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Kronos Supercharges Workforce Analytics with New Technology

May 12, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Maximizing cost-effectiveness and productivity is the goal of workforce analytics, and Kronos is focused on that. Kronos also provides workforce management applications, which I recently assessed. Now the company has released a new version of its workforce analytics software. In Kronos Workforce Analytics version 6.3 the technology is complete refreshed with the embedding of MicroStrategy, which is well-known for its robustness in business intelligence and analytics. [read more]

Has 'cloud computing' become a redundant phrase?

May 6, 2012 by Joe McKendrick
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My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Pedrick, probably would have a field day with her red pen if she ever read many of the IT-related blogs out there – including mine. One of her pet peeves was the loading up of sentences with redundancies; most thoughts could be expressed neatly and cleanly with an economy of words. Consider phrases... [read more]

Splunk: Big Data Machine for Operational Intelligence

May 1, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Our analysis of Splunk’s latest release of software, version 4.3, found a series of advancements, including supporting access from tablets such as Apple’s iPad, support for data in cloud-based applications and the ability to operate in VMware environments, making it easier to deploy Splunk in the cloud. This version expands the enterprise scale of the platform, supporting more concurrent users and faster search. [read more]

SumTotal Systems Sums Up Human Capital Management

April 9, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Despite some areas for improvements, SumTotal Systems is a vendor to reckon with in the market for human capital management. The company has a significant opportunity to be a strategic supplier to not just HR but to CFOs and heads of business that realize that applications and information about their workforce complement the activities within the business processes, since they reveal who the right engaged and skilled people are in the effort to achieve business objectives. [read more]

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Are Public Clouds Complex Environments?

March 12, 2012 by Paul Barsch
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A recent analyst report suggests public clouds are prone to failure because they are inherently complex. However, just because there are multiple interacting objects in a particular environment, this doesn’t necessarily imply complexity. [read more]

Department of Defense’s Cloud Computing Strategy: Saving Money & Increasing Security

December 30, 2011 by Thu Pham
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Back in August, I blogged about the federal cloud computing strategy proposed by CIO Vivek Kundra with intentions of allocating $20 billion of the total $80 billion IT budget for cloud computing migration alone. The goal is similar to the DoD’s NDAA strategy – consolidate and reduce data center and energy expenditure. [read more]

Business Intelligence & General Management I

November 4, 2011 by Jose de la Vega
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"This article is the first of the total of three that we are going to publish from LITEBI, each one will be part of a Whitepaper focused on the effects and contributions of Business Intelligence to the company from the point of view of the CEO." [read more]

Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud, Part II: 2011 Benefits of Cloud Adoption

September 26, 2011 by Thu Pham
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"A recent Wall Street Journal article reporting on cloud security details the trends of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) when it comes to benefits of cloud adoption and the overall trend of outsourcing the cloud." [read more]

Salesforce Presents New Social Enterprise with Chatter, Mobility and Data

September 9, 2011 by Mark Smith
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Salesforce.com’s social enterprise is a big step forward from the strategy it talked about at last year’s Dreamforce, and is now focused helping companies build social profiles of employees and customers that can managed and augmented with information about the individuals from other social networks. [read more]

2011 Cloud & IT Disaster Recovery Statistics

August 25, 2011 by Thu Pham
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A recent survey conducted by the Aberdeen Group uncovered the IT disaster recovery trends of a range of companies using cloud computing for data storage, backup and recovery. [read more]

Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing

August 4, 2011 by Thu Pham
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Cloud Computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction of the cost of conventional disaster recovery. [read more]

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Want Magic? Spill the Secrets of Your Black Box

July 6, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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Too much transparency may disclosure your “secret sauce” to competitors. But where possible, “throw back the hood” to show customers how your product or service is created or delivered. [read more]

Planning for the turned-around economy? Cloud Computing and SaaS can help.

March 17, 2011 by Ephraim Cohen
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Though the economy has thrown us a curve ball over the last couple of years, there are indications that the economy might be in the process of turning around. In fact, wholesale distributors have recently reported six quarters of consecutive growth, plus the need to start growing their inventories and people resources, i.e. the need to... [read more]

CTOs: Provide Your Inputs on Government Implemention of Cloud Computing Constructs

February 8, 2011 by Bob Gourley
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Our nation’s technologists have always come to the aide of their nation. There are many great exemplars in this domain. two of my personal favorites are: Edwin Land, inventor famous for his work on consumer cameras but also a key designer of reconnaissance systems (including the U2). Frederick Terman, the thinker most responsible for... [read more]

Why is there so little innovation in cloud hardware?

November 27, 2010 by Theodore Omtzigt
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With the explosion of data and the need to make sense out of it all on a smart phone is creating an interesting opportunity. Mobile devices need high performance at low power, and Apple seems to be the only one that has figured out that having your own processor team and IP is actually a key advantage. And the telcos will need Petascale... [read more]

On-Demand Computing: Soaring with the Cloud Tackles Current Tech Issues

September 16, 2010 by Maggie Fox
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We excited to let you know about an event our friends (and clients) at SAP are helping put on later this month. On September 28, MyVenturePad, along with SAP, will present “On-Demand Computing: Soaring with the Cloud.” This four-and-half hour global summit will cover cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology. This... [read more]