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Read MoreCorporate IT
Information Technology insights, guidance, best practices, observations, and, occasionally, humor – these are the posts you’ll find in this section of Oakwood Insights. Categories include Management and Leadership, CIO Insights, Operational Efficiency, Cost Reduction, Project Management, and Thinking Out Loud. Agree? Disagree? Find something particularly relevant? Leave a comment. ...
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Read MoreSales & Marketing
Integrate technology into the customer experience – and start with Sales and Marketing. How can technology make Sales and Marketing more efficient? Can we close deals faster? Can we reduce our time to market? Do we have current customer information at our fingertips? How about current product information? Map the customer experience, then back up the technology truck and give Sales and...
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Read MoreFinance
Finance, within most organizations, is working with more data than just about every other group, and must be able to quickly access and accurately utilize data to foster agility and responsiveness within the organization. Investigate this section to get ideas, learn what others have done, and see more about IT’s potential impact on the Finance group.
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Read MoreHuman Resources
Attracting and retaining the right employees is critical to the success of most organizations, yet HR groups are frequently hampered by the speed at which technology changes. What used to be “send me your resume” is now “link me to your profile.” Reference checks are now social media checks. Through it all, the need to hire smartly and correctly has not changed. We’ve...
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Read MoreSharePoint
Portals. Intranet, extranet, Internet. Collaboration. Content Management. SharePoint has evolved to be the hub of the user experience, a gateway to applications, partners, customers, and your team. Here are thoughts, insights, ideas, and some technical tips about SharePoint. To find a specific type of SharePoint information, check for the topic and click in the tag cloud to the right.
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Read MoreCloud
Cloud – a broad term encompassing capabilities in Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Whether Windows Azure or Office 365, datacenter migrations or private cloud, this page is your source for information and insights in all of these areas. To learn about common sense and best practices in Azure, check out or Azure Best Practices...
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Read MoreSQL Server
The most widely used database in the world, serving as the foundation of countless initiatives, spanning the breadth of an organizational structure, SQL Server wrangles the millions of data items that we collect and gives us the ability to structure that data into a form we can understand, use, and leverage. We have observations, insights, and technical tips to share with you in this section. To find...
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Read MoreBusiness Intelligence
Managing data is the first step, and actually using data to make decisions is Business Intelligence. Today’s organizations are data factories, with more data being churned out on a daily basis today than ever before. Are we using that data effectively? No, we are not. Our blog posts in this area reflect our thoughts around Business Intelligence, including missed opportunities, ah-ha...
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