IT vendor selection and management
Successful IT vendor selection and management can help you control costs and mitigate risk in IT projects. Weighing the pros and cons of various vendors and weighing them against one another to make the best choice is no easy task. Get guidance with IT vendor selection and management news, tips and other resources in this section.
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Tip
14 Jun 2022
How to create a proof of concept with 6 free templates
What is a proof of concept and how does it help an organization? Here we dive into the importance of writing a POC and provide a list of free templates to help get you started. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
House Judiciary Committee advances 6 antitrust reform bills
Six antitrust reform bills made it through the House Judiciary Committee review and will now be considered by the House of Representatives. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Aug 2010
Trade promotion management: A missing opportunity?
If you read Linda Tucci's recent story on the efforts of Tasty Baking Co. to find a workable solution for trade promotion management, you may have been struck, as I was, about why TPM can be such a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Aug 2010
The cloud hype cycle will take the industry for a ride
If you think cloud computing is coming on strong, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Analysts at Gartner Inc. predict that worldwide revenue from cloud services will balloon from $58.6 billion in ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Aug 2010
Social media risks that will make your hair stand on end
We've all heard about the benefits of using social media in the enterprise: Brands are enhanced, customers engaged, employees connected. But as summer nears its end, let's gather around the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Aug 2010
Midsized companies migrating to Windows 7 find the payback worthwhile
If the sagging economy has forced midsized companies to delay hiring more IT staff, maybe migrating to Windows 7 can move them off that dime. In a recent report by IDC, an impressive number of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Aug 2010
The feds' identity ecosystem will include national identity cards
The U.S. government is increasing its efforts to identify, authenticate and authorize people online. This month it's releasing a draft of a Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace proposal ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Aug 2010
Gartner downgrades 2010 IT spending -- what's in your wallet?
Gartner Inc. downgraded its forecast for 2010 IT spending worldwide, and now pegs growth at 2.9% rather than the 4.1% growth it forecast earlier this year. Spending numbers for the U.S. market are ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2010
Top five free Microsoft downloads
Every once in a while I like to check out what Microsoft admins are downloading these days. I sometimes do a search on Google, but to get a feel for the work being done in Microsoft shops, I always ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Aug 2010
Free sample gap analysis templates: Software, security, architecture
Learn how other organizations tackle gap analysis, from software projects to IT portfolio assessments, in this list of sample gap analysis templates. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Aug 2010
The end of online anonymity, part 2
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's statement last week about the end of online anonymity recalls similar words by one of his former colleagues, Scott McNealy of Sun, more than a decade ago. McNealy caused a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Aug 2010
Enterprise adoption of the public cloud hinges on liability policies
Of all the potential showstoppers to enterprise adoption of the public cloud -- including such well-touted concerns as security, interoperability and portability -- liability policies have emerged ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Aug 2010
Agile best practices applied to business problems
In the past few years, Ross Pettit, client principal at Chicago-based ThoughtWorks Inc., has seen a shift in client requests. The agile software development consulting firm’s projects are still ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Jul 2010
A world without legacy systems
How frustrating is it to be one of the little guys without the resources to bear for big projects. Well, those frustrations may actually be easier to deal with than the alternative: Being a large ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Jul 2010
Catalyst Conference: Is the new BI about less automation -- or more?
I'm here on the business intelligence track at the Burton Group's Catalyst Conference, trying to sort out the old BI from the new. As you might expect, there is a lot of talk about predictive ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jul 2010
How mega data center construction is tied to taxes
Massive data center construction is happening in places where power is cheap and taxes are low, like Dublin, Ireland. That's where Microsoft built a 300,000-square-foot data center to support ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jul 2010
Taking notations on agile data modeling
You can’t talk about agile data modeling without mentioning Scott Ambler, whom many consider the authority if not founder of agile data modeling. In this tip, Ambler takes readers through an ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jul 2010
Readers respond to practice and philosophy of IT chargeback
My thanks go out to readers who were charged up enough to write about the IT chargeback series on SearchCIO.com. Whether you do showback, partial chargeback or chargeback for a profit; charge ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jul 2010
Chief data officers: Bringing data management strategy to the C-suite
John Bottega admits he's a bit of a clotheshorse. The guy likes a quality suit. Actually, he is a connoisseur of fine suits, their fit, their style, their durability. The sleeve on a quality suit, ... Continue Reading
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16 Jul 2010
Chargeback process: An old model heralds changes in IT
The old chargeback process, revived by cloud computing, could have major ramifications for IT organizations as they revamp to become centralized service providers, experts say. Traditional ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jul 2010
Does IT chargeback pave the way to outsourcing?
