which 77 hospitals responded, is the first study to investigate the implementation of lean and Six Sigma in U.S. hospitals. While applied in … [Read more...]
Global 360, a leading provider of Process and Document Management solutions, has announced viewPoint™, the industry’s first Persona-based Business Process Management (BPM) approach for delivering applications that address the needs of each user in the process. To develop its Persona-based BPM approach, Global 360 leveraged extensive field research conducted with user- and interaction-design … [Read more...]
HP has unveiled an approach to critical facilities design that can increase data center efficiency and reduce customers’ capital costs by 15 to 25 percent.(1) This new offering enables customers facing the challenges of today’s economic climate to cost-effectively invest in building the foundation to thrive in tomorrow’s recovery. Multi-tiered hybrid design from HP aligns facility design … [Read more...]
Cisco and BMC Software have announced their collaboration to deliver a major management breakthrough for the new Cisco Unified Computing System. Combined with BMC’s Business Service Management, Cisco’s Unified Computing System represents a quantum leap forward in enhancing customers’ ability to provision and reconfigure the entire stack of mission-critical business services, along with … [Read more...]