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Elmer Lampson
May 28, 1927 - April 9, 2011
Elmer Edward Lampson, age 83, of Milton-Freewater passed away April
9, 2011, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born to Leslie M. and Helen (Holman) Lampson on the family farm east of Goldendale, Wash. While a young child, he and his family moved to the Sara area just north of Vancouver, Wash., where he lived until inducted into the Army at the onset of Korean War. He spent two years in the Army as a medic at Army hospitals in Japan.
Upon discharge from the Army, Elmer went to Union College in Lincoln, Neb. While there, he met Joyce Zummach. They married June 2, 1957, in the College View Church. After graduating in 1958, with a B.S. in business administration, he commenced a lifetime of
administrative work as business manager at various secondary schools and colleges operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Auburn Academy in Auburn, Wash.; Helderberg College in South Africa; Solusi College in Zimbabwe; Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools; Columbia; Laurelwood; Milo; Portland; and University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, Kenya. He touched the lives of
many people, in addition to being a loving husband and father.
In retirement years, Elmer enjoyed hobby farming on his Tum-A-Lum property in Milton-Freewater, specializing in berries for U-pick, family trips to Mount Rainier, overseas trips with the family to Costa Rica, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and a 50th wedding anniversary trip back to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe.
He was a member of the University Church in College Place.
Elmer was survived by his wife, Joyce; sons, Dale (Kathryn) of Sunnyvale, Calif., Clark (Lyla) of Milton-Freewater; daughter, Merilee Stein of Walla Walla; grandson, Jason Stein of Portland; granddaughters, Amanda Stein of Walla Walla, Elizabeth Lampson and Stephanie Lampson of Sunnyvale, Calif.; two great-grandchildren, Aaron and Raighlyn; brothers, Charles of Spokane, Warren of Ridgefield, Wash., Eugene of Vancouver, Wash.; sister, Ann Paddock of Vancouver, Wash.; and nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Memorial donations may be made to the Christian Aid Center, or Hospice, both of Walla Walla; or Gospel Outreach in College Place. The memorial service will be May 13 at 2:30 p.m. at University Church, Heubach Chapel, 212 S.W. 4th St., College Place.
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Bollywood 2013 – It's a Wrap!!! The event has come and gone, and the Amma Center of NM is plunging ahead toward Amma's visit in June. Just the same, there's much to report on the... more ›
March 20, 2013 — Southwest
ॐ Aum Amriteshwaryai Namaha ॐ We were very fortunate to host Brahmacharini Remadevi to perform a Bhagavati Seva (Devi) Puja for the Satsang this year.... more ›
February 8, 2013 — Southwest
What is Jyotish? Astrology is called "Jyotish" in Sanskrit, meaning "science of light." Jyotish is the science of understanding the subtle influences that come to us from the universe. These influences are a reflection of the law of karma. Here, both fate and free will operate.... more ›
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Bollywood Club Dance Invasion is Back!!! With the advent of 2013, plans for the annual Bollywood Club Dance Invasion are in full swing again. The fundraiser on March 30th at Warehouse 21 marks the 5th straight year this popular event is offered. Proceeds from this celebratory evening of dance,... more ›
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Chanting for Light and Love on Earth 12/21/12 The Amma Center of NM will host a day of chanting and meditation for light and love on Earth on Friday, December 21st.
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Amma asked the Amma Center of NM to plant fruit trees a few years ago. So, in accordance with her request, a new orchard was planted in 2010 with the guidance of Gordon Tooley of Tooley's Trees of Truchas, NM. Over 30 trees of many varieties of apples, plums, and apricots were planted at the Amma... more ›
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"One of the most lively and provocative interpretive studies of the major events in recent American diplomatic history." -American Historical Review
Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such pivotal events as World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and 9/11. Examining everything from the Iran-Contra scandal to the rise of international terrorism, the authors analyze-in light of the enormous global power of the United States-how American economic aggressiveness, racism, and fear of Communism have shaped the nation's evolving foreign policy.
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Microsoft: We're making ONE TRUE WINDOWS to rule us all
Re: One Windows doesn't work!
"Apple HAS figured it out (my many shares are looking pretty good here!) and the "feel" of the different devices is adapted to the different environments."
Just love it when people pad their opinions with gloating about their wealth, it gives the rest of their comment such credibility.
The only thing Apple has figured out is how brain dead most consumers are. Show them a shiny object and they'll throw their money at it. Sooner or later, people will wake up, and Apple will be in trouble. Their patent rampage is clear evidence that they're living in the past, trying to slow everyone to their snail's pace, as opposed to looking forward and leading by example.
For as much as Microsoft rightly deserves to be criticized, between them, Google and Apple, Apple is dead last when it comes to actual innovation.
iPad? More like iFAD: We reveal why Apple fell into IBM's arms
Re: Drop in Ipad sales / saturated market?
Saturation is likely a big part of it. Combine that with a lack of new features or apps that demand more advanced hardware, and you have a repeat of pretty much exactly the same cliff the PC industry went over.
I see no reason for the foreseeable future to replace either my smartphone or mobile tablet. And to be completely honest, unless the inherent limitations of mobile OS based tablets are eliminated, I wouldn't purchase another one period. I bought a Surface Pro 2 last year, and it's so inherently more capable and useful, I just don't see any value in lesser tablets. Their capabilities are just too compromised.
Wozniak: Please, whatever you do, DON'T buy me an iPad Air
128 gig compact flash cards cost under $30 *retail*, so adding the same memory as an additional component during manufacturing would cost even less.
Seriously, stop drinking the koolaid. Smart phone/tablet/gadget prices today are astronomically high for what they actually cost to produce.
Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins
There's a workaround, as always.
Go here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only
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2- Run the setup for 8, put in your valid product key and click next.
3- As soon as it starts downloading the full Windows 8 setup files, quit the installer.
4- Run the 8.1 setup (it might error out the first time, just run it again) and it'll download 8.1.
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Screen grab by Google, Amazon could delay Retina iPad mini – report
"According to one source, Apple also is considering a budget iPad Mini"
And of course, sources were spot on with the reports of the cheap iPhone 5C, weren't they? It always amazes me how much sources are parroted when they're dead wrong 95% of the time.
Windows 8.1: Microsoft's reluctant upgrade has a split-screen personality
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"...and when XP goes out of support next year, my brother is going to have to move to Linux as well"
Because XP will stop functioning when support ends??
Comments like these never make sense. If you want to switch to Linux, by all means, do so. I have it installed on a system or two here and it's fine. But don't resort to ridiculous excuses like this. I still have XP on a few older systems, and they will remain on XP until I take them out of service or they suffer some hardware failure. The OS operates, and will operate, as good tomorrow or next year or 5 years from now as it does today.
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And another thing, even the CEO of Intel is now saying Windows 8 is half baked.
How many more people will it take saying Windows 8 sucks before you realize just who's head is stuck firmly in the sand?
Metro: The computer boots and you see an unorganized grid of tiles, a few with some useful information but the vast majority with nothing more than the same icons we've seen for decades. No useful information, all strewn over a scrolling screen with no ability to collapse groups to save space. Throw in no ability to run anything in anything but full screen or a fixed 80/20 split (staying in Metro). Throw in many UI elements and tasks totally hidden off screen and many requiring a multiple of mouse actions to accomplish common tasks. And finally throw in the necessity to jarringly return to this screen from the desktop, over and over, to accomplish common tasks.
Explorer: The computer boots to a familiar desktop with an efficient task bar and start menu which holds all installed programs and system activities in a small, optimized, collapsible, efficient list. You can run one or many applications full screen, windowed and in any combination a user chooses to make optimal use of desktop/monitor space. Files can be held and organized on the desktop to the user's liking, or the desktop can be kept clear... again, to the user's liking.
So how's that for feedback? And what, pray tell, will your rebuttal be? More of the same - you're not using Metro right, you haven't given it enough time, you're sticking your head in the sand? How about actually addressing any of the issues any of us have raised over the past months? And might you work for Microsoft? You seem awfully critical of complaints about Metro.
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I did say why it sucks - I said it feels shockingly incomplete, which it does. And what hope would any of us "Preview Participants" have that our feedback would be valued when despite countless accounts of usability issues, Microsoft has done nothing but march forward, release after release.
And I did try to get used to the Metro interface. I installed it without modification on a system used by the entire family, and it was only after several months of daily use and continuous frustration and complaints by family members did I work around Metro. We all learned how to use Metro, so this isn't an issue of not understanding the new paradigm, it's an issue of the new paradigm just sucking in real-world use.
We're not sticking out heads in the sand, we've been explaining exactly why Metro sucks on a desktop system, and Microsoft's reaction has been clear - tough luck, get used to it. So with Windows 8 now RTM, it's pointless to elaborate beyond simply saying it sucks.
If anyone is burring their head in the sand, it's the pro-Metro folks who have done nothing but ignore scores of specific and detailed feedback.
I would qualify as one of Microsoft's "Preview participants", and I think Windows 8 sucks. I've tried each version and even the latest has a shockingly incomplete feel to it. I've used various utilities to bypass the Metro start screen and restore a Start menu to make it usable, but even still, it absolutely doesn't feel like a real product.
As the preview releases have been given away to anyone who wants them, it's really dangerous to look at the number of participants as an endorsement of the condition of the OS.
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Actually, if you really think about it, despite how it may appear at first glance, Apple doesn't compete or innovate very well.
They typically enter already established markets after sitting on the sidelines for many years observing what works and what doesn't. Their products, while very well designed, integrated and user friendly, are usually rather light on features and capabilities, and they are typically slow to add new features. Consider:
-The first iPhone didn't ship with an App Store and, as such, it was terribly limited in it's functionality.
-The iOS notification center is a complete copy of what was available on Android since it's inception.
-iOS lacked multitasking until version 4
-iOS still doesn't support any home screen widgets.
-Even the current iPhone doesn't offer many features common on many other smartphones - 4G, NFC, removable storage.
These aren't signs of a company who competes very well. What Apple DOES do well is marketing. They have the ability to create intense, almost blind desire for their products, regardless of the comparative capabilities of those products.
Apple very much has a problem competing, and that's precisely why they've resorted to litigation to stall competition. Apple enters markets with an initial "Bang", and then rests on it's laurels for as long as possible, repackaging the same basic device in new shells over and over, adding the bare minimum of improvements to not make it blatantly obvious that they're behind the curve. Whether this is because they want to do individual products "right" and not just release numerous, lower quality products is more or less irrelevant. The fact is that other companies bring more, and more advanced, products to market with an acceptable quality and better price than Apple can, or is willing, to do.
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How CFOs can change the conversation with their CIO?
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview half dozen CIOs and half dozen CFOs. Kind of like a marriage therapist, I got to see each party's story about the relationship. CFOs, in particular, felt that the quality of the relationship could impact their businesses' success. Armed with this knowledge, I wanted to see if I could help each leader build a better working relationship. Previously, I let CIO's know about the emergence and significance of the strategic CFO. In today's post, l will start by sharing the CIOs perspective on the CFO relationship and then I will discuss how CFOs can build better CIO relationships.
