02.27.08
Posted in Information Systems/Technology at 12:42 am by Paul Ambrose
- Mac will double its market share
- Half of business travelers won’t take their laptops
- Open source will penetrate 80% of enterprise software
- A third of all software purchased will be by subscription
- Many new businesses will buy IT infrastructure as a service
- Power efficiency will become a key criteria in IT purchases
- CO2 footprint will become part of PC purchasing criteria
- Green sourcing will drive vendors to provide green credentials
- End user preferences will drive half of all IT purchases
- 3D printers will grow 100-fold
Gartner released the above list on January 31, and it stated, “The full impact of these trends may not appear this year, but executives need to act now so that they can exploit the trends for their competitive advantage.” Here’s the link to the Gartner article.
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02.23.08
Posted in Information Systems/Technology at 6:59 pm by Paul Ambrose
- #10. [your first name]
- #9. blink182
- #8. password1
- #7. myspace1
- #6. monkey
- #5. letmein
- #4. abc123
- #3. qwerty
- #2. 123456
- #1. password
Source: PC Magazine
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02.08.08
Posted in Information Systems/Technology at 11:53 am by Paul Ambrose
Jason Hiner, Executive Editor of Tech Republic shared this on his blog recently (listed in descending order of ‘hotness’):
7. BPM
Business Process Management: Refers to streamlining business operations as a cost savings measure by using technology to make business processes more efficient.
6. CMDB
A Configuration Management Database: A unified database that captures configuration data about the various IT infrastructure elements for standardizing IT management.
5. BI
Business Intelligence: Fancy high-powered reports and exotic dashboards used to track business performance.
4. MDM
Master Data Management: Similar to, but even bigger than a data warehouse with the key difference being that this ginourmous database unifies live and dynamic data, such as customer and product data.
3. TCO
Total cost of ownership: This is an useful formula for arriving at the full costs involved in deploying and managing technology tools and in conjunction with ROI is useful in helping IT departments decide how to best spend their constrained budgets.
2. SOA
Service Oriented Architecture: Computing refered to as “Web services” and “Software as a Service” over the past decade has now evolved into SOA, which goes a step beyond by breaking down software services into standard building blocks that can be re-used, distributed, and fed into other sites, programs, and projects.
1. ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library: A repository or library of a set of standards and best practices for organizing and running an IT department.
Here’s the link to Jason Hiner’s original post.
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12.26.07
Posted in Information Systems/Technology at 8:47 am by Paul Ambrose
Systems Analysts are in good demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the growth of job opportunities systems analysts will be much better than average. Here at the MCS program we train you to be a good systems analyst. But are you really cut out to be one? Suzanne Thornberry of Tech Republic identifies 10 signs that you aren’t cut out to be a systems analyst. Here you go!
- You expect the business to conform to IT
- You don’t like working with upper management
- You can’t say “No”
- You can’t say “Yes”
- You hate BAND-AIDS and duct tape
- You’re just into the big picture
- You rely on intuition to make decisions
- You don’t listen
- You think compromising means losing
- You want to work 9 to 5 — only
Here’s a link to the full article.
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12.10.07
Posted in Information Systems/Technology at 9:49 am by Paul Ambrose
There are more IS/IT jobs than students that graduate from IS programs. Here’s an article featuring a student in my Systems Analysis and Design class about his job hunt experience:
Help wanted: Talented information technology workers in high demand
So why aren’t more students rushing to this profession?
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