Business/IT Alignment Questions and Answers

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Choosing a profitability measurement tool to replace our existing complex (Excel) approach

Our current approach relies on data from over 20 different business usnits round the world, which operate on different GL platforms. Our core business is car leasing to major corporate clients where some costs and results are estimated till the car is sold after, say, 3 years. I am wondering...

asked by grahammoss

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City Based Website Portal

I am working on project of starting a city based Portal. and was looking for ideas, which can make it success. the city is an industrial hub of Punjab (a state in india) Please suggest the contents.

View Answer   |  May 26 2005  1:46 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by andesh

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Congress to ban sale of SSNs for commercial purposes?

According to articles in today's Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Congress is considering legislation to ban the sale of Social Security Numbers for commercial purposes, unless individuals give their permission. The Post article went on to opine that there appears to be a growing...

asked by InfoSafety

  60 pts.

ID Theft and National Security

If it turns out, as I believe, that enemies of the United States are behind a lot of the major ID thefts in the US, that would mean that a lot of money is going to our enemies. Can we therefore surmise that those who mishandle our identity information, by means of their poor stewardship of our...

View Answer   |  Mar 12 2005  10:35 PM GMT
Security management, Disaster Recovery, Incident response
asked by InfoSafety

  60 pts.

Organizational alignment for BASIS

I would like to know where others have typically aligned the BASIS function within their organizations. At my company we are looking to make an optimal fit for BASIS within the IT division and would like to get input from others who have already addressed this issue. Thanks in advance.

View Answer   |  Mar 2 2005  4:49 PM GMT
Career development, Business/IT alignment
asked by cbarron

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PMP transitioning from tech oriented projects to business oriented projects

I am a PMP with 10+ years experience in implementation oriented projects (rollouts, user moves, infrastructure, NetOps, etc.) for internal clients. I want to transition to business oriented projects (SAP, PeopleSoft, SOX, SW development, etc.) for external clients. I am fully familiar with PMI...

View Answer   |  Mar 2 2005  10:08 AM GMT
SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Windows
asked by johnnylac

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I am interested in the arena of IT Asset Management and want to have some general big picture views of what the state of the business is. Specifically, I am interested in the tools used in tracking Physical Assets and Intangible Assets,i.e., Service

I am interested in what the state of the business is in IT asset management solutions: 1. What tools are you using? spreadsheets, internal tools like MS Access, bar code scanners, software solutions, auto discovery, ASP web based models, other. 1.a. Why? 2. What percent of your IT spend is in...

View Answer   |  Feb 11 2005  7:31 PM GMT
Business/IT alignment
asked by wyoherbty

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Improve IT Infrastructure

Dear All, i need your contribution to help a small enterprise. The new Finance Officer (a friend) ask me to audit is Infrastructure and make proposal for immediate implementation in order to improve security and company equipment performance. Here is tha actual infrastructure: -1 IT help desk...

View Answer   |  Jan 14 2005  1:34 PM GMT
Tech support, Networking, Security
asked by abidjan

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Good budgeting tool?

Can you recommend a good budgeting tool? I am looking for a tool for our organisation (University), in order to streamline the process (i.e. capturing data, consolidating data, ease of reconcilaition to SAP data/reports, etc). We're running SAP R/3 FI, CO, FM etc. Also, we do zero-based budgets....

View Answer   |  Nov 15 2004  3:07 AM GMT
ERP, Business/IT alignment, ROI & cost justification
asked by delfin

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Business Analysis and Project Management Documents

I am looking for document templates related to Project Management, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance. Please help and this is purely for learning purpose as I am new to the North American industry. You can take out all the confidential information. naveed@convermation.com

View Answer   |  Oct 26 2004  5:59 PM GMT
IT architecture, Software testing, Data analysis
asked by Convermation

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Managing Third Party Interfaces of Large System Conversion

Good morn, This is more of a PM question, but I'll throw it out there ... any feedback would be greatly appreciated? What is the best method for managing 3rd Party Interfaces of a large system conversion? The company is converting its core mission critical system which has an immediate impact...

View Answer   |  Oct 25 2004  7:48 AM GMT
Third-party services, Lifecycle development, ERP
asked by ericggordon

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Question about IT management software

Hello, I am just wondering if anyone knows of some software avialable for IT departments, that say is accessable to users through a company intranet site where a user can go in and log an issue or problem with thier system which goes into a database, then once the issue is resolved the user can go...

View Answer   |  Oct 24 2004  7:58 PM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by Natethegreat

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i5 Capacity Planning

We are planning to procure a single i5 server to replace the existing iseries machines - 600 & 620. Any help/methods/procedures to follow on sizing the new i5 server will be helpful.

View Answer   |  Oct 10 2004  3:17 AM GMT
Hardware, OS/400, iSeries
asked by ObjectAuthority

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IT Admins per how many employees?

First time here, and need some help. I'm new in the T industry, and I have been looking for a chrt that describes how many IT Admins needed per employees. I hope someone out there can guide me in the right direction.

View Answer   |  Sep 13 2004  1:31 PM GMT
Career development, Business/IT alignment, Budgeting
asked by ESuazo

  0 pts.

future of IT

though today IT industry is seeing a stedy growth, what will be the real future of IT industry.is there any chance of another regression.

View Answer   |  Aug 9 2004  6:19 AM GMT
Business/IT alignment
asked by vivekanandan

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future of IT

though today IT industry is seeing a stedy growth, what will be the real future of IT industry.is there any chance of another regression.

View Answer   |  Aug 9 2004  6:19 AM GMT
Business/IT alignment
asked by vivekanandan

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Cost Justification on Business Intelligence Project

I am having some problems justifying the expenses associated with a Business Intelligence project, as our senior management are not really aware of what it entails. They assume it is just basic MI delivered to them via a web portal, but no matter how hard I try to explain that it will enable them...

View Answer   |  May 14 2004  10:46 AM GMT
Business/IT alignment, ROI & cost justification
asked by Darryn

  295 pts.

Disaster Recovery - doing it for real

What experience do you have of invoking your Disaster Recovery procedures for real? Like all good IT departments we have a procedure which is trialled each year. The true test, of course, only comes when you have to use it in anger.

View Answer   |  May 14 2004  5:24 AM GMT
Business/IT alignment, IT Governance
asked by AMorganJones

  0 pts.

Database Management: Comprehensive Admin Tools; Business Intelligence; Integrations/Migrations

Permit me to preface this communication with accolades to the TechTarget team for providing this forum. I am certain it will prove invaluable for IT and business professionals. I would like to poll the members regarding their respective takes of the following database management initiatives...

asked by ericggordon

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SAP Integrated Business Planning

Does anyone know of any companies successfully doing rolling business forecasting using SAP R/3, APO-DP and SNP, BW and SEM-BPS and CPM?

View Answer   |  May 12 2004  11:50 AM GMT
SAP, Business/IT alignment
asked by hammer66

  0 pts.

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