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Baseline examines easy, practical technology strategies that will cut IT costs quickly and streamline IT management so you are more efficient in the long run.
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When it comes to balancing accessibility and security for employees using social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and other Web applications, CIOs must navigate a fine line that gets grayer every day. With the proliferation of social networking to empower these workers, our jobs as CIOs have become even more multidimensional, and these employees will continue to challenge our notions about how, when and under what conditions to provide access to information.
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Point of sale systems can cut operating costs, integrate accounting systems, track inventory and improve supply chain efficiency. Well-engineered POS equipment can improve customer transaction times, save hours of accounting drudgery and help verify actual sales data.
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Want to improve your IT efficiency in 2009? Here are some suggestions on: what to outsource, what to make virtual, where to add server hardware, the type of laptops to use and how to have solid-enough security on Windows systems.
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Recognized worldwide for his work on organizational change, IT management issues, process management and reengineering, Jim Champy of Perot Systems is now writing books on competition, customers, people management and business execution. In this interview with Baseline, Champy finds that IT is major enabler of business change and tells us about the companies who are experiencing real growth through smart IT and business initiatives.
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Insurance company Chubb Group has a sophisticated online collaboration system--for documents, claims and real-time data-- that is the foundation for sharing information with agents and provides the company with a competitive advantage. Chubb's propietary system uses EDI (electronic data interchange), takes advantage of customizable data feeds, and most importantly, has improved an agent's ability to serve customer needs quickly and accurately.
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HP's broad businesses, which include services, software, printers and ink supplies, has made it less vulnerable to the economic downturn than rival PC maker Dell. HP posted a 21 percent rise in quarterly sales of laptops, and doubling in revenue from services from the EDS acquisition earlier this year.
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Microsoft has an exclusive lock on the long-awaited second season of the Internet cult hit, which will be the first to be distributed worldwide simultaneously across Microsoft's triple platform of Xbox 360's Live Marketplace, MSN and Zune.
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Yahoo shares fall on word from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that his company would not be interested in an outright purchase of Yahoo, but is still very much interested in a search partnership. Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion buyout offer for Yahoo in May after Yang and his board rejected the bid as too low. Microsoft then offered to buy Yahoo's search business, but Yahoo decided instead to sign a search advertising deal with Google which was opposed by regulators and did not happen.
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Post-mortem meetings are important, but they will only get you so far. Baseline columnist and senior IT project lead Bruce F. Webster reinforces one of the most overlooked aspects of IT management: Reading books. Webster outlines 5 books that are easy to read but chock full of real, practical project information and strategies for making IT management a better, less risky and more successful, less stress-inducing process.
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As 2009 unfolds, it’s clear that enterprises with a forward-thinking approach and a solid grasp of technology trends will have a distinct competitive advantage. The following technologies trends in areas like SaaS, virtualization and project portfolio management, among others, are likely to shape IT and business in the coming year, and they can give your company the advantage it needs to do business in this challenging economic environment.
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Unrestrained build-out of corporate data centers is unsustainable. Cloud computing offers an alternative. Cloud computing sits at the intersection of outsourcing, utility computing and SaaS.
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The two Internet companies have submitted a reworked proposal to the U.S. Department of Justice that shortens their partnership to just two years from 10 years, the source said.
The revised deal also caps the percentage of search revenue that Yahoo can collect from Google at no more than 25 percent, and lets Google advertisers opt out of being placed on Yahoo, the source said.
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IBM said Mark Papermaster, who was vice president of the company's Blade Development unit until last week, signed a noncompete agreement with IBM that would prevent him from accepting a job with Apple or any competitor until one year after leaving the company.
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Study the past; learn about the future, writes Bruce F. Webster. By studying he means reading and gaining classic knowledge. If you do that as an IT organization, you will constantly improve as an IT organization.
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