Michael Hickins

Balaji Ramadoss has more than 8,000 IP assets to account for, but, unlike most of his peers, keeping track is literally a matter of life and death. IT asset management, or ITAM, is a critical task in most large organizations. Administrators need a way to account for every piece of hardware on their network, ensure […]

The departure of Kevin Johnson may give Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer the opportunity to reshape the huge platform and services division into more effective business units. The end result may be better financial results for Microsoft and better products for Microsoft customers. Those changes highlight the extent to which the company is beginning to understand […]

The SAAS model is very attractive for a number of reasons. A software-as-a-service subscription model puts the onus on vendors to deliver the goods every month, and the underlying economics of multitenancy mean that vendors can continue improving and adding functionality at relatively low cost while keeping prices (relatively) low. The SAAS model also frees […]

Microsoft has come to grips with the idea that customers want to consume software over the Web, and it is now poised to unleash its matchless market dominance on the world of online services. Microsoft announced that it is hosting the following products available as subscription services: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office SharePoint Online, Microsoft […]

All CIOs are charged with aligning technological operations with business needs. In the health care industry, the stakes are about as high as they can get. eWeek recently conducted a virtual roundtable discussion with two prominent CIOs in the health care field: George Conklin, CIO of Christus Health, and Rich Temple, CIO and vice president […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Microsoft is currently testing a new SharePoint server inventory assessment tool to help IT administrators get control of their environments. IT administrators are often responsible for ensuring that SharePoint sites comply with both internal company policies and external regulations, but this can be difficult to do given that the product is easily deployed, even […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-This is the story of how the most banal function in the enterprise can go from impeding changes critical to a company’s survival to providing the most critical support for changes sweeping across the competitive landscape. Microsoft’s second take at identity and access management-what it calls Identity Lifecycle Manager 2-is intended to help support […]

10 Ways Your Employees Pose a Security Risk for Your Organization By Michael Hickins 1. USB Flash DrivesUnprotected USB drives are a prime way of letting sensitive company data walk out the door. Short of blocking USB flash drives altogether, companies can use device management software to monitor the ways the drives are being used. […]

In a nod to the growing need for businesses to deploy applications that go wherever their work forces go, Workday will roll out a version of its human capital management software for PDAs and other mobile devices sometime in 2009. During a visit to Workday’s offices in Walnut Creek, Calif., Aneel Bhusri, the president of […]

Those looking for signs that Web 2.0 applications are becoming an increasingly dominant part of enterprise IT systems need look no further than Workday. The company, founded by former PeopleSoft founder and CEO Dave Duffield, announced new additions to its HCM (human capital management) suite on May 19. And while SAAS (software as a service) […]

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang repeated in a letter dated April 7 that Microsoft’s bid undervalues the company. Addressing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as “Steve,” Yang added that the company’s board “continue[s] to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders.” Click Here to Watch the Latest eWEEK Newsbreak […]