CIOs feel under the gun these days!
If you don't know, CIOs feel under the gun these days. CIOs see their enterprises demanding ubiquitous computing. Users want to use their apps and expect corporate apps to look like their personal apps such as Facebook. They want to bring their own preferred devices. Most of all, , they want all their data on any device when they need it. This means CIOs are trying to manage a changing technical landscape of mobile, cloud, social, and big data. These are all vying for both dollars and attention. As a result, CIOs see their role in a sea change. Today, they need to focus less on building things and more on managing vendors. CIOs say that they need to 1) better connect what IT is doing to support the business strategy; 2) improve technical orchestration; and 3) improve process excellence. This is a big and growing charter.
CIOs see the CFO conversation being just about the numbers
CIOs worry that you don't understand how many things are now being run by IT and that historical percentages of revenue may no longer appropriate. Think about healthcare, which used to be a complete laggard in technology but today it is having everything digitalized. Even a digital thermometer plugs into an iPad so it directly communicates with a patient record. The world has clearly changed. And CIOs worry that you view IT as merely a cost center and that you do not see the value generated through IT investment or the asset that information provides to business decision makers. However, the good news is that I believe that a different type of discussion is possible. And that CFOs have the opportunity to play an important role in helping to shape the value that CIOs deliver to the business.
CFOs should share their experience and business knowledge
CFOs that I talked to said that they believe the CFO/CIO relationship needs to be complimentary and that the roles have the most concentric rings. These CFOs believe that the stronger the relationship the better it is for their business. One area that you can help the CIO is in sharing your knowledge of the business and business needs. CIOs are trying to get closer to the business and you can help build this linkage and to support requests that come out of this process. Clearly, an aligned CFO can be "one of the biggest advocates of the CIO". Given this, make sure that you are on your CIOs Investment Committee.
Tell your CIO about your data pains
CFOs need to be good customers too. CFOs that I talked to told me that they know their business has "a data issue". They worry about the integrity of data from the source. CFOs see their role as relying increasingly on timely, accurate data. They, also, know they have disparate systems and too much manual stuff going on in the back office. For them, integration needs to exist from the frontend to the backend. Their teams personally feel the large number of manual steps.
For this reasons, CFOs, we talked to, believe that the integration of data is a big issue whether they are in a small or large business. Have you talked to your CIO about data integration or quality projects to change the ugliness that you have to live with day in day out? It will make you and the business more efficient. One CFO was blunt here saying "making life easier is all about the systems. If the systems suck then you cannot trust the numbers when you get them. You want to access the numbers easily, timely, and accurately. You want to make easier to forecast so you can set expectations with the business and externally".
At the same time, CFOs that I talked to worried about the quality of financial and business data analysis. Once he had data, he worried about being able to analyze information effectively. Increasingly, CFOs say that they need to help drive synergies across their businesses. At the same time, CFOs increasingly need to manage upward with information. They want information for decision makers so they can make better decisions.
Changing the CIO Dialog
So it is clear that CFOs like you see data as a competitive advantage in particular financial data. The question is, as your unofficial therapist, why aren't you having a discussion with your CIO not just about the numbers or financial justification for this or that system and instead, asking about the+ integration investment that can make your integration problems go away.
Takeaways from the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit (2014)
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. At this event, Gartner analysts and security industry experts meet to discuss the latest trends, advances, best practices and research in the space. At the event, I had the privilege of connecting with customers, peers and partners. I was also excited to learn about changes that are shaping the data security landscape.
Here are some of the things I learned at the event:
- Security continues to be a top CIO priority in 2014. Security is well-aligned with other trends such as big data, IoT, mobile, cloud, and collaboration. According to Gartner, the top CIO priority area is BI/analytics. Given our growing appetite for all things data and our increasing ability to mine data to increase top-line growth, this top billing makes perfect sense. The challenge is to protect the data assets that drive value for the company and ensure appropriate privacy controls.
- Mobile and data security are the top focus for 2014 spending in North America according to Gartner's pre-conference survey. Cloud rounds out the list when considering worldwide spending results.
- Rise of the DRO (Digital Risk Officer). Fortunately, those same market trends are leading to an evolution of the CISO role to a Digital Security Officer and, longer term, a Digital Risk Officer. The DRO role will include determination of the risks and security of digital connectivity. Digital/Information Security risk is increasingly being reported as a business impact to the board.
- Information management and information security are blending. Gartner assumes that 40% of global enterprises will have aligned governance of the two programs by 2017. This is not surprising given the overlap of common objectives such as inventories, classification, usage policies, and accountability/protection.
- Security methodology is moving from a reactive approach to compliance-driven and proactive (risk-based) methodologies. There is simply too much data and too many events for analysts to monitor. Organizations need to understand their assets and their criticality. Big data analytics and context-aware security is then needed to reduce the noise and false positive rates to a manageable level. According to Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, "By 2018, of all breaches that are detected within an enterprise, 70% will be found because they used context-aware security, up from 10% today."
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- Software-defined security
- Big data security analytics
- Intelligent/Context-aware security controls
- Application isolation
- Endpoint threat detection and response
- Website protection
- Adaptive access
- Securing the Internet of Things
New type of CFO represents a potent CIO ally
The strategic CFO is different than the "1975 Controller CFO"
Traditionally, CIOs have tended to work with what one CIO called a "1975 Controller CFO". For this reason, the relationship between CIOs and CFOs was expressed well in a single word "contentious". But a new type of CFO is emerging that offers the potential of different type of relationship. These so called "strategic CFOs" can be an effective ally for CIOs. The question is which type of CFO do you have? In this post, I will provide you with a bit of a litmus test so you can determine what type of CFO you have but more importantly, I will share how you can take maximum advantage of having a strategic-oriented CFO relationship. But first let's hear a bit more of the CIOs reactions to CFOs.
