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A Strategic Measure of IT Value

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:47:42 -0500

Determining the value of an IT investment is no longer a matter of equating three accountants with one DEC minicomputer& not surprising, given that technology today focuses on enhancing processes rather than replacing them - Determining the value of an IT investment is no longer a matter of equating three accountants with one DEC minicomputer not surprising, given that technology today focuses on enhancing processes rather than replacing them. In the search for new ways to measure IT value, executives are increasingly ...

What to Do When You Receive a BSA Audit Letter

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:57:00 -0500

Baseline talked to the experts who've directly dealt with the Business Software Alliance, and we've compiled an 8 step guideline process for handling the aftermath of receiving an intimidating audit letter.
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- Let's face it, software asset management (SAM) might be a best practice, but there are still plenty of organizations out there who haven't instituted SAM due to a lack of resources or initiative. If your organization is one of them and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) hasn't come calling yet, th...

Diebold to Restate Results Following Probe

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:53:00 -0500

Diebold said it would restate its financial results for 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after a regulatory review that led it to adopt a new accounting method for recognizing revenue. - NEW YORK(Reuters) - Diebold Inc., a maker of automated teller machines, said on Tuesday it would restate its financial results for 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after a regulatory review that led it to adopt a new accounting method for recognizing revenue. The company, whose acc...

8 Ways to Avoid an Audit from the Business Software Alliance

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:20:00 -0500

The Business Software Alliance is not afraid to audit your company's software assets and make you pay. Baseline shows you how to avoid them altogether in 8 easy steps. - The fear of a Business Software Alliance (BSA) audit has caused many a sleepless night among senior executives and IT professionals over the past two decades. This enforcement arm of dozens of high-profile software vendors is known for its aggressive tactics and for extracting hundreds of thousands ...

Quants: Unlocking the Numbers

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:36:00 -0500

The authors of Competing on Analytics say technology only takes a CIO so far. Aligning people around the numbers produced by business intelligence is essential for future success. - By Thomas H. Davemport and Jeanne G. Harris Quants or quantitative analytical specialists are in high demand by everyone from Wall Street brokerages and banks to Web 2.0 enterprises the likes of Netflix and Google. Quants leverage a variety of business intelligence tools such as financial and ac...

What a Subprime Mess We've Made

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:20:00 -0500

Could business intelligence have prevented the mortgage meltdown? Doubtful. - A day doesn't go by without a headline about the subprime mortgage crisis. At the time of this writing, economists and market analysts were debating whether the housing meltdown would push the U.S. economy into a recession. When all is said and done, banks and investors stand to lose $300 billion to...

Union Aims to Disrupt Shell Outsourcing Plans

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:29:00 -0500

Labor representatives for Shell Oil employees want affected IT workers to receive nearly $400,000 compensation packages for having their jobs eliminated. - Labor union opposition could delay Royal Dutch Shell's plans to outsource more than 3,000 IT jobs this year, according to published reports. (See Baseline's report "Shell Plots Massive IT Outsourcing Deal".) Silicon.com and ZDNetUK are reporting that Amicus, a large U.K.-based manufacturing unio...

Wikia Brings Own Brand of Open, Social Search

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:24:00 -0500

With Wikia Search, co-founder Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia sets his sights on the search giants. - As expected, Wikia Jan. 7 is launching Wikia Search, a socially driven, open-source alternative to top-line search engines from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Wikia Search, forged from the floundering Grub distributed search project Wikia bought from LookSmart July 27, lets users filter sites and ran...

Opera CEO Sets Up New Browser War with Microsoft

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:09:00 -0500

A small Norwegian software company says with a level playing field it can take on mighty Microsoft in a new battle of the browsers because it has a better product, picking up where the now-defunct Netscape left off in the 1990s. - BRUSSELS A small Norwegian software company says with a level playing field it can take on mighty Microsoft Corp. in a new battle of the browsers because it has a better product, picking up where the now-defunct Netscape left off in the 1990s. Opera, which like Microsoft and Firefox manufacture...

Austin Hardware Seizes Profit from Design

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:35:00 -0500

How an American distribution business, Austin Hardware & Supply, decided to take design and matters in to its own hands for profit. - For years the sales staff at Austin Hardware Supply felt as though they were trapped in a box. Since 1960 the Lee's Summit, MO company has acted as a distributor of various hardware supplies, such as door locks, hinges, gas springs, and handles to a variety of customers. But being solely a dist...

Britney Spears, Playboy and Disney in the Same Digital Bed

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:21:00 -0500

Disney and Playboy share more than that infamous Mouseketeer, Britney? It comes in the form of 'digital newsstands,' and the company is Zinio. - Who knew Disney and Playboy had something in common besides Britney Spears? Within the past month these purveyors of nice and naughty, respectively, both signed big deals with digital publishing firm Zinio to use its technology as an alternative and a complement to conventional print publishing....

How to Measure IT's Business Value

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:08:00 -0500

New research reveals four principles for ensuring businesses have a clear understanding of what their getting for their technology investments. - For as long as there has been computers, servers and software, CIOs and IT managers have struggled to quantify the value they add to their businesses. In "Business Value: The Future Yardstick of IT Performance," The Hackett Group outlined four basic principles for companies to follow when calculatin...

Super Fast and Super Green

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:45:00 -0500

New ranking of supercomputers compares their performance against their energy consumption - Can the world's most powerful computers also be green? That was the underlying question behind a new ranking of the world's supercomputers which compares the number of floating-operations they can perform per second versus the amount of energy consumed, or quot;FLOPS per watt. quot; The list compi...

Security Threats Plague Cyber Monday

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:09:00 -0500

As employees race for online bargains, they're more likely to expose their companies to hacks, worms and other breaches. - More than half of America's office workers will be using their company's resources to shop online this holiday season, and the madness begins today the day the retail industry has dubbed Cyber Monday. Just as Black Friday marks the first crush of holiday shoppers within brick-and-mortar stores,...

Make Al Gore Proud: Go Green!

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:55:00 -0500

For tips on how to trim your data center's energy tab in the $100 per barrel oil age. - As oil pushes toward $100 per barrel, CIOs have come under scrutiny for a new reason: rising electricity consumption for powering and cooling the data center. By some estimates, the cost of powering a server or storage array is three times the purchase cost over the lifetime of the appliance. In som...