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Articles by Galen Gruman
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Boost Security With Outbound Content Management
Sensitive data slides out your company's door every day. New outbound content management tools can help you identify problem spots and bolster security.
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5 Steps to a Smart Outbound Content Management Strategy
No one should treat outbound content management as a panacea. But it is a good first-line defense.
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CIO-CFO Cooperation
When the CIO and CFO work together, you get a better-managed company, not to mention a faster financial close.
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How IT Executives Can Help Speed Up Financial Reporting
When it comes to closing the books, the benefits of speed nare undeniable. And CIOs are uniquely positioned to help ntheir organizations reap them.
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Is Open Source The Answer to ERP?
When Mark Alperin went looking to replace his aging ERP system in 2006, he found himself in the same place ...
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How Enterprise Architecture is Changing Everything–Including the CIO Role
As an enterprise evolves through the various stages of architectural maturity, the CIO role evolves along with it.
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The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture
An exclusive MIT survey maps the evolution of IT architecture and explains why you can't skip any steps.
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The Path to Enterprise Architecture
Since 1974, the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT’s Sloan School of Management has been studying how companies ...
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Enterprise Architecture: Starting Within IT
Enterprisewide architectural transformation should begin within IT.
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Open-Source Suites
Just what will you find in the new crop of precertified suites? Here’s a sampling of options.Red Hat: Offers the ...
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How to Evaluate Open Source Suites
When evaluating preintegrated open-source suites, analysts recommend that CIOs keep some caveats in mind.
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New Alternative to Do-It-Yourself Integration and Support for Open Source
Open source has many allures: no license costs, a wide range of support venues and the ability to work directly ...
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS) as a Knowledge Management Tool
Cliff Bell came to a somewhat shocking realization last year: The two most important Internet software applications in recent history—e-mail ...
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SOA Governance: How to Manage Development and Use of Services
Service-oriented architecture is a route to IT anarchy if you don’t effectively manage the development and use of services.
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Chargeback: The Pros and Cons
Should you charge business units for operations?One way to keep business units from forcing your operational costs to rise is ...
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Learn to Trim IT Costs Strategically
CIOs have been cutting costs for years—and not seeing those savings coming back to IT. That’s why you have to learn to cut strategically.
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SOA Success? Focus on Process and Architecture
The term service-oriented architecture (SOA) hadn’t gained currency in 2002 when TrueCredit, a subsidiary of the TransUnion credit verification agency, ...
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SOA’s Technology Underpinnings
Although service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not about technology, technologies can help you deploy an SOA. While there are many good ...
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The Many Forms of Electronic Data Discover Tools
Electronic data discovery tools come in several forms, typically based on the type of monitoring tool their developer has been ...
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Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) Tools and Your Enterprise
Michael Osborne has been getting a lot of vendor calls lately pitching a new breed of products, typically called electronic ...
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Essential Technology: Open Source CRM and BI
The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company. The acronym refers to the foundational ...
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New Locks, New Keys: Examine How You Authenticate Users
No doubt all the breaches of customer data this year have forced you to defend your security strategy. And no ...
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Strategic HR Integration
Call it dealing with the whole person. Disconnected strategic human resources applications—incentive management, employee performance management, workforce scheduling, and training ...
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Personal Computing – Four Concept Computers
Look around the office. What do you see? Offices filled with PCs in tower cases, or black notebooks neatly docked ...
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Wireless – UPS Versus FedEx: Head-to-Head on Wireless
FedEx and UPS are always seeking a competitive edge over one another. And as the two companies are encroaching on ...
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RTLS Tags: Reusuable, Constant Signal
Retailers are being promised big benefits with the use of small radio tags that can automate inventory and even customer ...
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Health Care Leading the Way in IT Innovation
Although electronic medical records systems are driving wireless adoption, hospital CIOs see many more uses for that network infrastructure once ...
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