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Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility Legal firms looking for assistance in navigating the complications of technology, as it facilitates and affects their work, may find what they need in increased analysis and research in legal IT from Gartner Research, according to LawTechnologyNews.com. Gartner’s legal IT research group will release its first e-discovery […]

Top 10 Mistakes Job Seekers Make While some individuals on the autism spectrum have found success pursuing careers in technology, they are few and far between. Recent numbers put the employment rate for all those on the autism spectrum at only somewhere between 10 and 12 percent. And those numbers may include individuals who are […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 Here’s a concept to think about over the weekend: Cisco CIO and Senior Vice President Rebecca Jacoby has replaced the traditional annual review one-on-one meeting with what sounds kind of like – a regular meeting. It’s a simple but significant change to a process that vexes employees, managers […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for Smart Government After 59 tornadoes touched down across the state of Alabama on April 27, 2011, killing 249 people and disrupting power and other services for days, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle began what would become a major three-pronged initiative to address the area’s preparations for natural or man-made threats […]

Twenty-Five Highest Paying Companies for Interns 2014 While the arguments rage on over whether a traditional four-year college education is necessary anymore, or whether it is worth risking incurring the debt for that education, those seeking jobs in various tech sectors, especially related to coding, have a bit of an advantage in job hunting. It’s […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 Not all mobile employees are traveling or even outside the employer’s main physical site. Thirty percent, according to ExecutiveBoard research, are working in a mobile fashion within the work site. They need to collaborate, and they do much of their work in a number of locations, from […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 SAP is expanding its OpenSAP platform and the massive online open courses, or MOOCs, offered there. Initially built around courses for developers, the OpenSAP course offerings are now growing to include classes for a business audience. SAP hopes to serve customers, partners, developers and students with its SAP-centric […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 With mobile methods skyrocketing in their ability to deliver information where and when it is needed, and voracious demand growing among end users of all types by the second, Robert Half Technology surveyed U.S. CIOs to see if they were leading their organizations with mobile technology strategies. […]

When Spiceworks surveyed IT professionals recently about their attitudes toward certifications, one of the most interesting data points was that about half of the respondents will be paying for their continuing IT education themselves this year. Only 56 percent said that their employers would pay for training in 2014. But half of the IT pros […]

With demand strong for IT professionals with skills and experience in software engineering, cloud computing, Big Data and mobile development, what are employers offering in the way of perks to make their job listings stand out in those areas? That is what Dice.com wondered, so it took a stab at analyzing which perks are most […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Shadow IT in the Enterprise You’ve faced storage sprawl, cloud services sprawl, backup sprawl, and so many other types of sprawl that the word “sprawl” starts to look weird, as if it is not a real word. Now comes catalog sprawl, the result of too many user-facing front-end tools for IT […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 It can be a double-edged sword: Fast-moving technology developments mean constant opportunities for IT career progression and new positions, but also require up-to-date training and skills. Spiceworks completed a recent survey on the topic of plans for training and certification and attitudes toward their value among 850 IT […]