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ExecTweets – Find and Follow To Business Execs on Twitter

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 … [Read More...]

Gartner Report Shows BPM is Evolving

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 … [Read More...]

VASCO Data Security Offers Authentication Services Based on INDENTIKEY

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 … [Read More...]

HP Offers Free Web Security Tool to Help Businesses Guard Against Malicious Hackers

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 … [Read More...]

Hospitals See Benefits of Lean and Six Sigma

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 … [Read More...]

Persona-based BPM Can Reduce Deployment Time and Costs, and Increase Individual Productivity by 40%

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 … [Read More...]

New HP Data Center Design Methodology Saves Customers Millions in Capital, Operating Costs

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 … [Read More...]

Cisco and BMC Software Deliver Major Breakthrough in Management for Unified Computing System

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, … [Read More...]

Access BMC Remedy Service Desk From Smartphones

More and more, customers want to use their BlackBerry® smart phones and other mobile devices to manage their enterprise IT services. Their ability to do so, however, has been limited, usually because the key service management applications that guide their work are still tied to their desk. Aeroprise, Inc. and BMC Software have announced a major technology partnership that … [Read More...]

Lack of End User Training is a Large and Growing Threat to IT Security

While information security remains a top priority for eight in ten IT professionals surveyed, many companies seem to be underestimating one of the most significant IT security threats - end user error. According to CompTIA's 7th Annual Trends in Information Security survey, human error is the primary cause of the most severe security breaches, yet significantly fewer … [Read More...]

Avocent’s LANDesk Management Suite Named “Best of the Test”

Avocent Corporation a global leader in IT Operations Management, today announced that its LANDesk® Management Suite 8.8 has been named winner of Network World magazine’s “Best of the Test” in the category of systems management. Avocent’s LANDesk software has now won the prestigious “Best of the Test” award from Network World, an IDG company, twice (2009, 2007) in the past … [Read More...]