Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Business intelligence is certainly a good area to be in right now, expanding faster than any other area of the enterprise application landscape. According to Gartner, the business intelligence market (including data warehouses and CRM analytics) is growing nine percent per year. While it was worth $57 billion at the end of 2010, it will…
Like it or not, aware of it or not, your company now has a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) aspect to its mobility program. Employees are bringing in devices as quick as a manufacturer can pop out a new trendy, glitzy, always-on gadget. And that’s not going to stop anytime soon; not ever, actually. You need BYOD management…
Workplace Communication will Favor Real-Time Tools Email may soon become the new snail mail, a new Robert Half Technology survey suggests. More than half of CIOs interviewed recently said real-time workplace communication tools will surpass traditional email in popularity within the next five years. CIOs were asked, “In the next five years, do you think…
In many ways, relevance engines appear to be the holy grail of customer communications. These connect-the-dots technologies enable businesses to determine what any given individual wants to know and what device they want to see the information on. “A relevance engine is designed and built on the foundation of application, device and network neutrality —…
The outlook for IT spending on a global basis in 2010 isn’t looking quite as rosy as research firm Gartner had thought earlier this year. In a revised forecast issued Thursday, Gartner said it expects global IT spending to reach $3.350 trillion, an increase of 3.9 percent compared to 2009’s $3.225 trillion. But just last…
IT organizations should get hustling on their Windows 7 rollout planning and testing and be off Windows XP by the end of 2012 due to third-party vendors abandoning the creaky old operating system at a rapid rate, according to IT research firm Gartner. While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said it would support Windows XP through 2014,…
They should have re-named this year’s Interop “Up in the Cloud” because the dominant theme at this April’s business computing show was the time has come for Cloud computing. And yet there remains so much that many of us — CIOs very much included — still don’t get about this fundamental shift of computing out…
The CFO is becoming the top IT decision maker in many organizations, according to a joint survey conducted by Gartner and Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF). According to the annual study, 2010 Gartner FEI Technology Study: The CFO as Technology Influencer,more IT organizations report to the CFO than the CEO or any other executive. Forty-two…
Not so long ago, the IT world was only about the technology. But as more CIOs appeared on the scene, companies began to realize that IT had to be better managed and had to align more closely with business objectives. Thus IT governance gained ground. Now things are being elevated up another notch. IT governance…
Last month,I wrote about being more relevant by basing your discussions with the business on things they already know and care about. If you need to educate people on what you are doing … you are not relevant. Recently, I’ve come across some data from Gartner which illustrates this issue loud and clear. It shows…