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- Certification
- The following information technology certifications are described in this Encyclopedia. See also aptitude tests. For Certification In this Subject Look Up...
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- Microsoft Certification Training Opens New Business Opportunities for Global Solution
- DS needed to re-skill its team of COBOL developers to use the Microsoft .NET Framework in order to respond to clients' increasing demands for solutions that exploit the latest technologies. To acheive this, it commissioned; a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions provider to deliver a comprehensive training programme...
- Tags: Certification, Microsoft Corp., Training, Workforce Management, .Net, Business Structures, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance
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- MCT Success Story: Jose Dario Aldana Mendez
- Jose Dario Aldana Mendez became an Microsoft Certified Trainer MCT as part of the process of gaining Microsoft certification for his company, Compu Staff. Aldana had originally founded Compu Staff in 1991 in his native Colombia as a training center for consumers. With rapidly growing interest throughout the industry in...
- Tags: Certification, Microsoft Corp., Training, Quality, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- SAS Certification Drives Productivity and Job Satisfaction at U.K. Motoring and Travel Organisation, the AA
- In most countries career opportunities for gifted mathematicians are limited: teaching or research. By contrast, the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics of North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa can offer its students a range of exciting opportunities in the world of business. Business Mathematics and Informatics BMI is a...
- Tags: Job, Certification, SAS Institute, Training, Professional Development, Career
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- SOUTHCOM Completes an Information Security Program With a 100% Certification Rate
- The United States Southern Command SOUTHCOM is facing a challenge that all federal government and DoD agencies either are, or soon will be, facing - how to demonstrate and prove that their personnel are IT security competent and meet the compliance requirements of Directive 8570. When looking for a training...
- Tags: Information Security, Certification, Compliance, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Training, SOUTHCOM, Workforce Management, Security, Human Resources
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- IT Training Success Stories: C-Spencer
- Craig Spencer wanted to get these certifications anyway and Just IT offers the right blend of certifications in their programme. Craig liked the people in the company and the training quality was very good. He felt that it was a relaxed atmosphere without the pressure. Just IT made learning for...
- Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Training, Quality, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- Ensuring Regulatory Compliance Through Training and Certification: Role of Training and Certification in Regulatory Compliance
- There has been a dramatic growth in compliance and regulatory requirements across all industries. These federal regulations are the law-of-the-land and organizations covered under such regulations need to actively implement them. Organizations need to ensure that they are fully compliant with all of the regulations and reporting requirements of their...
- Tags: Certification, Training, MetricStream Inc., Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government
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- Talking is a good thing
- I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional development, but largely for a discussion of technology in the district. I...
- Tags: District, Budgeting, Principal, Teacher, Financial Services, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Would you lie to get your project funded?
- 83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2007) by Professors Joe Peppard, John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, when a footnote really caught my...
- Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- To CCHIT or not to CCHIT is the question
- No single vendor or certification process can build an IT infrastructure that both enables innovation and distributes it universally. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, CCHIT, Healthcare, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Crappy economy = great time for open source in schools
- Not only is it budget time for me right now as we put together our FY10 plans, but it's also time to figure out how we're going to make it through the rest of FY09. Since so many people have lost jobs and/or homes recently, the state and town...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Money, Hardware, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Document Management, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management
- I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...
- Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Going back to Windows Media Center
- I'd been using Media Center as my primary DVR since shortly after the release of Windows Vista several years ago. At the time, my intention was to learn more about the other TV-oriented technology at Microsoft, which was of particular interest to me as I worked, at the time, in...
- Tags: Channel, Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Digital Video Recorder, CableCard, Media Center PCs, DVR, Digital Video, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
- The vendor-funded recycling organization MRM more formally known as Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company has inked a deal with Goodwill Industries in Texas that will extend the territory it can cover in the state. MRM was started as a joint venture by Panasonic Corp. of America, Sharp...
- Tags: Texas, Electronics, MRM DOES, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
- If you're not interested in understanding the in's and out's of the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool rating systems, the Green Electronics Council has started training IT solutions and services providers about how to better-interpret the information for their clients. EPEAT uses 51 different criteria (such...
- Tags: Information Technology, Reseller, EPEAT, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
- You've probably heard enough about the Blackberry Storm, but humor me for a second. There are a number of ways that the Storm beats the iPhone because of what I call the second mover advantage. RIM deftly did what any wise competitor would do, they exploited the demand for features...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Ed Tech in a recession
- At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best...
- Tags: Recession, Hardware, Technology, Teacher, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Reducing IT resource needs and service costs through Intel® Core™2 processorwith vPro™ technology
- "=This is a particularly compelling whitepaper given the environment complexity, 800 PCs at over 30 sites across 3 continents. Weekly re-imaging of the training rooms is required for training configurations, and over 460 full training-room rebuilds were performed per year. In this environment, the cost of maintaining a...
- Tags: Intel vPro, Information Technology, Environment, Training, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-11-21
- iPhone 3G coming to Walmart, Sam's Club Dec. 28
- Walmart will begin selling Apple's iPhone 3G on December 28th in select locations, eventually expanding to 2,500 stores, according to BoyGeniusReport. Sam's Club gets in on the action too, with 69 locations offering the handset on the 28th. Some stores will reportedly get live demo units to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Sam, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- OS earns highest-ever gov't security rating. Does that make it "most secure?"
- I have to admit that I had never before heard of a certification called EAL6+ High Robustness until the folks at Green Hills Software reached out to tell me that they were about to get it for their operating system, formally called INTEGRITY 178B. EAL6+ High...
- Tags: Security, Certification, Operating System, EAL, Quality, Operating Systems, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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