Master data management projects ‘should be focused on long-term goals’
Master data management projects need to have a focus on their long-term objectives, it has been suggested.
In a column for the IT Business Edge website, commentator Loraine Lawson noted a recent study from the Aberdeen Group contained this advice.
It said "minor tactical considerations" that crop up over the course of such a scheme should not become a barrier to meeting these goals.
"Make sure the end result will be driving profit and productivity in the areas that matter most," said the report.
FCCI Contractor Warns Of Cloud Pitfalls
Cloud computing uptake ‘being driven by marketing departments’
Marketing and other non-IT departments are helping to drive the adoption of cloud computing within their companies, a meeting in New Zealand has heard.
Speaking at the IDC Cloud for Business Conference in Auckland, Tim Dillon, research associate vice president of IDC Australia and Asia-Pacific, said his own organisation is an example of this.
He noted the use of Salesforce.com applications as part of an overhaul of the body’s customer relationship management systems was chiefly driven by its sales and marketing team.
Safe Harbour fails to answer overseas cloud security concerns
In the past week I’ve met IBM and Google and asked them about cloud security. Sure, data is mirrored, replicated and always available…
No my question concerns data jurisdiction and the ability for governments to subpoena hosting and cloud providers to provide law and anti-terrorism agencies with customers’ data.
Google UK cites the Safe Harbour agreement that exists between the UK and US, that allows UK data to be stored in the US. But who’s stopping the US Department of Homeland Security from taking that data under the Patriot Act.
Delivering IT for economic recovery
In many organisations public, private or third sector, it is no longer "business as usual".
The almost unprecedented scale of public sector budget cuts, necessary to bring government finances back towards balance, feed through to all areas of the economy.
Whether it is the need to cope with slashed revenues or to cut costs in the face of intense competition, radical change will be required. It is often no longer sufficient to shave a few percentage points off budgets across the board, new approaches will be required along the lines of: "work smarter, not harder".
What can BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, bring to this challenge?
One Man’s Data Dump Is Another Man’s Data Marketplace
Microsoft adds cloud management to System Center 2012
Microsoft is updating the next version of its System Center IT infrastructure and server management suite so it can manage virtual machines in the cloud. It is also adding controls that will allow departmental IT chiefs to manage their own system resources, the company announced Tuesday.
Both additions to System Center 2012 suite, slated for release later this year, are necessary to help central IT departments keep pace with the requests of individual departments within their organisations.
Unisys packages up consulting services for cloud
Unisys is packaging together existing and a few new consulting and management services in order to help enterprises better manage various cloud implementations.
Enterprises today may run applications in a wide variety of environments, including internal data centres, private clouds, hosted data centres and public clouds. Each environment has its own business and operating models, with different deployment and management tools, said John Treadway, director of cloud services and solutions at Unisys.
Accountability ‘needed on customer data management’
Businesses need to pay attention to their customer data management strategies when they come to build the foundations of their operations.
This is the view of Dave Palm, vice president of organisation engagement at dunnhumby, who said that companies should be looking to build a "customer-centric strategy".
He told the Customer Retail Experience website that part of their plans should be dedicated to ensuring clear accountability exists within the organisation on the topics of customer data management, strategy and evaluation.
Internet2 prepares for the jump to light speed
About six or seven years ago, a couple of us in the GCN offices Photoshopped a picture of a co-worker who was sitting in front of a laptop PC with his hands outstretched and a starry look in his eyes. We gave him some kind of mystical headgear, a robe and had lightning bolts shooting from his fingertips to the laptop. In the faux caption for the faux picture, he marveled at the “5 terabits/sec” speed of his new “system,” which also gave him complete mind control over his co-workers, who were flanking him with spirals for eyes.