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Why Firms Don’t Pay Their Invoices
Getting a customer to pay one’s invoice is no easy task, even in times of positive (but modest) economic growth. One firm, TermSync, a software platform that provides business-to-business corporations with payment solutions, set out to find why companies do not pay their bills on time though they...
By Kathy Hoffelder • July 30, 2013 -
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CalPERS makes move to managed applications services
The California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, has hired Charles River, an investment management service provider, for application management, web site hosting, trade-related messaging and real-time data services, the Boston firm reported. CalPERS has about $241 billion in a...
By Keith Button • July 25, 2013 -
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From CPA licensure changes to undergoing a digital transformation, these are the most popular stories CFOs are reading.
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White paper: Security pros lack virtualized application knowledge
According to the paper, “The CISO’s Guide To Virtualization Security,” information security professionals are often sidelined, either by IT infrastructure and operations professionals, or by their own choice. Forrester reported that its interviews with IT professionals “revealed several troubl...
By Keith Button • July 25, 2013 -
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How Audit Skepticism Has Fallen Short
Skepticism is one of the key attributes auditors bring to the table when auditing any size company, and for the most part, it’s what made many enter the field in the first place. But many auditors of small businesses have forgotten what it takes to be truly skeptical, said Public Company Accounti...
By Kathy Hoffelder • July 19, 2013 -
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When staying in-house makes sense
Cloud advocates who acknowledge the drawbacks as well as the benefits can display maturity of thought “that will be ever more important as the cloud continues to evolve,” writes Thoran Rodrigues, a blogger on cloud issues. Rodrigues lists a few cases where moving to the cloud might not be a good...
By Keith Button • July 15, 2013 -
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BP tells an IT story
That’s how BP began, the company’s chief information officer told the Cloud World Forum 2013 in June, according to Computer Weekly. Dana Deasy explained the company’s “cautious and calculated approach” to the London forum for utilizing cloud computing, which mixed public and private cloud servic...
By Keith Button • July 15, 2013 -
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A starting point for IT risk assessment
The report, “Executive’s guide to IT innovation in small businesses,” was published this month. For IT issues, the guide suggests a risk management approach that includes classifying potential risks into categories, assessing the likelihood of occurrence for each risk, and mitigating risks, whic...
By Keith Button • July 15, 2013 -
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Protecting data while moving to the cloud
“In a modern virtualized environment of any size, visibility is often the greatest data protection -related challenge,” states Enterprise Strategy Group in the white paper, EMC Best Practices in Data Protection Monitoring. “Arguably, without reliable reporting and insight into your data pro...
By Keith Button • July 10, 2013 -
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Two new tools from application management providers
CliQr Technologies of Sunnyvale, Calif., is offering a free cloud benchmarking tool. The tool shows businesses the differences in the price and performance of the top commercial cloud providers and architectures. According to CliQr, specific cloud offerings vary considerably by cloud instance (pa...
By Keith Button • July 9, 2013 -
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CFOs Plan to Hire in Accounting, Finance and IT
A survey of CFOs, controllers, tax directors, human resource directors and other hiring managers released in June shows that companies expect to hire more staff in accounting, finance and information technology over the next quarter. Nearly half of the 132 U.S.-based firms surveyed from mid-May ...
By Kathy Hoffelder • July 8, 2013 -
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FASB Fine-Tunes Footnote Disclosure
CFOs and other corporate executives will have to reveal more information in their financial-statement footnotes about their company’s ability to exist as a going concern, if a new exposure draft by the Financial Accounting Standards Board is approved. The proposal puts the burden to assess whethe...
By Kathy Hoffelder • July 2, 2013 -
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Hybrids: know the basics
A recent Leverhawk column offers a primer on hybrid clouds and answers some of the basic questions. The article also explains how a hybrid cloud management platform works, and how the platform allows access to all of an enterprise’s clouds through the same interface. A good hybrid management pla...
