Things are not so 2000 anymore. Drupal, Joomla, SharePointPortal are all examples of IT automation that do things in days what programmers used to do in weeks and months. So is Outsourcing the real reason for IT Job Loss? I am not convinced it is because of Outsourcing!

BancTec, a global provider of advanced, high-volume, document and payment processing solutions and services announced today that they have launched a new version of their CenterVision transactional content management platform.

My own notes for those who’ve missed Sydney’s instance of IBM’s latest seminar on InfoTech directions

gallery21.com was the first thing I bookmarked with the del.icio.us social bookmarking service (July 2005) and I have no idea why I bookmarked it beyond my three tags—cool, art, painting. it's come a long way since then—with Yahoo's purchase, bastard...

Organizing, managing and analyzing data is a fundamental part of running a good business. Securing that data should be of main concern, regardless of your companies’ size or industry.

The trends have changed.

Just as bosses can be stupid, people you manage can be a challenge as well! Here are some things that drive me crazy when I hear them from the people I manage!

Cognos “GO Office” is an unexpected ally in your Data Governance efforts. The IBM Information on Demand (IoD) platform is full of components which work to enhance data governance, and Cognos Business Intelligence is one of them. This can surprise fo...

I had the good fortune of learning about an interesting young start-up company that offers their customers the ability to have both physical and virtual mailboxes.

Modeling data warehouses is sometimes a contentious issue. When it comes to data warehouse design there are a few schools of thought and many sub-schools! One of the often-heard discussions is the different between dimensional modeling and entity-relationship modeling. It is interesting to hear how ...

Several recent events in the business world are rapidly changing the way businesses communicate and send electronic data to each other.

Product recommendations and suggestive selling have been used very effectively by Amazon and reported to increase sales by up to 30%. Surprised? Here is the impact to your business - Adding one more item to 10% of the orders can increase sales by 5%!

The last few weeks has seen me testing the job market again after a few years. When it comes to IT recruiting I must say I feel that I was lost in some alternative dimension for the last few years and the reality of what I think IT operations and management is ; seems to be an entirely sideways universe of reality. Whilst I was pleasantly surprised at the responses to my resume from both big box recruiters as well as mid-sized enterprises, that is after hearing the response rate from associates regarding the ratio of sent resumes to received calls. I must say those initial interviews are vastly varying.

BancTec's announced acquisition today of Beta Systems ECM Solutions GmbH will extend their reach into financial services throughout Germany, Eastern Europe and emerging markets for transactional content management and digital mailroom solutions.

In order for transactional content management solutions to be effective they must be flexible enough to support a wide variety of different business processes and custom environments.

A free half day conference is being held in Melbourne and Sydney that covers most InfoSphere software including Cognos, Information Server, TM1 and MDM.

Several recent events in the business world are rapidly changing the way businesses communicate and exchange electronic data.

Using Porter’s five-force model, a universally accepted model used to analyze markets across the board, on the collaboration market, may yield some interesting insights.

The movies Officespace showed how dumb bosses can be sometimes. The movie Extract made by the same folks showed how dumb employees and subordinates can be sometimes. Here are things you don't want to hear from your bosses!

How to evaluate your website? There are some golden rules.