Obstacles to Effective Business Transformation

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Integrating the Enterprise March 22, 2012 Secrets to Business Transformation: The Seven Deadly Sins Having covered the IT industry and written about IT professionals for over 20 years, Don Tennant has seen what happens when the C-suite in a company tries to undergo some sort of business transformation without IT having a seat at the table. So he was recently gratified to learn that an IT guy has written the book — or at least one of them — on the topic. Read more > Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud This TDWI checklist report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications. Download now > Blogs Loraine Lawson Integration How Computers Really Manage Unstructured Data Arthur Cole Infrastructure Flexibility Is Key to Handling Big Data Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Putting Analytics to Work Requires Making Sense of Patterns Two-Factor Authentication: It's All About Trust   Right now, someone's logging into your network and accessing proprietary information. Do you know who it is? This technical brief explains why two-factor authentication is superior to using passwords only. Read it now > How One Traditional B2B Integration Company Found Growth in the Cloud Trisha Gross explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson what Hubspan's seen in terms of cloud, enterprise application integration (EAI) and B2B integration. Download: RFID ROI Calculator Reduce your risk of inventory theft. Use this Excel-based calculator to compare the cost of manual inventory and equipment loss to the costs of using RFID. Download: System Integrity Best Practices Use US-CERT best practices to ensure system integrity by validating software, limiting remote access and enabling strong logging techniques. Featured White Papers Open Source: The Next Generation of Virtualization Read this IDC white paper to learn about several factors priming the virtualization market to be more competitive in the near future. •  What You Need to Know to Upgrade Your Phone System •  IT Process Automation: Analysis and Vendor Comparison •  The IP Phone Guide: 29 Comparison Points "In theory, you could fix both by marrying the two, giving BPM better data and giving MDM an 'in' to business processes, which could be used to govern the data. So it seems like a match made in heaven, right?" Excerpt from Loraine Lawson Integration Latest White Papers Forrester Comparison Report: Open Source BI Your Blueprint for Successfully Managing the Extended Enterprise The App Performance Almanac: A Year's Worth of APM Guidance Combatting the New Challenge of Virtual Server Sprawl This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise