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Download the Output Report from this Corporate IT Forum workshop, which has been compiled based on the experiences shared by 13 IT professionals at a recent Corporate IT Forum workshop. The attendees represented 11 different organisations, including representatives from the central government, pharmaceutical, transport, construction, retail and financial services sectors.
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Oracle licensing is complex and changes over time, many organisations and third party experts have difficulty with it. This report has been compiled from experience shared during a Corporate IT Forum workshop attended by 13 IT professionals representing 11 organisations. Represented industries included financial services, construction, government agencies, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and utilities. Many of these organisations have a large and complex Oracle infrastructure, and were themselves quite expert in Oracle licensing.
Download this Output Report from a web conference attended by 10 senior IT professionals from 8 different organisations representing industries including central government, transportation and construction.
Download the Output Report from this Corporate IT Forum webinar. The report has been produced based on the experiences shared by delegates representing a number of different organisations from the financial services, pharmaceuticals, automotive and healthcare sectors.
Download the Output Report from this Corporate IT Forum workshop.
This presentation-led workshop was conceived and organised by the Corporate IT Forum and attended by 34 IT professionals from 21 prominent organisations with IT estates of varying size and consistency. Attending member organisations represent a wide cross-section of industry sectors, including banking and financial services, charity, construction, county council, energy, food, government, health, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, retail, travel and utilities.
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Download the Output Report from this Corporate IT Forum workshop attended by 21 delegates representing 16 organisations. Represented industries include automotive, education, government, healthcare, international food group, pharmaceuticals, recruitment, retail, transport and utilities.
Almost half of the organisations participating in the workshop are already deploying Windows 7; the remainder are leading up to this stage. Deployment can take several years across a large estate, and it is necessary to allow at least a year for testing and to get everything right. In order to catch the 2014 deadline, organisations need to be on top of the challenges and prepared for all the application rationalisation, testing and training involved in a roll out.
Has there been a major shift to Windows 7 in the enterprise as the press has hyped or is there still a corporate place for Windows XP (out of mainstream support since 2009 and due to fall out of extended support in 2014)?
19% of the global IT workforce are expected to be using Windows 7 by the end of 2010, but towards the end of 2011 Corporate IT Professionals can now evaluate whether Windows 7 has lived up to all of the hype and discuss the challenges encountered in their real-world enterprise deployments. Microsoft's warranty costs contribute towards a massive driver to get off an unsupported platform, as will any essential enterprise tools that will only run on Windows 7.
With many new features and benefits sold to the business, this workshop presented a platform for early adopters to highlight features that won't work in certain enterprise environments, and identify potential pitfalls, issues relating to virtualisation, compatibility and user engagement.
Download the Output Report from this Forum workshop. Agile is a minimum risk, low overhead development approach that emphasises values, principles and adaptability.
Download the Output Report, which was compiled from experiences shared amongst corporate IT professionals with input from 15 delegates representing 13 different organisations. Represented industries included local and central government, life sciences and financial services.
Download the Output Report from this Forum workshop. It was attended by 15 senior IT professionals, representing a wide range of industries, including retail, financial services and local government.
Senior IT professionals met to discuss best practice in availability management. The discussion looked at how to design, set and manage Service Level Agreements within and outside the business, and how to measure availability and performance.
The group also considered the roles and responsibilities of those involved in availability.
Download this Output Report generatated from this Corporate IT Forum worskhop, which was attended by 27 IT professionals from 17 different organisations.
Download the Output Report from this Corporate IT Forum workshop.
Download the Output Report from this Coporate IT Forum workshop. It was attended by 27 delegates from 21 organisations covering a wide cross section of industries including airlines, property and construction, retail, energy, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, recruitment, healthcare, central and local government, legal, agriculture, food and drink, transport, and financial services.
Business Intelligence and Management Information are recognised as essential functions in many major organisations.
In this discussion, hosted by The Corporate IT Forum, organisations shared their experiences on business intelligence in relation to its strategy, architecture, gaining business buy-in, tools used, the emergence of 'big data', governance, and people skills/resource issues. A case study presentation outlined one international organisation's strategy based on Syndication, Democratisation and Curation. It also gave a recommendation for, and list of, the many books that had been used to help create and evolve its approach.
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Software licensing is a complex issue, and one that is becoming increasingly complex as the ways that businesses consume technology continue to evolve and proliferate.
The Corporate IT Forum discussion on cloud and virtualisation licensing provides insights into how senior IT professionals address the issue of licensing, licence compliance and negotiation of licence agreements.
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This Relationships with Service Providers discussion provides an insight into the challenges experienced by IT organisations working with one such supplier, HP, and insight into strategies and techniques adopted at all stages of the working relationship to improve value delivered to the business.
The discussion focuses on how to manage the key stages of a relationship with a service provider, from negotiation to transition, engagement and renegotiation or exit from the contract.
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This Information Security Service Supplier Governance workshop had been chosen as a priority topic by The tISS Leadership Board and was identified and developed through research, surveys and member input.
Supplier management, procurement, and supplier relationship management are common in many large organisations. Aligned to these, supplier governance deals with the security and governance aspects of how the organisation manages its suppliers, including how security is included in contracts and compliance audited.
There were two case studies: one gave an approach to the ongoing security assessment of suppliers, and the other dealt with measurement including the measurability of contract security clauses, and a novel but simple approach to measuring the 'return on investment' of the supplier relationship.
In depth discussion of experiences and practices covered topics such as business and supplier engagement, assessment and selection, measurement, audit and compliance, and the methodologies and standards used.
The workshop hosted by The Corporate IT Forum was attended by 24 people representing 19 organisations from a wide cross-section of enterprises including financial services, councils, pharmaceuticals, government bodies and agencies, retail and manufacturing.
Recent Forum Q&A discussions covering the performance of the project manager in delivering successful projects have highlighted that this is an area that IT professionals have yet to agree best practice on.
The results from the Corporate IT Forum's Strategy Survey indicated that many organisations are concerned about the skills and capabilities available to them. With reducing budgets, access to the resources needed to ensure a successful portfolio of projects is delivered could be hampered.
So, what sort of governance measures should be put in place to ensure that the current project team delivers to the highest standard and meets business requirements? What does a successful project look like and how can you measure this? How do organisations go about handling planning, prioritisation and resources? How should the Project Management Office (PMO) be staffed? And is benefits realisation something the project manager should be involved in tracking? If not, then whose responsibility is it?
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The IT Forum Business Process Transformation discussion enabled senior IT professionals working in IT and business change roles to discuss how best to manage business process transformation.
The discussion included examples of strategies adopted in a major business transformation project in the European automotive industry, which changed 70% of its processes in a three-year, multi-million pound project.
The corporate IT professionals attending the discussion also shared the key challenges of capturing processes, and ensuring these results are recorded in a consistent and transparent fashion.
In a complex world of changing technologies, organisations are having to work harder to understand how to monitor, manage and reduce their licence costs for software procurement. They also need to know whether their procurement processes are delivering value for money in a globalised world.
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Management of user desktops has always presented challenges for those responsible for IT in organisations. A variety of execution models and management concepts has attempted to tackle these challenges, each with varying degrees of success. The advent of desktop, server and application virtualisation has made this challenge more complex, especially in reducing the total cost of ownership.
As a result of the recent economic climate, many IT departments postponed their plans to refresh their desktops.
However, the tide now seems to be turning and this is now an area that is creating more interest as the economy stabilises.
Data centre moves are infrequent. Few people in the organisation will have recent prior experience of them.
Reaching a threshold level of some constraint such as power, air conditioning, or floor space usually triggers a move to or the creation of a new data centre. They are significant projects and need careful planning: dependencies must be identified, the sequence of migration determined, the impact on software licences uncovered, and the actual migration approach decided, which may or may not involve outsourcing (or even insourcing).
The IT Forum ‘Integrating IT with Business Requirements’ discussion enabled senior IT professionals working in IT and project management roles to discuss how best to align IT and business strategy, and to drive closer integration and engagement between the IT department and the rest of the organisation.
As IT becomes more service oriented against a backdrop of constant change, how can both the business and IT feel confident that IT is delivering consistent value that complements and supports the business's services?
Download the Report from this Corporate IT Forum workshop considering IT Supplier Management - recognised as important by organisations and reflected in structural job roles such as supplier manager, service manager and contract manager.
