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In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to...
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There is growing interest on behalf of both data management professionals and senior business managers to understand the motivations, mechanics, and benefits of instituting data governance within an organization. This...
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Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies...
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Companies worldwide struggle with inconsistent, inaccurate or unreliable data - and often don't know how to build more useful corporate information. This white paper examines a five-step method for...
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Many compaines realise the market has changed, the competition is stronger, pressure is on and costs are increasing causing IT structures to change. Every company has it's own indivdual challenges...
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IT management is undergoing a transformation that's driven by the goal of managing IT to business priorities.
This whitepaper explores how, under pressure to demonstrate business value, be innovative and act...
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New research shows that 71 percent of organisations place a high priority on enabling IT to manage service assets and resources based on business priorities and/or user expectations. However, only...
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With our Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision, we help you simplify the management of your complex IT operations. We enable you to govern, manage and secure IT?and derive more business...
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Business activities and profitability increasingly depend on technology, challengingIT to optimize services based on business priorities. Read on to discover how the most effective way to deliver business-optimized service is...
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To remain competitive in today's global marketplace, organizations are seeking to automate processes and leverage their technology infrastructure in alignment with their goals.To understand the impact of project and portfolio...
Microsoft has teamed up with RadioShack, the online and high-street reseller, in a move that will give the software giant greater visibility in over 7,000 prime locations in the US. The five-year deal will see the alliance target consumers yet to...
Many other business websites fail to register with search engines so the 75 per cent of customers who use search engines to find companies won't find their sites. Designers often focus on the aesthetics of the site itself, but fail to see the...
Despite many IT managers agreeing that network investment in their organisations is a key priority and essential to improving business productivity, over half of the respondents to a survey commissioned by network integration specialist Telindus...
Analyst house Gartner warns that 50 per cent of all outsourced IT projects will fail in 2003, largely due to poor communication between external service providers and their clients. It's often more about control and visibility of cost - or the...
The statistics, provided exclusively to silicon.com by management and outsourcing consultancy Compass, reveal that around 59 per cent of all outsourcing contracts fail. Almost two-thirds of outsourcing deals are failing because organisations are...
One reader wrote: "I fail to understand how Microsoft can help the open source community more than [open source] can help itself. To give the work of Microsoft's interoperability lab greater visibility in the open source community, it launched a...