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Using Second Life for decision support

Digging around YouTube a bit, I stumbled across this video made by Dan Powers who created a virtual world in Second Life called Decision Support World. This is a virtual world that Dan set up to allow people to get together to model, collaborate, and share ideas about new projects....

Tags: Second Life, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Communications, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing, John Sheesley

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Decision Support: Launch BI warehousing in a client's ERP environment

Groundwork for implementing BIHi, This article was an Useful one. Its gives an understanding of how an BI must be useful for an org., How to addup an BI solution to the existing ERP ? Any case studies available. Would like to know more on this.

Tags: bi, business intelligence, datawarehousing, decision support, erp, it management, seesiva@..., warehousing

Discussion threads 2005-12-19

Decision Support: Configuration design prep in Exchange 2000 planning

Be nice to update this article for Exch 2003I've been looking for a while and I haven't seen an article or section in a book that lists the reasons to create additional stores and storage groups. This is good information and I would like to see the list expanded. People...

Tags: backup, database, decision support, Exchange, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, networking, techrepublic@...

Discussion threads 2004-11-21

Decision Support: Is RTE right for you?

The tech industry is abuzz with real-time enterprise solutions for RFID Radio Frequency Identification, Supply Chain Management, Sales Force Automation, Business Intelligence, and the like. The allure is completely understandable.CIOs look with envy on successful real-time innovators such as FedEx, which, largely because of real-time enterprise solutions, can ship 1.5...

Tags: real-time computing, real-time enterprise solution, computing, David Southgate, Aberdeen Group Inc., enterprise solution, decision support, leader, sales

Technical articles 2004-02-16

Decision Support: Outsourcing relationships don't stop at negotiations, part 2

After entering into the blissful state of an outsourcing relationship, most buyers think their work is done. Actually this is where the partners begin the work needed to reap the benefits of the strong foundation they’ve established through alignment and the development of effective contracts and SLAs.Experts agree that once...

Tags: decision support, governance, Jim Leto, Joe Santana, negotiation, outsourcing, outsourcing relationship, SLA, supplier

Technical articles 2004-02-11

Decision Support: Design outsourcing relationships that yield long-term ROI, part 1

I recently spoke at an event where one of my fellow presenters compared the signing of a new outsourcing contract to a wedding. He then followed up with statistics that showed that much like the other happy event, 50 percent of these “business marriages” end in bitter divorce. (Gartner Group...

Tags: Jim Leto, outsourcing, supplier, Joe Santana, decision support, ROI

Technical articles 2004-02-09

Decision Support: Chargeback works in theory, but does it work in practice?

To an IT manager, the notion of chargeback—charging user departments for IT costs they incur—can seem very attractive. After all, instead of IT having to decide the level of expenditure for new technology, and perhaps being looked at as a seemingly bottomless cost pit, each business unit can decide what...

Tags: chargeback, Toni Bowers, decision support, information technology, Member Czahrobsky@nephdocs.com, theory

Technical articles 2004-02-04

Decision Support: Launch BI warehousing in a client's ERP environment

Installing a data warehouse in an ERP environment is a conceptually economical proposition, as Business Information BI warehousing and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP have much in common from an infrastructure standpoint:Both are used for storing vast amounts of data in distributed structures that have a high potential for integration.Both offer...

Tags: Business Information, ERP, Scott Robinson, decision support, warehousing

Technical articles 2004-01-23

Decision Support: Business Impact Analysis is the starting point for disaster recovery

If you are preparing or updating a Disaster Recovery Plan DRP for your company or your department, your first tasks will be: identifying which critical business functions need to be restored first; what equipment and data will be needed to restore them; and the management and people needed to resume...

Tags: Business Impact Analysis, Paul Baldwin, decision support, disaster recovery

Technical articles 2004-01-20

Decision Support: Use analytics for strategic Business Information implementation

When you first became aware of the business information warehouse concept, it was probably put forth as a tool of expedience—which it certainly is. And then you probably came to appreciate it as a radical repositioning of the end user in the information processing food chain.But you may not have...

