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The value of business intelligence applications
How can BI help your business? This tip points out the BI benefits, risks and costs. Continue Reading
How Company Size Relates to IT Spending
Ethics Policy Can Help Organizations Steer Clear of Vendor Bribes
Ethical CIOs must fend off a range of gifts and goodies from overeager vendors. Having a company ethics policy helps. Continue Reading
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The five dimensions of BI tools
Business intelligence (BI) tools have evolved over the years from simply delivering reports to leveraging advanced visualization techniques to quickly detect key patterns and trends. In his column, Wayne Eckerson discusses the evolution of BI. Continue Reading
Examining the TCO metric
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is defined as the total cost of procuring, using, managing and disposing of an asset over its useful life. This tip takes a closer look at TCO. Continue Reading
IPO Pressure: Get Ready to Meet the IT Demands of a Public Company
If your company plans to go public, don't just count your options; brace yourself for the scrutiny of auditors -- and some late nights.Continue Reading
Resource Allocation Software Helps Research and Development
Following some acquisitions, Perkin-Elmer's Life and Analytical Sciences unit had 450 R&D staffers. It just needed to manage what all of them were working on.Continue Reading
Turning Project Portfolios Into Control Towers
Let your IT project portfolio provide an eagle-eye view.Continue Reading
Budgeting for compliance: Executive Guide
The SearchCIO budgeting for compliance Executive Guide includes valuable resources and practical information and advice to help CIOs with planning and budgeting for compliance.Continue Reading
Is Your Project Alive? How Project Managers Can Check the Vital Signs
Vital signs will keep your IT project healthy.Continue Reading
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The Making of an IT Executive
CIO Marc Saffer got his seat at the boardroom table but still didn't feel like one of the team. Then he hired an executive coach and got the guidance he needed.Continue Reading
CIO Habitat: Rebuilding the IT Budgeting Process
The IT budgeting process varies dramatically from best to worst practices. Where do yours stack up?Continue Reading
How to evaluate hardware for internal and external devices
You'll be in the driver's seat with this hardware evaluation guide. Expert Bernie Klinder offers advice on evaluation basics for both internal and external devices.Continue Reading
Speaking of business continuity: A cheat sheet
One of the challenges organizations often face as they initiate business continuity or disaster recovery planning is to reach consensus on precisely what they are trying to do. This requires identifying and closing any gap that may exist between the...Continue Reading
Net Present Value defined
Net Present Value is a big part of your ROI process, but you need the formula first.Continue Reading
Changing the Conversation on Measuring IT Value
Measuring the business value of IT has never been more important-nor suspect. How can tech execs get better at "show and tell"?Continue Reading
Common Microsoft Exchange Server mail delivery problems
This article discusses some common culprits of Exchange message delivery delays and failures.Continue Reading
CIO how-to: The art of developing direct reports
Most IT professionals want to develop new skills, do well and be rewarded with more pay and higher-level positions. Unfortunately, IT executives often don't do enough to help employees get there.Continue Reading
Business Mentor: Building the Case for Replacing Legacy Systems
How to add Internet Explorer security zones
When five Internet security zones aren't enough, here's how you can add more levels for finer control over content.Continue Reading
The business value of information lifecycle management
With consolidation to SANs and advances in storage management software packages, ILM is again at the forefront of storage architecture planning.Continue Reading
Launch Internet Explorer in a separate process
Find out how to prevent one instance of Internet Explorer from affecting other instances if it stops responding.Continue Reading
How to prevent spyware: Check IT List
Stop spyware before it stops you. Here are 12 steps to prevent spyware before it infects your systems.Continue Reading
FoundStone's SuperScan 4 lives up to its name
A review of a free IP scanning tool called SuperScan v4.0.Continue Reading
Exchange Admin 101: Configuring OMA and ActiveSync
There are two different components used by Exchange 2003's Mobile Information Services: Outlook Mobile Access and ActiveSync. This tip explains how to set up these features.Continue Reading
The five phases of IT Value Management
Aligning IT investments with business goals is as old as the IT function itself. Tangible examples of IT alignment, however, have been rare.Continue Reading
Top 10 time management tips
Do you have a time mangagement problem? Use these ten tips to see if you do and solve the problem.Continue Reading
Seven steps for a patch management process
Patch management is more than a one-time fix. Here are seven steps to get you started on your continuous patch management endeavors.Continue Reading
How to choose the right data storage device
Need storage? Ed Tittle offers an essential list with considerations and recommendations for more storage space on an SMB network.Continue Reading
Auto-MDIX feature addresses crossover cable problems
This tip explains how Auto-MDIX can solve the crossover cable problems many businesses have.Continue Reading
Quote of the Day: A troubleshooting networking protocol
This tip tell you how to use different networking protocol to make your life easier.Continue Reading
When is it time to get out of tech?
Where do people with tech skills go when they want to leave the tech industry?Continue Reading
How to troubleshoot firewall problems
This tip describes how to troubleshoot problems that arise when using a new firewall.Continue Reading
Justifying the cost of PC upgrades
There's good news for business users who have been waiting patiently to upgrade their PCs. PC shipments to businesses this year are expected increase by 12% from 2003, according to a recent study by Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp.Continue Reading
Disaster recovery spending -- How much is enough?
This tip shows how you can recover from disaster economically.Continue Reading
Maximizing the quantifiable business value of IT: Six essential components
Stretched resources make it difficult for companies to take the time to measure their business value, but it has to be done. These six steps will alleviate the stress.Continue Reading
The possibilities for grid computing in the corporate world
Grid computing has gained success in the research and education enviroments, but is it ready yet for the corporate world? Find out here.Continue Reading
Four tips you can’t ignore for legacy system integration
A legacy system integration project needs to take a number of factors into account. Get a list of things to consider, with tips from experts.Continue Reading
How to survive the IT budget process
Experts offer advice on how to prioritize IT spending and come out of the budget crucible without being scalded.Continue Reading