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SAP Increasing Its Dominance in Enterprise Software
Reader Lewis Marchand wrote that, in the protracted battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft, the only winner is SAP. SAP is clearly the only winner in the short term. While Oracle and PeopleSoft are distracted and confused, SAP is running around gathering up more clients.
December, 2004
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2005 IT Salary Report
The 2005 IT Salary Report is one of the most accurate studies on technology compensation levels in the industry. This report details the current base salary for over 70 IT disciplines and covers every state, as well as the major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. Salary information is broken out by industry size to help better target the salary levels within specific industries. This comprehensive data is based on surveys and interviews with hundreds of professionals across several industries, and it provides the most current information available on IT salaries.
December, 2004
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The 2005 Database Perspective
Next year promises to provide improvement in the lives of overworked database administrators (DBAs) along with more challenges in the forms of security threats, new licensing schemes, and more complex products. In general, database vendors are responding to customer requirements by revising their software to make the software easier to administer, faster to recover from errors, and simpler to use. The recently conducted Computer Economics Information Systems Spending and Technology Trends survey shows that the potential for databases in 2005 is better than several other types of software.
December, 2004
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Reaping Benefits from ITIL
Can ITIL provide tangible benefits? Collecting data on ITIL can be a difficult if not impossible process, but most often these issues boil down to concerns with the proprietary nature that surrounds the release of information regarding the measures and costs of delivery of services to customers.
December, 2004
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Making SOX Compliance a Meaningful Exercise
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts are too often a wasted effort. Here is some confirmation from a reader on the front lines. "Richard" (not his real name) works for a large well-known company that is proudly claiming its compliance with SOX Section 404 (internal controls). But according to Richard, the benefits do not justify the cost.
December, 2004
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Organizations Are Not Adopting Measures to Limit Impact of Security Intrusions
The increasing threat of security intrusions has failed to motivate many organizations to take the steps necessary to protect their software, hardware, and data. Clearly the increase in these incidents shows a growing sophistication on the part of those that launch these attacks. The problem is however, exacerbated by organizations failing to adopt prudent measures that would either prevent intrusions or mitigate their impact. This article highlights the extent of security intrusions in surveyed companies by point of entry and by type, and it documents the extent to which the same companies are not implementing common security measures to defend against such attacks. (7 pp., 6 figs.)
November, 2004
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Moving Data in the Enterprise
Capturing changes to business data and propagating those changes to other repositories is fundamental to a broad range of technology and business issues. It is key to customer relationship management (CRM) and single view of customer applications, data warehouse deployments, and to business continuity and disaster recovery scenarios. Similarly, there are numerous ways to move data between enterprise applications and data stores. This article looks closely at data movement technology and its application versus some of the alternatives such as ETL and EAI. Clearly, all these technologies come under the category of integration, which is key to solving many business problems today. Click here to purchase. - $95
November, 2004
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IS Staffing & Salary Data Show Positive Trends for 2005
Results from two of our annual studies indicate that large IS staffing cuts are slowing significantly, and IS salaries are showing positive growth after one of the most dismal periods in history. The combined affect of these two trends should help an industry beset with extremely low morale and a lowering recruitment rate.
November, 2004
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Improving IT Through Governance
Governance is a decision making and accountability framework for effective business management. Excellent governance is typically found in top performing companies and is a key factor for success. IT organizations are now placing a much greater emphasis on this important management concept, this article includes several elements that should be considered in developing an effective IT governance strategy. Click here to purchase.
November, 2004
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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Too Often a Wasted Effort
CFOs and CIOs are working hard on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance these days. In many public companies there are projects underway to audit, design, and test internal controls that back up corporate financial reporting, as required by SOX Section 404. IT departments play a large part in these projects because, in practice, many of these internal controls are implemented in software. The effort is huge, but it's worth the cost if it makes public companies more transparent and accountable to investors.
November, 2004
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Large Server Economic Returns Out Pace Small Servers
Most organizations have embraced a mix of large servers (costing in excess of $250,000) and small servers as major components of their system architectures. Computer Economics' Information Systems Spending and Technology Trends points out that while small server acquisitions exceed those of large servers, economic returns more often favor the larger machines. IT managers making equipment selection decisions will want to review these results before making choices. Click here to purchase. - $95
November, 2004
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IT Governance Is Growing In Importance
Governance is a decision making and accountability framework for effective business management. Excellent governance is typically found in top performing companies and is a key factor for success. Poor governance has been highlighted in recent years through scandals receiving much press, such as that of Enron and Worldcom.
November, 2004
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Guiding Successful Business Intelligence Initiatives
Today, enterprises rely on many systems to run the business: SCM, ERP, CRM, POS systems, call centers, and e-commerce and online customer touch-points. Each of these systems produces volumes of data about customers, transactions, sales, inventory, and human resources. The problem becomes how to amass this data and turn it into actionable information for decision makers across the enterprise. This is the focus of the business intelligence (BI) environment, enabling an enterprise to wring greater business insight from the increasing volumes of data. This article looks at the technology that drives the business case for BI and at how this technology is integrated into business decision making.
November, 2004
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Build/Buy Pendulum Swinging Back Toward Build
Ten years ago, many of us thought that the days of companies writing their own software would soon be over. Commercial packages such as SAP and Oracle would become more and more comprehensive and flexible, eliminating the need for much custom code.
November, 2004
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Use of Outside Technology Help Rising in Large Organizations
After hitting a low in 2002, the use of outside IS help in large organizations is experiencing a noticeable increase. According to research conducted by Computer Economics, the use of contractors and/or temporary personnel jumped 3.5 percentage points from 2002 to 2004, as a portion of the IS staff in large organizations. Large organizations are defined in Computer Economics' spending study as those companies having annual revenues over $750M.
October, 2004
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