FYI all, here is a conference I'll be speaking at (dedicated presentation and a panel appearance): http://www.jupiterevents.com/itsmf/fall04/ I'm quite proud...
Been translated into Russian My review of the ITIL Application Management volume <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2004/04/the_gold_volume.html> Part 1 and...
from www.erp4it.com An ITIL conflict of interest? One little-appreciated issue with ITIL/ITSM suites is the question of who, within the enterprise, owns and...
from www.erp4it.com IT lawyer calls for "Data Map" to manage privacy A must-read article for the data managers among us. From an ITIL perspective, clearly...
MessageHi Charlie...what are you thinking of proposing to the Metadata Conference this year? I'd very much like to have something on ITIL on the agenda. Tony ...
Letter to Parry Aftab (Parry is "The Privacy Lawyer" for Information Week and has <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=268056 52>...
Some notes on ITMSF USA 2004 from www.erp4it.com I attended the IT Service Management Forum USA Conference & Expo 2004 in Long Beach, California last week,...
from www.erp4it.com CMDB Chaos and Confusion: Making Sense of the Madness The ITIL concept of the Configuration Management Database has provoked great...
The Object Management Group has <http://www.omg.org/docs/dtc/04-11-03.pdf> posted the Software Portfolio Management Facility as a final adopted specification....
Looking for co-authors for two upcoming books. The first book is on enterprise architecture. Must be familar with business architecture, reference models,...
DCML and OMG announce partnership The Distributed Management Task Force and the Object Management Group will be collaborating to platform the DMTF standards on...
Too many acronyms... ... From: Charles T. Betz [mailto:charb@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:30 PM To: erp4it@yahoogroups.com Subject: [erp4it]...
Prune IT Systems, Not Budgets Very worthwhile article, quick 2 page read, <http://www.cio.com/archive/011505/cost_control.html> here. Do you have your...
Charlie, thanks for bringing this to my attention. ASL is clearly addressing a gap in ITIL and is a more "natural" way to organize and gain alignment with the...
IT Toolbox blogs Wow, what a wealth of first-hand IT narrative - good stuff: <http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/?d=bloggers> http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/?d=bloggers...
Borland CTO blog Patrick Kerpan, <http://blogs.borland.com/pjkerpan/> http://blogs.borland.com/pjkerpan/ He mentions Niku and Mercury, indicating Borland's...
Paul Strassman I've appreciated Paul Strassman's work on IT investment and governance for years, but have not said so in this forum previously. If you are in ...
Charles, This man is a genius and about 15 to 20 years before his time, the rest of us are just catching up now. I once had the pleasure of hearing him speak...
I have changed the subtitle of this weblog from Managing information systems to Architecting IT Governance This I think throws into sharper focus the purpose...
James recently posted about ITIL<http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000721.html>and asked, "Where are all the ITIL bloggers?" So where are they? Anyone...
from www.erp4it.com Joe, Chris, and Sue were talking over the coffee break at a local IT service management professional meeting... Joe: "Our senior leadership...
from www.erp4it.com Integration Competency Center, the book Informatica has published a most excellent book (co-authored by my former boss John Schmidt) on...
from www.erp4it.com Federated CMDB: dimensionality is key "Let's put all of IT's data into one database and call it a CMDB!" "Okay! Wait, this is too hard!" ...
Anyone have recommendations for software that can extract and analyize the capacity and use data from storage or maybe servers? For example, we have some...
James Governor's blog, & CA Liking <http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/> James Governor's blog a lot. In particular he (as well as Dennis Gaughan at AMR) are...
Looking for IBM "Yellow" books I keep hearing rumors of the legendary IBM "Yellow" books, aka the "Information Systems Management Architecture" series. Does...