If your organization is talking about moving to an IT chargeback or a supply and demand model for IT, could that be its first step on the road to outsourcing? That was an interesting sidelight ... Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2010
IT consolidation for business innovation
I’ve been touching base with IT folks and analysts lately to get a feel for the projects people are working on these days, and the phrases that keep coming up are IT consolidation, modernization ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jul 2010
IT chargeback: A political hot potato is tossed up by cloud computing
A question has been nagging me since I attended Cloud Expo in New York: What metrics can IT departments use to charge back business units for cloud services? Measured service is fundamental to the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jul 2010
Is mobile video conferencing worth considering in the midmarket?
You share, collaborate and inform via email, phone, instant message and more -- all because face-to-face time can be difficult to pull off in our increasingly busy schedules. And while some ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jul 2010
Think lean before you start agile projects
In the past few weeks I’ve been writing about agile projects, Scrum vs. waterfall or using the two project approaches together, and a theme that keeps coming up when I talk to project managers is ... Continue Reading
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Quiz
23 Jun 2010
Cloud computing service quiz for enterprise CIOs
Is your organization ready to ramp up its cloud computing service offerings? Read these recent stories and take our quiz to assess your cloud computing readiness. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2010
Self-service technology transforms universities into 'schools of one'
IT executives who are grappling with social media and self-service technology will sympathize with their counterparts in higher education. The technology sophistication of current university ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Jun 2010
New England GiveCamp: One NERD and multiple IT project success stories
A lot of projects fail. If business requirements aren't clear or gathered effectively, or if the scope of the project is inaccurate, failure happens. But this past weekend, at New England GiveCamp ... Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Jun 2010
FAQ: GARP and how it helps you achieve better information governance
Many organizations do not have an information governance structure that works with defined record-keeping principles that ensures accountability. GARP may be your answer. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jun 2010
Pundits blur lines between effect of cloud services and the Internet
Cloud computing has been around so long, even the CTO Power Panel at the recent Cloud Expo couldn't identify its origins. "What was the year that BusinessWeek published the cover story on Amazon's ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2010
When it comes to an agile model, failure is an option
It’s OK to fail when taking an agile approach to a business service or software development project, but if you fail, fail fast. As one expert explained to me, if you don’t fail, you don’t really ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 May 2010
Is the new CIO role of today cultivating CEOs of the future?
The CIO role is changing -- there's no doubt about that -- but the question remains: What does the new CIO role comprise? During her keynote presentation at the Forrester IT Forum in Las Vegas this ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 May 2010
BP's risk management strategy put planet in peril
A story in this morning's New York Times on BP's risk management strategy will no doubt send chills down the spine of many a corporate risk and compliance officer. The story reports on an internal ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2010
The discovery phase of private clouds
A year ago, when I brought up private clouds to IT executives, many were flat out not interested. Flash forward a year, and their stance has changed. Many IT executives are entering boot camps ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 May 2010
Idea management software: The future is now
Idea management software sounds so futuristic, it makes me think of the movie Minority Report. In fact, ideation management is in the here and now. As SearchCIO.com News Director Christina Torode ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 May 2010
Mars and Venus on the future of IT
It could be I'm overly sensitive to gender issues among the academic scientific elite, having moved to Cambridge, Mass., about the time then-Harvard President Larry Summers made his unfortunate ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 May 2010
USB memory sticks spark concern -- but still prove hard to pass up
"Is this safe?" seemed to be the first question out of everyone's mouth when a colleague of mine was handing out USB memory sticks at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The tiny memory sticks did ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 May 2010
Technology job openings surge, headhunters are on the prowl
A report on technology job openings reinforces evidence that the recession is receding. Do you know where your IT staff is headed? It could be out the door. This month's report from Dice Inc., the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 May 2010
Why using Microsoft Excel in SMB IT makes sense
It's no surprise that many organizations are using Microsoft Excel. Evolving from more than just a simple spreadsheet application, Excel is used for everything from simple project management to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 May 2010
In lieu of customers, cloud vendors form partnerships at Cloud Expo
Sys-Con, creator of the sixth international Cloud Computing Expo held last month in New York, blamed a real cloud for the absence of traffic on its show floor. It wasn’t enterprise concern over ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 May 2010
The future is here, says Microsoft CIO, and it is 'Avatar'
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott was the keynote speaker at a modest but interesting gathering of CIOs in Boston yesterday, and he more or less stole the show, arriving in a rumpled suit and displaying the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 May 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: The future of Flash, Sarah Palin hacker convicted
