Outlook Series | Podcast Interviews

Data Quality

You probably already know that you have data quality issues, and efficiently reaching every customer and qualified prospect is critical. So, your challenge is looking for, identifying, and correcting bad data. To meet that challenge, you need quick insight into the types of bad contact data in your systems, like invalid street addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, which often result in lost marketing and sales opportunities, waste associated with undeliverable mail, and costly return shipping fees.
Those data quality issues and the need to integrate increasingly complex enterprise data requires that you select a solution that offers a single, comprehensive view of your critical information assets. We interview Greg Brown to gain Melissa Data's perspective on Data Quality. Greg is the Director of Marketing for Melissa Data. 27 Minutes

Data Loss Prevention

Protecting sensitive information as it transforms and moves across the globe is mission critical to today's multinational enterprises. That collaboration and support for mobile devices provides easier access and broader sharing of enterprise information. Keeping sensitive data well-protected requires preventing data loss where end-users collaborate, such as file shares, email and the Web. To meet this challenge, you need security solutions that can help manage information risk by proactively locating and controlling sensitive information as it moves through the IT environment. Specifically, you need better visibility into high areas of risk, and help improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your ongoing security operations. We interview Sam Curry to gain EMC's perspective on Data Loss Prevention. Sam is Chief Technologist of RSA which is the security division of EMC. 23 Minutes

Agile Development

Agile development can boost the productivity of developers, QA testers, product owners—and ultimately, increase the value of what is delivered to customers. Agile also enables development teams to collaborate better, and shortens release cycles. So, even if your team is not completely immersed into agile development, you are probably seeking to make parts of your process more Agile. To meet that challenge, you need the flexibility to run Agile and traditional software development projects in parallel without different teams having to use different tools. Whether your organization is using iterative waterfall, scrum, or another development methodology, you need a solution that adapts to the way your team works. We interview Paula Rome to gain Seapine Software's perspective on Agile Development. Paula is a Product Manager at Seapine Software. 20 Minutes

IMDB Drives Extreme Performance

In Memory Databases IMDB enable data virtualization and scaling which are critical to meeting the needs of high data volume and high concurrent user organizations, whether deployed in public cloud or private data center environments. Leveraging a fully integrated in memory database eliminates the need for application changes and provides the flexibility that allows IMDB to be configured to meet application requirements. In data centers, the IT challenge is to increase efficiency and availability while lowering data center costs. At the same time, application deployments in grid and cloud computing environments are increasing the requirements of transaction processing systems to support large volumes of concurrent users with high transaction rates. We interview Raj Rathee to gain Sybase's perspective on in memory databases. Raj is a product manager for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. 24 Minutes

Information Governance

Even though standards for good governance are rising, much of today's focus around corporate governance leaves information out of the discussion. Carefully managing your growing volume of information carries both risk and opportunity for your enterprise. Furthermore, corporate leaders need to be active stewards of their companies' information and should know as much about their information assets as their CFO knows about their company's financial assets. By implementing a company wide information governance initiative, you can create and enforce policies that help ensure information quality, compliance, and protection while increasing business value. We interview Gregory Kosinski to gain EMC's perspective on Information Governance.
Gregory is the Director of Marketing for EMC SourceOne Products. 21 Minutes

Cash Management with CDARS

Traditional cash management options, such as auction/adjustable rate preferreds, CMOs, commercial paper, money market funds, and Agencies, are not FDIC-insured and may carry undesirable risks. Recently, the US Securities and Exchange Commission charged Robert Allen Stanford and three of his companies for orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme centering on an $8 billion CD program. In that case, Antiguan-based Stanford International Bank issued promissory notes not CDs. CDs are issued by a US bank and are insured by the U.S. government. Clearly, designing a cash management strategy that includes the full faith and credit of the Unites States is critical. So, how can you obtain multi million dollar FDIC insurance with the ease of working through one trusted relationship? We interview Steve Kinner to gain Promontory Interfinancial Network's perspective on Cash Management. 8 Minutes

