In an April SaaS survey conducted by Burton Group and Ziff Davis Enterprise Research, 67 percent of the 252 CIOs whose companies use some form of SaaS have been doing so for two or more years.
What Are You Trying to Change?Opinion: Effective change management succeeds when taking the people factor into account. Computer Jobs Hit Record HighCIO Insight: Unemployment among computer-related jobs hovers near historic lows as the U.S. information technology workforce tops 4 million for the first time. Microsoft Sets Pricing, Fee Sharing for ServicesNews: Microsoft Online Services is part of the software maker s effort to capitalize on the shift by corporate customers to abandon their own in-house computer systems for cloud computing, a less expensive alternative. The Challenges of Distributed Development TeamsOpinion: Distributed development is pretty hard, and a lot of projects founder because of the difficulties encountered in those projects. Microsoft Says Willing to Restart Yahoo TalksMicrosoft says it would love to talk to Yahoo again about acquisition, but only if some of the current board members were to be changed. Preparing for an E-Discovery ShowdownDiscovery in legal cases may require a whole lot more of your company s stored data than you know. And it s your boss, the CIO, who will be responsible for making that data available to the legal team. Here are some tips for mitigating the electronic discovery chain. Document and Records Management Still LagsA new study appears to point to the challenges of managing unstructured data, as in electronic document and records management, in the enterprise. The Project-Killing Beast on the Three-Legged StoolOpinion: Any one of three groups can kill your technology project before it gets started or make it fail after the fact: executives, management information systems and end users. Google-Yahoo Deal Subject of Antitrust ProbeInvestigators are planning to demand documents not only from Google and Yahoo, but also from other large companies in the Internet and media industries, The Washington Post reported.
Many attribute slow uptake of electronic health records, or personal health records (PHR), as a sign of consumer mistrust of privacy practices and security technology.
TechNet Edge Series: Network Access Protection Video about Network Access Protection, a new feature in Windows Server®2008 that allows you to enforce computer health requirements before allowing machines to communicate on the network.
Baseline’s September issue will feature the 50 most influential people in business technology today based on what you, our loyal reader, decides. Please tell us the 3 individuals you think are doing the most to advance the use of IT.
Adding new customers and keeping them happy are among the top priorities for IT organizations. Getting the job done requires progress in data integration and training.
Analysis: With IT projects consistently running late and over budget, it's time to look at what technology leaders and project managers could do to step up their performances..
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