Join BearingPoint Technologist and Senior Manager Andrew Perkins to explore how AIS provides the foundation of a successful ERP or large package application implementation, reducing risk and increasing client satisfaction and the two different types of needs it addresses. IT [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Benedicte Lambert, as she describes the current state of data privacy regulations throughout the world and offers advice for IT managers with data centers in different continents. This is a Bearing Point podcast.

Join BearingPoint manager and technologist Zahra Rahemtulla, as she presents a case for use cases and their role as an effective vehicle to map out activities an IT organization should put in place for a proactive approach to service delivery. [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint managing director Frank Mackris as he explores and explains the role IT cost transparency plays for financial institutions. As companies add new accounts and increase services like online banking, there’s a huge need for more technology expenditures. The [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist and senior manager, Gabriel Leung to explore why servers go down and what, if anything, companies can do to improve server management. Focusing on the provisioning of a new server, this podcast zeroes in on how automation [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist and Senior Manager Scott Kimbel in this podcast, as he dives into the state of electronic messaging and how it affects the enterprise. Most companies try to block certain electronic messaging such as IM (Instant Messaging) because [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist and senior manager Christopher Ouellette to explore the history, importance, improvements and future of ITIL in this ITIL 101 session. Simply put, ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of best practices for IT services [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint senior manager and technologist Ray Wilson as he explores why BI for IT is growing in demand. In this podcast, he discusses solutions and approaches for building a business intelligence layer to address regulatory requirements and to realize [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist and managing director Daryouche Behboudi in this podcast to explore the growing need to go green, starting with data centers. Examining short, medium and long-term tactics and strategies, some as simple as adjusting lighting and sensors, Daryouche [See the full post…]

Master Data Management (or MDM) is the framework of processes and technologies aimed at creating a data environment that represents a “single version of truth,” an accepted system of record used both intra- and inter-enterprise across a diverse set of [See the full post…]

With today’s virtual environment, virtualization can bring clear advantages in how you manage your IT. In this podcast, join BearingPoint technologists Nicolas Boaknin and Laurent Mandorla to explore the virtualization buzz – what it’s all about and why it’s at [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist Takashi Yoshizaki as he takes us through the evolution of VOIP. What started as simply carrying voice traffic over a data network is now a widely accepted technology and a valued strategic initiative that improves workforce efficiencies. [See the full post…]

What is the problem domain that can be solved by ‘Events’ and what is an eventing tool? Join BearingPoint technologists Raymond Keefe, Senior IT Architect and Matt Markham, Senior Consultant, to explore implementing and enterprise application integration (EAI). Focusing on [See the full post…]

Are you part of an organization that assumes a vendor will fix all your problems? Our experience tells us that technology outsourcing is often associated with some common misinformation. In this podcast, hear Farid Moussavi, managing director and BearingPoint technologist, [See the full post…]

With many data centers built more than a decade ago, facilities no longer fit current and future requirements from a business perspective. In addition, security requirements have evolved exponentially along with capacity issues like power and space shortages. Join BearingPoint [See the full post…]

Are there so many moving parts to the Utility Computing puzzle that you’re unsure where and how to start? Do you have the tools you need in place so you can band resources and achieve the goal of utility computing [See the full post…]

In a constant effort to manage and reduce IT spending, CIOs and CTOs are also charged with constantly having to demonstrate the value of IT to the business. Join us to hear Thierry Turc, managing director and technologist for BearingPoint, [See the full post…]

It’s the revenue-generator, but does your organization’s call center need to connect and centralize multiple data centers and agents? The idea behind call center virtualization is to enable transactions and calls to be routed in any situation, based on the [See the full post…]

Beyond the help desk, there are a number of technologies that have been around for years, but today there are more and more intuitive tools that allow for better automation. Now the IT organization can turn the dial, depending on [See the full post…]

Does your enterprise network infrastructure group face challenges that include a need for differentiated service levels for different business units, or are they stuck using obsolete technologies and non-scalable architecture? Multi Protocol Label Switching – MPLS – could be the [See the full post…]

Typically, IT organizational structures are the result of an evolutionary process and are not necessarily the outcome of planned design. So, how should the IT organization be designed and operated? To start, using a value chain provides an overview of [See the full post…]

Most IT departments allocate a significant portion of the total cost to labor yet do not apply any formal estimation methodology to determine the appropriate allocation, growth, and productivity of their labor. The use of an estimation model can have [See the full post…]

A Business Case is a structured proposal for business change that is justified in terms of risk-adjusted costs and benefits. The objective is to request and secure funding for the project. It’s a living document and will be reviewed throughout [See the full post…]

IT solutions of all colors are required by enterprises and service providers to effectively and efficiently manage their IT organization. These solutions address management requirements at the IT infrastructure, services and business layers and leverage several best practices, such as [See the full post…]

There are four major IT integration models that companies adopt, depending on their existing business and technology environments and their post-M&A business goals. Each model has distinctive characteristics in speed of integration, costs, complexity and synergies. Recent studies have shown [See the full post…]