Views of CIOs according to CIO interviews
Clearly, "the relationship…with these CFOs is filled with friction". Controller CFOs "do not get why so many things require IT these days. They think that things must be out of whack. One CIO said that they think technology should only cost 2-3% of revenue while it can easily reach 8-9% of revenue these days." Another CIO complained by saying their discussion with a Controller CFOs is only about IT productivity and effectiveness. In their eyes, this has limited the topics of discussion to IT cost reduction, IT produced business savings, and the soundness of the current IT organization. Unfortunately, this CIO believe that Controller CFOs are not concerned with creating business value or sees information as an asset. Instead, they view IT as a cost center. Another CIO says Controller CFOs are just about the numbers and see the CIO role as being about signing checks. It is a classic "demand versus supply" issue. At the same times, CIOs say that they see reporting to Controller CFO as a narrowing function. As well, they believe it signals to the rest of the organization "that IT is not strategic and less important than other business functions".
What then is this strategic CFO?
In contrast to their controller peers, strategic CFOs often have a broader business background than their accounting and a CPA peers. Many have, also, pursued an MBA. Some have public accounting experience. Others yet come from professions like legal, business development, or investment banking.
More important than where they came from, strategic CFOs see a world that is about more than just numbers. They want to be more externally facing and to understand their company's businesses. They tend to focus as much on what is going to happen as they do on what has happened. Remember, financial accounting is backward facing. Given this, strategic CFOs spend a lot of time trying to understand what is going on in their firm's businesses. One strategic CFO said that they do this so they can contribute and add value—I want to be a true business leader. And taking this posture often puts them in the top three decision makers for their business. There may be lessons in this posture for technology focused CIOs.
Why is a strategic CFO such a game changer for CIO?
One CIO put it this way. "If you have a modern day CFO, then they are an enabler of IT". Strategic CFO's agree. Strategic CFOs themselves as having the "the most concentric circles with the CIO". They believe that they need "CIOs more than ever to extract data to do their jobs better and to provide the management information business leadership needs to make better business decisions". At the same time, the perspective of a strategic CFO can be valuable to the CIO because they have good working knowledge of what the business wants. They, also, tend to be close to the management information systems and computer systems. CFOs typically understand the needs of the business better than most staff functions. The CFOs, therefore, can be the biggest advocate of the CIO. This is why strategic CFOs should be on the CIOs Investment Committee. Finally, a strategic CFO can help a CIO ensure their technology selections meet affordability targets and are compliant with the corporate strategy.
Are the priorities of a strategic CFO different?
Strategic CFOs still care P&L, Expense Management, Budgetary Control, Compliance, and Risk Management. But they are also concerned about performance management for the enterprise as whole and senior management reporting. As well they, they want to do the above tasks faster so finance and other functions can do in period management by exception. For this reason they see data and data analysis as a big issue.
Strategic CFOs care about data integration
In interviews of strategic CFOs, I saw a group of people that truly understand the data holes in the current IT system. And they intuit firsthand the value proposition of investing to fix things here. These CFOs say that they worry "about the integrity of data from the source and about being able to analyze information". They say that they want the integration to be good enough that at the push of button they can get an accurate report. Otherwise, they have to "massage the data and then send it through another system to get what you need".
These CFOs say that they really feel the pain of systems not talking to each other. They understand this means making disparate systems from the frontend to the backend talk to one another. But they, also, believe that making things less manual will drive important consequences including their own ability to inspect books more frequently. Given this, they see data as a competitive advantage. One CFO even said that they thought data is the last competitive advantage.
Strategic CFOs are also worried about data security. They believe their auditors are going after this with a vengeance. They are really worried about getting hacked. One said, "Target scared a lot of folks and was to many respects a watershed event". At the same time, Strategic CFOs want to be able to drive synergies across the business. One CFO even extolled the value of a holistic view of customer. When I asked why this was a finance objective versus a marketing objective, they said finance is responsible for business metrics and we have gaps in our business metrics around customer including the percentage of cross sell is taking place between our business units. Another CFO amplified on this theme by saying that "increasingly we need to manage upward with information. For this reason, we need information for decision makers so they can make better decisions". Another strategic CFO summed this up by saying "the integration of the right systems to provide the right information needs to be done so we and the business have the right information to manage and make decisions at the right time".
So what are you waiting for?
If you are lucky enough to have a Strategic CFO, start building your relationship. And you can start by discussing their data integration and data quality problems. So I have a question for you. How many of you think you have a Controller CFO versus a Strategic CFO? Please share here.
Mars vs. Venus? How CMOs and CIOs can align and thrive.
Recently, we posted an initial discussion between Informatica's CMO Marge Breya and CIO Eric Johnson, explaining how CIOs and CMOs can align and thrive. In the dialog below, Breya and Johnson provide additional detail on how their departments partner effectively.
Q: Pretty much everyone agrees that marketing has changed from an art to a science. How does that shift translate into how you work together day to day?
Eric: The different ways that marketers now have to get to the prospects and customers to grow their marketshare has exploded. It used to be a single marketing solution that was an after-thought, and bolted on to the CRM solution. Now, there are just so many ways that marketers have to consider how they market to people. It's driven by things going on in the market, like how people interact with companies and the lifestyle changes people have made around mobile devices.