IT Financial Management

Capturing IT costs merely as general overhead keeps the enterprise from truly understanding the business contribution made by IT. IT Finance Managers need the means to assess IT spending as it relates to specific business initiatives. By mapping costs to architectural elements and then aggregating them in various combinations that are relevant to the business, IT can achieve a clear understanding of those costs. That can help identify potential savings that could free up financial resources. Not to mention create a defendable position against the preconception that IT organizations don’t understand financial planning issues. We interview Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain alfabet's perspective on IT Financial Management. Ulrich is the VP of Product Line Management at alfabet. 35 Minutes

Better Business Outcomes with PPM

The need to bring order out of chaos is nothing new to organizations. Technical complexity, increasing demand for new applications and services, and proliferating systems crowding the data center floor are routine. So is the need to juggle ever-changing management priorities—and deal with the vagaries of the quarterly budget. What’s new is the fact that project and portfolio management (PPM) now impacts business success in a visceral way. The efficiency and effectiveness of PPM are directly related to bottom-line financial results—and poor PPM practices are not an option for business leaders. Equally important, new trends and business conditions are increasing the pressure to implement better PPM practices. We interview Bruce Randall to gain HP's perspective IT financial management. Bruce is Director of Product Marketing for HP. 24 Minutes

Outsourced Network Monitoring

Enterprise data centers not only need to keep their networks and business applications up and running, but also performing optimally. However, monitoring and managing these heterogeneous, and increasingly virtualized environments can be challenging -- requiring significant time and multidomain expertise. Given the complexity of these networks, IT organizations usually find it difficult to quickly troubleshoot network issues or determine the cause of application performance degradation. To meet this challenge, more and more organizations are turning to a SaaS model to improve application availability and proactive management. By doing so, they are reducing capital and operational costs, mitigate risk and improving service levels. We interview Nupur Thakur to gain Brocade's perspective on Network Monitoring. Nupur is a product manager for Brocade’s Network Monitoring Service. 21 Minutes

Microsoft Project 2010

In today’s challenging environment, teams and organizations of all sizes must select and deliver the right projects on time and on budget. Furthermore, reducing costs by enabling smarter and more informed decisions about budgeting and resource allocation is critical. Consequently, more and more companies are relying on project and portfolio management tools to analyze their current and future project performance. Also, it is important to leverage flexible work management solutions and the right collaboration tools for occasional and professional project managers, but you also need a pathway to more advanced project and portfolio management capabilities as your business needs evolve. We interview Seth Patton to gain Microsoft's perspective Project and Portfolio Management. Seth is a Senior Director with Microsoft. 30 Minutes

Customer Intimacy

A wealth of data is in applications for order management, accounting and sales force automation. That data contains valuable customer insights, and more CIOs are looking to predictive analytics to uncover those insights. Furthermore, you cannot rely on selling and marketing to mass audiences the way you have in the past. Customers are asserting their individuality, and they want to engage in personal relationships that extend beyond the point of purchase, however and wherever those interactions occur. Today, a lot of digital noise is outside your organizations control. Few of those conversations are useful, but a few voices might determine the success or failure of your marketing campaigns, product development or operational efficiencies. We interview Erick Brethenoux to gain SPSS an IBM Company's perspective on customer intimacy. Erick is the VP of Corporate Development for SPSS an IBM Company. 47 Minutes

In – Database Analytics

Smart enterprises are driving risk management, fraud detection, business process management and investment strategies, as well as competitive product, marketing and customer relationship strategies with In –Database Business Analytics. In –Database Business Analytics removes application barriers to perform critical drill-downs that were previously impossible or impractical using outside the database approaches. In traditional approaches, end-users must transport data out of the database for processing. This activity often accounts for up to 75 percent of the cycle time and imposes severe constraints on throughput and timely delivery of results. We interview Joydeep Das to gain Sybase's perspective on In –Database Business Analytics. Joydeep is a Senior Product Manager with Sybase. 44 Minutes

