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Can Web 2.0 save BI?

Web 2.0 technology will benefit BI tools and their users
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Organisational Skills to Implement SOA

Cultural issues can damage SOA plans, CIO UK explains how to avoid them
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Migration management and effective integration for EuroSox

Rapid growth caused by mergers and acquisitions means The Carphone Warehouse is leading the way in compliance and integration issues
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Under pressure, ERP giants struggle to innovate

But still customers find it hard to break out
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SOA takes to the skies

The thought of tackling a service oriented architecture (SOA) can be intimidating but, as Air France shows, the rewards are worth it
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Strictly business

A business intelligence project should not be a technology initiative. As Janine Milne discovers, it is all about business
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50 things I wish I’d known…

...before becoming a CIO
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Under the influence

Leadership skills for CIOs
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Fighting back

Amid criticism of the NHS Programme, Richard Granger defends its progress and claims its successes go unreported
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A refreshing change

It pays for CIOs to keep an eye on tomorrow’s technology
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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

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Business Alignment > The future state of the CRM market

SaaS payment will push it to the fore of CRM adoption in current market

Managing Budgets > Business intelligence oils the wheels of oil sector profit

BI tools are essential the multiple facets of the oil industry and its recent profits

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

Resource Management > 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

Managing Change > Google: We are deadly serious about the enterprise

Search giant marks 10 years with renewed commitment to IT directors

Board Politics > 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

Latest News

Carphone Warehouse automates SOA governance

A new IT governance system has boosted the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology at the Carphone Warehouse.

Eclipse prepares open source SOA framework

The Eclipse Foundation is developing an open source SOA framework for enterprise applications.

Banking industry looks to drive out costs with smaller contracts

Banks squeeze margins in software and services

ITIL v3 gaining ground in enterprises but doubts remain

ITIL v3 is slowly being adopted, but there is still confusion in the marketplace

Telecommuting saves carbon emissions

Telecommuting leads to a significant reduction in carbon emissions even when increased home-based carbon emissions are taken into account.

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Articles In Other Technology Areas

Databases > Richard Sykes: It’s the humans, stupid!

Technology doesn’t just develop itself, and talent management skills are vital when it comes to innovative projects

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

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

Mobile IT > Mike Altendorf : Home thoughts from abroad

I do feel for CIOs trying to compete when running legacy systems and trying to match user expectations of fast response times, faultless uptime and the whole new level of expectation we have, even of wireless networks, these days.

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?

Storage > 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