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posted by Shawn Rogers   | November 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

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How does your business intelligence software as a service (SaaS) vendor check out on our SaaS Business Intelligence Top Ten Checklist? There are dozens of data points to consider when comparing enterprise level SaaS solutions. The following ten are my favorite and I believe the most critical when investigating the best product for your company....

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | November 29, 2010 | 0 Comments

Over the Thanksgiving holidays, I’ve had time to reflect on a concept that I’ve decided to call “Contrarian Accelerators.” The first name I came up with as “Perverse Accelerators” – which seemed more memorable, but a tad politically incorrect, somehow. The best adjective – and I’m open to suggestions – would fall somewhere between “contrarian”...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | November 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

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Is it possible to have security and privacy? The question has been brought to a head recently, with the intense backlash to the US Transportation Security Administration’s more assertive passenger security checks – a reaction that seems likely to become only more heated with the coming of the busy holiday travel season. The issue for...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | November 18, 2010 | 0 Comments

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This week I attended the Defrag Conference for the second time. A special thanks to Eric Nolin for inviting me again this year. The event is well attended and hosts an eclectic slice of the technology space that includes web 2.0 companies, traditional enterprise, start-ups and Internet based innovators. This years event focused on analytics...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | November 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

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My friend and former EMA colleague Andi Mann has coined a term that distinctively captures the hamstrung state of virtualization in far too many organizations: virtualization stall. But there may be an equally serious problem facing those seeking to expand from virtualization to cloud computing as a true IT service architecture, regardless whether internal or...

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | November 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

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Sometimes… OK most of the time …  the terms and words we use for “things” in service management are in themselves landmines. One of the worst culprits is of course the term “CMDB” which I like to compare to ‘The Holy Roman Empire” – which as H.G. Wells pointed out was neither “holy” nor “Roman”...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | November 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Verizon RISK team have just published their VERIS community application. Structured on the VERIS (Verizon Enterprise Risk and Incident Sharing) framework, this application is a tool they have made available to extend to anyone the ability to contribute information on data breach incidents, to enrich the already considerable body of breach data Verizon has...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | November 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

Open Source data integration company Talend continues to expand its product offerings via acquisition. In 2009 Talend purchased Amalto and leveraged the technology into its recently launched master data management (MDM) solution. Today the company announced the purchase of SOPERA an open source SOA, middleware platform and enterprise service bus provider. SOPERA and Talend have...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | November 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

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In a recent post, I talked about the security value of IT management disciplines such as configuration and change control. I pointed to evidence we had gathered here at EMA that support the security and IT risk management values of taking a strong approach to defining change management objectives, actually implementing them in practice, monitoring...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | November 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

I’ve met with seven companies since my arrival in Orlando yesterday and I’m happy to report that things seem to be continuing in the right direction in the business intelligence space. The attendance is up over last years event and the vendors are talking about growing sales and more importantly innovation. The hot topic is...

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