Publication date: 1999-12-08
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Review Offshore Outsourcing: India an Oasis / Giga Information Group, Inc.:Giga's Research Digest is a terrific way to follow the key themes emerging from Giga's Research community. Published monthly, each issue includes an in depth cover story tackling a key issue, Giga Position statements taken right from recently published Planning Assumptions, a selection of relevant Ideabytes as well as a complete index of the Ideabytes published for the month. This month, our analysts take a close look at offshore development outsourcing, with a particular focus on India, which owns 80% of the market - some $6B this year. Our ongoing research shows that this emerging option can have a major impact on your development plans, while posing new questions in need of answers. What are the possibilities? How soon can you take advantage of this option? How much it will cost you? What are the critical decision variables? How do you organize, measure and engage suppliers? We address these concerns, by examining the issues of staffing, cost, quality, and speed. We also discuss the challenges that exist, such as project management, vendor selection and staffing the internal management function.
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Review The Many Faces of IT Portfolio Management: Research Digest / MarketResearch.com:It may seem that IT portfolio management — balancing resources, technology, business needs and changing situations while simultaneously maximizing returns and minimizing risk — would require the analytical talents of Socrates, the foresight of Nostradamus and the cunning of a chess grandmaster to anticipate and position resources across the IT chessboard. However, breaking down the challenge into sets of smaller problems makes the task less daunting. This Research Digest article discusses the components of IT portfolio management and how available tools meet the needs of the portfolio manager. It also examines: · The Portfolio Manager: Decisions must reflect the specific needs. · Tackling the Big Problem: Breaking it down into small problems. · IT Business Alignment: Technology for technology’s sake provides no value. · Investment Management: Spending more to ensure availability. · Project Arbitration: Deciding between competing projects or scenarios. · Bringing the Portfolio Together: Reflecting differing internal roles clearly. · Resource Management: Financial, personnel, systems and change constraints. [+]· Risk Management: The first step in any investment risk management framework. · IT Performance and Reporting: Matching portfolios to targets, explaining divergences. · Investing for Results: Operating with sufficient tools and information. This 119-page Research Digest issue also offers Giga Research from across the spectrum of IT, with 66 IdeaBytes, 48 Planning Assumption position statements plus Collaborative Research. Read this issue for actionable advice on how to maximize your IT investment.
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Review From 'Virtualization' to 'Realization' — IT's New Focus on Infrastructure and Operations / MarketResearch.com:Cover story, From 'Virtualization' to 'Realization' — IT's New Focus on Infrastructure and Operations is just one of the features of this edition of Research Digest : The pendulum continually swings, first to the virtual, then back to the real. After flirting with progressively less concrete objectives, the attention of management has begun to turn back toward recognizing the criticality of basic operational excellence. Failure is becoming too expensive, dependency chains are lengthening and the interoperation of multiple technologies is becoming the default mode of operation. The strength or fragility of systems has once again become a dominant concern. Businesses are experiencing a renewed emphasis on infrastructure and operations. Giga analysts are seeing increased interest in the optimization of such seemingly mundane assets as networks, servers and storage, and a strong focus on metrics that allow the measurement of value received from the infrastructure and its health. At the same time, there is renewed focus on how well development staffs are updating their skills and processes. With this report, learn about: Software - Making Metrics Matter. In software development, the abstraction has always sought to become the application. Portals provide process personalization. [+]Virtualization shows up in cultural provinces as well. Making Operations Count - Literally. At the end of the day, nothing is more real than operations.
Publication date: 2000-12-01
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Review From Virtualization to Realization : IT’s New Focus on Infrastructure and Operations / Giga Information Group, Inc.:The pendulum continually swings, first to the virtual, then back to the real. After flirting with progressively less concrete objectives, the attention of management has begun to turn back toward recognizing the criticality of basic operational excellence. Failure is becoming too expensive, dependency chains are lengthening and the interoperation of multiple technologies is becoming the default mode of operation. The strength or fragility of systems has once again become a dominant concern. Businesses are experiencing a renewed emphasis on infrastructure and operations. Giga analysts are seeing increased interest in the optimization of such seemingly mundane assets as networks, servers and storage, and a strong focus on metrics that allow the measurement of value received from the infrastructure and its health. At the same time, there is renewed focus on how well development staffs are updating their skills and processes. Read the Research Digest cover story to discover how the pendulum swing - away from the virtual and toward the real - impacts you. Learn about: Software - Making Metrics Matter. In software development, the abstraction has always sought to become the application, Portals provide process personalization and Virtualization shows up in cultural provinces as well and Making Operations Count - Literally. [+]At the end of the day, nothing is more real than operations.
