The bMighty Blog -- Finance/Accounting

The "Consumerization" Of Business Intelligence

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:06 PM ET | Jul 24, 2008

You might think that business intelligence is the last software category to be affected by the trend toward consumer technology eclipsing its business equivalents. But according to the CEO of BI vendor QlikTech, it's already happening.

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Finance/Accounting | Hardware & Software | IT | Management | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

Justice Breyer's Data Exposure A Reminder Of P2P File Risks

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:24 PM ET | Jul 10, 2008

The news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's personal information was among thousands of other personal data files compromised as a result of a file-sharing snafu raises a couple of issues, chief among them whether or not peer-to-peer file sharing via public programs is ever appropriate for business info.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Accounting | Government | IT | Operations | Piracy | Security | Services

Mob Making Cyber Moves: Organized Crime Versus Disorganized Defenses

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:58 PM ET | May 27, 2008

The news that organized crime is now a bigger cyber-havoc player than independent hackers isn't surprising: as Willie Sutton said of banks in the last century, the Net is now "where the money is."

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Business & E-Business | Economics | Finance/Accounting | Finance/Banking/Insurance | Government | IT | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

Death And Taxes On Linux: One Down, One To Go

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:21 AM ET | Apr 2, 2008

Of the two inevitabilities in life, Linux can't do much about death. Can it do anything to help you with your taxes?

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Accounting | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Credit Card Security: 'Tis The Season To Be Compliant

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:00 PM ET | Dec 6, 2007

When it comes to customers' credit card information, how much should small and midsize businesses be worrying about compliance this holiday season? The same as every other season -- a lot.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Finance/Accounting | Finance/Banking/Insurance | IT | Internet/Web | Retail | Security

Meeting Miser Proves It: Time Is Money

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:42 AM ET | Nov 6, 2007

Meetings are known productivity killers, but how much productivity they push six feet under has not been easy to quantify. Until now.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Accounting | Management

No Excuse: Security Lessons From T.J. MAXX Data Breach

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:25 PM ET | Sep 28, 2007

Maybe the company should change its name to T.J. LAX -- lax security practices let the hacked retailer's data breach go from bad to worse to bad beyond belief while nobody did anything to remedy the situation.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Finance/Accounting | Hardware & Software | IT | Internet/Web | Networking & Communications | Retail | Security

Don't Do As TD Ameritrade Does -- And Don't Do As They Say, Either

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:33 PM ET | Sep 14, 2007

The security breach that let spammers get hold of as many as 6.3 million TD Ameritrade customer names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses is being spun as a "Well, they didn't get Social Security numbers, account numbers, PINs or other confidential info; still we apologize for any inconvenience or annoyance," sort of problem. Mistake. Big mistake.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Finance/Accounting | Finance/Banking/Insurance | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

Some Total! Calculator Whiz Smokes Competition

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:04 AM ET | Sep 13, 2007

Why is America losing the accounting wars? Outdated software? Slow servers? Legacy reporting systems? Wake up, people. It's because our business schools don't teach students how to add columns of numbers as quickly and accurately as the young woman in this video clip from Japan.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Education | Finance/Accounting | IT

iWork's Play for the Small Biz Desktop

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:10 AM ET | Aug 29, 2007

"Productivity suite" used to mean one thing and one thing only: Microsoft Office. Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint. Love it or hate it, most of us use Office daily to grind out bargeloads of documents, spreadsheets, email, and presentations.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Finance/Accounting | Hardware & Software | IT | Management | Operations | Professional/Creative Services

MAXXED-Out

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:29 AM ET | Aug 15, 2007

There are important small to mid-size business lessons in the big biz security breach at TJ MAXX. Chief among them: no matter how costly a security breach looks at first, it's going to get worse.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Accounting | Operations | Retail | Security