Judy Rawls

Since the inception of the Internet, there has yet to be a topic as controversial as "Push". In fact, it's hard to pick up a trade journal that doesn't talk about it. So, without writing a dissertation on the value of "Push", let's explore an extension of this idea. "Managed Push" is a methodology that lets everyone in the information chain have the tools, access and security to obtain enterprise-wide data when, where and how they need it. For example, you're the CFO. You walk into the office 20 minutes before a board meeting. You flip open your laptop, click on your Web browser and, voil‡: The report you need on operating expenses by branch is sitting there waiting for you. No scrambling to pull spreadsheets together, no scratch pads with columns of arithmetic, no last minute conference calls to finalize the numbers. You're done, on your way, ready to go. At the s... (more)