July 10, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Hello...I want everyone to know that eWeek magazine insulted the DBA profession by listing it as a "low end" IT job that is prime for outsourcing to India, etc.
I urge all of you to write eWeek and explain that in your occupation, it takes years of experience to become a senior level DBA and that this profession is one of the highest paying, most highly sought after specialties. If every CIO listened to eWeek, they'd drop your salaries to half, consider DBA's to be the equivalent of a help desk or customer service worker and send all your jobs to India.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C1985932%2C00.asp
Mary
July 13, 2006 at 5:17 am
Outsourcing and offshoring are just expressions of the business need to get the most value out of the IT Investment. If the CxO and Board see figures that show that internal IT support gives the best ROI then IT will stay in-house. If IT management cannot organise themselves to make that case, then jobs will go elsewhere.
Standards such as ITIL help align IT objectives with Audit objectives. They are a powerful lever for IT management to show ROI in a standard way that can be compared to peer organisations and out/in-sourcing proposals. However, just about every place I have worked, I see a reluctance to adopt standard business processes in IT, which results in repeated cycles of re-inventing the wheel. Managers like to claim a standard process does not suit the business needs, but re-inventing the wheel is far more costly. IT often meets its potential of providing the key business differentiator, but also too often is a brake that holds the business back.
I think EWeek are wrong in classing database administration as low level, but winning that argument will have no impact on the big issue of improving ROI in IT.
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