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Five Things About SAP’s Strategy That You Need to Know

An AMR Research report details SAP's strategies for its enterprise software product releases, areas of growth, evolving platforms, industry and vertical specialties, and new product suites.

RIM Execs on the Best BlackBerry Apps: Eight Downloads

Research in Motion executives, including a VP of global alliances, a product management director and the co-CEO, share their favorite BlackBerry downloads.

Power Costs Drive Moves to Virtual Servers

How can even small-scale virtual server efforts reduce your enterprise's power consumption? Two IT leaders share their results on energy and cost savings.

Where Programming Meets American Idol

Companies that need custom application development can use TopCoder's contests to get the best quality code npossible, regardless of geography.

Five Reasons — Wait, Six! — to Start Considering WiMax Today

WiMax just may turn out to be exactly what IT managers need for their corporate wireless needs, particularly if more users are going mobile. (And aren't they all?) Because these mobile hotspots are the size of a city.

Gartner: Ninety Percent of Virtual Worlds Projects Fail

Despite a high failure rate by first adopters, Gartner sees an important future for virtual worlds as a tool for internal collaboration.t

Got a Good Grip on Virtualization? You’re Just Getting Started

After the whole company floats on an ocean of virtualization, users are still going to complain if they can't do the things that they want to with the data that you've made it so simple to access.

Monitoring Virtual Infrastructure: Problem’s Lack of Knowledge, Not Tools

Confused about monitoring your virtual infrastructure for performance and security problems? Despite a wealth of available tools, you're not alone.

How to Improve Disaster Recovery Plans

Now's a smart time to revisit your enterprise disaster recovery plans. Thanks to techniques including virtualization, WAN optimization and email backup appliances, CIOs have better disaster recovery options and more negotiating power with vendor

The Hiring Manager Interviews: Harvard Business School’s CIO Builds Trust and Respect Among His IT Staff by Involving Them in His Hiring Process

If you're interested in learning how a hiring process can create a stronger IT department, and if you need effective techniques for assessing a candidate's cultural fit, you must read this interview with Harvard Business School CIO Stephen

RIM BlackBerry Bold at WES 2008: First Impressions, Battery Covers and Pricing

RIM To Serve Up IBM Software on BlackBerry

BlackBerry users who have Lotus Connections, IBM's social software suite, and BI from Cognos, will no longer need their laptops to access the software when they are on the road.

What Software Plus Services Means For Microsoft (and You)

With its new "software plus services" strategy, Microsoft is working to compete with emerging SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors while keeping users tied to its flagship Office suite.

Business Software Alliance’s Annual Study Shows Software Piracy Declining in Many Countries

Software piracy rates fell in 67 countries in 2007. But the BSA claims that piracy in emerging, fast-growing PC markets caused overall numbers to worsen and dollar losses from piracy to rise to $48 billion.

Understanding Microsoft SharePoint in a Web 2.0 World

While SaaS offerings from enterprise 2.0 vendors creep up, and facing more pressure from IBM and Google with their collaborative software products, Microsoft believes SharePoint will give companies all the Web 2.0 they'll ever need.

Desktop Virtualization: Inside VMware’s Strategy and Newest Plans

VMware has two big desktop virtualization technology improvements waiting in the wings. Will they win over enterprise IT leaders who've been watching and waiting on desktop virtualization?

RIM VP on Mobile Enterprise Apps: Today and Tomorrow

Some of the mobile enterprise apps now making their way onto BlackBerry corporate smartphones just may surprise you, RIM's Jeff McDowell, VP of global alliances, tells CIO's Al Sacco at RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium. McDowell als

IT Troubleshooting: Quickly Identifying and Solving Software Bugs

No software is perfect–who hasn't had a user uncover some hidden flaw–but these tips will help you debug efficiently.

Virtualization with Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008: Old Apps Cause Trouble

Look out, mid-market IT shops looking to use Microsoft's new Essential Business Server 2008 in an enterprise filled with virtual servers: Some old, resource-hogging apps, Exchange and SQL Server, pose gotchas.

Internal EDS Memo on HP Buy: Rittenmeyer Remains

Week 36: Evaluating “Who Am I?” in Your Job Search – Part 1 of 3

Trendlines from 5/15/08: New, Hot, Unexpected

In this issue: Sesame Street and Open Souce; More demand for wireless; Xerox goes green; ROI vs. TCO; Starbucks seeks feedback; Hacking the election; BPM obstacles; and Unified Communication by the numbers.

