A recent survey of 1,000 Americans was conducted by Wakefield Research for Citrix. The results suggest that Americans like to think they’re on top of the latest innovations in cloud computing, but in reality know little about it. Unfortunately, even more people think that the cloud is tied to the weather in some way.
Read some of the [highly embarrassing] statistics here.
…some firms have found that tactical approaches — doing just enough to meet the reporting requirements — have not been sufficient for increasing regulatory demands or the needs of internal business users.
Apparently risk wasn’t entirely solved during the 1980s and 1990s when big systems went into banks from Algorithmics, SunGard and other major players. SAS recently ranked in the upper right quad of a Chartis report on risk systems, along with Algorithmics, now part of IBM; Moody’s analytics; SunGard and Oracle.
An Austrian bank took the tactical approach to create reports from existing infrastructure, Rogers said by way of example.
“But tactical can mean not necessarily considering all the elements you need. You meet the reporting for your regulator, but you don’t have the long term infrastructure to extend those reports to areas you really want to work on for stress tests, capital planning or overall risk management reporting.”
“The Cloud” has become one of the hottest buzz topics in the industry this year, and what started out as a topic mostly of interest to IT executives is quickly moving to the radar screen of CFOs and Finance Executives.
Some of the advantages of cloud-based applications include improved time to value, reduced up-front costs, leveraging 3rd party skill sets and having a scalable environment to support future growth. Some of the considerations and risks include security, performance, integration of cloud-based applications with on-premise systems and long-term costs of ownership.
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There’s big talk these days about “big data” in education—looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.
Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. Charles Darwin managed to compress his entire theory into a single summary…
In a technology driven landscape, it’s crucial for you and your team to be good at things computers can’t do. It’s a short list.
Will robots steal your job? The Terminator-movie-version of the impending human-vs-machine is not entirely inaccurate.
At a recent briefing IBM raised the idea that in any number of ways the Internet, Web—online computing—badly needs refreshing. Just look at what you are doing with online. Does it seem stale?
Zynga. LinkedIn. Groupon. So much hype about Pinterest. And now, the social media giant of them all, Facebook. Are we in a social media / tech bubble?
If Facebook’s stock drops like a stone after the initial opening, then, probably not. But, if excited Facebook “Friends” pile on, we could be in the early stages of the creation of another bubble.
The concepts of disruptive innovation are powerful tools with which to spot high-potential opportunities. Whenever we run an idea-generation session, we are struck by how intuitive and powerful people find the core disruptive concepts. They allow managers in even the most moribund of industries to quickly envision entirely new, fertile fields of growth.
So you’re looking for a system that can help you improve your ability to execute strategy.You’ve been using a spreadsheet for many years to budget and although it is infinitely flexible, you are worried about the integrity of the data and the fact that no one quite knows how the macros and VB scripts work. Oh, and you never seem to have adequate data to make ‘real-world’ decisions.