The key to effective financial communications is to remain consistent with operational or business partner requirements, and to be cognizant of the execution of new requirements and their execution. This timing gap often creates a bottleneck and uncertainty about the projects’ implementation and/or timing. Education. It’s a two way street.  MORE >>

— This article is contributed by Brian Beedle , Vice President and Senior Partner at Datacenter Trust. Tags: Leadership active garage best best vs right brian beedle data center trust freshmen hosting leader manager mentor partnerships right student But is “doing things right” necessarily enough? A BREAKTHROUGH! MORE >>

— Written by Linda Williams who is partnered with Datacenter Trust and also has a Business Intelligence consulting practice where she provides businesses with assistance in performance measurement, process improvement, and cost reduction. These should only include those metrics that are essential to the success of the organization. MORE >>

More than two years ago my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of my ASP.NET invoicing software , DotNetInvoice. But given the heavy competition in the hosted invoicing software market and the level of effort of the task, it was continually placed on the back burner. So we tossed it. at 7:23 pm [.] MORE >>

He got excited about Standing Cloud and their mission to “reimagine hosting&# in the context of cloud computing. Shared hosting was a great idea back in 1999 but most users of Web apps today require more control over upgrades, better access to backups, ability to move applications across cloud providers, and extremely high reliability. MORE >>