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Back in December I wrote a post about how SaaS was making inroads into the ERP market , citing studies from both Aberdeen Group and Forrester Research. It's hardly making huge inroads, however. As P... More >
As useful as business process management has been in helping companies improve and streamline their internal processes, I think it holds even more promise as a way for them to perform the same kind o... More >
Wall Street analysts usually welcome news of acquisitions, seeing them as a sign that companies are gearing up their growth plans. CRM giant Salesforce.com has been gobbling up smaller companies for ... More >
There's no question companies drop a lot of money on ERP systems. But I've always gotten the sense they look at ERP investments in much the same way I view the several thousand dollars I spent last y... More >
For years now, business intelligence vendors have been talking about making BI accessible to employees throughout companies and not just senior executives, based on the idea that BI is more effective... More >
A few months ago, I wrote a post about cloud computing's possible impact on business process outsourcing , in which I mentioned Indian outsourcing giant Infosys' introduction of Infosys Edge, a seri... More >
Back in 2009 I wrote about Forrester Research CEO George Colony's suggestion that the information technology (IT) function should be renamed the business technology function . I cited an interview w... More >
In last week's post in which I wondered whether the dedicated CIO was an anachronism , I shared a column written by executive recruiter Tim Cook, who said new roles combining key business functions... More >
Data management professionals would have to have been hiding under a pretty big rock for the past year or so to avoid hearing about Hadoop, a framework that's being used for a wide range of data mana... More >
A few months ago, I wrote a post in which I cited a survey administered by Jive Software that found both executives and knowledge workers believe social software will become a necessary part of doin... More >
As I've written several times over the past few months, some industry experts are predicting CIOs increasingly will shift their focus from improving internal business processes and boosting product... More >
There's no question the CIO role is changing. Most folks seem to agree on the importance of CIOs whose expertise extends to the broader business, not just technology. In a post I wrote earlier this y... More >
Cloud computing has long been seen as a slam-dunk for small companies. As IT Business Edge's Paul Mah wrote in September: "Given the many inherent disadvantages faced by fledgling small businesses or... More >
Getting boards of directors interested in and actively involved with IT issues has long been seen as a challenge for CIOs. But it's an imperative as IT has become such an integral part of overall cor... More >
Earlier this year I shared Gartner's bullish predictions for software-as-a-service growth in 2011. Gartner expects SaaS revenue to reach $12.1 billion this year, up 20.7 percent from $10 billion in... More >
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