I'm having a slightly cranky Monday morning. The Greater Boston area is on a "boil water" order due to a catastrophic water main break -- which is most immediately affecting me in that there is no ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Apr 2010
Disaster recovery plans gain traction in the cloud
Midmarket companies’ disaster recovery plans are heading into the cloud. An informal survey by Forrester Research of its SMB customers showed that 12% to 15% are using online backup services. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Apr 2010
IT hiring: The drama behind the statistics
Well, this sounds like a positive sign of economy -- and IT -- recovery. We've written recently about what CEOs look for in the CIO role, and now The Boston Globe is reporting that IT hiring is on ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Apr 2010
Antivirus software update goes rogue, corporate email security scares
Wednesday was a busy -- read: frustrating -- day for many organizations using McAfee Inc.'s antivirus software or Google Inc.'s Gmail. Problems with the two popular services raised concerns about ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Apr 2010
Gartner's take on emerging business intelligence technology
The most tangible success measure of business intelligence technology is usage -- and mainstream BI just isn’t there, and won’t be for some time, according to Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel. The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Apr 2010
CIO careers: Seeking legal experts
Of all the conversations I had with attendees this week at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas, it was actually one with Gartner analyst Debra Logan about CIO careers that ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Apr 2010
More colleges move to cloud email like Gmail, ditch in-house email
Colleges across the country have started turning to cloud email services such as Gmail in an effort to cut costs. It's not entirely surprising, either: IT shops have been toying with the idea of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Apr 2010
Computer hardware upgrades and iPhone OS 4: When software spurs buying
As an iPhone 3G owner, I was very excited to hear about the Apple iPhone's newest operating system, the iPhone OS 4 software upgrade, planned for deployment this summer. Actually, I've never felt ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Cloud computing, IT innovation, CIO role and DR/BC
I'm a bit late with this post this week, but you can still catch up SearchCIO.com's latest news on cloud computing, IT transformation, the evolving CIO role and IT business continuity and disaster ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
Five steps to playing a bigger part in your company's M&A
I spoke with Gartner analyst Dave Aron for my story today about the CIO role in a merger and acquisition. The topic seemed timely: A variety of reports suggest that corporate M&A activity is ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
A move to cloud computing services -- back in 1999
Back in 1999, the beta for Amazon EC2 was seven years away; Google Apps, was well, a gleam in Google’s eye; and Erik Dubovik was moving business processes into the cloud. It wasn’t called cloud ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Apr 2010
Microsoft business intelligence tools here in May
I just got word from Microsoft that they plan to release Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 -- with the new Microsoft business intelligence (BI) features -- on May 12. To back up a bit, we wrote about ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Mar 2010
BI strategy: What Holy Grail are you seeking?
Gartner’s BI Summit is just around the corner, and I’m eager to see how attendees’ business intelligence strategies and priorities have changed. When I went to the show last year, a big topic of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Mar 2010
Small IT innovations -- even savvy font management! -- can cut costs
How's this for IT innovations that make cost-cutting a breeze? Wisconsin Public Radio is reporting that the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its email system from ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Mar 2010
Gaga for Google Fiber? We're all a bit crazy when it comes to tech
The Google Fiber for communities deadline is right around the corner. In an effort to test out its plans for high-speed broadband and fiber-to-the-home connections, Google has asked interested ... Continue Reading
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Tip
25 Mar 2010
Don't skip ITIL Service Design: Questions, checklists to get started
ITIL Service Design sits between strategy and implementation -- and is often skipped by midmarket companies. Learn which questions and checklists can keep Service Design simple. Continue Reading
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Quiz
23 Mar 2010
IT in 2010: Keeping up with the latest IT management trends
Running IT in 2010 requires CIOs to consider ITSM methodologies, vendor contract renegotiations and investments in new technologies. Have you kept up with IT management trends? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Mar 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: National cybersecurity list, basketball technology
Like many of you, I'm caught up in the passage of health care reform here in the U.S. If you're interested in the health care system dovetails with your interest in technology, be sure to check out ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Mar 2010
IT execs weigh in on cloud computing and IT business transformation
I was at a Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) event the other day on transformation: how CIOs are transforming the business and the role of IT, but what struck me is how little a role ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Mar 2010
Success with cloud applications calls for a strong data-privacy policy
Public agency CIOs and IT executives are joining the move to cloud applications, while making sure their data privacy policy remains strong. As I've stated previously on this blog, public-sector ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Mar 2010
Top IT certifications: Do they matter to you?
