Tag: IT

  • IT Execs Turn to Channel Brokers

    IT Execs Turn to Channel Brokers

    Deborah Rothberg

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    With an estimate of more than half a trillion dollars in total contract value, multiyear IT outsourcing deals have become so common that IT executives are turning to outsourcing intermediaries to build successful deals, according to a market report released by Forrester Research on Jan. 12. In a worldwide IT and applications outsourcing market now… Read more

  • Oblicore Raises the Bar on IT Service Level Management

    Oblicore Raises the Bar on IT Service Level Management

    Paula Musich

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    Service level management provider Oblicore on Jan. 16 will seek to capitalize on the growing interest in IT Business Service Management with the release of its Oblicore Guarantee 4.0. The privately held 5-year-old company hopes to carve out a place among HP, CA and BMC as well as smaller BSM competitors such as Managed Objects.… Read more

  • The Ever More Diversified Face of IT

    The Ever More Diversified Face of IT

    Deborah Rothberg

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    Just how diverse is IT in the United States today? It depends on who you ask. Some will say, “More than ever,” and tell you about companies that are itching for a mixed breed of recruits, that will brag about their minority representation and that consider it a great bonus to have dozens of cultures… Read more

  • Former Health IT Czar: Government Inaction Is a Business Opportunity

    Former Health IT Czar: Government Inaction Is a Business Opportunity

    M.L. Baker

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    The former health IT czar is urging biotech executives and investors to find cash by fixing the nation’s health care system. David Brailer, speaking Jan. 9 at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, where company executives woo investors and partners with the new treatments they are developing, predicted growing business in IT intensive practices… Read more

  • Commonwealth Survey Finds Health IT a High Priority

    Commonwealth Survey Finds Health IT a High Priority

    M.L. Baker

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    A survey of nearly 300 leading health experts puts increasing information technology as the third highest health care priority for Congress to address in the next five years. In Commonwealth Fund’s ninth annual online survey of health experts, four-fifths of respondents deemed increasing IT to improve quality of care as “absolutely essential” or “very important.”… Read more

  • IT Pros Advised to Address Information Overload

    IT Pros Advised to Address Information Overload

    Deborah Rothberg

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    In an effort to combat attention fatigue and information overload, the Burton Group, a Salt Lake City-based IT research firm, released a research report Jan. 8 introducing the concept of an Enterprise Attention Management system. According to the report, in the current information economy, knowledge is everything but can be also stress-inducing, from e-mail overload,… Read more