Should BI teams reside on the IT or the business side?

Taking our inspiration for a post from a discussion on the Business Intelligence & Analytics Group on LinkedIn, we thought about whether Business Intelligence should be controlled primarily by the IT department or people from business functions.

Read more here! http://bimehq.com/business-intelligence/bi-teams-reside-business-side/

 

Author : Kirsty Lee

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The Changing Landscape of Corporate IT

Two key business trends support a move toward an integrated central business shared service, according to the Corporate Executive Board

Here is a report from our friends from Bloomberg commenting on the ever-changing landscape of IT. The article points to these shifts as part of a larger investigation into the five-year outlook of corporate IT organization and management. Organizations that do not prepare for the shifts will struggle to exploit technology and will find themselves managing an inefficient IT function and an under-performing corporate center.

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In communities, people help each other without asking anything in return. By helping other people solve problems or helping them get ahead, you also increase your social capital, and it becomes more likely that people will help you out at some future point. The catch is that you have to be willing to help people first without any specific expectation that they will return the favor. This is the basic idea behind whuffie, a concept first introduced in fiction by Cory Doctorow in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,” but applied to today’s communities in Tara Hunt’s “The Whuffie Factor.” If you haven’t read these books, I recommend both of them. I’m currently reading the latter, so whuffie has been on my mind lately.

While the concept of whuffie applies to everyone, it is particularly important for freelancers and other web workers. Those of us working alone need to support and help each other, since we don’t have the same resources as people working on-site at large corporations.

Portland is a town with a large population of freelancers, consultants and telecommuters, and many of these people offer services similar to my own. The natural instinct from some people would be to retreat from these potential competitors in case you might be up for the same job at some point in the future. I encourage you to take an alternate view: focus on cooperation, instead of competition. By helping each other, we make the entire community stronger and more vibrant, thus raising opportunities for the community as a whole.

Here are a few of the things that I do to support my community:

There has been a consistent concern about the inadvertent disclosure of personal information through peer-to-peer file sharing applications, such as Limewire and Morpheus. Examples of personal health and financial information being exposed have been published. We wanted to estimate the extent to which personal health information (PHI) is being disclosed in this way, compare that to the extent of disclosure of personal financial information (PFI)...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/articleview/3083-File-Sharing-Software-Potential-Threat-to-Health-Privacy--Study.html

What does our enterprise information have in common with President Obama and Vice President Biden? The need for constant protection. Your enterprise data needs protection from the host of technical and human threats that seem to evolve daily. The President and Vice President require the same protect...

http://www.techpitch.com/profiles/blogs/social-engineering-at-the

Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the time,  but we spotted a number from the business sector that had not been reported in the media or on this site at the time.  So here is a brief roundup on another 21 breaches from the business  sector last year...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/articleview/3047-21-more-business-sector-breaches-from-2009.html

Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update.  The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/articleview/3046-19-more-financial-sector-breaches-from-2009.html

Sympa Oy chooses PlanMill ERP SaaS to boost its HR software business


 

PlanMill ERP SaaS is an integrated, scalable, and real-time management system for service business – accessible anywhere, anytime around the world!

Sympa Oy chooses PlanMill ERP SaaS (Enterprise Resource Planning) to boost its rapidly growing HR software business  serving topnotch customers. This web-based solution is a comprehensive answer to portfolio and project management, work schedules, tasks & assignments, actions, service requests, expense, as well as time and absence tracking that includes vacation planning.

As part of the solution package, real-time indicators, finance and billing information, as well as sales invoice and accounting using PlanMill Finance Connector for Econet can be used.