Marge: Just look at the sheer number of systems and sources of data we care about. If you want to understand upsell and cross-sell for customers you have to look at what's happening in the ERP system, what's happened from a bookings standpoint, whether the customer is a parent or child of another customer, how you think about data by region, by industry by job title. And there's how you think about successful conversion of leads. Is it the way you'd predicted? What's your most valuable content? Who's your most valuable outlet or event? What's your ROI? You can't get that from any one single system. More and more, it's all about conversion rates, about forecasting and theories about how the business is working from a model standpoint. And I haven't even talked about social.
Q: With so many emerging technologies to look at, how do CMOs reconcile the need to quickly add new products, while CIOs reconcile the need for everything to work securely and well together?
Eric: There's this yin and yang that's starting to build between the CIO and the CMO as we both understand each other and the world we each live in, and therefore collaborate and partner more. But at the same time, there's a tension between a CMO's need to bring in solutions very quickly, and the CIO's need to do some basic vetting of that technology. It's a tension between speed vs. scale and liability to the company. It's on a case-by-case basis, but as a CIO you don't say "no." You give options. You show CMOs the tradeoffs they're going to make.
There are also risks that are easy to take and worth taking. They won't cause any problems with the enterprise on a security or integration perspective, so let's just try it. It may not work — and that's OK.
Marge: There's temptation across departments for the shiny new object. You'll hear about a new technology, and you think this might solve our problems, or move the business faster. The tension even within the marketing department is: do we understand how and if it will impact the business process? And do we understand how that business process will have to change if the shiny new object comes on board?
Q: CMOs are getting data from potentially hundreds of sources, including partners, third parties, LinkedIn and Google. How do the two of you work together to determine a trustworthy data source? Do you talk about it?
Eric: The issue of trusting your data and making sure you're doing your due diligence on it is incredibly important. Without doing that, you are running the risk of finding yourself in a very tricky situation from a legal perspective, and potentially a liability perspective. To do that, we have a lot of technology that helps us manage a lot data sources coming into a single source of truth.
On top of that, we are working with marketers who are much more savvy about technology and data. And that makes IT's job easier — and our partnership better — because we are now talking the same language. Sometimes it's even hard to tell where the line between the two groups actually sits. Some of the marketing people are as technical as the IT people, and some of the IT people are becoming pretty well-versed in marketing.
Q: How do you decide what technologies to buy?
Marge: A couple of weeks ago we went on a shopping trip, and spent the day at a venture capital firm looking at new companies. It was fun. He and I were brainstorming and questioning each other to see if each technology would be useful, and could we imagine how everything would go together. We first explored possibilities, and then we considered whether it was practical.
Eric: Ultimately, Marge owns the budget. But before the budgeting cycle we sit down to discuss what things she wants to work on, and whether she wants to swap technology out. I make sure Marge is getting what she needs from the technologies. There's a reliance on the IT team to do some due diligence on the technical aspects of this technology: Does it work. Do we want to do business with these people? Is it going to scale? So each party has a role to play in evaluating whether it's a good solution for the company. As a CIO you don't say "no" unless there's something really bad, and you hope you have a relationship with the CMO where you can say here are the tradeoffs you're making. You say no one has an agenda here, but here are the risks you have to be ok taking. It's not a "no." It's options.
What do CIOs think about when integrating Salesforce?
Salesforce.com is one of the most widely used cloud applications across every industry. Initially, Salesforce gained dominance from mid-market customers due to the agility and ease of deployment that the SaaS approach delivered. A cloud-based CRM system enabled SMB companies to easily automate sales processes that recorded customer interactions during the sales cycle and scale without costly infrastructure to maintain. This resulted in faster growth, thereby showing rapid ROI of a Salesforce deployment in most cases.
The Eye of the Enterprise
When larger enterprises saw the rapid growth that mid-market players had achieved, they realized that Salesforce was a unique technology enabler capable of helping their businesses to also speed time to market and scale more effectively. In most enterpises, the Salesforce deployments were driven by line-of-business units such as Sales and Customer Service, with varying degrees of coordination with central IT groups – in fact, most initial deployments of Salesforce orgs were done fairly autonomously from central IT.
With Great Growth Comes Greater Integration Challenges
When these business units needed to engage with each other to run cross functional tasks, the lack of a single customer view across the siloed Salesforce instances became a problem. Each individual Salesforce org had its own version of the truth and it was impossible to locate where in the sales cycle each customer was in respect to each business unit. As a consequence, cross-selling and upselling became very difficult. In short, the very application that was a key technology enabler for growth was now posing challenges to meet business objectives.
Scaling for Growth with Custom Apps
While many companies use the pre-packaged functionality in Salesforce, ISVs have also begun building custom apps using the Force.com platform due to its extensibility and rapid customization features. By using Salesforce to build native applications from the ground up, they could design innovative user interfaces that expose powerful functionality to end users. However, to truly add value, it was not just the user interface that was important, but also the back-end of the technology stack. This was especially evident when it came to aggregating data from several sources, and surfacing them in the custom Force.com apps.
On April 23rd at 10am PDT, you'll hear how two CIOs from two different companies tackled the above integration challenges with Salesforce: Rising Star finalist of the 2013 Silicon Valley Business Journal CIO Awards, Eric Johnson of Informatica, and Computerworld's 2014 Premier 100 IT Leaders, Derald Sue of InsideTrack.
Mars vs. Venus? Aligning the CMO and CIO Planets
Research firm Gartner, Inc., sent shockwaves across the technology landscape when it forecast CMOs will spend more on IT than CIOs by 2017[i]. The rationale? "We frequently hear our technology and service provider clients tell us they are dealing with business buyers more, and need to "speak the language." Gartner itself has fueled this inferno with assertions such as, "By 2017 the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO" (see "Webinar: By 2017 the CMO Will Spend More on IT Than the CIO")."[ii] In the two years since Gartner first made that prediction, analysts and pundits have talked about a CIO/CMO battle for data supremacy — describing the two roles as "foes" inhabiting "separate worlds[iii]" that don't even speak the same language.
