Alignment, staffing and culture are often more critical than software and apps
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When I interviewed Saugatuck Technology CEO Bill McNee back in July, following the release of second-quarter financial results, most enterprise software vendors were suffering but on-premise vendors... More >
Is it any wonder CIOs and CFOs often find themselves at loggerheads? CIOs spend money, while it's the CFO's job to save it. Granted, CIOs purchase and implement technology that helps companies achiev... More >
Yesterday I wrote about how IT salaries in sectors receiving federal stimulus funds, notably health care and education, are holding steady while other IT salaries are falling. (They are actually fl... More >
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Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and AvailabilityThis research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
Marc Benioff, you are so busted. Though the Salesforce.com CEO is "waxing over Twitter" at the Dreamforce conference currently under way in San Francisco, tweets ZDNet blogger and Asuret CEO Mich... More >
Though a growing number of Fortune 100 companies are tweeting, few of them can aspire to be a member of the Twitterati , the ranks of "the Tweet elite, whose feeds attract thousands of followers and... More >
Some industries are more recession-proof than others. In the current downturn, health care and government employment seem to be faring well when compared with other sectors. Back in March when I inte... More >
Last November I wondered whether economic troubles in the United States would hurt or help the business of offshore services providers. If all spending dropped, such companies would suffer. But the... More >
Reality TV used to be one of my guilty pleasures, though I haven't gotten hooked on any shows since becoming a mother. My husband and I often joke that when we retire, we'll spend at least a year cat... More >
One of the worst things about the current economic downturn is the sense that we might as well throw out what we think we know, based on our experience with previous downturns. In the past, layoffs o... More >
Much of my work here involves pointing out areas in which IT professionals and business users might not see eye to eye. Like world peace, everyone seems to wish for a seamless blend of IT and busine... More >
Though they're hardly an official economic indicator, demand for H-1B visas tends to bubble up in times of economic prosperity and flatten in times of decline. As I pointed out in a post from April, ... More >
You could argue that the cloud is, by definition, a commodity. (Assuming, of course, that anyone could agree on a definition of the cloud .) Companies selling cloud services use commodity hardware... More >
Visibility into IT usage and spending is a lot like eating right and exercising. Companies spend a lot of time talking about it, they know they should do it, many of them have good intentions of doin... More >
When the going gets tough, so do IT executives, especially when it comes to pushing vendors to lower their prices. But an overly tough approach can backfire, through vendors offering sub-par service ... More >
There's lots of talk about collaboration within companies, and some companies are extending their collaborative initiatives beyond the corporate walls, to suppliers and other partners, to their custo... More >
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