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Demand Down for IT Professionals

news: IT workers are facing an increasingly tough job market, a new study from Janco Associates finds

Tracking Privacy and Security Changes

news: Requirements - and penalties - of the privacy and security rules now apply directly to business associates. These include such entities as IT

IT Spending Forecast: Spring Thaw?

news: The financial industry's long winter is presumably in the rear view mirror, but don't expect a day at the beach - in most cases 2010's IT budgets will be a return to 2008 at best

Industry Comments on HHS Breach Rule

news: Following the Department of Health and Human Services' issuance of an interim final rule governing notification of breaches of protected health information, industry representatives and members of Congress submitted letters of comment

Operating Cost Worries? Unified Master Data and Quality to the Rescue

feature: Trusted master data with sufficient quality is needed for sustainable success of such process improvement initiatives

Refresh Cycle Preps Industry for a Rebound

news: A new survey from Pacific Crest Securities strengthens the case, as a majority of large enterprises plan to increase their 2010 IT funding

Survey Assesses Data Security Status at Health Care Organizations

research: A small survey of IT professionals shows that many health care organizations still have a long way to go when it comes to data security

Seeking Sustainable Curriculum

news: It's not yet possible to get a PhD in energy reducing technology, but coursework and certification learning is taking on a green flavor at colleges and training firms

The Next Wave of Enterprise Collaboration Technology

feature: Since it would be impractical to get information workers to stop using email for collaboration and processes, maybe the right answer is to enhance email so that it is more appropriate those tasks

What Will 2010 Bring? Not as Much as Some Hope

opinion: Many of us are trying hard to see positive trends for the coming year, but employment remains the only meaningful bellwether of change

Processing AVATAR

case study: A thoroughbred of a data center at Weta Digital sits behind intense visual effects in the blockbuster movie and the creative artists who put it together

Blogs

Data Center Lessons from AVATAR

Jim Ericson: Weta Digital’s Paul Gunn runs a state of the art facility but doesn’t play by all the new rules

Written Review

Steve Miller: My writing retreat is completed for 2009. I'm not sure whether I'm comforted or humbled

Starview Advances Operational Intelligence with Analytics in Distributed CEP

Ventana Research: I expect this new category of technology to be like business intelligence in the 90s, where the range of vendors and opportunity will continue to grow with significant demand

BI Reports, Data Quality and the Dreaded Design Review

Baseline Consulting: Everyone’s talking about single version of the truth, but how often are our reports reviewed for accuracy?

Case Studies / Profiles

Processing AVATAR

A thoroughbred of a data center at Weta Digital sits behind intense visual effects in the blockbuster movie and the creative artists who put it together

Going Long

Dallas Cowboys Merchandising pulls off comeback win with real-time metrics

BI’s March to Health Care

Rays of light but no ready cure as institutions wrangle with foundational requirements of business intelligence

Bringing Analytics to the Treatment Level

A program at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center includes data warehouse and analytics software to facilitate ongoing care of cancer survivors

Leadership Zone

U.S. Government, Wal-Mart and You

Can you see the impact of new U.S. government and Wal-Mart initiatives on your company or customers? If not yet, I suspect you will soon

Baseball + Analytics = Improved Performance

How does an organization create a culture of metrics? One example of organizations that have done so is the baseball community

Is Performance Management Art, Craft or Science?

For today’s organizations implementing the various component methodologies of the performance management framework, how much is art, craft or science?

The Imperative of Analytics

Accenture survey shows executives view analytics as key to staying competitive

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December 3, 2009
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