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Latest Professional Services Posts
Friday, October 7th, 2011
It’s not unheard of, the idea of people embracing the very thing that once sent them into spirited flight. Consider the broccoli example.
Consider, too, the very prickly subject of cloud security, heretofore much maligned for its apparently inherently contained contradiction but, in a recent show of enlightenment, perhaps rewritten as saviour rather than villain.
Big Picture Author
In this Wall Street Journal article, a big-picture pundit introduces the extraordinary idea that the cloud may in fact be the safest place to store our data, the deafening cries that have long argued the opposite notwithstanding. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Professional Services
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
 10 Things you need to know about PSOs 1. The global PSA software market will hit a staggering $7.63 billion by the year 2017, according to new research from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The news is surprising, considering the hit this market took during the recent global economic dip, as those companies purchasing such products opted to hold back their purse in infrastructure-enhancing purchases.
2. The tide is turning on this front in a significant way. Indeed, PSA software suites are increasingly emerging as bona-fide recession-proofers for corporate IT department principals inside professional services organizations anxious not to suffer the same shortfalls again. (more…)
Tags: Business Relationships, Cloud Computing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Microsoft Unified Communications, Professional Services
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
 Are a new set of cloud standards starting to form? All revolutions start somewhere and their evolution can follow a pretty typical course. Attention must be paid to all the loose ends exploded by the emerging phenomenon, as quite often, how people exploit this new potential at its earliest stages will dominate the shape the new paradigm assumes.
So it is with the developing shape of cloud computing. Definition is starting to emerge in the skies with the establishment of a set of standards seeking to best facilitate its adoption. Will they eliminate the confusion that currently shrouds the stuff? It’s a subject that’s scored a whack of attention from folks anxious to corral usability within manageable parameters. We take a look at some of the organizations trying to set the tone for this game changer. (more…)
Tags: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Microsoft Unified Communications, SharePoint Hosting
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
 Predicting the effects of new technology can be a challenge Although it’s still early days, from a long-range historical point of view, the cloud has actually hovered above our various computer-powered preoccupations for a good few years now. Adoption rates for this game-changer motor ever forward, with bugs being identified and addressed, and capabilities being increasingly celebrated.
But it’s worth noting that we remain far from an end point in our understanding of, and appreciation for, this paradigm-shifting newcomer to our daily lives. The Microsoft-produced white paper, The Economics of the Cloud (TK), offers some insight on how this new age might evolve, and urges its proponents to take the long view and see the underlying economics as having the biggest impact on long term take-up rates. (more…)
Tags: 360 WorkBook, business software, CFO, cloud, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, I.T., Infrastructure Technology, Microsoft Unified Communications, SharePoint Hosting, Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
PR firm Veritas Communications, 360 Visibility and WorkBook A/S reach new heights of innovation with the world’s first Professional Services Automation solution powered by Microsoft Azure in the cloud
Veritas’s selection of WorkBook v8.0 on Azure a revolutionary step in the cloud-based application world
Toronto, July 11, 2011 — After an exhaustive selection process that included the consideration of cloud and on-premise solutions, public relations firm Veritas Communications Inc. has signed on with 360 Visibility Inc. and the professional services automation solution, WorkBook v8.0. (more…)
Tags: 360 WorkBook, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Professional Services, project management, Public Relations
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Professional services firms with an interest in technology, take note: The lines distinguishing one C-suite dweller from another are pretty damn blurred on the question of who enjoys — and deserves — authority over IT purchases. This makes it more important than ever that the CFO and CIO establish parameters around IT decisions at their firm.
All of this has come to increasing light with new research that reveals a powerful lack of faith among CFOs for the CIOs with whom they share an executive bathroom. (more…)
Tags: Enterprise Software, ERP planning, Professional Services
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
 When is a law office not a law office? Only when the person making the pronouncement is too close-minded to acknowledge how the parameters of what defines a modern professional services firm have evolved.
The virtual law office is an entirely legitimate incarnation of the bricks-and-mortar standard. (more…)
Tags: Enterprise Software, Professional Services, server virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
 So unremitting is the storm around the subject of cloud computing, it’s enough to make a person feel like his head is stuffed with cotton. What’s more, the skies fill with ever-more fractured weather patterns, as this concept of arm’s-length computing rains down in increasingly complicated forms.
Let’s take a temperature reading.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, network virtualization, storage virtualization, WorkBook
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
 Planning is everything. It’s thanks to its clever application, after all, a fella can save for the Varadero beach eight months before his travel date, cut a square of wrapping paper precisely-sized for the remote-control helicopter it will envelop and prepare just enough lasagna for the expected guest list of stomachs.
In early 2010, Aberdeen Group tried to understand just how well prepared project-focused organizations are to manage and execute their projects. The results of the survey that followed were sobering. (more…)
Tags: billable hours, Professional Services, project management, resource management
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
 A professional services firm’s ability to manage its resources smartly is more critical today than ever before. And even if you have yet to board the train of technological progress that will ensure this improved situation, other professional services firms have—and they’re leaving you at the station.
Strategic Resource Planning
It’s a subject about which Hugo Dorph, executive vice-president and general manager at Deltek Inc., lamented recently in a paper urging corporate professional services brass to consider the subject of resource planning more seriously than they have been.
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Tags: 360 WorkBook, Advertising Agency, Professional Services, Public Relations, Resource Planning
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