Ibsecad Case Study
[ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
May 2009-
Ibsecad is a successful and expanding international company, supplying the construction industry with design, installation, and as-built drawings. Read how Ibsecad replaced spreadsheets for recording time and expenses and resource planning for dozens of high-profile projects for 75 CAD designers and project managers.
Mentor Graphics Collects Customer Feedback for Product Innovation
[ Source: Brightidea, Inc. ]
December 2008-
In June 2008, Mentor Graphics launched Mentor Ideas, a Web-based environment for capturing product enhancement ideas from customers. This initiative is focused on the Mentor Graphics PADS product line and customers, and, due to the success of the initial pilot, the company has now launched a similar initiative for its Expedition product line.
Going Green In The Data Center Or Going Going Gone!
[ Source: CommScope ]
April 2008-
Faced with the stark realities of global warming and rising energy costs, government agencies and private firms worldwide are examining ways to protect the environment. To address what is increasingly being perceived as a crisis, there is a growing global movement to implement more environmentally friendly computing. CommScope looks at the value of going green in this presentation.
Skills Gaps in the World’s IT Workforce: A CompTIA International Research Study
[ Source: CompTIA ]
September 2008-
This ground-breaking research identifies trends and gaps in IT skills, explores issues surrounding recruiting and hiring, investigates the current and potential IT market growth and demand for IT professionals, and discovers which factors most influence, and are expected to influence, the IT industry.
The IT industry has experienced many changes and much growth in the past decade with the fast pace of technological change and the ever-increasing globalization of business. We believe ....
ERP For IT And Tooling For Automation
[ Source: Cornerstone Technology BV ]
March 2009-
The question is what can be depicted to be a major key for a successful ERP implementation for the IT disciplines The primary condition for effective ERP systems for the IT-shop itself is self-automation. No human expert input or intervention! Enterprise applications must be automatically inputted into the ERP database. This aspect makes system engineering methodologies like ITIL much more consistent and complete.
Case Study: Metron Enterprise and Howard County, Maryland
[ Source: eTelemetry ]
July 2008-
Howard County, Maryland, has approximately 3,000 users on its County IT network. Users who engaged in streaming music and inappropriate surfing or had misconfigured PCs, for example, were straining the network and impacting employee use for legitimate work purposes. Limited resources and an inability to monitor network activity left Howard County without any reliable way of identifying the sources of these violations. The IT department would be routinely asked to analyze hard drives for evidence ....
10 Hot Skills for 2009
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
May 2009-
Whether we are in a down economy, seeing jobs go offshore, or witnessing jobs being cut altogether, there are certain IT skills that will never go out of style. With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond.
10 Dying IT Skills
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
June 2009-
There are some things in life, like good manners, which never go out of style, and there are other things, like clothing styles that fall in and out of fashion, but when an IT skill falls out of favor it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to update your skill set
ITIL Version 3 - What The Changes Could Mean To You
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
July 2008-
The IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) v3, released in 2007, is an exciting major overhaul of the previous version. Its focus on managing IT along business lines and a movement away from strict process control is having a dramatic impact on the entire IT industry.
An enhanced and clarified descriptive core, more prescriptive additions, better guidance on business alignment, and recent international standards approvals move ITIL from a "nice to have" to a ....
2009 IT Skills and Salary Report
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
March 2009-
How much more could you be earning?
For the second year in a row, Global Knowledge and TechRepublic have partnered to create a comprehensive IT salary survey. With over 14,150 responses, the 2009 report has turned out to be one of this year's most relevant and revealing salary surveys in the industry.
Despite the current economic pressures, the salaries of IT professionals did post a 10% gain over the results reported in ....