Improve ROI with Uplift Modeling

Identifying waste in your marketing campaign budget and hidden incremental revenue are key to improving marketing campaign ROI. Achieve that mission, and you could realize a potential reduction of costs of up to 40 percent while simultaneously improving response by up to 35 percent. You can enjoy that kind of result by leveraging a statistical technique that can identify customers that will respond anyway, without the need for a campaign, as well as those who could be negatively affected by the marketing action. Moreover, Uplift Modeling can deliver higher response and incremental revenue simply by targeting fewer customers, effectively reducing campaign costs. We interview Dr. Mark Smith to gain Portrait Software's perspective on predictive analytics. Mark is the EVP of Sales and Marketing for Portrait Software. 36 Minutes

Better Decision Management

One of the biggest challenges facing businesses is to make sure they can manage decisons with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency, all while driving down costs. To meet the challenge, Decision Management Platforms tightly integrate their capabilities with a company’s existing IT architecture. Moreover, DM builds on your modern IT architecture and allows you to manage decisons as a true corporate asset. Managing decisons as assets empowers business users, accelerates the time to value for business changes and helps build a new partnership between the business and IT. Furthermore, when it comes to making decisons in the face of uncertainty, it is critical to leverage analytics for more effective risk management. We interview Carole Ann Matignon to gain FICO's perspective on decision management. Carole Ann is VP Product Management at FICO. 43 Minutes

Optimizing IP Networks

New IP-based technologies are creating increased demands on network infrastructures. Those demands require higher levels of performance, availability, and mobility. For instance, the migration of voice and video to IP Networks presents new challenges that are revolutionizing the way networks are built and managed. Similarly, new network based business applications and processes that improve collaboration and productivity – along with the dramatic growth of wireless networks and mobile devices such as smart phones, IP phones, and point of sale devices – all require higher levels of network performance. Moreover, consolidation and virtualization initiatives are further driving the need for higher network scalability. We interview Gene Gertson to gain Brocade's perspective on IP Network Infrastructure Services. Gene is the Lead IP Infrastructure Services Consultant for Brocade Global Services. 20 Minutes

End to End Encryption

Today’s bankcard networks are generally considered to be highly reliable and secure. However, cardholder data is typically unencrypted – visible in clear text – as it leaves a merchant’s terminal and makes its way through the payments network. At certain points in its journey, the data is potentially exposed – making it valuable prey for professional hackers who have developed increasingly sophisticated methods of hijacking it. The numerous systems that have been compromised over the last several years are stark testimony to the success of these criminals. Protecting sensitive cardholder and payment account information throughout the lifecycle of a transaction from card swipe through transmission to the card brands is the ultimate goal of end-to-end encryption. We interview Steve Elefant to gain Heartland Payment Systems' perspective on end to end encryption. Steve is the CIO for Heartland Payment Systems. 23 Minutes

Work Intelligence with PPM

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to leverage real-time insight into the everyday work that’s going on across projects and teams, and to ensure that work is fully aligned with business priorities. Furthermore, companies need to be able to efficiently capture a portfolio view of their organization so that they can make smart, informed decisions on-the-fly. In particular, increasing visibility is crucial when you are developing new projects by collaborating across multiple international offices. Also, it is often best to keep on eye on your bottom line by leveraging an on-demand solution that provides the ability to easily conduct a pilot and then quickly scale it up and roll it out company-wide. We interview Timothy Low to gain Daptiv's perspective on on-demand project management and collaboration software. Timothy is the Vice President of Marketing with Daptiv. 25 Minutes