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- Inc. Giga Information Group
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Review Finding Value in Context: Giga Research Digest / MarketResearch.com:Context is important. When we retrieve a document, we may know who wrote it, when it was written and where it resides, but we have little or no insight into its creation, its evolution, how it has been used, how well it performed or what it was intended to do. Intent is of particular note: it not only describes issues around the content, but issues about understanding the context of the information requester. Search engines, for example, must glean intent from one or two words entered into a search box on a Web page. They do not, however, understand the context of the requester, nor do they attempt to leverage the context of the documents to increase the search relevancy. This issue of the Research Digest features a cover story on the value of context in computing. This 120-page Research Digest issue also offers Giga Research from across the broad spectrum of IT, with 70 IdeaBytes and 45 Planning Assumption position statements, plus 5 GigaCollaboration pieces. Also in this issue, read Marc Cecere’s piece, "Common Mistakes in IT Management," which pulls together findings from all of Giga’s coverage areas about common snafus in each individual area, plus a Spotlight on Enterprise Business Applications by Paul Hamerman.
Publication date: 2007-08-22
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Review Web-Based Advertising Is Critical for Community Wireless Business Models:Still in its infancy, web-based advertising is a potentially significant revenue and service opportunity for community wireless broadband networks. Yankee Group's preliminary estimate is that a city with the population size and demographics of Boston or Seattle could realize as much as $7 million annually from advertising revenue once the network is fully built out. The broader online advertising marketplace is growing rapidly and reached $16. 9 billion in 2006. Even so, most internet service providers (ISPs) do not directly share in this revenue. Instead, they rely on monthly subscription fees. Is community wireless a separate market with unique subscribers, or just an extension of the broadband market?.
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- Inc. Giga Information Group
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Review The Measurement of IT: Giga Research Digest / MarketResearch.com:To date, Giga has developed almost 250 separate metrics for 21 different job functions ranging from administration to applications development to the CIO. During this exercise we identified two major types of metrics in keeping with the two objectives — improving efficiency and demonstrating value. Metrics by themselves provide little value — it’s how the metrics are implemented, reported and acted on that differentiates successful measurement programs from failures. Research has shown that despite the best intentions, four out of five measurement programs fail within one year of their inception. A good metrics program will make sure the metrics are relevant, practical, actionable, accurately reported and assigned appropriate ownership. This 108-page Research Digest issue also offers Giga Research from across the broad spectrum of IT, with 73 IdeaBytes and 34 Planning Assumption position statements, plus 10 GigaCollaboration pieces. The issues also contains Craig Symons’ article explaining how to use industry averages and “The Recipe for Failure in International Telecoms” by Brownlee Thomas and Bernt Ostergaard.
Publication date: 2007-08-23
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Review The Dark Side of the Distributed Workforce: Overcoming Employee Alienation in the Enterprise:The firmly bounded and easily understood organizational chart that exists at every major organization is an operational mirage. In the quest for better talent, greater innovation and organizational flexibility enterprises have remade themselves into amorphous, distributed, project-oriented entities. But tools for communication and collaboration have not kept pace. The emergence of mobile workers and the distributed workforce is a global phenomenon, but how many applications have evolved along with employee working habits? Mobile email is the only mobile application that has achieved anything approaching mass-market adoption despite the fact that 50% of workers spend at least 20% of their time away from their primary workspace.
Publication date: 2007-06-27
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Review Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2007 UK Managed IT and Communications Services Survey:The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise− Small and Medium: 2007 UK Managed IT and Communications Services Survey provides an in-depth view of how SMBs use managed IT and communications services. Specific topics covered include: Current and future migration plans to managed services Software as a service (SaaS) Managed/hosted VoIP Supplier preferences Vendor/service provider account management.
