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Hong Kong to launch new IT certification
News The territory's IT credentialing body is expected to introduce three new entry to mid-level professional qualifications Tuesday.
Tags: Certification, Professional Development, Certification, Hong Kong, Information Security, QA, job, hiring, information technology, consultant
China SaaS growth to exceed 'traditional IT'
News Country's software-as-a-service market will grow 56 percent next year, exceeding IT sector that includes on-premise software, says report.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Security, software, Information Technology, CRM, Asia-Pacific, On-demand, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), security application, China
'Disintegrated' IT didn't help financial crisis
News Financial firms could have better handled economic perils if they integrated technology-business infrastructure for more effective risk monitoring, say experts.
Tags: Financial, Software integration, Risk Management, Risk Management, Financial Crisis, IT Professional, Financial Company, compliance, decision-making, Financial
Hiring the super project manager
Techguide If you’re hiring a project manager to lead your PMO, you have to look beyond a PMP certification. Find out what characteristics to focus on.
Tags: Human resources, IT project management, Project management, Business Manager, Product, Tool, Developer, Small And Medium Business, project manager, team environment
Lack of boardroom credibility dogs IT directors
Insight Lack of recognition and boardroom credibility top the concerns of U.K. IT chiefs aiming to make a strategic impact on the business.
Tags: IT Management, IT Governance
Help your team understand their project roles and responsibilities
Insight As a consultant, are you sure that everyone on your project team clearly understands their role? This roles and responsibilities template, sent to us from a TechRepublic member, can help.
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Achieving business and IT alignment
Insight An expert explains how IT and business can be aligned with synergy--with the help of a business integration software.
Outsourcing: Which offshore location?
Insight According to Gartner, India dominates the offshore outsourcing sector, followed by Ireland. Newcomers China and Russia are distant competitors to both now.
Chat-program bugs could bite millions
News Two software bugs in the popular mIRC program for real-time chatting could give online vandals access to millions of computers.
CIOs under pressure to deliver growth in 2007
News Ambitious business growth targets for 2007 are putting yet more pressure on tech chiefs to innovate and reduce costs, according to Gartner's annual CIO Agenda survey.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions
ebXML: The e-choreography of business collaboration
Insight I am now officially old enough to witness technology recycle itself. The first two years of my career were spent as a business analyst for an EDI standards committee for the railroad industry. The railroads never got enough participation from each other and progress was slow. However, exchanging EDI messages to track a customer shipment would have added business value. Rather than a customer having to phone every railway to track his shipment, he could receive EDI messages informing him of his shipment’s location throughout the trip plan.
The art of data mapping
Insight Going through corporate merger, or upgrading to a new application. Either way, it is inevitable that you'll have to convert, map and validate many of your organization's data types.
Sun offers Linux directly to customers
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'Dragonfly' biz rules to aid .Net services
News Microsoft's business rules engine technology--code-named Dragonfly-- promises developers more flexibility in building and maintaining business applications, particularly Web services.
