cloud computing, Google, Midmarket CIOColleges across the country have started turning to cloud email services such as Gmail in an effort to cut costs. It's...
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CIO, cloud computing, cloud computing pricingCIO Rich Secor decided to look into cloud computing pricing to see what all the buzz was about. Could it save his company, Health Advances LLC, some money? Could it provide better application...
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cloud computing, Midmarket CIO, Strategy for CIOsI was at a Boston Society for Information Management (SIM) event the other day on transformation: how CIOs are transforming the business and the role of IT, but what struck me is how little a role cloud computing...
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Business Intelligence, cloud computing, midmarket businessesWhenever I go to a show related to business intelligence or speak with an expert in the field of BI, there are endless opinions on how to get more out of BI and get that data out to more users. One answer that keeps coming up is search technology; another is cloud computing. Back in June at BI...
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cloud computing, Midmarket CIO, Project Management, Strategy for CIOsProject and portfolio management (PPM) software is definitely not overlooked in the midmarket. According to a recent SearchCIO-Midmarket.com survey, 17% use some form of PPM software. But how many of those organizations are actually using all of what they paid for? Time and time again, I hear...
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cloud computingIt seems every time I ask someone what they think about cloud computing, I’m asked five or more questions in return: Isn’t what cloud providers offer pretty cookie cutter? Translate that as, “They might not support the particular platforms and configurations I have.” What...
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cloud computingAmazon’s cloud computing model is allowing startup companies like Confidela to bring their products to market quicker and cheaper. The company of 15, which recently launched WatchDox, a document and permissions product, decided to utilize Amazon’s...
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cloud computing, enterprise edition of GmailI checked in with early cloud adopter Jerry Hodge, CIO of Hamilton Beach Brands Inc., for an update on his pioneering migration from Lotus Notes to Gmail -- the quintessential cloud app. The...
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cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Interoperability, Midmarket CIO, Open Cloud, Open source, Strategy for CIOs, SugarCRMWhat happens when open source and cloud computing collide? Cost savings, flexibility and (at least one open source vendor hopes) midmarket CIOs checking it out. Open source CRM provider SugarCRM has launched an on-demand version of its software that is included free with an on-premise...
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cloud computing, startupCloud computing is at that early stage where there’s much discussion of taxonomy: Is it infrastructure? Is it Software as a Service? Is it a platform? All well and good, but little discussed so far is “Whatever it is, where does it fit in the lifecycle of corporate IT?” Talking to IT folks...
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