Historically thought to be the ‘centre’ of tertiary education, the library is changing with developments in information technology, teaching and learning methods and changes in society. Coupled with budget pressures, demands for expansion and increased expenditures, the maintenance of library services requires examining new methods of delivery and use. Overall, with regard to the future of…
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) is Microsoft’s flagship enterprise search product and one of the most capable enterprise search platforms available. It provides a feature-rich alternative to the limited out-of-the-box search experience in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and can be extended to meet complex information retrieval requirements. If your organization is looking f…
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) has undergone a seismic shift over the past few years. Long viewed as tactical and administrative in nature, RPO can now be characterized as strategic, innovative and transformative.
While we have seen modest gains in organizations’ ability to attack the security gap, advanced (and not-so- advanced) threat actors continue to evolve their tactics to find a way through it . In last year’s M-Trends we noted that cyber security had gone from a niche IT issue to a boardroom priority . This year, cyber security (or perhaps more accurately, cyber insecurity) entered the mains…
As discussed above, there are many types, sub-types, variants, and sub-variants reported in the literature about security attacks in MANETs. The efforts carried out by the research community to understand and solve the different attacks are remarkable. However, the absence of valid classifications from a practical perspective can be seen in the in existence of studies that try to extract commo…
No performance management strategy can be completely effective without support from underlying technology. When a company pursues performance management, it must find a single, unified solution that can meet all its requirements and deliver a holistic view of performance across the enterprise by easily accessing any metric from any source – without compromise. The solution should remain compl…
Discovery is the process of identifying, preserving, collecting, reviewing, analyzing and producing information during civil legal actions. The goal of discovery is to obtain information that will be useful in developing relevant information for pre-trial motions and for the trial itself. Information sought during discovery can include documents, testimony and other information deemed necessa…
The AS/400 and RS/6000 platforms have evolved greatly over 20 years, and now IBM has brought them together to create the Power Systems server line. The technologies and methods for data protection and system optimization for both platforms have seen great changes as well. Even as transaction and data storage volumes have increased, ensuring that the right data protection and management practice…
If you are involved with managing process automation, building automation, or security systems, you know the complexity of your IT systems can often create failures and indecision that result in downtime. And downtime can blow your production schedule, put lives at risk, and your company in financial peril. Redundancy is a time-tested method to ensure availability of PLCs, monitoring, control…
More than ever, organizations require trusted, high quality data to satisfy governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Organizations are discovering that poor quality data has a significant impact on their ability to support business processes, comply with industry regulators, and to make accurate decisions and are raising the visibility of data quality activities within their enterpri…
Imagine.that.you’ve.been.tasked.with.improving.the.corporate.patch.management.process..Would.you.know. what.the.ideal.patch.process.looks.like?.This.white.paper.breaks.down.the.patch.process.into.its.basic.pieces,. and.recommends.a.simple-to-use,.best.practice.approach. After.talking.with.many.IT.organizations.and.surveying.the.state-of-the-art.in.Change.Management.approaches,. we.documented…
System developers have used modeling languages for decades to specify, visualize, construct, and document systems. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of those languages. UML makes it possible for team members to collaborate by providing a common language that applies to a multitude of different systems. Essentially, it enables you to communicate solutions in a consistent, tool-supported…
The mobile application business model is essentially the new get-rich-quick scheme. There are many who put out their app on smartphone platforms, and begin to start receiving profits from users, advertisers, and shops within their applications. There is, of course, a lot of work involved before the developer can simply sit back and watch the money roll in. This was certainly the case for iOS du…
problems underscore the shortfall in our understanding of many issues related to large-scale IT systems and their applications. They suggest that achieving the promise of IT will require new research efforts. Drawing upon a recent report from the National Research Council (NRC) Computer Science and Telecommunications Board on the future of IT research (2000), this article argues for an expans…
You have decided to build a new technology that processes data about people. Where do you start? In Part I, we walk you through the initial steps that lay the foundation upon which your privacy-protective framework will be built. Chapter 1 defines the concept of privacy and the critical role of the engineer in shaping that concept through technology. We then raise some preliminary questions reg…
This book will examine the importance of Human Computer Interaction, Usability, and Sustainability, including sustainable design, in the Information Communication and Technology sector (ICT). ICT usage by businesses and individuals has become a significant instrument for searching, conducting research, communication, entertainment, commerce and information. The recycling of ICT usage is becomin…
This book is concerned with the assessment of medical pathology laboratory in- formation systems effectiveness, and in what way information system effectiveness impacts on the medical pathology business. To achieve this goal we discuss a study that focused on determining the level of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) and by what means information system effectiveness is measured, in…
After decades of outstanding contributions to the nation’s naval capability, the U.S. shipbuilding industry is in crisis. During the 1980s, at the behest of the Reagan administration, U.S. shipbuilders turned to constructing many new naval vessels. Following these achievements and with the ensuing defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders lost significant parts of their business and work force, ha…