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  • MobileXchange 2008 Presentation: "Barriers to Mobility in ANZ"

    Advisor: Kevin McIsaac.   Date: 23-July-08.

    With mobile device shipments predicted to grow in excess of 50% per annum through to 2010, clearly you must learn how to deal with this trend. But the question that only you can answer is, “Is mobility just a ‘solution looking for a problem’ or are there real benefits to your organisations?” . 

  • Audio Management Briefing: Aspects of Business Intelligence

    Advisor: Rob MacKinnon   Date: September 10th 2008    Time: 11.00am - 12.00pm AEST

    In 2008, corporate databases reached unprecedented sizes.  A recent US study, run in conjunction with the American SAP User Group (ASUG), discovered average SAP databases were 3.7TB and growing by 10 to 100 gigabytes per month.  Despite the apparent abundance of data, many organisations remain challenged by Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives.  Against this backdrop, BI vendors continue to release increasingly sophisticated products.  We examine the wide array of BI technology currently available and some of the hallmarks that denote successful BI implementations.

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Banking software headed for extinction

In the current credit and liquidity market investors demand more transparency, and accurate and timely product and market information, yet most legacy banking systems are not up to the job. There is a strong business case for replacing legacy banking systems to restore organisational agility, and to improve the quality of service offered to customers.
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Sourcing Monthly June - July 2008

A monthly review of all of the sourcing activity, upcoming tenders and news items
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The Project Lifecycle Compendium – an IBRS Master Research Paper

In March 2001 the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a management brief1 addressing problems in implementing large IT projects in the public and private sectors. Observations in this report included “...budgets are exceeded, deadlines are over-run and often the quality of the new system is far below the standard agreed when the project was undertaken”.
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SaaS Implications for the CIO

Any organisation moving to a SaaS environment must recognise that it will need access to a different set of in-house IT skill sets and make sure it has these in place. It must also rigorously examine any prospective SaaS vendor to make sure that it too has the necessary SaaS support skills on board.
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Review and Close the Loop for Every Project

Organisations that do not review outcomes from business systems and IT Infrastructure projects, or do review them but pay little attention to the lessons learned, will probably continue to make unwise business systems investment decisions and fail to develop their people.
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Security awareness training: creating the human firewall

Security awareness training is vital but in order to realise the benefits, and prevent the acts of carelessness, it is even more important to repeatedly expose employees to the training to keep their level of security awareness elevated. Elevated security awareness helps create the human firewall: probably the most cost effective security resource you can get.
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Effective Outsourcing: It’s all in the relationship

Organisations considering outsourcing are increasingly focusing on the ability of service providers to implement effective relationship management in their outsourcing arrangements. A systematic approach to the evaluation of service provider relationship management capabilities is more likely to lead to the selection of a service provider who will be able to work with the buying organisation to help it achieve its outsourcing goals.
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Ensuring a Satisfactory Settlement where a Technology Project fails to deliver the Expected Outcomes

Where a major information technology project is discontinued; failure to provide this will result in a significant project financial loss, diminished credibility for the IT Department and, for mission critical projects, could mean a loss of revenue for the organisation.
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PED Antics part 1: The broken promise

Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) are flooding into enterprises. In addition to the technical challenges and costs PEDs place on IT departments, PEDs may be actually hindering service quality and productivity. Management need to step back from the promises that PEDs offer, and take a long, hard, pragmatic look at how these devices are really being used.
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Stateless Desktops: Looking Beyond the VDI Hype

While Virtual Desktops are one of the hottest infrastructure topics of 2008, simply virtualising a typical desktop environment and migrating that to the data centre will prove to be a very costly mistake. Instead organisations should look beyond the Virtual Desktop hype and focus on implementing a stateless desktop architecture that increases desktop agility and lowers the total cost of ownership.
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Search Industry Update '08

The corporate battle for search supremacy between Microsoft and Google over Yahoo! has been a good spectator sport for several months. So far it’s unresolved, but it should refocus attention on search marketing strategy, on optimal tactical channel selection and the opportunities that may emerge from a new landscape in search marketing.