How important are IT certifications today? As organizations start to hire again (there were 58,229 available tech jobs on Dice.com this month), IT certifications could help potential candidates ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Mar 2010
Up next: Cloud computing management
With the market saturated with cloud computing platforms and services, it was inevitable that another crop of vendors would emerge to help enterprises make sense of it all. I’m talking about the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Mar 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: What is Foursquare's draw? Also Balanced Scorecard
Happy soggy Monday from the rain-soaked East Coast! We've had a pretty easy winter so far, but these April showers sure are coming early and strong. So, I've seen a lot in the mainstream media this ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Mar 2010
ITIL framework and IT outsourcing a formidable duo
I haven't tackled IT Infrastructure Library as a topic in the forefront of any stories of late, but that changed this week as I researched my piece on IT infrastructure outsourcing and how a strong ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Mar 2010
Why one IT guy found Windows 7 to be too user-friendly
There has been a lot of Windows 7 coverage on SearchCIO-Midmarket.com -- everything from planning your migration strategy to making it your last operating system. Part of the appeal of the new OS ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Mar 2010
Are you stress testing your IT strategies?
I recently spoke with Robert Kaplan, author of the Balanced Scorecard, about how he would revise his framework given the economic meltdown in the last few years. The addition he would make is a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Mar 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Web browser wars in Europe, iPad's new ad and more
I'm back from a couple of days off in Los Angeles – my first trip to southern California, and a well-timed one as I got to witness some of the pre-Oscar hoopla for myself. Now, it's back to the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Mar 2010
Reasons to adopt desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization is not the slam dunk that server virtualization is in terms of cost savings. In a recent article, I talked to experts about how the cost of desktop PCs was replaced by even ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Mar 2010
Are innovation strategies back on CIO agendas?
IT innovation, that fraught phrase, has come roaring back after maintaining a polite silence during the fiscal misery of 2008 and 2009. Companies are starting to broadcast their efforts to foster ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Feb 2010
Public sector challenges mitigated by IT governance framework
My background is in community journalism, so public sector challenges -- strained municipal budgets and efforts to improve education, health care and other city services -- are all too familiar to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Feb 2010
Is it better to work for an outsourcing provider than for corporate IT?
Consultant Tom Young has been mulling over the good, the bad and all the ugliness of outsourcing contracts for 13 years, eight of them with the IT advisory firm TPI, where he is managing director ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Feb 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Is the Windows 7 phone suited for the enterprise?
The New York Times caught my eye today with this piece on whether the Windows 7 phone will be better than the iPhone for the enterprise. The BlackBerry is still the undisputed leader and the iPhone ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Feb 2010
Social Connector ushers Microsoft into social networking tool fray
Twitter, schwitter: We've all been overexposed to social networking tools and news. But good, bad or ugly, Microsoft's inclusion of LinkedIn as an officially supported plug-in for Outlook is a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Feb 2010
WordPress problems: Temporary blog failure shows need for DR, BC plans
It's been a week of mea culpas. Following Google's admission that it didn't handle the launch of Google Buzz very well, on Thursday WordPress, a leading provider of blogging platforms to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Feb 2010
Virtualization aids in disaster recovery when budget is tight
Many large companies try to maintain hot sites that are in lockstep with the production environment, but this disaster recovery plan isn’t always realistic. Configurations drift, or IT staff simply ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Feb 2010
Silicon Valley economy: Recession hitting IT hard at its epicenter
A few weeks ago, over a delicious dinner of Thai food with my uncle visiting from the Palo Alto area, I went on and on about my job here at SearchCIO.com and about all the various social media ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Feb 2010
Beware the dark side of the IT PMO
Ten minutes after filing a story on the virtues of an enterprise project management office, I got a call from a CIO I’d gotten to know over the years informing me that he had been fired. On a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Feb 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Super Bowl technology and Google's advertising
Super Bowl Sunday was yesterday, so let the Monday-morning quarterbacking begin! The turning point in the game was the Saints' decision to go for that onsides kick at the beginning of the second ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Feb 2010
