Links that I have found interesting for December 8th:
- Startup Of The Week: Zyrion — Business Service Management – As IT environments become more complex because of service-oriented architectures, virtualization, and other new technologies, it's harder to see the connections between IT infrastructure and business operations. Business service management illuminates those connections. While most BSM software is meant for large enterprises, Zyrion aims for the midmarket.
- Do IT and the business speak the same language? « CIO Conversations on Infrastructure – So how to begin bridging the divide:
1. IT folk, please learn the business your organisation is in. Be very clear where the next pay check comes from and be passionate about helping the business compete and succeed. Learn how to do basic financial management and understand how to create a business case for IT.
2. Business folk should find ways to embed themselves into IT so that there is a natural cross pollination of ideas and understanding. IT can make a big difference to your success so don’t take IT for granted – work with your IT department and treat them like an internal services organisation. Be a good customer to the IT department and they will be good to you. - TIBCO Reveals Industry's Most Flexible Statistics-Driven Analytic Platform – Spotfire S+ enables statisticians and business analysts to prototype, test, and deploy analytics much faster than with alternative statistical modeling environments. It delivers a wider range of robust statistics tools, as well as improved deployment and integration capabilities that help business analysts and researchers make informed and reliable decisions at critical points across the organization. By adding the advanced predictive analytics of Spotfire S+ products to the Spotfire Enterprise Analytics platform, TIBCO is empowering customers to gain deeper insights into their critical information and speeding the deployment of advanced analytics throughout the enterprise.
- AmberPoint Enhances Governance and Management Capabilities for Microsoft SOA Platform – By ensuring its software delivers visibility and control across Microsoft's latest and emerging SOA solutions, AmberPoint brings greater end-to-end governance and business transaction management capabilities across composite application environments. AmberPoint also announced that it has joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program, a partner ecosystem that helps facilitate integrated systems management solutions.