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New Article: Annual Church & Donor Management Software List & Feature Chart
Ministry IT —
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I get the privilege of publishing an annual article listing those leading the field of church and donor management software and their products features. We found 62 software companies focusing on the church and ministry management market this year, but only 34 qualified to be included in the article (remember, these ...1 day ago -
The Dangerous Out-Of-Scope PCI Charade
StorefrontBacktalk —
Authority: 585
In the last few weeks in payment security circles, dominating many discussions has been speculation over what PCI and Visa and others will decide about declaring some kinds of data out-of-scope for PCI purposes. But what has gotten much less attention is what IT execs should do with data that is declared out-of-scope ...2 days ago -
Former Best Buy CIO Robert Willett Retires
StorefrontBacktalk —
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Best Buy on Wednesday (Nov. 11) announced the retirement of one of the industrys most well-known and respected IT leaders, Robert Willett. But the circumstances surrounding the retirement announcement are fueling questions. The 63-year-old Willett has been been at Best Buy since early 2004 and is leaving with the ...2 days ago -
If The iPhone Embraces NFC, Will It Be Too Late To Make A Difference?
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For years, retail efforts with NFC phones have been far from smashing successes, with the technology limping along from trial to trial, the quintessential answer in search of a problem. The latest rumors out of Cupertino suggest that the next-generation iPhone will ship with NFC pre-installed. If true, will this ...2 days ago -
PCI: Maybe It’s Not Just For Card Data Any More
StorefrontBacktalk —
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With all of the recent fuss about PCI requirements and how to protect payment cards, many companies have opted to take a far too narrow view of data protection. The PCI rules are absolutely designed to only apply to payment cards, but the same common-sense security guidelines will also dramatically help the security ...2 days ago -
Do Invite-Only Web Sales Make Longterm Sense?
StorefrontBacktalk —
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Saks this month has been testing the latest Web fad: invitation-only Web events. But the very nature of the Web makes such event easy and practical only so long as they are gimmicky and ultra-lenient. Retailers who truly want to hold events that only a select view can access need to prepare for extensive ...2 days ago -
Retailers Urge Supreme Court Smackdown Of Process Patents
StorefrontBacktalk —
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Relief might be in sight for retailers afraid that somebody somewhere has secured a patent covering some mundane process they regularly do in the course of selling stuff—be it the way customers swipe payment cards, their methods for collecting loyalty program data or the functioning of their Web sites shopping cart ...2 days ago -
The Agony Of Talking With IT
StorefrontBacktalk —
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Franchisee Columnist Todd Michaud knows of a lot of people who rub others the wrong way. Theyre called IT staff. No matter how helpful theyre trying to be, the IT talent and the businesses theyre supporting speak different languages and frustrations are inevitable. The problem is only getting worse. First, technology ...2 days ago -
Identifying teams for Enterprise 2.0 pilot groups
Blue Sky Thinking —
Authority: 113
There has been alot of talk about creating enterprise 2.0 pilot test groups before a full fledged implementation across an organisation. However, I haven’t read much about how one can go about identifying teams that will succeed in the pilot test groups. So what are the requirements of an Enterprise 2.0 pilot test ...3 days ago -
Video: Top CIOs speak out on hottest IT trends and 2010 spending
Tech Sanity Check —
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The Society of Information Management hosts a great event every fall to bring IT leaders together for information sharing and inspiration. One of the best things about SIMposium is the opportunity to chat with some of the smartest and most influential CIOs in the world. I was at SIMposium 09 in Seattle this ...3 days ago -
The Benefits of Bouncing Back
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Resilience is the ability to bounce back from failure, disappointment, illness, etc. It is a characteristic commonly found in individuals who live longer than average lives. read more3 days ago -
IT Proves King Solomon Was Right!
Ministry IT —
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"Cloud computing" is the latest concept to capture Information Technology (IT)’s minds and imagination. Many are embracing it even though it is still in development; others are looking at it cautiously and with concern. Over the next few years we will all be basing our IT strategies on cloud computing. But ...4 days ago -
IT budgets: 52% of CIOs reported diminished 2009 budgets, but only 28% for 2010
Tech Sanity Check —
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As part of the “IT Trend Survey” released at SIMposium 09 in Seattle on Monday there was a report from CIOs on budget levels for 2009, and projections for 2010. It was no surprise to see that budgets fell off a cliff in 2009, with 52% reporting 2009 budgets that were smaller than 2008. The good news was that a ...4 days ago -
CIO top priorities in 2009: Productivity and cost reduction
Tech Sanity Check —
Authority: 492
A new list of top priorities for IT leaders was revealed on Monday at the SIMposium 09 event in Seattle. IT/business Alignment, a perennial top concern, was bumped out of its No. 1 spot from 2008 and replaced by “Business productivity and cost reduction.” We’ve got the list of the top 10 priorities plus the top ...4 days ago -
Monday’s Musings: SaaS, SOA, Integration and How To Make A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich In The Cloud
A Software Insider's Point of View —
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Rapid SaaS Adoption Will Lead To A Repeat Of 1990’s Best Of Breed Integration Challenges The proliferation and rapid adoption of SaaS solutions stems from 7 key benefits : richer user experience, rapid implementation, frequent cycles of innovation, minimal upgrade hassles, always on deployment, subscription ...5 days ago -
Heartland Filing Contradicts Its Own Statements About Abandoning Retail Customers
StorefrontBacktalk —
Authority: 585
Proving that theres never anything so bizarre in payment security circles that some vendor cant upgrade it to surreal, Heartland Payment Systems and VeriFone this week issued dueling news releases. Each accused the other of either stealing intellectual property or trying to abandon Heartlands retail customers. That ...1 week ago -
IT Strategy Survey Results
IT Strategy —
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Results from the IT Strategy Survey are posted below. This survey was conducted by Ivo Velitchko (read more in my blog titled IT Strategy Survey ). Out of 104 people who responded 80% of you thought that the topic of IT Strategy in the past decade has been increasing. Good to know! Related posts: IT ...1 week ago -
Amazon Plans On Bringing PayPhrase Into Brick-And-Mortars
StorefrontBacktalk —
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What do Amazon execs have in store for their company’s new PayPhrase payment system ? Apparently, in-store itself. The service today is an interesting means of allowing consumers to, in effect, subdivide their payment authorization so that a child or an employee can make purchases, but with specific dollar limits ...1 week ago -
The returns and costs of collaboration
Blue Sky Thinking —
Authority: 113
Generally, overdoing anything is not good. For example, humans have to drink water to survive, however, if one drinks way too much, the water would wash away the nutrients in the body and its bad for one’s health. Collaboration is the same. Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies promotes collaboration across groups ...1 week ago -
Don’t overdo collaboration
Blue Sky Thinking —
Authority: 113
Generally, overdoing anything is not good. For example, humans have to drink water to survive, however, if one drinks way too much, the water would wash away the nutrients in the body and its bad for one’s health. Collaboration is the same. Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies promotes collaboration across groups ...1 week ago