Holistic Virtualization Strategies

Organizations are leveraging virtualization technologies to help them consolidate resources, reduce costs, and improve management for their server and storage infrastructures. But in doing so, many fail to consider the overall impact of virtualization on the data center – thereby opening the door to degraded application performance and increased management complexity. As a result, they may be unable to satisfy SLAs or meet data growth requirements. However, the right data center virtualization strategy will optimize application and fabric performance and improve data protection. By leveraging a holistic strategy, you can take advantage of virtualization without experiencing unnecessary costs and headaches while reducing business risk and achieving a faster ROI. We interview Todd Broadhurst to gain Brocade's perspective on virtualization strategies. Todd is a Professional Services Manager with Brocade. 36 Minutes

Wireless Mobility

WLANs have become a mainstream network access technology. However, it is important to study both capital and operational expenditures before making your 802.11n purchase or upgrade. To achieve optimal enterprise productivity, insist on the support of a broad range of mobile voice, video and location-based applications. Furthermore, cost effective enterprise mobility can be realized by leveraging an Open Communications approach where existing investments can be kept and forklift upgrades can be avoided. Finally, comprehensive WLAN solutions also address linear scalability, unified wired and wireless communications, as well as security. We interview Luc Roy to gain Enterasys/Siemens Enterprise Communications' perspective on enterprise WLANs. Luc is VP Wireless Strategy at Enterasys/Siemens Enterprise Communications. 43 Minutes

Business Process Mobilization

We have only just scratched the surface of the productivity gains that are likely to grow from the development of mobile technology. Furthermore, the paradigm is shifting from portable voice transmission and email delivery to a complete pocket office and control center that can replicate every function available at company headquarters. Companies that embrace the new technology will enhance their existing IT investments, increase their workforce productivity and put themselves at the forefront of the new business mobility that can help companies manage their business more effectively and more profitably. Moreover, you can now leverage a new level of access to information and management control of processes and operations than has previously been thought possible. We interview Bryan Whitmarsh to gain Sybase's perspective on business process mobilization. Bryan is a senior product manager with Sybase. 26 Minutes

Enterprise Social Networking

Wikis have taken the Content Management System and Email revolutions to the next level by helping organizations optimize the sharing of collective knowledge, insights and creativity. Specifically, Wikis improve connectedness by tapping into community involvement. As you know, delegation is key to managerial success, but community delegation drives greater leverage and productivity. Furthermore, Wikis can improve business processes by capturing and disseminating the subtleness of informal knowledge. Finally, when selecting an enterprise-class wiki solution look to scalability, performance, reliability and a secure well-supported environment. We interview Devang Mehta to gain eTouch SamePage's perspective on enterprise social networking.
Devang is the head of marketing and business development for eTouch SamePage. 43 Minutes

Next Generation Enterprise WAN

An Internet ‘reliability’ problem has forced businesses to continue to pay very high prices for fairly limited private WAN bandwidth from their telecommunication providers. However, a new disruptive technology can drastically reduce the ongoing monthly WAN operating expense for an enterprise. By solving the reliability and predictability issues associated with shared-IP networks, in general, and the public Internet in particular, Adaptive Private Networking technology enables enterprises to gain a step-function improvement in their WAN operations.Furthermore, the reduction in WAN operating expense achieved with Adaptive Private Networking can pay for itself out of hard cost savings. We interview Andy Gottlieb to gain Talari Networks' perspective on next generation enterprise WANs. Andy is the CEO of Talari Networks. 33 Minutes

Smarter Analytics with Sybase IQ 15

For more than 40 years, businesses have been using information technology to automate front office and back office operational systems. Throughout that time, businesses have made tremendous gains in productivity, but the technology has consistently failed to meet the needs of decision-makers throughout the enterprise. Meanwhile, the volume and complexity of transactional data has grown exponentially. In today’s environment, operational excellence is not enough to propel your business forward. Winners (and losers) are now determined by the quality of the decisions and predictions enabled by getting the answers you need. We interview Dan Lahl to gain Sybase's perspective on how to get smarter answers with column based analytical servers. Dan is the Director of Marketing for Sybase IQ. 52 Minutes

