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CIOs: Avoid War Between IT's Twentysomethings and More Mature Workers 2006-11-08 01:00:18 Forrester Research

Industry pundits recently opened new skirmish lines in a generational war of words within IT, pitting older IT workers with mainframe skills against younger workers with new technology skills. Blogs everywhere are filling, debating whether the old workers are past their prime and only the young employees have value moving forward. This position is irresponsible and just plain wrong. The truth is that each group has significant value. As a combined team of talented individuals, the two groups are far more powerful than either will ever be by themselves. CIOs must act to prevent these skirmish lines from forming in their firms. They should leverage the business and operational knowledge of the older workers to mentor their younger counterparts while retraining the mature employees who are willing to be retrained.

'Must Have': Defining Your IP Phone System 2006-10-20 07:58:25 Cisco Systems

This article from voip-magazine.com discusses how decision makers seeking a new communications solution can understand the critical core, culture-driven features necessary for any organization. The article also includes a top-ten action items and features list to help guide the reader through the process of separating must-haves from nice-to-haves.

Reaching People, Not Devices: Technology that Helps You Reach the Right Person the First Time 2006-10-20 07:58:25 Cisco Systems

This Interactive Overview explains how a Cisco Unified Communications Solution combines data, voice, and video on a single secure network to deliver more effective communications that can help lower operating costs, increase customer satisfaction, and optimize business productivity.

The Guru, Episode 1: What's Beyond Right Now... 2006-10-20 07:58:25 Cisco Systems

A new switch? Another new server? Four more contact center agents? The challenges facing a growing business seem unlimited. But if you spend all your time and money responding to what you need "right now," how will you figure out what your business needs next month or next quarter? In this video presentation, one company struggles with just such a dilemma. Watch as they address these issues...and reach "network enlightenment."

US Fish and Wildlife Service Moves Toward 'Green' in Budget and Performance Integration 2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute

With a $2 billion budget and a mission to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people, the Fish and Wildlife Service delivers this mission at each regional office. Using SAS, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is set to become the first Department of Interior agency to meet a mandate designed to help federal agencies make better decisions about how to spend taxpayers' dollars. SAS Activity-Based Management is helping the Fish and Wildlife Service better integrate cost and performance data.

Gruppo Banca Lombarda Implements New Credit Risk Assessment to Comply With International Guidelines 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

With more than 780 branches, 1.4 million customers and total assets under management of 68.4 billion euros (as of Dec. 31, 2004), Gruppo Banca Lombarda is one of Italy's top 10 banking groups. The challenge was to implement an Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) approach for determining credit risk that satisfies the Basel II guidelines and allows Gruppo Banca Lombarda to better ensure capital adequacy. Gruppo Banca Lombarda implemented IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.1, IBM System p5 and Clementine from SPSS, Inc.

IBM Tivoli Software Demo: Availability Management for the SMB 2006-10-19 01:00:15 IBM

By the time an unhappy user contacts your help desk about an availability issue or other problem, the damage to your customer satisfaction levels has already been done. That's why today's small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) need a premier-grade infrastructure management tool. To learn about one such solution, view this Macromedia Flash demo from IBM. You'll see how IBM Tivoli software, a powerful and easy-to-use monitoring solution, helps you to:

Proactively manage infrastructure availability

Quickly diagnose and resolve bottlenecks, performance impacts,
and outages
Reduce the complexity of managing your IT environment

Monitor, analyze, correlate, and automate functions from a centralized and robust portal environment

View the performance metrics you need in a format you prefer

Century Consultants, Ltd. Reduces Costs by Seamlessly Migrating to New Technologies 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

In 1989, Century Consultants, Ltd. introduced its first Oracle-based release of Star_Base - a student administration system for K-12 - using character mode terminals. Over the years, technology changed significantly, first with client/server configurations and later with the internet. Century Consultants needed a tool that would help the company keep pace with technological advances and enable fast and simple development and deployment on a range of hardware and software combinations to meet diverse customer needs. In addition, they needed a scalable and highly reliable architecture that could support thousands of clients. Century looked to Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports to help it seamlessly migrate to the latest technologies without having to rewrite applications, thus preserving the company's existing IT investments.

FLEXnet Publisher Enhanced Security Module 2006-10-17 14:47:01 Macrovision

Worried about securing your software against unauthorized use? FLEXnet Enhanced Security can help--view this presentation to learn more.

FLEXnet Operations Getting Started Guide 2006-10-17 14:47:01 Macrovision

Take a deeper dive into FLEXnet Operations with this detailed product demo.

