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Project Portfolio Analysis for Internal IT
White Papers This paper introduces PPM for internal IT, and shows how corporate IT departments are using it to better align IT strategy with business strategy, improve performance in project-based work, and enhance corporate governance.
[March 15, 2006, 0:01]
"How to Start and Finish a 'No-Fail' Project" Part I: Fighting Internal Resistance
White Papers In other words, there is only one chance in three that the next project will succeed. However, unlike Texas No-Limit Hold'em, the next IT project does not have to be a gamble. By knowing the most common causes of project failure, the user and his...
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
Global IT Solution Provider Uses Unified Project Management Platform That Reduces Internal IT Operations Costs by 10 Percent
White Papers Getronics wanted to grow revenue by creating a flexible but standardized project management system that could help reduce project and IT costs and forecast project resource requirements more accurately.
[December 3, 2007, 0:01]
IBM leads Linux-desktop charge
News IBM's chief information officer has directed the company to begin an internal project to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, in a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. Instead, IBM has begun a project to seriously...
[January 9, 2004, 8:15]
Quantas chooses AIX to replace Linux
News Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project. The re-platforming project is currently in the final stages of...
[April 30, 2007, 8:46]
Skanska USA Building Enhances Project Management With Scalable Web Portals
White Papers To facilitate efficient collaboration, Skanska needed to give external and internal project teams access to timely, reliable information, while maintaining the scalability and flexibility to handle more than 1,500 active projects with budgets...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Robots: It's Intel inside
News The company's designs don't focus on the mechanical aspects of robots -- such as the wheels and motors -- but on the internal electronics, Jim Butler, director of the project at Intel Labs, said on Wednesday during a press presentation on ongoing...
[March 20, 2003, 13:15]
Web services need directory assistance
News A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born during the business-to-business e-commerce craze...
[July 2, 2002, 15:38]
ASP is new vehicle for GM's future
News GM also has one of the world's largest internal human resource portals for more than 200,000 North American workers, a project it conducted with America Online codenamed "Emerald". The car manufacturer also powers one of the auto industry's largest...
[January 9, 2001, 12:54]
Red Hat builds one API for many clouds
News Red Hat has launched a project to create an API that will let developers write applications for use across many kinds of cloud. The Deltacloud project, introduced on Thursday, aims to provide a "cloud broker", according to Red Hat chief technology...
[September 4, 2009, 13:06]
Linux goes mission-critical for Danish government
News The Ministry of Finance in Denmark has implemented an open-source project to simplify data exchange between systems. Peter Henningsen, the data-exchange project manager at the Ministry of Finance, said the open-source combination was chosen over...
[September 23, 2004, 15:30]
Cut out the risks of Web services
News Once IT gets the hang of Web services project subtleties, move on to business requirements, such as improving business processes or sharing data between groups. In a software development project using Web services, Motorola Corporation reduced its...
[December 3, 2002, 13:29]
Tech chief quits eBay
News Although Hjelm had played a central part in the introduction of eBay's next-generation V3 system architecture, his exit won't have an impact on the project, which is still in progress, said Pursglove.eBay began its V3 upgrade, expected to enable...
[February 27, 2003, 9:09]
Final countdown to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
News Some 30 business units and 30 process groups were involved in the different project phases, each of which stretched "from 300 to 6,000 man-days", he added. The project has been intensive "in terms of resources and commitment" but it has also...
[July 26, 2006, 16:35]
Airmiles joins the Net-set
News The second major challenge was simply keeping track of all the people involved in the project. The first stage of the project was to decide on a common integration platform. The entire project took over ten months to complete, with a soft launch of...
[February 5, 2004, 16:05]
Portals: Opening new doors to business
News Strong support for portal projects means it should be easier than usual to get the executive support that's essential for any enterprise project to succeed. Surveying users' requirements allowed the portal architects to build their online presence...
[January 5, 2004, 14:55]
Sun owes it all to Scott McNealy
News The value of this project is rumoured to be around $250m]. We are playing on our own in a very similar way with the criminal justice project. It's a Java XML project to connect up the criminal justice agencies.
[January 23, 2004, 16:25]
Road map for successful Web services
News Also note that in most organizations, enterprise-wide behaviors must change to ensure the project delivers ROI. Step 5: Select an application as a pilot project and measure the ROI This probably is the most basic step toward the usage of any new...
[October 8, 2002, 12:02]
IBM to make aspect-oriented development a reality
News IBM initially developed the Java extensions through a project called AspectJ, which has been submitted to Eclipse. IBM is still the technical lead on the project. Also at the conference, IBM will discuss another research project, called Concern...
[March 24, 2004, 8:10]
New user a security nightmare
News When confronted, the associate apologised and said he just wanted to get going on the project and didn't want to bother IT. This server was part of the project the new associate was working on. Debra was given the task of working with him on the...
[January 7, 2003, 10:25]
