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  • An IT bucket brigade relives Hurricane Sandy

    Posted August 8, 2013 - 2:53 pm

    A new film recounts how a data center's customers and employees worked tirelessly to keep the facility running after last fall's big storm.

  • Some data center operators take their chances with floods

    Posted July 15, 2013 - 11:02 am

    Climate change is causing some IT leaders to consider relocating, or at least hardening, their facilities.

  • How outdated tech in the supply chain threatens your safety

    Posted June 25, 2013 - 1:59 pm

    Headlines scream about tainted food, drug shortages and untraceable guns. Part of the problem is that inadequate technologies and data silos make it tough to trace problems back to their source.

  • Emergency! EN systems alert employees when disaster strikes

    Posted April 15, 2013 - 9:29 am

    Today's emergency notification technology allows enterprises to send out, and employees to receive, real-time situational advisories.

  • NBA team rebounds from IT disaster

    Posted February 26, 2013 - 3:23 pm

    After Katrina, the New Orleans Hornets built a stronger disaster-recovery operation: a hot site with a diesel engine big enough to 'power a locomotive.'

  • 6 CIOs share their strategic visions for 2013

    Posted January 30, 2013 - 1:50 pm

    If your IT organization doesn't have a clear core strategy, it's easy to get caught up in--and spend too much on--technology trends. Learn about six CIOs' strategies for 2013 and see how they compare to your plans for the rest of the year.

  • Disaster recovery: Don't forget mobile

    Posted January 14, 2013 - 1:01 pm

    As the mobile workforce continues to grow, IT execs must remember the importance of including mobile technology in their disaster recovery plans.

  • Supply chain security moves to front burner in 2013

    Posted December 10, 2012 - 3:23 pm

    The onslaught of sophisticated cyber espionage against the U.S. and its allies has roused both lawmakers and private sector firms to tackle supply chain security.

  • 4 tech trends in IT disaster recovery

    Posted July 19, 2012 - 2:32 pm

    As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a while, it's vital that companies have in place a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

  • How the cloud democratizes and complicates disaster recovery

    Posted April 11, 2012 - 12:02 pm

    When it comes to disaster recovery, the cloud is showing itself to be a mixed bag. CIO.com's Jeff Vance explains how the great shift in technology has both lowered the entry barriers for DR technology and given smaller businesses what could be a dangerous sense of false security.

  • 6 reasons small businesses need virtualization

    Posted January 11, 2012 - 12:24 pm

    If you run a small or mid-sized business, server virtualization promises cost savngs and improved IT efficiency. To help ensure you understand the advantages, we drew up a list of the most tangible benefits that virtualization has to offer small and mid-sized businesses

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    Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know

    Posted December 5, 2011 - 6:00 pm

    Some good starting points for those new to the discipline.

  • 5 hot tech projects to boost your IT career

    Posted November 7, 2011 - 7:06 am

    Take the reins of any of these five forward-looking initiatives and become an IT hero in the eyes of upper management

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    September 11, 2001 remembered

    Posted September 9, 2011 - 3:18 pm

    The attacks on September 11, 2001 showed the world that the worst possible scenario can actually happen. Here's a look at how far we've come in the 10 years since -- and how far we have yet to go.

  • Using BI, BPM Data to Change Business Processes Fast

    Posted June 18, 2010 - 10:31 am

    When business intelligence is used to inform business process changes, companies find new ways to save money and connect more closely with customers.

  • SharePoint Has Its Limits

    Posted April 28, 2010 - 9:25 pm

    SharePoint is evolving as a versatile collaboration tool, but you can stretch it only so far. It's not designed for every content management or business process management challenge.

  • Microsoft SharePoint Bible: Your Complete Guide

    Posted March 30, 2010 - 11:38 am

    You may not need all the features SharePoint 2010 has to offer, but advances in areas such as social media, offline access and better CRM and ERP integration make it worth a look.

  • Heathrow saves £30 million with business process management

    Posted March 2, 2010 - 10:33 pm

    Heathrow airport has saved £30 million (US$44.8 million) by using software from business process management (BPM) supplier Pegasystems to build a system for managing activity in the airport, from aircraft landings to passenger movement.

  • How BPM Paid Off for Wells Fargo

    Posted June 1, 2009 - 10:26 am

    In 2007, Wells Fargo's Enterprise Technology Architecture and Planning (ETAP) group took a novel approach to establish BPM and reap its benefits by creating a community of practice to champion it.

  • How NBC Universal Puts BPM To Work

    Posted March 30, 2009 - 11:22 am

    NBC Universal (NBCU) tackled its business process management (BPM) challenges by creating a team to work hand in hand with IT and operations to help improve its customer-facing processes.

  • What is Human Process Management (HPM)?

    Posted December 18, 2008 - 3:50 pm

    Human processes are business processes that generate a business outcome that is heavily dependent on interactions between people. These are also called “tacit interactions” by economists, which is an attempt to differentiate between routine transactions and interactions that rely heavily on judgment and context. These “tacit interactions” are the most prevalent kind of business processes in which knowledge workers take part.

  • Anatomy of a Web Service Contract

    Posted December 17, 2008 - 4:07 pm

    For Web services to succeed as part of SOA, they require balanced, effective technical contracts that enable services to be evolved and repeatedly reused for years to come. Now, a team of industry experts presents the first end-to-end guide to designing and governing Web service contracts.

  • Tech workers: Ready to be a free agent?

    Posted October 21, 2008 - 3:06 pm

    In these uncertain times, who isn't worried about job security? There are ominous signs aplenty: tech projects put on the chopping block, layoffs looming, and spotty full-time hiring opportunities on job boards. It's good to have a backup plan in case you're let go, and one plan is to prepare yourself to be a free agent.

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    SAP skills shortage ultimately hurts company

    Posted June 18, 2008 - 10:52 am

    SAP executives knew they had a problem. By early 2007, after several years of quarter-over-quarter growth, senior decision-makers at the German software giant, including co-CEO Leo Apotheker, were hearing more and more about an alarming shortage of SAP talent in the marketplace.

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    Wyeth's prescription for BPM success

    Posted June 18, 2008 - 10:38 am

    For a pharmaceutical company like Wyeth, no function is more important than Research and Development (R&D). And for the information systems group that supports R&D, business process management (BPM) is emerging as a key technology and management strategy to make that function more efficient. In fact, R&D's early success at using this technology and methodology to cut software development time in half has sparked interest from other divisions of the company that are looking to start their own BPM projects.
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