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the larger the company gets, the more pain people feel with manual approaches. The place they start feeling the pain is around cost. But it also comes down to an...
Sep 5, 2006
What are your biggest pain points?

We have a user adoption issue. As we deploy technology, people are responding at varying rates -- and much slower than I...
Feb 17, 2005
with business leaders to determine pain points and competitive weaknesses.

Aligning project plans with these pain points.

Calculating the cost/benefit, ROI, risks and...

Sep 18, 2003
and it means putting in indicator points and processes that allow for reporting mechanisms," Pironti said.

But incorporating such governance controls into an...

Jun 28, 2005
larger business initiatives."

PCI pain points

The most common mistake retailers make in becoming PCI compliant, Kilcourse said, is to "map their applications to the...

Mar 27, 2008
systems is that they are a pain to use -- technically complex, with clunky interfaces. In a memo on videoconferencing, Forrester Research Inc. found that...
Apr 9, 2008
resolve one of their critical pain points: controlling the increasing complexity and cost of managing the data center."

Opsware is the latest in a series of IT...

Jul 24, 2007
out a billing address is another pain, with some sites automatically declining at the slightest error, or giving her the boot even when the address is correct...
Mar 13, 2007
Real estate is often one of the largest capital investments a company will make, and management of it is a complicated...
Apr 26, 2007
In the asset management world, the pain is intensified by compliance and culture.

"This is a multiyear marriage, for better or worse," said Sean Kelley, global head...

Nov 14, 2006
the sorts of things that can be a real pain in the neck."

He agreed that getting business units to rank their data is also tough. "Under the 'all data is created equal...

May 2, 2006
took too long. That was the business pain point we set out to resolve, and SOA happened to be the way we ended up approaching it," Kavis said.

On the back end, the system...

Apr 15, 2009
or doesn't address their biggest PPM pain points -- resource allocation and cost-benefit analysis. So, many are using Microsoft Project and SharePoint to manage their IT...
Aug 5, 2009

The technology takes away such pain points as document management, risk mitigation and HIPAA compliance. "We educate them about things they are missing, how they...

Aug 3, 2010
Jones industrial average rose 936 points, its biggest one-day point gain in history, which followed its worst week in 75 years, forecasting the 2009 economic...
Oct 15, 2008

But the promise is not without pain. The technical issues involved with utility computing are complex enough. But that's nothing compared with the thicket...

May 29, 2003
level and figuring out what are the points of pain," he said.

There are about 1,500 faculty and staff members at Ithaca College, with about 75 working in IT. The school is...

Jan 14, 2009
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Real estate management pain points an IT issue (SearchCIO.com)
Managing 6,300 stores would have driven a lesser man to the edge. But when one CIO automated the...
Jan 16, 2008
Let's face it -- DR testing is a major pain for most IT shops. It's not only a major operational disruption performed just once or twice a year, but all too often it's...
Jun 30, 2005
IT executives fearing post-merger pain, there is one simple solution: You could quit...
Mar 25, 2005
View Rudolph & Sletten CIO Sam Lamonica's CIO Decisions 2006 presentation here.

Get complete coverage of the event via...

Jun 19, 2006
projects. The first year is full of pain because you're taking talent and scaling them up to perform at a high level of efficiency or quality or other issues that...
Dec 23, 2005
Security software maker McAfee Inc. says it has seen a significant leap in the appearance of new threats in the past few...
Jul 11, 2006
when it comes to scalability -- and points out that benchmark results are missing. Microsoft says those numbers in the works...
Mar 15, 2005
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