Study: Companies struggle to capture business processes
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When software projects go bad, the results can be disastrous. Every few months, a new horror story pops into the headlines -- like Hewlett-Packard Co.'s recent, flawed SAP deployment. The company had done dozens of smooth ERP (enterprise resource planning) migration projects, but when its latest ran into problems, the cascading disruptions contributed to HP missing its third-quarter financial projections.
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Is there a reason that management keeps mum on cash flow?
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A lack of communication between information security, physical security and risk management functions could be leaving gaps in corporate security.
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A Forrester Research survey finds that IT managers are mostly too confident in their company's disaster recovery plans
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A wave of business scandals in the past few years has focused much more attention on how companies are run, but even many investor watchdogs don't exactly agree on how to assess corporate governance.
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Most large companies are struggling to protect themselves against security threats, a survey from security consultancy NetSec published today reveals.
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For about a decade, Frances B. Craig looked for a product to build her company around. She had started an information technology consulting company but missed building software to help companies operate efficiently.
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Enterprise software makers and the companies they serve have done much gnashing of teeth in the last year over meeting the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sarbox). But Sarbox is only one of many regulatory challenges that organizations are struggling to meet, AMR Research's John Hagerty stresses.
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The lack of involvement between CIOs and corporate executives in setting strategy -- along with a shortage of business skills -- are constraining IT departments, according to a study by Gartner Inc.
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Why some companies just can't be killed.
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Businesses may be spending millions on expensive security technologies aimed at thwarting data leakage and compliance violations, but many companies are still failing to sufficiently address access controls for protected information and IT systems.
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Its latest results might be a surprise because of the challenges the company has faced this year.
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Analysis Over the past few years, CRM implementations have come in for much criticism, especially in the elusive area of ROI. This has caused many companies to re-evaluate their technology implementations
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Pouring fuel on the debate over whether IT provides a competitive advantage to corporations, a pair of prominent industry observers Monday offered starkly different views of the role computer technology can play in transforming business strategy.
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Companies are taking several paths to overcome user- and vendor-created hurdles to the implementation of virtualization technologies.
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While mainframes play a dominant role in hosting data, companies' interaction with that data faces constraints, according to a Share study.
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Globalization and technical transitions have not always gone smoothly for SAP, a big German software company.