Virtualization: Doing More with Less

Virtualization helps reduce datacenter operating expenses and increases the availability of critical business systems. However, many IT teams still think that it is not advisable to deploy application and server virtualization technology together. To the contrary, server and application virtualization are complementary and they often should — be combined, not only to amplify the capabilities of the respective technologies but to achieve greater positive impact to IT and your business. Sure, the benefits of server virtualization in early generation products were often offset by performance and complexity tradeoffs, but technology has now come to market that makes virtualization simple and economically feasible for key infrastructure components. We interview Simon Crosby to gain Citrix's perspective on the role of high availability and management in virtualization. Simon is the is the CTO of Citrix's Virtualization and Management Division. 43 Minutes

Business & IT Alignment with PPM

It’s easy to tell when your business is overcommitted, over budget and overwhelmed. It’s not so easy to prevent it from happening. Step one is to gain insight into your business activities and ask the hard question, are they translating into business results? With multiple operational and strategic activities under evaluation or underway at any given moment, you need the ability to step back to see which ones are truly aligned with business objectives. The question is, how? How will you get a better view of what’s going on, put better controls in place, prioritize investments and implement consistent quality practices—without breaking the budget or further burdening the staff? We interview Ken Cheney to gain HP's perspective on Project and Portfolio Management. Ken is HP Software's Director of Product Marketing. 30 Minutes

Extend the Reach of Traditional BI

Saving labor on tedious tasks and freeing employees for more thought intensive work generates a dynamic competitive advantage for your business. This is being accomplished by creating intelligent tools that supercharge the knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem for accessing, sharing and delivering business intelligence. Moreover, the solution is powered by machine-intelligent software Agents that act as an extension for business staff to collect, aggregate and mashup near real-time data from reliable Web and enterprise sources. Furthermore, the next generation of BI applications provide on the spot extract transform loading which is created by non-programmers from intranets, email and documents. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on how to extend the reach of traditional business intelligence with software agents. Bruce is Connotate's CEO. 35 Minutes

Bridging PPM & EA

Today’s IT planners face tremendous challenges. A chief planning challenge is to integrate technical know-how from the architecture management arena into portfolio management to reduce operating expenses and facilitate innovation. This can be achieved with an integrated planning process that delivers full visibility of the dependencies in skills, resources and the architecture.
We interview Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain alfabet's perspective on bridging Project and Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture for successful IT planning.

Ulrich is the VP of Product Line Management at alfabet. 31 Minutes

VDI Drives High Performance Desktop

While Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure puts the desktop into the data center, it is not a panacea for desktop delivery. Moreover, VDI is not just a PC equivalent. Rather, it works best as part of a comprehensive Desktop Delivery approach which focuses on the most efficient way to get applications to the end user and meet business and IT needs. Furthermore, Desktop Delivery proposes the dynamic assembly of a ‘new and pristine’ high performing desktop with a personalized set of applications and settings every time a user logs on. VDI is a key enabling component for application delivery overall, and by applying it with a broader context, you can gain significant advantages over the traditional desktop environment. We interview Sumit Dhawan to gain Citrix's perspective on virtual desktop infrastructure.
Sumit is a VP of product marketing at Citrix. 43 Minutes

SOA Quality Management

SOA bring challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. Moreover, SOA requires quality management across all types of testing—functional, performance, security, and compliance. Each of these is affected by multiple factors such as the type of SOA being built, the needs of service providers and consumers, and the testing tools and techniques currently in use. Furthermore, IT quality managers must develop and implement a SOA quality program that furthers the organization’s goals for SOA. Success can be achieved by leveraging the right strategy, implementing the right processes and selecting the right tools. We interview Jeff Meyers to gain HP's perspective on Software Quality Management for SOA.
Jeff is a Senior Product Manager for HP Software's SOA Quality Management Solutions. 55 Minutes

