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- 10 reasons to centralize -- or decentralize -- your IT department
- The centralization vs. decentralization argument regularly rears its head in most IT organizations. Some of them fall into a cyclical pattern, while others are more like a pendulum that swings back and forth from one extreme to the other. To help you evaluate the issues involved in this dichotomy, TechRepublic...
- Tags: Centralization, Information Technology, Jason Hiner, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2008-04-09
- How to Centralize Quality and Performance Centers of Excellence
- In this webcast you'll learn about: Why the industry is driving towards centralization. Examine how the Quality Ecosystem enhances centralization. Find out how Quality and Performance CoEs deliver better performing applications and immediate ROI. Explore what processes, resources and technology are paramount in developing a CoE customized for your company...
- Tags: Centralization, Performance, Mercury Interactive Corp., Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- Security Special 6: Centralization and Identity Management
- This webcast discusses about the necessity of having centralized user and access management, which is the foundation for Identity Management.
- Tags: Centralization, Oracle Corp., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security
- Webcasts
- Sanity check: Five reasons to centralize your IT department
- The centralization vs. decentralization argument regularly rears its head in most IT organizations. Some of them fall into a cyclical pattern while others are more like a pendulum that swings back and forth from one extreme to the other. In order to uncover the issues involved in...
- Tags: Centralization, Information Technology, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Sanity check: The 10 biggest headaches of 2007 for CIOs and IT managers
- IT is largely about solving problems and keeping the business running, and the higher up you are in the IT department the bigger the problems you have to solve. This edition of Tech Sanity Check identifies the 10 biggest problems that CIOs and IT managers faced in 2007. ...
- Tags: Centralization, Information Technology, Department, Compliance, Problem, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services Version 4.0 Optimizations for Microsoft SMS
- Enterprise IT organizations struggle to maintain service packs, hotfixes, patches, and antivirus definition files for remote workstations and servers. As the workforce grows in an increasingly distributed fashion, distributing installation files and update files to a large number of users becomes cumbersome and consumes large amounts of network capacity. The...
- Tags: Centralization, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., SMS, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Cisco Wide Area Application Services, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-08-01
- IT departments - Centralization vs. DeCentralization
- One of the big debates raginig within many organizations right now is whether to centralize or decentralize IT. Some companies are consolidating services such as help desks into one location and then simply serving all other locations remotely. This can save costs and make efficient use of resources. Other companies...
- Tags: Centralization, Information Technology, Strategic Planning, Help Desk, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- The Benefits of Centralization in Wireless LANs Via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network
- This paper addresses the benefits of 802.11 wireless LAN centralization via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. It discusses how centralization of Wireless LANs WLANs delivers advanced features and benefits that are easy to deploy, scale, and manage. These benefits include ease of deployment, ease of upgrades, reliable connectivity through dynamic...
- Tags: Centralization, Network, Benefit, WLAN, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, LANs, Wireless LANs, Strategic Planning, Wireless, Networking, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Reduce IT Costs Using Citrix Presentation Server 4
- Nowadays, IT organizations are looking for ways to cut costs and deliver more value to the enterprise. They are turning to data center and server centralization and consolidation to significantly reduce costs, while at the same time, seeking ways to improve IT systems and infrastructure management to deliver even higher...
- Tags: Centralization, Information Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, IT Cost, Strategic Planning, Data Centers, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Best Practices in Web Management
- How Web activities are managed touches the heart of an organization's culture. The organizing of Web activities emerges as a common theme from most of the recommendations in this paper. Best-in-Web organizations have developed various approaches to organizing their Web activities, all of which involve some degree of centralization. (Centralization,...
- Tags: Centralization, Web, Best Practice, U.S. Geological Survey, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing
- White papers 2005-01-04
- Is your IT department centralized or distributed?
- A new TechRepublic poll question asks, "Does your company have a centralized IT department or distributed IT with different technology groups reporting to different business units?- Centralized- Distributed"How is your IT department organized and how well does the current structure work?CentralizedWe all work out of one location (all 5 of...
- Tags: IT Department, Centralized, Distributed, it management, poll, information technology, Jason Hiner, centralization
- Discussion threads 2006-07-27
- Should we actually move back to mainframes?
- Recently, mainframes have reemerged as a hot item in IT, which has stimulated a serious debate over the issue of centralization vs. decentralization of an IT infrastructure. Here are some opinions on the issue that you won't want to miss.The current momentum behind IBM's S/390 and zSeries mainframes seems to...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Strategic planning, Utility computing, Jason Hiner MCSE, CCNA, mainframe, server, decentralization, centralization, information technology, IBM zSeries
- Technical articles 2002-02-26
- Understand and control the Centralization cycle
- One of the most consistent systems I’ve discovered moving from organization to organization is the "centralization cycle.” Companies move from highly centralized to highly decentralized IT organizational models, sometimes consciously, but often as a result of political forces. I’ve worked with CIOs struggling to keep their centralized models together, and...
- Tags: centralization, information technology, Shannon T. Kalvar
- Technical articles 2003-08-04
- CIO update: How to make IT Centralization a success
- By Michael Gerrard and Edward YounkerMany CIOs are wrestling with determining how their IS organizations will meet the many challenges ahead. One challenge, successful centralization of IT services, requires an understanding of the importance of key stakeholder groups, ensuring responsive and cost-efficient service delivery, and implementation of a participative governance...
- Tags: business unit manager, centralization, Gartner , information technology, IS organization
- Technical articles 2003-03-13
Additional Resources
- Poll: Is your IT department centralized or decentralized?
- It is one of the timeless debates of IT: centralization vs. decentralization. Take this TechRepublic poll to chime in whether you consider your IT department to be centralized or decentralized. [Poll=23] by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Information Technology, Department, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Migrating to a Shared Services Center Demands for Unifying Processes and Practices
- The merger of three distinct IT units into a single organization of a Dutch insurer with 1200 FTE resulted in the centralization of the Shared Service Center SSC IT. The SSC IT faced the challenge of not just merging the organization, but also of unifying the processes, practices and the...
- Tags: Process, Strategic Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Insurance, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Jinan Railway Bureau Boosts Capabilities With Intel Technology-Based Database Servers
- Faced with a massive increase on the data load it handles due to a centralization exercise, Jinan Railway Bureau, one of 18 Railway Bureaus in mainland China that connects four of the country's most important ports, has successfully boosted and refined the performance of its Transport Management Information System TMIS...
- Tags: Database Server, Intel Corp., Databases, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- Five seismic trends for IT management in 2008
- I spend a lot of my time trying to identify and evaluate new IT trends in this blog. This week, I distilled some of that information into a presentation on 2008's top five trends in IT management, which I gave at the ManageFusion conference on April 9 in Las Vegas....
- Tags: Trend, IT Administration, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- App-Managed JDBC: DataSources With commons-dbcp
- In enterprise Java applications, it's considered poor form to instantiate database connections oneself. The enlightened path involves a database connection pool, in the form of a JDBC DataSource, that is provided by the container (Tomcat, Jetty, WebLogic). The container is responsible for maintaining a number of connections to the database...
- Tags: Container, Data Source, Path, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-11-17
- Optimizing Branch-Office Network Infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership With Cisco Integrated Services Routers
- Advances in technology are changing business policy, which is in turn driving changes in branch-office network infrastructure. Business continuity is accelerating resource centralization, with more and more critical assets moving into the enterprise headquarters and data center. This situation is having a ripple effect on branch and remote offices. To...
- Tags: Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Business Continuity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-12-01
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