But when CIOs are from Mars and CMOs are from Venus, their companies can end up with disjointed technologies that don't play well together. The result? Security flaws, no single version of "truth," and regulatory violations that can damage the business. The trick, then, is aligning the CIO and CMO planets.
Informatica's CMO Marge Breya and CIO Eric Johnson show how they do it.
Q: There's been a lot of talk lately about how CMOs are now the biggest users of data. That represents a shift in how CMOs and CIOs traditionally have worked together. How do you think the roles of the CMO and CIO need to mesh?
Eric: As I look across the lines of business, and evaluate the level of complexity, the volume of data and the systems we're supporting, marketing is now by far the most complex part of the business we support. The systems that they have, the data that they have, has grown exponentially over the last four or five years. Now more than ever, [CMOs and CIOs are] very much attached at the hip. We have to be working in conjunction with one another.
Marge: Just to add to that I'd say over the last five years, we've been attached to things like CRM systems, or partner relationship systems. From a marketing standpoint, it has really been about management: How do you have visibility into what's happening with the business. But over the last couple of years it's become increasingly more important to focus on the "R" word — the relationship: How do you look at a customer name and understand how it relates to their past buying behavior. As a result, you need to understand how information lives from system to system, all across a time series, in order to make really great decisions. The "relate' word is probably most important, at least in my team right now, and it's not possible for me to relate data across the organization without having a great relationship with IT.
Q: So how often do you find yourselves talking together?
Eric: We talk to each other probably weekly, and I think our teams work together daily. There's a constant collaboration and making sure that we're in sync. You hear about the CIO/CMO relationship. I think it should be an easy relationship because there's so much going on technology-wise and data-wise that the CMOs are becoming much more technically knowledgeable, and CIOs are starting to understand more and more what's going on in their business that the line between them should be all about how you work together.
Marge: Of all the business partners in the company, Eric … helps us in marketing reimagine how marketing can be done. If the two of us can go back and forth, understand what's working and what's not working, and reimagine how we can be far more effective, or productive or know new things — to me that's the judge of a healthy relationship between a CIO and a CMO. And luckily, we have that.
Q: It seems as if 2013 was the year of "big data." But a Gartner survey[iv] said "The adoption is still at the early stages with fewer than 8% of all respondents indicating their organization has deployed big data solutions." What do you think are the issues that are making it so difficult for companies?
Eric: The concept of big data is something companies want to get involved in. They want to understand how they can leverage this fast-growing volume of data from various sources. But the challenge is being able to understand what you're looking for, and to know what kind of questions you have.
Marge: There's a big focus on big data, almost for the sake of it in some cases. People get confused about whether it's about the haystack, or the needle. Having a haystack for the heck of it isn't usually what's done. It's for a purpose. It's important to understand what part of that haystack is important for what part of your business. How up-to-date is it? How much can you trust the data. How much can you make real decisions from it. And frankly, who should have access to it. So much of the data we have today is sensitive, affected by privacy laws and other kinds of regulations. I think big data is appropriately a great term right now, but more importantly, it's not just about big data, it's about great data. How are you going to use it? And how it's going to affect your business process.
Eric: You could go down into a rat hole if you're chasing something and you're not really sure what you're going to do with it.
Marge: On the other hand, you can explore years of behavior and maybe come up with a great predictive model for what a new buying signal scoring engine could look like.
Q: One promise of big data is the ability to pull in data from so many sources. That would suggest a real need for you two to work together to ensure the quality and the integrity of the data. How do you collaborate on those issues?
Eric: There's definitely a lot of work that has to be done working with the CMO and the marketing organization: To sit down and understand where's this data coming from, what's it going to be used for, and making sure you have the people and processing components. Especially with the level of complexity we have, with all the data coming in from so many sources, making sure that we really map that out, understand the data and what it looks like and what some of the challenges could be. So it's partnering very closely with marketing to understand those processes, understand what they want to do with the data, and then putting the people, the processes and the technology in place so you can trust the data and have a single source of truth.
Marge: You hit the nail on the head with "people, process and technology." Often, folks think of database quality or accuracy as being an IT problem. It's a business problem. Most people know their business, they know what their data should look like. They know what revenue shapes should look like. What's norm for the business. If the business people aren't there from a governance standpoint, from a stewardship standpoint — literally saying "does this data make sense?" — without that partnership, forget it.
Gartner does a nice job of describing the digital landscape that marketers are facing today in its infographic below. In order to use technology as a differentiator, organizations need to get the most value from their data. The relationships between these technology is going to make the difference between organizations that gain a competitive advantage from their operations and the laggards.
[i] Gartner Research, December 20, 2013, "Market Trends: The Rising Importance of the Business Buyer – Fact of Fiction?" Derry N. Finkeldey
[ii] Gartner Research, December 20, 2013, "Market Trends: The Rising Importance of the Business Buyer – Fact of Fiction?" Derry N. Finkeldey
[iii] Gartner blog, January 25, 2013, "CMOs: Are You Cheating on Your CIO?", Jennifer Beck, Vice President & Gartner Fellow
[iv] Gartner Research, September 12, 2013, "Survey Analysis: Big Data Adoption in 2013 Shows Substance Behind the Hype," Lisa Kart, Nick Heudecker, Frank Buytendijk
History Repeats Itself Through Business Intelligence (Part 2)
In a previous blog post, I wrote about when business "history" is reported via Business Intelligence (BI) systems, it's usually too late to make a real difference. In this post, I'm going to talk about how business history becomes much more useful when combined operationally and in real time.