Multi-Enterprise SOA

In today’s enterprise environment, growth is king. To facilitate growth, executives must listen to the marketplace, as well as their customers and partners and adapt strategies to wring value from constantly changing conditions. But if processes are to keep pace with executive decision-making, the old paradigm of IT manually automating individual, monolithic processes must evolve. Instead, IT must facilitate system heterogeneity and reusability, not only within the enterprise, but with an expanding number of partners, customers and distributors. To gain that completive advantage, IT must go beyond today’s B2B applications and processes and marry them to service-oriented architectures. We interview Russell Scherwin to gain Sterling Commerce's perspective on Multi-Enterprise SOA. Russell Scherwin is a Global Director of Product Marketing with Sterling Commerce. 40 Minutes

End to End Virtualization

The business case for virtualization is based in part on server consolidation. But, in spite of an impressive growth rate, server virtualization has yet to become main stream. However, virtualization can drive capacity utilization, cost reductions, increased security, improved reliability and accelerate your response to business imperatives. The real challenge is to navigate the virtualization stack to enable the selection of the right strategic vendor with the best solution set for you business. This challenge can be meet by leveraging a complete, end-to-end virtualization solution. We interview Simon Crosby to gain Citrix's perspective on end-to-end virtualization.
Simon is the is the CTO of Citrix's Virtualization and Management Division. 40 Minutes

Integrated Security Management

Traditional security management does not enable your security team to be aware of any evolving situation - in real time. However, integrated security management can deliver mission critical superior awareness and actionable intelligence. In particular, advanced sensor technologies can help you meet this challenge for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications. Furthermore, it is critical to integrate access control & identification, intrusion detection, video & analytics, building & fire controls, and third party products - together with sensors that detect chemical, biological, radiological, and explosive threats. Finally, to achieve a comprehensive defense, leverage ground radar, thermal imaging, and mobile platforms. We interview Kevin Wine to gain ICx Technologies' perspective on integrated security management. 30 Minutes

TCO Drives Email Security Adoption

Spam continues to be a top network security threat, and much of it gets sent via a bot network of zombie machines. To meet this challenge, many enterprises are leveraging a hybrid security architecture which addresses more security requirements than the single deployment model. A competitive advantage can be realized by coupling the power of “in-the-cloud” distributed computing with an on-premises email firewall. In today’s crowded email security space, TCO is a determinate factor. Look for cost-savings that enable end users to spend less with support. To stay ahead of the curve, it is important to select a solution that minimizes end user training and updating filters. We interview Ron Longo to gain Red Condor's perspective on the role of resiliency, disaster recovery, and load sharing in email security. Ron is the CEO of Red Condor. 32 Minutes

Portfolio Management for All Efforts

Most organizations lack the resources to effectively deal with the work at hand. To get ahead of the curve, you need to prioritize work, control how new initiatives are evaluated against current efforts, assign resources efficiently, and accurately track progress and performance. However, your best strategy may not produce optimal results unless you leverage an integrated approach to planning, tracking and managing ALL your efforts, including support, projects, and new initiatives. Furthermore, just good project management won’t cut it when your resources are involved in day to day operational and support efforts. We interview Rich Murphy to gain the EPK Group's perspective on IT Project and Portfolio Management.
Rich is a founding partner of the EPK Group. 55 Minutes

SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization

Companies are adopting Virtualization in the data center to reduce the server costs of supporting SOA. Furthermore, if you are tackling the hardest quality and integration challenges, you need to eliminate dependencies among teams throughout the application development lifecycle. That can be achieved by virtualizing the behaviors of complex services-based applications. Moreover, expanding on the value of server consolidation and test lab virtualization beyond the enterprise data center, is key to providing faster time-to-market and quality across the full lifecycle of developing, testing and maintaining highly interconnected services-based applications. We interview John Michelsen to gain with iTKO's perspective on SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization.
John is the Chief Scientist & co-founder of iTKO. 45 Minutes