This report is based on a presentation delivered by Huntsworth’s IT project team at a recent Forum webinar. It illustrates how the REAL IT award winning team directly contributed to New Business revenue and how the implemented technology enabled staff to collaborate better in a newly restructured business. IT Teams Making a Business Difference.
Discover how to meet the demands of service operation, and learn the pros and cons of structuring and reporting, and tackle new requirements.
In a bid to deconstruct some of the issues around the topic, this report explores some of the basic structures that need to be in place if reactive 'log-and-flog' helpdesks are to become truly proactive IT service desks. Importantly, it also explores a number of invaluable ways to capture and improve upon that most elusive and intangible of concepts – customer satisfaction.
The workshop which forms the basis of this report was attended by 27 delegates representing 16 organisations, operating in industry sectors such as construction and building, pharmaceuticals, retail, publishing, food and drink, automotive, manufacturing and local and central government.
Download the Implementing SharePoint 2010 report for a comprehensive run down of how to implement, support and maintain the latest version of the product.
This report has been compiled by 50 IT professionals from 26 organisations covering a wide cross-section of industries, including airlines, central and local government, retail, joinery and home improvement, energy, pharmaceuticals, media, food production, leisure, utilities, automotive and recruitment.
Download the Report from this workshop which saw 15 delegates from 11 organisations discuss one of corporate IT's perennial hot topics - Data Loss Prevention.
This report will provide a greater understanding of the benefits of using tools for software discovery and licence management and how to monitor software used throughout the organisation. Additionally, the information contained within this report will allow corporate IT professionals to face audits with more confidence and establish an improved working relationship with software vendors.
This document is based on information shared during a Corporate IT Forum workshop as well as conclusions drawn from a Forum survey and two corporate case studies. It centres around topics including as frameworks, business engagement, implementation, skills and capabilities, organisational aspects, the role of solution architects, and demonstrating value.
The report was compiled with input from 25 delegates from 17 enterprise organisations.
This report was compiled by 34 senior IT professionals from 27 different organisations, including representatives from the retail, pharmaceutical, financial services, energy and manufacturing industries, along with representatives from public-sector organisations.
Topics discussed included:
• What kind of applications can be delivered through consumerised IT?
• Is there a role for ‘bring your own’ IT in an enterprise?
• What are the benefits of consumerisation for the IT organisation?
• How can consumerisation be delivered without introducing unacceptable risk?
• How should users be supported by a consumerised IT organisation?
Cloud Computing is a term that has not been out of the news recently. With its high profile and promised cost savings many IT departments are being asked to assess "should we move to the Cloud?"
The ‘PCI – V2.0 Suppliers & the Lifecycle’ aimed to uncover the truth about third party involvement, discover what V2.0 means to merchants and what has already worked for compliance managers today. This event provided IT security managers and those involved in the management of PCI within their organisation with a clearer understanding of their responsibilities, what Visa and other acquirers are doing to aid merchants and ideas that can be implemented in delegate organisations.
Gathering business requirements is key to delivering robust IT solutions to the business within the constraints of infrastructure and cost. The role of Business Analysts, or their equivalent, is vital to the process and the methods and tools that they use have a direct impact on success.
The 'Biometric Technologies in Today's World' webinar takes a fresh look at what might be achieved with this technology and what the implications are for its adoption across a variety of scenarios. Delivered and conceived by the Information and Security Service (tISS) from the Corporate IT Forum, this expert-led webinar consists of a presentation by a specialist in the area of biometrics and identity management.
This Forum workshop considered the options for Microsoft licensing in the enterprise as Microsoft changes its licence strategy to reflect the future impact of its Office 365 service, and introduces new offerings such as Select Plus in place of Select, and which offers potential savings for those organisations able to act swiftly.
Discover how Public Sector organisations are combating the challenges they face in delivering cost effective and efficient IT Services with reduced head counts and increasing demands.
Discover the benefits of Service Catalogues and how to design, manage and maintain them.
Due to overwhelming demand and as a result of the recent webinar, this workshop discussed the security implications of deployment, the legal and HR implications of corporate policies, and the tools used.