E. P. Thompson, a historian pointed out that all history is the history of unintended consequences. His idea / theory was that history is not always recorded in documents, but instead is ultimately derived from examining cultural meanings as well as the structures of society through hermeneutics (interpretation of texts) semiotics and in many forms and signs of the times, and concludes that history is created by people's subjectivity and therefore is ultimately represented as they REALLY live.
The same can be extrapolated for businesses. However, the BI systems of today only capture a miniscule piece of the larger pie of knowledge representation that may be gained from things like meetings, videos, sales calls, anecdotal win / loss reports, shadow IT projects, 10Ks and Qs, even company blog posts – the point is; how can you better capture the essence of meaning and perhaps importance out of the everyday non-database events taking place in your company and its activities – in other words, how it REALLY operates.
One of the keys to figuring out how businesses really operate is identifying and utilizing those undocumented RULES that are usually underlying every business. Select company employees, often veterans, know these rules intuitively. If you watch them, and every company has them, they just have a knack for getting projects pushed through the system, or making customers happy, or diagnosing a problem in a short time and with little fanfare. They just know how things work and what needs to be done.
These rules have been, and still are difficult to quantify and apply or "Data-ify" if you will. Certain companies (and hopefully Informatica) will end up being major players in the race to datify these non-traditional rules and events, in addition to helping companies make sense out of big data in a whole new way. But in daydreaming about it, it's not hard to imagine business systems that will eventually be able to understand the optimization rules of a business, accounting for possible unintended scenarios or consequences, and then apply them in the time when they are most needed. Anyhow, that's the goal of a new generation of Operational Intelligence systems.
In my final post on the subject, I'll explain how it works and business problems it solves (in a nutshell). And if I've managed to pique your curiosity and you want to hear about Operational Intelligence sooner, tune in to to a webinar we're having TODAY at 10 AM PST. Here's the link.
Alignment, or revolution?
"Business-IT alignment." The words have been touted so much by vendors (including Informatica), that they have become a platitude. But that doesn't mean the concept itself isn't still critical. This recent article in the IT Leader Potential at Work community lists the three actions IT must take to make a real impact on the business, starting by "inciting a revolution" among IT staff and turning them into business thinkers. Check out the article and share your thoughts here.
CIO to CIO: A New Community to Help IT Leaders Succeed in a Data-Centric World
A CIO's Take on Informatica's Virtual Data Machine
Informatica Corporation CIO, Tony Young talks about the benefits of the Virtual Data Machine for companies.


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A beautiful silver X3 M-sport currently on display at the 2011 Chicago Autoshow represents the first time that the X3 M-sport has been displayed at a U.S. autoshow and first time that BMW has shown a silver X3 M-sport. Photos inside.
Only weeks after its market launch it has already been hailed "Off-Roader of the Year". The new BMW X3 has made an instant and lasting impression on fans of all-wheel-drive vehicles: readers of Germany's Off Road magazine voted it their favourite in the "SUV" category. This accolade sees the new BMW X3 following in the tyre tracks of its predecessor model, which was voted "Off-Roader of the Year" twice in succession – in 2006 and 2007. The latest Off Road reader poll also conferred outstanding rankings … CONTINUED
BMW returned to the Super Bowl broadcast tonight after a 10-year hiatus, unveiling a strategy that forcefully communicates two competitive advantages of BMW. The first commercial is a poignant piece focusing on BMW's economic commitment in America as told through the voices of the company's associates at its manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The second commercial uses humor to showcase BMW Advanced Diesel vehicles as a cleaner, efficient alternative to other types of vehicles.
Count me in as one of those people who love to ski, so this caught my attention. It looks like BMW is teaming up with K2 to promote the new X3.
What they've decided to do is host a series of ski events at some pretty nice ski resorts across the country. At these events, the BMW X3 will be on display and they will be giving away a pair of K2 Aftershock skis and a BMW ski bag each day. While at the booth, you can … CONTINUED
Beginning with March production, the following changes take place for X3:
xDrive35i 19″ wheel style 309 now available with all-season tires (this wheel only available with Sport Activity Package (ZAP))
M-sport Package available as of April production. It includes typical sporty interior M trims along with:
* 2TB Sport automatic transmission (35i only)
* 2VG Performance Control
* 3MC High-gloss Roof Rails
* 481 Sport Seats
* 715 Aerodynamic … CONTINUED
alpineweiss' just delivered X3 shows how great and aggressive a black X3 looks with an X-line delete (no chrome window trim and no titanium bumper trims and door sills).
The BMW 5-series and all new X3 have made the 10 finalists list for the 2011 World Car of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced at a press conference co-hosted by Bridgestone at the New York International Auto Show on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
Prior to that the top three finalists in all the award categories will be announced at the Geneva Motor Show on March 1st, 2011.
A jury of 66 experienced international automotive journalists, including CAR
Details on the X3 M-sport and X1 M-sport packages have already been available, but the first virtual configurator has come online – at BMW UK website.
Interested owners can now use the visualizer to preview the X3 M-sport and X1 M-sport in various configurations of exterior colors, interior colors, and wheels.
The UK configurator can be found at http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/ecom4/fra…-bmwuk,00.html
BMW recently launched its X3 Customer Production Video Portal which gives access to the creation of each customer's custom-made BMW X3 vehicles via an online video portal that will show them footage of their customized X3 being produced at the company's plant in Spartanburg, SC. Here is what it looks like, from the production of an Xbimmer member's X3 xDrive28i.