By Keith Button • July 2, 2013 -
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Prognosis for pointless processes: Poor
Writer/blogger Patrick Gray has an interesting take on this issue on TechRepublic. A lot of companies tend to fall back on the “we’ve always done it this way” excuse when the purpose of a process is unclear, Gray says. “If you’re a high performer, you’ve probably collaborated with business peers...
By Keith Button • July 2, 2013 -
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Capitalizing on R&D
Large companies invest a lot of money in research and development, often in the hopes of developing a new product line or technology. Global R&D spending is projected to total $1.5 trillion this year, up 3.7 percent from 2012, according to R&D Magazine. But not all projects yield new prod...
By Marielle Segarra • July 2, 2013 -
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Watch out for that IT staffer
Maybe information technology staffers need to hire a public relations firm. A New York Times article uses the National Security Agency/Edward Snowden leak case to raise the IT trustworthiness issue. Can IT staffers at companies and government agencies be trusted, considering they are vital to...
By Keith Button • July 1, 2013 -
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XBRL is Not Just Another Compliance Burden
CFOs who question the value of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s mandate to have companies use XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language ) formatting, believing it doesn’t add value to their organizations and is just another compliance burden, need to take a fresh look at the data repor...
By Kristine Brands • July 1, 2013 -
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Cloud customers: Vendors need to step up their game
Mario Mueller, chairman of the Open Data Center Alliance, told IDG News Service that one of the goals of the alliance is to educate cloud vendors about features and capabilities that customers want. The alliance, which held its Forecast conference in San Francisco this week, has designed cloud ...
By Keith Button • July 1, 2013 -
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CFOs gaining influence over IT purchases
Ovum, the business and technology research and consulting firm, is reporting that the CIO is the biggest influencer in key information technology purchases, but chief executives, chief financial officers and chief operating officers are gaining ground. “Today, the CEO and CFO have more of an ov...
By Keith Button • June 25, 2013 -
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Advice from cloud seller: Don’t forget your IT people
It makes perfect sense, then, that SHI International is urging companies to keep their IT staffers in the loop when making the change to cloud services. In addition to cloud services, the New Jersey company sells IT products and services, for which it has undoubtedly needed to build relationshi...
By Keith Button • June 25, 2013 -
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Study: Leave IT management to the professionals
The Involuntary IT Manager study examined the adverse impact that IITMs—a term for nontechnical employees who are tasked with managing the IT solutions for their companies— have on businesses with 100 or fewer employees in the US, Australia, Brazil, Chile and India. The survey covered 538 IITMs, ...
By Keith Button • June 24, 2013 -
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Mission-critical apps migrating to the cloud
SailPoint’s annual survey, which interviewed 400 IT and business leaders at large companies in the U.S. and United Kingdom, showed that enterprises are now running one-third of their mission-critical applications in the cloud. They expect to have half of those applications running in the cloud b...
By Keith Button • June 24, 2013 -
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Cloud security sometimes a red herring
Speaking at a conference for federal chief information officers, David Cearley said there are “plenty of cases” where cloud solutions from external service providers are more expensive than in-house solutions, CIO.com reported. “Don’t just assume cloud is cheaper. You’ve got to have mechanisms t...
By Keith Button • June 18, 2013 -
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Cloud for small biz: Why not?
According to Heather Clancy at ZD.net, in the Microsoft survey cloud users, 94 percent of the respondents said they gained security benefits in the cloud because their software was kept up to date, according to the article. And 91 percent said the cloud made compliance easier. Improved privacy pr...
By Keith Button • June 18, 2013 -
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Beware of the Cloudwashers
To be considered a true cloud service, and not “cloud-based,” an IT service or product should meet three criteria, writes Rodrigues: It should be replacing capital expense with operational expense, have elasticity and scalability, and allow you to optimize your costs based on the usage rate. See ...
By Keith Button • June 12, 2013 -
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Your Guide to Application Services Terminology and Acronyms
ALM: Application lifecycle management –Managing an application through the different phases of its delivery, from development and testing to deployment and maintenanceAPI: Application programming interface— A library of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications that spec...
By Keith Button • June 11, 2013
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