Semantics Battles Fraud

The perpetrators of financial crime are constantly modifying their tactics, and centralizing case management is an effective way to deal with them. Furthermore, by automating the case management process, you can monitor cases in near-real time and in-flight. This ensures that fraud cases don’t fall through the cracks, and that you are more efficient. Gaining greater business knowledge from existing fraud databases and legacy systems should be a key component of your strategy. Particularly, semantics can facilitate better trend analysis, and make it available immediately to fraud analysts. By leveraging semantics, fraud risk managers get the upper hand by obtain a contextual view of the fraud and risk exposure across your enterprise. We interview Jeff Dickerson to gain Metatomix's perspective on the role of semantics in financial services. Jeff is the CEO of Metatomix. 30 Minutes

EA Road Mapping

Road maps are essential for aligning business planning with your technology strategy. Furthermore, to drive agility, road mapping manages the time dimension so you can react to predictable and unpredictable events. Moreover, and particularly for complex organizations, road-mapping enhances governance and collaboration. While the manual construction of road maps can help, they are a costly maintenance headache at the end of the day. Fortunately, this exercise can and should be automated.
We interview Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain alfabet's perspective on EA road mapping.

Ulrich is the VP of Product Line Management at alfabet. 40 Minutes

Semantics Drives Critical Intelligence

Jessica Lunsford was murdered by a known sex offender who did not inform the police that he had moved into her neighborhood, and who had been released earlier by a state court that did not have access to parts of his criminal record. This tragedy has caused new information-integration technologies to be adopted by the Florida court system. Those semantic technologies link data from existing disparate systems to create a more common understanding.

We interview Howard Greenblatt to gain Metatomix's perspective on how semantics drives mission critical actionable intelligence. Howard is the CTO of Metatomix. 35 Minutes

Higher Business Performance

Enterprise BI solutions need to be efficient, reliable, and agile. To meet that requirement, leaders must leverage an architecture that is open and standards-based, platform neutral, location transparent, and that features peer-to-peer services that are loosely coupled, interface based, and coarsely grained. SOA, on the other hand, is ideal. Furthermore, with the right information-enabling technology and leadership, decision-makers can become performance managers. Reporting is key to catalyzing your performance management effort. We interview Meg Dussault, and Leah MacMillan to gain Cognos' perspective on turning information into higher business performance. Meg is the Director of corporate positioning, and Leah is the VP of product marketing both are with Cognos. 39 Minutes

EA Governance

IT planners face a tough challenge when it comes to project tracking and investment management. Fail to meet this challenge, and you will have an ineffectual enterprise architecture, and a poor alignment between IT and your business strategy. Application backlogs, outsourcing and off shoring tasks, and new government regulations can exacerbate your planning challenge. However, the successful management of all aspects of your activity cycle will balance the proportions of your IT budget that support operations and innovation. We interview Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain alfabet's perspective on enterprise architecture governance. Ulrich is the VP Product Line Management at alfabet. 45 Minutes

Collaborative Software Development

Distributed development organizations are often limited by conventional build and test processes that are not designed to provide the flexibility, optimization and processes to meet the operational challenges associated with building and testing software in highly distributed environments. To overcome this limitation, centralized LAN-based approaches are being displaced by a distributed Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) approach. The goal of a CDE is to unify project managers, developers, and business users within a single development environment accessible from anywhere in the world. We interview Nick Bonfiglio to gain COLLABNET's perspective on build and test governance capabilities.
Nick is the VP of Worldwide Operations for CollabNet. 40 Minutes

Semantics Drives User Empowerment

Information workers have too many things to track across the Web and Enterprise. Furthermore, ignoring Information Fragmentation can cost you your competitive advantage. To meet this challenge, many companies are supercharging their knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem within the enterprise. For example, Intelligent Software Agents can monitor, mashup and extract information from a variety of internal and external sources to deliver actionable insight. Collecting, aggregating and delivering normalized data from a broad range of structured and unstructured fast-changing sources is key to creating user empowerment. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on information access technology. Bruce is the CEO of Connotate Technologies. 35 Minutes