Cambridge Technology Partners Podcast

Secure your information assets, sustain compliance and improve operational processes

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

Identity management has been used in everyone's thoughts these days, especially the increasing risk of fraud and abuse over recent months has resulted in a growing demand of secure, auditable and compliant information systems.

Identity management is the process of secure and compliant management of all aspects of roles, relationships and interactions among the people, users and groups within your information technology network.

Listen to this podcast and explore the challenges faced in identity management solutions and projects. It addresses some of the most pressing challenges identity management solutions and projects face - requirements assessment, data analysis, solution design, development and successful deployments.

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Testing as part as your IT Strategy

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

The later you find software defects the more it costs, says the Gartner Group. You know that one of the best ways to reduce the maintenance and support costs of your mission critical applications, and to increase your customers satisfaction, is to have the right software testing strategy and execution plan in place.
You also know by experience the price of quality and you are ready to invest in it, but you do not really know how to strike the right balance between your needs, organization capabilities and investment model in order to achieve the best tangible results.

This Podcast approaches Testing as an integral part of the IT strategy and openly addresses some of the key success factors and challenges while building a Testing strategy.

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Perspectives on IT Outsourcing

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

Outsourcing remains for many organizations a very important topic on top of their priorities. With a constant pressure on costs, Outsourcing is perceived by many organizations as the way to go. It is applied to the traditional Infrastructure Outsourcing , to IT Outsourcing as well as Business Process Outsourcing. There are multiple options available on the market today, in different geographies, with different vendors that make the choice for the Best option not simple.

Cambridge, as one of the Leading Consulting firms on the marketplace, is constantly exposed to these type of challenges and in this Podcast we will try to bring some highlights of what are the major trends, what are possible options and what to watch out to make sure that your Outsourcing strategy leads to the expected results.

Integration and Collaboration

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

Companies are working now in a globalized environment. People are spread around the world working on the same business and thus imply much more information to manage. On the other side, information workers need an efficient way to share information within a team or even beyond. They also need a way to retrive the right information at the right time.Moreover, information is coming from different sources and departments, making the access to that information even more challenging.

While still complying to confidentiallity and assuring the releveance of the information, people need tools to get quickly the answer to their questions.

This podcast describes in which sense the way of working has changed, the today's challenges and how to tackle them. It also talks about one of the possible enterprise class tool for integration and collaboration within a company.

BPM - How to improve a company’s business efficiency

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

Companies are constantly seeking ways to improve performance, react to changing market demands, and achieve their annual goals through mastered and optimized Business Processes.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a disciplined approach to identify, design, execute, document, monitor, control, measure and optimize business processes in order to achieve targeted results consistent with an organization's strategic goals.

This Podcast brings highlights of a BPM implementation process and gives a flavour of how a BPM project allows a company's to increase its efficiency and productivity. The Podcast also conveys the key factors to be considered for a successful BPM implementation.

BI - How to transform enterprise data into knowledge

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

Most Companies collect a large amount of data from their business operation but they find difficult to keep track and use that information.Stored information is a real asset for all kind of enterprises only if its usage can help in making faster and relevant decisions.
The implementation of Business Intelligence framework provides a substrate and support for corporate knowledge, transforming raw data into "readable" information and then knowledge, it helps and drives company's insight, supporting decision processes by discovering and justifying actionable change and provides foresights anticipating by planning, forecasting and "what if" analysis. It also gives the possibility to track and analyze impact of decision. This Podcast brings highlights of a BI implementation process and gives a flavour of how a BI project is able to give right and secured information to the right people, in the right format and in the right time in order to support company's decisions and actions.The Podcast also conveys the key factors to be considered for a successful BI implementation

BSM - Measure Performance, Monitor KPIs, Minimize Risks

Thu, 1 Jan 1970 06:00:00 GMT

As the complexity of managing Business / IT services increases, organizations face an uphill task to deliver on their promises. Whether an internal or external service provider, managing these services is an ongoing, error prone and expensive process.
Business Service Management (BSM) is an approach that is aimed at helping decrease the Total Cost Of Service Ownership and improving Service Quality in an organization.
It delivers top-down visibility of the state of business services and provides management with the necessary information to make fact-based decisions. It is also an enabler to streamline relationship between service providers and service recipients, increase customer satisfaction and reduce the risks of business impact due service performance breaches.

This podcast brings to light the four components (Service Catalog, Service Mapping, Service Level Management & Service Financial Management) that make up BSM and the benefits these individual elements deliver to the involved stakeholders. The podcast also conveys the key factors to be considered for a successful BSM implementation.