Publication date: 2000-12-07
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Review The Internet Transformation of Business Infrastructure / Giga Information Group, Inc.:The Research Digest is a monthly publication featuring a compilation of Giga Research written by Giga Analysts on the most significant technology topics of the day. Each monthly issue features a cover story on a specific cutting edge issue, as well as a selection of Collaborative Research written by a group of Giga analysts. Also included in each issue is a wide range of Giga Planning Assumptions and Ideabytes taken from the seven different Giga research Orbits which include: Application Development, Communications and Networking, Computing Infrastructures, E-Business Applications & Strategies, Information & Knowledge Management, IT Management & Services and Mobile & Security. Each issue concludes with an article entitled, The Last Word, featuring original writing by a Giga analyst on a specific IT topic. This month's issue Cover Story entitled, Focus on Facilitation for High-Level Decision-Making, addresses the facilitated decision making - how and why it is is being used more and more to address the challenges that organizations face today. The Last Word features an article entitled, The Final Rant of the Last Old-Time Network Engineer by Jim Slaby.
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Review Offshore Outsourcing: India an Oasis During Application Development Talent Drought / MarketResearch.com:In this issue of Research Digest , our analysts take a close look at offshore development outsourcing, with a particular focus on India, which owns 80% of the market - some $6B this year. Our ongoing research shows that this emerging option can have a major impact on your development plans, while posing new questions in need of answers. What are the possibilities? How soon can you take advantage of this option? How much it will cost you? What are the critical decision variables? How do you organize, measure and engage suppliers? We address these concerns, by examining the issues of staffing, cost, quality, and speed. We also discuss the challenges that exist, such as project management, vendor selection and staffing the internal management function.
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- Inc. Giga Information Group
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Review The Importance of Consistency in Web Sites: Giga Research Digest / MarketResearch.com:Usability testing consistently shows that between one-half and three-quarters of Web site visitors leave without finding what they came for — even when it is provided on the Web site. It is common practice for companies to pour money into Web site content and design. All the while, these expensive features on the Web site are missed by half of the people looking for them and as a result, much of the value of the investment is lost. Consistent landmarks, trail markers and signs provide the only definition of the landscape to guide your visitors. When there is inconsistency, frustration levels mount, site branding does not occur and corporate branding is negatively affected. Companies need to provide consistency on their Web sites to support visitor success, conventional expectations and branding. Few experimental studies deal with consistency on Web pages. However, research dealing with consistency levels in PC-based software packages has shown that increasing the consistency levels of interfaces reduces error rates, learning time, task completion times and increases satisfaction. Read this important issue of the Research Digest and learn how to provide consistency on your Web site. This Research Digest is 115 pages long. [+]In addition to the feature research on the importance of consistency in Web sites, this issue contains 45 Planning Assumption position statements and 58 IdeaBytes to help executives make effective business decisions.
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- Inc. Giga Information Group
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Review The Internet Transformation of Business Infrastructure Volume 4, Issue 5 / MarketResearch.com:Standardization of key infrastructure components will change the way business uses the Internet. Containing infrastructure costs is a big challenge for managers — many often respond to high demand by over-provisioning — a costly and wasteful approach. The widespread adoption of the Internet has brought about an economic evolutionary leap forward, slashing the costs of data exchange and launching a dynamic period of experimentation with radically new business models. Several drivers make leveraging distributed Internet infrastructure services critical to retaining a competitive edge: The use of the Web as an e-business channel The Internet's fundamentally poor security posture The effect of unpredictable demand on resources which are often underutilized The maximization of technology investments and shortened life cycles E-business globalization's costly and complicated infrastructure The need for customer-centric systems This Research Digest issue also offers a wealth of articles by Giga's expert analysts, including comprehensive market overviews, purchasing criteria checklists, statistical analyses and definitional documents. This Research Digest also offers actionable advice from several research items on application development, communications and networking, computing infrastructures, e-business applications and strategies, information and knowledge management, IT management and services, mobile communications and security.
Publication date: 2000-12-04
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Review Making Sense of Collaborative Commerce / Giga Information Group, Inc.:Vendors like Ariba, i2, Oracle and PeopleSoft have jumped on the phrase “collaborative commerce,” but in Giga’s view, the phrase has a problem - it doesn’t describe what’s new. Collaboration between companies has been going on for years. What is new is the creation of applications to automate key steps in collaboration. Giga prefers “e-collaboration,” because the “e” in e-collaboration stresses what’s new - the electronic automation of collaborative interactions. Read this Research Digest to find out what market forces brought e-collaboration on to the radar screen of both vendors and clients. What is the role of technology in the development of collaborative commerce and e-commerce? What collaborative possibilities exist along the supply chain between companies and suppliers in terms of the realistic near-term opportunities? What long-term possibilities exist? What about possibilities along the demand and development chains, when a product is developed and launched?.
