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The future state of the CRM market

SaaS payment will push it to the fore of CRM adoption in current market
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Business intelligence oils the wheels of oil sector profit

BI tools are essential the multiple facets of the oil industry and its recent profits
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The second age of e-discovery

Good governance – and the law – mandate that companies invest in e-discovery solutions for tracking down messages and files in the event of a probe
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NHS Records and payroll system is rare tech success story

Unbroken record
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Randy Mott: overhauling legacy systems takes more than tweaking

A single source for HP
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Betfair CTO Rory Devine placed his bet on people

Former Betfair CTO Rorie Devine reveals how people and communications have driven the betting organisation and its leading edge technology
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CIOs must learn to think like a customer in order to shape value proposition

Joined-up thinking
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Data centre standards needed to meet latest commercial demands

Energy efficiency and green computing amongst the challenges to data centre selection
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Under pressure, ERP giants struggle to innovate

But still customers find it hard to break out
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FIM: A shared foundation

What Federated Identity Management is all about.
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Latest Concern Articles

People Leadership > Forging a Business Partner

CIOs reshape their IT culture to create an organization capable of partnering strategically with the rest of the business

Infrastructure Refresh > Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Sumner Lemon

Security > Know thy customer

Emerging markets are pioneering BI usage in traditional sectors like the oil industry

Managing Customers > Provident Financial IT director Penny Jones on climbing obstacles

Provident Financial IT director Penny Jones has a wealth of experience in business technology, but worries over the place of women, young recruits and the effects of outsourcing

Compliance > Essential reading, books every CIO should have

Fact and fiction mesh for success

Business Alignment > Virgin Rail, platforms for IT change

The rail industry never stands still, and Virgin Rail’s IT chief Francis Jellings knows that goes for the IT infrastructure as much as the rolling stock

Resource Management > Google: We are deadly serious about the enterprise

Search giant marks 10 years with renewed commitment to IT directors

Managing Budgets > Cracking IT vendor relations

It’s not easy to bend your supplier to your own will to get the products you need, but there are ways of making them talk

Managing Change > Mike Altendorf : Home thoughts from abroad

CIOs are getting hurt by consumer expectations of service levels but they have developments in search and visualisation on their side

Board Politics > Organisational Skills to Implement SOA

Cultural issues can damage SOA plans, CIO UK explains how to avoid them

Latest News

Virgin Media slammed by Data Protection Commissioner

Virgin Media, which in June lost an unencrypted CD containing the bank details of 3,000 customers, has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act.

Aviva invests in new CTO

Ex-Centrica and EDS tech head joins Aviva Investors

NHS to make patient data available to private companies

The records of millions of NHS patients could be accessed by private firms under proposed plans from the government.

Doctors' body welcomes NHS patient-record access changes

The British Medical Association has said it would have preferred patients to be asked by their GP before information was uploaded to a central NHS data ‘spine’ under the £12.7 billion National Programme for IT.

Police database link-up gets EU backing

European data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx demanded some changes to a plan by lawmakers to link up all national criminal databases in the 27-member European Union, but broadly he supported the move, he said today.

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Articles In Other Technology Areas

Security > What CEOs want from their next IT leaders

A panel at the CIO Leadership event in Boston pooled thoughts on what CEOs want from their next IT leaders.

Business Applications > Gavin Michael: the Lloyds TSB Global villager

Commuting between Australia and the UK is just another challenge for Gavin Michael, the CIO of retail banking at Lloyds TSB

Internet/eCommerce > Why CIOs think developers are clueless

What do CIOs and IT directors want from their developers? A little bit of understanding and sympathy for the aims of the organisation that employs them, according to research carried out by CIO.com

Infrastructure > Five best practices for implementing SaaS CRM

Forrester discover the path to CRM satisifaction

Mobile IT > Can Web 2.0 save BI?

Business Intelligence 2.0, a world in which one of BI's original big promises is finally being met.

Communications > Groupe Danone North America CIO Jeff Hutchinson on videoconferencing

Jeff Hutchinson, North America CIO at food product giant Groupe Danone, explains how the firm’s innovation team develops solutions like videoconferencing

Outsourcing > Managing career-threatening risks

Today’s comprehensive rules and regulations mean that any CIO can fall foul of the regulators. So what are the experts’ guidelines on managing career-threatening risks?

SOA > Andy Hayler: The innovation game

Identifying five recent enterprise software innovations is almost as difficult as naming five famous Belgians, says Andy Hayler