2009 IT lessons: How did the recession change your IT organization?
I can't believe it's already February (and thank goodness: I wouldn't have been able to wait much longer for "Lost" to return!). Here at SearchCIO.com, even though a full month of 2010 is behind ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Feb 2010
Merck, Chevron and BP are touting a new IT management framework
It’s easy to forget how young a discipline IT is, given its enormous presence in our lives. Yesterday, however, that fact was front and center, as I watched the top IT talent at Intel Corp., Merck ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Feb 2010
Business intelligence software as a revenue generator
You’ve gotten them: those 10-page documents detailing your cell phone bill, credit card account or bank statement. But now, because of the economy, you may start to receive those statements in an ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jan 2010
SharePoint 2010 good, Enterprise 2.0 tools may be better
If you've missed the SharePoint boat, now might not be the best time to buy your ticket. While Microsoft unveiled some new features in SharePoint 2010, new users might not find them compelling ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jan 2010
The next big enterprise business tool: the iPad? Share your thoughts
OK, OK, enough with calling Apple's new tablet computer the "iTampon." The name "iPad" is worth a giggle, maybe, but one of the top-trending topics on Twitter? Please. Let's put our adult hats on ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2010
Oracle plays hardball with Rimini on third-party maintenance
"This case is about the massive theft of Oracle's software and related support materials through an illegal business model by Defendant Rimini Street and its CEO and President, Defendant Seth ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jan 2010
2010 IT budgets are unsettled and unsettling
After a week or so on the phone with any CIO I could get in touch with, here’s my super-unscientific prognostication on IT budgets in 2010: IT spending and CIO priorities are all over the board. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jan 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: Help Haiti using technology, IT outsourcing deals
To our readers in the U.S., happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! I'm guessing some of you have the day off and won't see this post until later in the week, but I wanted to catch you up on the buzz on ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jan 2010
Migrating from XP to Windows 7: When, why and how?
I've recently spoken with a lot of IT managers about Windows 7 in preparation for upcoming coverage. Overall, everyone wants to know when they should migrate from XP to Windows 7 and why they would ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jan 2010
IT and business alignment tactics
IT and business alignment is a challenge with which CIOs struggle daily, and it's bound to remain that way, with recent data showing that IT managers are predicting smaller budgets for 2010. So ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jan 2010
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT salaries, security budgets, IT in 2010 and more
I'm going to try something a little different here from now on. In addition to summing up the latest from content from SearchCIO.com on IT salaries, security, lesson for 2010 and more, I'm going to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jan 2010
Can enterprise business intelligence be agile?
Instead of spending years developing an enterprise business intelligence strategy to consolidate BI tools and come to a corporate-wide agreement on key performance indicators, some enterprises are ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Dec 2009
Paying the price for server uptime
What’s the price for server uptime? How much would you be willing to invest to maintain five 9s of availability on your mission-critical line of business applications? With limited budgets and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Nov 2009
Customer feedback management: Is anybody listening?
I recently made my first big purchase -- a new vehicle -- and I made my mind up pretty much before I entered the showroom floor, thanks to customer feedback I gathered on the Internet. What ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Nov 2009
Salesforce.com's Chatter: A collaboration tool worth talking about
Salesforce.com has announced that it has developed a collaboration platform that brings social networking into the enterprise -- Salesforce Chatter. And for the more than 60,000 Salesforce.com ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Nov 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: SOA best practices, ITIL, ITSM, app consolidation
Last week was a busy one for SearchCIO.com, with SOA topping our slate. We have best practices for SOA implementation, SOA for business process transformation, SOA in action at Amtrak...you get the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Nov 2009
UMD CIO Forum highlights the role of IT innovation, Web 2.0 potential
Last week at the University of Maryland’s 10th Annual CIO Forum, a succession of CIOs from the government, health care and publishing industries described how they are harnessing IT innovation with ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Nov 2009
What is transparency, and how can Agile practices help?
As I was interviewing experts and practitioners this week on the uses of Agile practices, the term transparency kept popping up in comments about the benefits of using this type of software ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Nov 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT outsourcing templates, SOA implementation
Good morning! We're enjoying some beautiful Indian summer weather here in the Northeast -- if only every Monday could start like this! Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked to Virginia's CIO about ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Nov 2009
CIO weekly wrap-up: IT's value, agile methodology, outsourcing and SOA
Happy belated Halloween! I hope everybody who celebrated had a great time -- any creative IT-related Halloween costumes you'd like to tell us about? Last week on SearchCIO.com, we talked about ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2009
An IT outsourcing contract without penalties? A state pays the price
You hear a lot of analysts, clients and, of course, vendors touting the benefits of IT outsourcing, especially as the U.S. emerges from this economic recession, which the latest government numbers ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2009
Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2010
Gartner's list of technologies that bear examination during the next three years show an agile, mobile, secure enterprise that can spot early warning signs and predict trends. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Oct 2009
Gen X, not Gen Y, leads adoption of social technologies in workplace
CIOs should look to Generation X, not Generation Y, to be the early adopters of new and social technologies within their organization. Contrary to what you’d think, Generation X workers (roughly ... Continue Reading