Publication date: 2007-08-31
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Review As Asian Outsourcing Grows, So Do IT Challenges:Asia’s IT departments are facing a daunting challenge: Trapped in the tedium of basic maintenance chores, IT departments can rarely shake free to refine their overall IT strategies and business process as companies continue to transform—not to mention get the resources required to deploy innovative IT solutions. As a result, line-of-business managers and executive management are independently taking control of IT decisions and budgets, which compounds the isolation of central IT.
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Review Key IT Trends for 2002: Project Payback, Increased Security, Mainstream Wireless Common Themes: Giga Research Digest / MarketResearch.com:For IT departments everywhere, 2002 could be a crucial year, with CIOS playing an important role in its outcome. To help CIOs, Giga has compiled more than 70 pieces of research about what may happen in 2002 and why and how it will effect IT. The cover story, which outlines all of the Giga research on the topic, also lays out an analysis of the overarching trends and drivers impacting IT in 2002. Each piece of research lists underlying business drivers and expected trends for 2002 in specific areas. You will find individual pieces or research focusing on performance and capacity management, integrated solutions, Web Services, offshore outsourcing, organizational design, secure e-mail, firewalls, global telecom, Linux, business continuity, and customer relationship management in Europe. Helpful, in-depth advice is provided on the following categories: Application development (12 pieces of research) Communications and networking (6 pieces of research) Computing infrastructures (6 pieces of research) E-business applications and strategies (18 pieces of research) Information and knowledge management (7 pieces of research) IT management and services (13 pieces of research) Mobile and security (8 pieces of research) In addition to the IT Trends pieces, this Research Digest also presents many more pieces of Giga’s research on a broad range topics across the breadth of IT. This issue contains 61 IdeaBytes, 35 Planning Assumption position statements, 5 Giga Collaboration pieces and other Giga research documents.
Publication date: 2006-11-08
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Review IPTV in Latin America Faces Obstacle:
Publication date: 2007-08-27
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Review Wikis at Work:“Social software is software that we really can’t use if we’re not on the network or that’s not useful to us just sitting in front of an isolated PC. ” That statement by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Andrew McAfee—an expert on social software and the originator of the term “Enterprise 2. 0”—sums up the nature and allure of social networking and the power of social software applications like wikis to connect people on common internet-enabled platforms for collaboration and communication purposes. Isolated software has its place in the enterprise; but social software—through the power of network effects—has the ability to unlock and unleash valuable latent knowledge.
Publication date: 2007-06-19
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Review Brush Your Teeth! Clean Your Room! Check Your E-Mail! The Online Habits of Modern Teens:The activities of the Anywhere Consumer™ are unconstrained by physical location, device, form factor or time of day (see the March 2007 Yankee Group Report, The Battle for the Anywhere Consumer). Anywhere Consumers challenge the status quo for commercializing consumer activities—aided by the pervasive technology trends of Internet Protocol standards, the digitization of content and applications, lower cost of media storage, and a proliferation of broadband networks, both fixed and wireless.
Publication date: 2007-08-29
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Review Show Me the Money!: What UGC Sites Must Do to Survive:Short-Form Video Is a Vital Part of the Anywhere Consumer’s Media Mix User-generated content (UGC) is the new media darling of the Anywhere Consumer, but can it become a profitable media channel? Or is it doomed to go the way of the dodo bird? Anywhere Consumers are enamored with UGC. On average, internet users watched 7. 2 billion video streams per month in 2006, up from an average of 3. 7 billion video streams a month in 2005 (see Exhibit 1). This growth is a result of the exploding popularity of YouTube. But while the number of streams being viewed was going through the roof, the average length of a stream was declining. In 2005 the average length of a video stream was 2 minutes and 12 seconds. In 2006, the average length of a video stream fell to 1 minute and 30 seconds. UGC fills the desire for short-form video or “video snacking. ”.