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Title	Date Added	Company
CIOs: Avoid War Between IT's Twentysomethings and More Mature Workers	2006-11-08 01:00:18	Forrester Research
Industry pundits recently opened new skirmish lines in a generational war of words within IT, pitting older IT workers with mainframe skills against younger workers with new technology skills. Blogs everywhere are filling, debating whether the old workers are past their prime and only the young employees have value moving forward. This position is irresponsible and just plain wrong. The truth is that each group has significant value. As a combined team of talented individuals, the two groups are far more powerful than either will ever be by themselves. CIOs must act to prevent these skirmish lines from forming in their firms. They should leverage the business and operational knowledge of the older workers to mentor their younger counterparts while retraining the mature employees who are willing to be retrained.
'Must Have': Defining Your IP Phone System	2006-10-20 07:58:25	Cisco Systems
This article from voip-magazine.com discusses how decision makers seeking a new communications solution can understand the critical core, culture-driven features necessary for any organization. The article also includes a top-ten action items and features list to help guide the reader through the process of separating must-haves from nice-to-haves.
Reaching People, Not Devices: Technology that Helps You Reach the Right Person the First Time	2006-10-20 07:58:25	Cisco Systems
This Interactive Overview explains how a Cisco Unified Communications Solution combines data, voice, and video on a single secure network to deliver more effective communications that can help lower operating costs, increase customer satisfaction, and optimize business productivity.
The Guru, Episode 1: What's Beyond Right Now...	2006-10-20 07:58:25	Cisco Systems
A new switch? Another new server? Four more contact center agents? The challenges facing a growing business seem unlimited. But if you spend all your time and money responding to what you need "right now," how will you figure out what your business needs next month or next quarter? In this video presentation, one company struggles with just such a dilemma. Watch as they address these issues...and reach "network enlightenment."
US Fish and Wildlife Service Moves Toward 'Green' in Budget and Performance Integration	2006-10-20 01:00:16	SAS Institute
With a $2 billion budget and a mission to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people, the Fish and Wildlife Service delivers this mission at each regional office. Using SAS, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is set to become the first Department of Interior agency to meet a mandate designed to help federal agencies make better decisions about how to spend taxpayers' dollars. SAS Activity-Based Management is helping the Fish and Wildlife Service better integrate cost and performance data.
Gruppo Banca Lombarda Implements New Credit Risk Assessment to Comply With International Guidelines	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
With more than 780 branches, 1.4 million customers and total assets under management of 68.4 billion euros (as of Dec. 31, 2004), Gruppo Banca Lombarda is one of Italy's top 10 banking groups. The challenge was to implement an Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) approach for determining credit risk that satisfies the Basel II guidelines and allows Gruppo Banca Lombarda to better ensure capital adequacy. Gruppo Banca Lombarda implemented IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.1, IBM System p5 and Clementine from SPSS, Inc.
IBM Tivoli Software Demo: Availability Management for the SMB	2006-10-19 01:00:15	IBM
By the time an unhappy user contacts your help desk about an availability issue or other problem, the damage to your customer satisfaction levels has already been done. That's why today's small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) need a premier-grade infrastructure management tool. To learn about one such solution, view this Macromedia Flash demo from IBM. You'll see how IBM Tivoli software, a powerful and easy-to-use monitoring solution, helps you to: Proactively manage infrastructure availability Quickly diagnose and resolve bottlenecks, performance impacts, and outages Reduce the complexity of managing your IT environment Monitor, analyze, correlate, and automate functions from a centralized and robust portal environment View the performance metrics you need in a format you prefer
Century Consultants, Ltd. Reduces Costs by Seamlessly Migrating to New Technologies	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
In 1989, Century Consultants, Ltd. introduced its first Oracle-based release of Star_Base - a student administration system for K-12 - using character mode terminals. Over the years, technology changed significantly, first with client/server configurations and later with the internet. Century Consultants needed a tool that would help the company keep pace with technological advances and enable fast and simple development and deployment on a range of hardware and software combinations to meet diverse customer needs. In addition, they needed a scalable and highly reliable architecture that could support thousands of clients. Century looked to Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports to help it seamlessly migrate to the latest technologies without having to rewrite applications, thus preserving the company's existing IT investments.
FLEXnet Publisher Enhanced Security Module	2006-10-17 14:47:01	Macrovision
Worried about securing your software against unauthorized use? FLEXnet Enhanced Security can help--view this presentation to learn more.
FLEXnet Operations Getting Started Guide	2006-10-17 14:47:01	Macrovision
Take a deeper dive into FLEXnet Operations with this detailed product demo.