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What does quality look like?
The battle to build quality into the enterprise
As John Ruskin, the great Victorian social thinker, once famously argued, ‘Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.’ This is the principle that underpins the current buzz around ‘building quality into the enterprise’. But...
January 15, 2013 5:06 PM Read Full Post
How to decrease the carbon footprint of your data centre - part 2
If you're responsible for the electrical infrastructure, then there are a few key areas that should be reviewed regularly to make sure you are getting the most efficient system possible
In part one, David Barker looked at how to decrease your data centre’s carbon footprint through optimisation of air-conditioning and deploying new cooling technologies. In part two, he looks at how to optimise your electrical infrastructure and make the most...
January 7, 2013 11:00 AM Read Full Post
Using the new year to reassess Microsoft SharePoint deployments
Risk, privacy and compliance concerns within SharePoint shoot up the priority list
Every year brings about an itch to set new personal goals to achieve. 2013 will be no different for the average organisation, particularly in terms of business goals for their use of SharePoint. While the announcement of SharePoint 2013 may change...
January 3, 2013 3:00 PM Read Full Post
Building the business case for data governance
Data governance isn't just about compliance
Data governance may be the most talked about, yet elusive prize, in the data management space. It is highly coveted by people who work with data because practitioners know the mission-critical role governance plays in achieving desired data outcomes. At...
January 3, 2013 1:11 AM Read Full Post
Have confidence in your compliance policies
With so many users acting as content contributors today, Microsoft SharePoint deployments must be able to meet every compliance regulation in the book without inhibiting business productivity
There are many factors that go into the determination of an organisation’s privacy policy, including statutory and regulatory requirements, company or organisational best practices, and market demands. It is important to understand that regardless of the source of the mandate,...
December 11, 2012 4:14 PM Read Full Post
If you're getting a good deal on your enterprise tools, maybe you're the product
Today's enterprises are not just laying down the foundations of software paradigms but potentially the very economic fabric that unites the world
As the new generation of cloud businesses like Facebook rushed into the public eye, they hit hundreds of millions of users before a key realisation began to emerge. If you aren’t paying for them, the reality is that you’re probably...
December 10, 2012 3:56 PM Read Full Post
G Cloud - What are the barriers to acceptance?
What‘s behind this apparent sluggishness in G-Cloud adoption by the public sector?
Cloud based services, whether as used by the public sector or commercial business community, seem to be growing steadily. And yet, despite this, the government’s new G Cloud initiative for procuring hardware, software and specialist services - called CloudStore -...
December 6, 2012 5:10 PM Read Full Post
M-Commerce: Saviour of the high street
Andy Lloyd, General Manager, Commerce at NetSuite argues that the High Street must embrace mobile and social commerce technology in order to survive
Across our homes and offices we have seen a dramatic shift in the way we access information online. With mobile web usage set to outstrip desktop usage by 2014 it’s clear that the way consumers want to interact with retailers...
December 5, 2012 3:21 PM Read Full Post
Tech could answer Cameron's small business cashflow conundrum
David Cameron's plan makes a laborious process of something technology can already enable
Modern business is broken. Instead of automating things, innovating new technology and pushing things forward, too often it relies on throwing muscle at a problem with laborious manual processes rooted in the old methods.Just look at the supply chain finance...
December 4, 2012 3:47 PM Read Full Post
Gartner: The data centre professional's agenda
Surviving hybrid cloud, extreme data and modernising the service dask
Modern infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are faced with unprecedented levels of change as technology trends such as cloud, social, big data and mobile place huge demands on IT. These forces, coupled with strong pressure to deliver savings and cost...
November 23, 2012 3:11 PM Read Full Post
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