The video is a mix of interesting background video into BMW's X3 production process, as well as actual footage of the customer's specific car (identified by … CONTINUED
We have posted the full official technical specifications of the 2011 X3 xDrive28i, xDrive35i, xDrive20d, and xDrive30d – including specs related to body, engine, transmission, performance, electrical, safety, connectedrive, and efficient dynamics. See inside.
Beginning on Friday, January 21 and running until Thursday, February 10, BMW fans will have a chance to win a Grand Prize two-year lease on the 2011 X3. MW announced today that it will launch an interactive contest tied to one of its advertisements to run during the Super Bowl on February 6, 2011. The contest, dubbed
Starting today, BMW X3 customers will have unique access to the creation of their custom-made X3 vehicles via an online video portal that will show them footage of their customized X3 being produced at the company's plant in Spartanburg, SC.
Customers can view the footage by creating a My BMW account on bmwusa.com and entering their X3 order number or VIN. Using seven cameras in BMW's South Carolina plant, BMW deliver X3 customers with video that tracks their vehicle through the various stages of final … CONTINUED


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Don't 'Reset All Settings' in iOS 8 unless you want to lose your iCloud files
Here's an important heads-up: If you keep documents in your iCloud Drive, don't use iOS 8's "Reset All Settings" option. It could delete files stored in the cloud.
Here's an important heads-up: If you keep documents in your iCloud Drive, don't use iOS 8's "Reset All Settings" option. It could delete files stored in the cloud.
Security researchers recently uncovered a bug in Bash, a core shell tool used in Linux and Unix computers for the last couple of decades. OS X is built on Unix, so concern arose about the Mac's vulnerability to hackers exploiting Bash to remotely run code without the user's consent.
Dubbed "Shellshock," the exploit has been compared to the Heartbleed hack from earlier this year. Apple has quelled everyone's fears by saying that the "vast majority of OS X users" are not vulnerable to Shellshock.
It's hard to know what to make of an app update that promises to "cut crash rates in half." If you're a glass-half-full kind of guy, you're happy with the increased stability. If you're a glass-half-empty guy, though, you wonder why the hell they can't get around to fixing the other 50 percent of unexpected software crashes.
I'm sort of a glass-half-empty kind of guy, at least when it comes to Facebook. So when they announce that their latest update to the Facebook for iPhone and iPad app has "solved a long-term mobile debugging problem and reduced the crash rate for people using the Facebook for iOS app by more than 50%," I wonder why the hell a multibillion dollar corporation can't fix the other half.
Thanks to a glitch in iOS 7, it was possible to put folders inside of other folders. With iOS 7.1, Apple fixed the glitch, but lo and behold, they seem to have missed an even bigger glitch that makes it much easier to accomplish the same thing. Here's how.
Robots are pretty cool, but have you ever wanted to create your own iPhone controlled cyborg? Backyard Brains is banking that a lot of kids are interested in cyborg technology and neuroscience (ethical dilemmas be damned), so after three years of R&D they've come up with the RoboRoach – a small electronic surgery kit that lets you turn a real-life cockroach, into an iPhone-controlled cyborg for a few minutes.
The kit comes with a backpack that contains a battery and receiver you superglue to the cockroach after sanding down a patch of shell. You have to jab a groundwire into the cockroaches thorax, and then after that you carefully trim the antenna so you can stick some small electrodes onto both of them and receive signals from your iPhone. Don't worry, the iPhone app and the cockroaches come free with the $99 kit, so you don't have to go hunting for some behind your supermarket's dumpster.
Yesterday it was discovered that a bug in iOS 6.1 allows users to bypass the iPhone lockscreen without entering in the proper PIN. We've seen bugs like this in the past, and Apple has always been quick to shut them down.
Apple has already told us that they will fix the iOS 6.1 lockscreen bug in a future update, and according to a new rumor, that update will hit devices sometime next week.
iOS 6.1 has already been out for a few weeks, but we're now seeing reports that it's causing problems for a lot of upgraders.
Multiple users have taken to Apple's iPhone support forums to report that their battery life has dropped significantly since the iOS 6.1 upgrade. Others have claimed that iOS 6.1 has given them a slew of problems when trying to connect to 3G networks, and Apple has yet to respond.
If you had to get up early on January 1st, I hope you used the built-in Clock app to set your iOS alarm; otherwise you may have spent an unintentional extra few hours in bed. Why? Because the Do Not Disturb feature of iOS 6 switched on as usual on the last day of 2012, and then stayed on.
Many users of Do Not Disturb report that the feature didn't switch itself off yesterday morning.
When Apple was doing its damnedest to kick people out of MobileMe in June this year and get them to use iCloud instead, one of the incentives they gave the soon-to-be disposessed was a free offer that former MobileMe members would get 20GB of iCloud storage gratis, instead of the 5GB Apple gives the rest of us suckers. But it was only for a limited time, until September 30, 2012.
Looks like Apple may have extended their offer, though. Some iCloud usersare now noticing that they've got 25GB of iCloud storage to play around with until September 30, 2050, when their free 20GB should have been snatched away from them yesterday. Even more interesting is that some non-MobileMe users are seeing the same deal, and have found themselves getting a free 20GB bump in storage.
Remember that neat little hack to bring the Save As command back to Mountain Lion? It turns out that it's not quite as handy as we first thought. Sure, you can now "Save As" instead of being forced to "Duplicate" the file and then save it, but Mountain Lion will not only save your changes in the new document, but write them to the original at the same time.