Tags: analytics, Scott Robinson, data mart, decision support, performance

Technical articles 2004-01-12

Decision Support: A virus-protection chart

With the sheer number and sophistication of contemporary network threats out there, securing the enterprise is an enormous and ongoing task. Your success as an IT Manager depends largely on your ability to plan, deploy, and maintain practical yet airtight security measures for the systems and networks you administer and...

Tags: Becky Roberts, decision support, virus protection

Technical articles 2004-01-13

Decision Support: Unique support opportunities for the Tablet PC

By now, you have probably heard all of the hype regarding how Tablet PCs can be used in meetings. You also might have wondered if that is the only place a user can work with a Tablet PC. Not surprisingly a large development effort has been underway to make the...

Tags: tablet, tablet PC, PC, Brien M. Posey MCSE, adjuster, decision support, patient

Technical articles 2004-01-08

Decision Support: Choose the best security solution for your enterprise

By Ruby BayanGone are the days when choosing the best security solution simply meant picking up the latest version of the toughest-sounding antivirus and firewall applications. Now, selecting reliable protection against hackers, crooks, and other social deviants—who are becoming increasingly tech-savvy—is among the most daunting tasks for the IT pro.It...

Tags: decision support, Guest Contributor, security, security solution

Technical articles 2004-01-05

Decision Support: Put IM archiving on your compliance to-do list

Is IM on your watch list for compliance? Maybe it should be. In the face of recent scandals, state and federal lawmakers have been drafting a plethora of policies to enforce stricter record keeping practices among publicly held companies and greater accountability from corporate officers. But many analysts predict this...

Tags: IM, Debra Young, archiving, compliance, decision support

Technical articles 2004-01-07

Decision Support: How to select spam-filtering products and services

By Arabella Hallawell and Maurene Caplan GreyAnti-spam technology usually is set up at one of four locations: an outsourcer, an internal SMTP mail relay, a native e-mail server (for example, Microsoft Exchange or IBM/Lotus Domino), or the desktop (see Figure 1). Choosing the most appropriate location partly depends on the...

Tags: decision support, e-mail, e-mail server, Gartner  , native e-mail server, server, SMTP, spam, spam filtering

Technical articles 2003-10-31

Decision Support: Consider Kodak's software-hybrid data-archiving solution

When it comes to dealing with the recent federally legislated data-archiving mandates, all IT managers seem to have the same knee-jerk reaction of throwing more software at the problem."You see a lot of people offering a lot of solutions but they're saying it basically must be a digital solution," said...

Tags: Andy Lawrence, backup, decision support, Eastman Kodak Co., Karen Ann Kidd, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, software

Technical articles 2003-10-22

Decision Support: SANS/FBI list identifies top 10 actively exploited Windows threats

For the fourth time, the SANS Institute has teamed up with the FBI to publish an annual compilation of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities. What makes this list particularly important is its focus on vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited rather than on theoretical or potential threats. In most...

Tags: decision support, John McCormick, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Windows, password, password management, SANS Institute

Technical articles 2003-10-20

Decision Support: Balance benefits, risks before outsourcing your call center to offshore provider

By Bradford AdrianBusinesses in many industries have shipped their customer call center operations to offshore service providers, primarily lured by the promise of lower costs. Although the financial services industry tends to be more conservative than other sectors in the use of outsourcing, the appeal of offshore call centers is,...

Tags: benefit, call-center, decision support, financial, financial service, financial services company, Gartner  , outsourcing

Technical articles 2003-10-17

Decision Support: City of Des Moines help desk application grows to serve many needs

When the City of Des Moines, IA, decided to create a help desk from the foundation up, CIO Michael Armstrong learned quickly the importance of having an IT service management tool."We were simply fighting fires all of the time and we had no structure about how we responded or provided...

Tags: help desk, David Southgate, Armstrong, decision support, HEAT Service & Support

Technical articles 2003-10-09

Decision Support: Use metrics to justify dropping browser support

This article originally appeared on Builder.com, TechRepublic's sister site.Web design standards are constantly progressing, and Web browsers are constantly being updated to support these standards. Unfortunately, Web users don't always keep up with the pace, leaving Web developers in a bind: When do you drop browser version support?If you've read...

Tags: decision support, older browser, Shawn Morton, Web browser

Technical articles 2003-09-16