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Clean Your Room! Check Your E-Mail! The Online Habits of Modern Teens, Show Me the Money!: What UGC Sites Must Do to SurviveTop headlines: Ex-Detroit mayoral aide admits to crimes: Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick led to his downfall broke her silence Monday, shedding tears as she pleaded guilty. ›20:41 Ford weighs Volvo sale amid industry crisis: Ford is considering selling Volvo as the beleaguered U.S. automaker seeks to raise cash and survive tight credit markets and a global automotive sales crisis. ›20:51 Grass lawns shrink in Calif. drought: California's ever-growing population and the threat of a prolonged drought could kill the concept of the traditional lush lawn in the Golden State. ›21:18 20 Nov, Thu Video: Building team, Obama opts for pragmatism: Dec. 1: Evidently eager to emphasize diplomacy and not ideology as a way to solve the world's problems, President-elect Barack Obama Monday introduced a national security team comprised largely of foreign policy centrists. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.(Nightly News) ›23:45 Oil prices tumble below $50 a barrel: Oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel Monday as National Bureau of Economic Research reported that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007. ›22:44 EU announces interest in Arctic region: The European Union's executive body said Thursday that the bloc should try to obtain its fair share of oil, gas, minerals and fish exposed by the melting of the Arctic ice cap. ›23:14 20 Nov, Thu Bush set to relax rules protecting species: Animals in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams and other projects don't pose a threat, under a regulation the Bush administration is set to put in place. ›16:13 20 Nov, Thu NFL Review: Jets, refs blew it: The Jets blew it vs. the Broncos with a stupid play call. Then the refs went and made it worse. See how in our Week 13 Review. ›18:02 Pondering a playoff amid another BCS controversy: Another year. Another BCS controversy. It's got Peter Schrager daydreaming about the possibility of a playoff. Again. ›02:12 02 Dec, Tue Revving up the race for fuel efficiency: New research suggests that impressive increases in fuel economy could be obtained by integrating innovative devices into the nations fleet of gas-guzzling vehicles. ›13:39 $1 billion network for green cars vowed: A $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations will dot San Francisco Bay area highways under a plan unveiled Thursday. ›22:55 20 Nov, Thu Slain anchors parents still ask: Why?: A suspect is in custody, but unanswered questions remain about why Anne Pressly was brutally murdered in her home, the Little Rock TV anchors parents said Monday. They revealed that there is evidence their daughter was sexually assaulted. ›14:22 Cost of 12 days of Christmas rises to $86,609: Given the economic downturn, even the most romantic might balk at the $86,609 price tag for the items in the carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. ›05:07 Video: India terror attack sends shockwaves across U.S.: Dec. 1: The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai have raised new concerns that the incident could trigger new tensions between old rivals, India and Pakistan, both critical to U.S. national security. NBC's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell reports.(Nightly News) ›23:55 Volkswagen Baja Race: Paris to Ensenada: Volkswagen and its Touareg 2 head to Mexico for the Baja 500. ›07:00 16 Oct, Tue Getting ready for 'Cyber Monday': This holiday season is likely to be the worst for online shopping since it started a decade or so ago. But that doesn't mean you won't face delays or slowdowns at retail Web sites on Cyber Monday. ›18:49 28 Nov, Fri Churches: Chocolate Jesus is 'tasteless': Frank Oynhausen set up his "Sweet Lord" chocolate Jesus-making business saying he wanted to restore some traditional religious values to Christmas in Germany. ›19:39 25 Nov, Tue Toddler OK after key lodged in his eye: The CAT scan of little Nicholas Holdermans head shows the car key he fell on stuck to the hilt in his eye, penetrating his brain. But three months later, the toddler shows no ill effects. Our prayers were answered, his mother said. ›15:47 25 Nov, Tue Space shuttle crew reuniting with family: The astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour headed for a delayed reunion with their families Monday in Houston a day after touching down safely in California following a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station. ›14:32 Kosher meat getting scarce: A shortage of kosher meat is the result of the collapse of Agriprocessors Inc., formerly the largest kosher meatpacking company in the nation. ›21:18 Rescued pilot whales join larger pod: A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters a sign they are doing fine after their ordeal, an official said Monday. ›16:23 24 Nov, Mon How did Plaxico fall so far, so fast?: In a matter of months, Plaxico Burress has gone from Super Bowl hero to a real zero. Kevin Hench can't believe it fell apart so fast. ›22:22 Birmingham mayor faces bribery charges: The mayor of Alabama's largest city was arrested Monday on federal bribery and fraud charges connected to a sewer bond deal that has driven the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy. ›20:13 Red-hot Celtics cool off Magic, win 9th straight: ›02:56 02 Dec, Tue |
