Since businesses’ growth opportunities aren’t quite at their peak right now (to say the very least), many executive managers are spending more time and attention on internal processes. Many organizations have become more involved in disaster recovery (DR) strategies and DR budgeting initiatives for the remainder of this year and for 2010. According to an article written by Jerome Wendt of DCIG regarding a study done by Applied Research, as upper management gets involved with disaster recovery committees, they’re “seeing the true state of disaster recovery within their organizations and they are getting a reality check.” With more attention paid to DR, that “reality check” is many organizations have realized they have spent large sums of money on back-up software and hardware in the past, but they can still only recover a portion of their information within the time needed to recover.

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Executive Management Focusing on Disaster Recovery of Information

The White House’s initiative to provide a source to facilitate easy identification and purchase of cloud services by government agencies is now available using the Apps.Gov portal . The cloud initiative’s goal is to modernize Information Technology (IT) by identifying enterprise-wide common services and solutions and adopting a new cloud-computing business model

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DocuVantage joins Google and other SaaS and Cloud-Computing Providers on Apps.Gov

The economy has hit businesses hard and it’s causing a ripple effect in the nonprofit industry. To save on costs due to a reduction in revenue, companies have not only cut the donations they have given to charities in the past, but they have reduced available volunteer hours due to a reduction in staff and the need to have more people working in the office driving revenue.

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A Reduction in Volunteers and Revenue Requires Nonprofits to Look for an Automated Approach for Workflow Improvements

Many citizens struggle to make their mortgage payments as the foreclosure crisis impacts communities. Because of this, affordable housing departments are experiencing an influx of applications for funding assistance with First Time Home Buyer Down Payments, Housing Rehabilitation, Neighborhood Stabilization, Refinance Assistance and Foreclosure Assistance programs. As the housing agencies scramble to help, the volume of paperwork is increasing.

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Online Document Management Improves Affordable Housing Efficiency

Contract Management jobs are on the rise, particularly in IT contract management says AbsoluteIT Director Grant Burley in New Zealand, “There are more complex deliverables that are having to be met, and with a need for monitoring and clarity as to what is delivered, we’ve seen growth in these roles.” This is the case across all areas of contracting, and as either the complexity of agreement being managed, or sheer number of agreements reaches a critical point, increased contract management effort including better systems and contract management software , is required.

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Growth in IT contract manager jobs