Archive for October, 2009

X-cart Development – Role Of X-cart Development In Electronic Com Posted By: Btucker

Entities included are businessmen (seller), customer, and platform (eCommerce website) developer for performing these business practices is also very essential. Most essential which cannot be taken lightly is technology for the development of this platform (eCommerce website) and decision of using technology lies on various factors such as business nature (size, kind, etc), technical non technical knowledge of businessmen and lastly resources availability in regard of development of platform (eCommerce website).

Oct 31, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Cisco’s alignment of IT with Business

Cisco_11For many years, Cisco has grown through acquisitions. Since 1993, the company has assimilated more than 130 smaller firms, including five in 2008 and three so far in 2009. IT department’s role is to leverage the virtualized architecture and collaboration technology to quickly support each acquired company’s business processes. Thus, IT department of Cisco under the leadership of CIO Rebecca Jacoby, intends to lower the acquired company’s costs, while enabling it to add value to Cisco.

Oct 28, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

New Model in IT Offshoring

IT Offshoring continues to grow despite global downturn, but the delivery model is changing according to McKinsey Article titled “How innovators are changing IT offshoring”.  The article notes that the widely adopted model for delivering offshore services – staff augmentation, is ceding ground to the more robust managed-services model.

Oct 20, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Introducing BoomerApp.com Software Rebates

Here at Software Marketing Resource we’re committed to bringing you new ways to sell your software, so we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our newest software discount website
BoomerApp.

So, what makes BoomerApp unlike all the other software websites out there? We think a lot. Firstly we can offer software deals that are up to 100% off of the regular retail prices.

Oct 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

CIOs Recalibrate Their IT Strategies

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CIOs are increasingly open to new, alternative IT operating models, which also could mean new vendor relationships. A grinding recession, paired with new choices in terms of online software, mobile computing, outsourcing, open source, and more, opens the door to this change according to Information Week article titled “Alternate IT”.   Article notes that CIOs are rethinking significant parts of their software strategies, considering alternatives to conventional licenses, maintenance, and fee structures, as well as alternatives to lengthy internal development cycles, complex customization, and long global rollouts and upgrades.

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

10 Truths about Project Planning

Baseline Article titled “10 Truths about Project Planning” lists these 10 items.  I have listed them below.  Issues with software project planning are well known but when you start quantifying them it looks scary.  I think we in the IT area should take these finding seriously and looks for way to improve these numbers.  With the focus on cost cutting and belt tightening in the corporate world, IT Project Manager needs to be proactive in systematizing project variability.

Oct 10, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

IT Strategy Survey

Ivo Velitchkov is working on concept for integration of models and modeling objects of Business, IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Project Management.  You can read more about his concept at “Cohesion of Enterprise Model“.  He is planning to start this PhD research after 15 years in IT in many roles, as entrepreneur, consultant, project manager, enterprise architect and the like.  As a part of his research, he is conducting the survey and would appreciate if you could spare a minute to fill in this form.

Oct 01, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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