SAP Unveils Its NetWeaver Business Process Management Tool

The BPM market is hot, and entrenched players will be tough to displace as SAP plays catch up in the business process management space. Here's what SAP plans to deliver and when.

A Call to Arms

What's up with the CIO role?

Virtualization Helps Hospital Revive Aging Data Center

Virtualization was just what the doctors ordered for Huntsville Hospital and its data center. Here's a look at why virtual servers were just the start for this IT group. One hitch so far: some software vendors have balked at supporting a virtual

What Is Leadership?

As with so many things in life, it depends who you ask

RealMatch Brings Online Dating Model to Job Boards

If you're a job seeker tired of hoping employers will find your profile on job boards, or if you're an employer tired of dealing with the deluge of unqualified candidates who come in through those same job boards, then RealMatch may be righ

Surprise! What HP’s Multi-Billion Dollar Bid to Buy EDS Means for You

Why Is Bob DeRodes Leaving Home Depot?

The pain or gain from IT depends on the match between culture and strategy

UPS’s New Telematics System Cuts Fuel Costs and Makes Drivers More Efficient

The package delivery company's telematics system gathers data from 200 vehicle-related elements on its brown delivery trucks. After a successful test, UPS is rolling out the system to 11 new markets in 2008.

IT Governance Tips: Help to Improve Executive Buy-In

Beset by funding and other resource challenges? IT governance, if done right, will improve your reputation, increase funding and help your IT systems impact strategic business operations.

The Thing That Will Make Facebook Important to the Enterprise: More Business Widgets

How Social Media’s Changing Public Relations

If You Could Ask RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis One Question, What Would It Be?

Secrets of Successful IT Teams: Socially Connected Employees

Successful IT management requires leaders to understand the strengths, weaknesses and connections of the people on their team. A software developer tells how his former boss used social network analysis tools to identify rising stars and strengthen h

Young Girls Not Interested in IT Careers Due to Lack of Female Role Models, RIM Study Finds

The number of young boys who've considered pursuing a career in IT is double that of young girls, who don't perceive enough strong female role models in the space, according to a study from BlackBerry-maker RIM.

Why You Need To Plan for Innovation Today

Jeff Hutchinson, Groupe Danone's CIO for North America, created an innovation team to explore technologies that are key to the future of the business

Sun’s Virtualization Strategy Evolves

What does Sun have to do with virtualization? Plenty. Here's an update on how Sun's virtualization technologies are changing and stacking up in the age of VMware, and how open source fits into Sun's virtualization plans.

Retailers Are Winning by Focusing on Customer-Centric Systems — Not Whining About the Economy

April retail sales were better than expected, but economic doom-and-gloom is everywhere. A Retail Systems Research report shows why those retailers who think long-term about customer service technologies and employee-facing tools are winning now.

My Visit to the MIT Media Lab

Web Security Feature from Google Aims to Monitor Web Traffic and Protect Networks

Google Web Security will not be included with Google Apps. But the new feature will allow companies to monitor web traffic without requiring a corporate VPN.

Are You Hiring the Wrong IT Staff to Achieve Your Alignment Goals?

Your problems with IT-business alignment stem from the people you hire. If you're placing too much emphasis on hiring IT professionals with computer science degrees, you're not going to get candidates who understand business operations and

What Keeps Your CEO Up at Night: Worries About Change and Corporate Social Responsibility

Market factors, people skills, and technological factors top the list of external forces with the most impact on organizations; green issues wielding more clout.n

Whistleblowers: Women Experience More Retaliation Than Men, Study Reports

Women in technology who wish to blow the whistle on malfeasance but fear the consequences of reporting such information have good reason to be cautious.

Wi-Fi and Education: 802.11n Near-Ubiquitous at U.S. Colleges by 2013

802.11n Wi-Fi may still be a rarity at educational institutions and in the enterprise, but that will change dramatically during the next half decade, new research predicts.

RIM BlackBerry 9000: No Touch Screen, Battery Issues or Front-Facing Camera…Yet

Report: Enterprises Adopt SaaS Aggressively

Despite security concerns and reservations about how Software as a Service (SaaS) will integrate with existing on premise systems, enterprises surveyed cited easier maintenance and cheaper cost as a key factor for buying SaaS.

HP Issues Research Challenge to Universities

HP Labs Innovation Research Program seeks breakthrough research in areas such as dynamic cloud services and sustainability.

Beijing Olympics Online Ticketing System Survives Latest Round of Purchases

Demand was high, but the infamous system that crashed in fall 2007 withstood the offering of 1.38 million tickets for 16 Olympic sports on Monday.