CIO

Silence on business analytics speaks volumes

I can think of two reasons people don’t talk about something. One is that the subject has no importance at all. The other reason is that it is so important people don’t want to share what they know. In the case of advanced business analytics, I can assure you, the latter reason is in play....

Mission-critical systems taking on dual roles

Leadership training -- in particular, the shaping of future CIOs -- was the topic, but as with many conversations about the

No honor-student bumper stickers for Steve Jobs

Top o’ the week to you. We're as laden with interesting Web tidbits as Adele is with Grammy awards today. Without further fanfare, here are six stories from around the Internet, the leadoff one a reminder that rising to the top doesn't always have to start with being at the head of the...

Big data is dead (maybe)! Long live analytics apps!

Is big data dead already? I guess that depends on how you define it. If you're analyst Mark McDonald, a VP and fellow at Gartner Inc., and you equate big data...

Is SaaS BI in your ‘best interest’?

In writing for the Web, as in movies, sometimes there are choice bits that don't make the final cut. (That's why DVDs include extras, and blogs are, well, blogs.) Here is some food for thought from Gartner analyst James Richardson that didn't make it into a recent story about the growing interest...

A security campaign against insider threats — but who’s the insider?

During World War II, when it was discovered that U.S. soldiers were being targeted by the enemy through unconventional means -- alcohol, prostitutes -- to give up critical information, the military launched an all-out security campaign. "

Interest growing in cloud-based business intelligence tools

Coincidence? Or a truly topically in-tune editor? I'll go with the latter. On the same day I was assigned a story on the place of cloud-based business intelligence (BI) in the enterprise, Gartner Inc. released a telling study on the subject -- and I learned that cloud consulting firm...

The CIO and the extended enterprise

It's a given that the days of worrying about only what is within your four walls are long gone. Outsourcing took care of that a long time ago. The reach of the CIO domain is going beyond even that relationship, however, and into the "extended enterprise," as some are calling it.

External...

CIOs: Should your next IT hire be a consumer advocate?

Should IT organizations hire consumer advocates? The idea came up at our company's annual editorial meeting during a panel discussion involving our own CIO, his senior director of IT operations and the chief information security officer (CISO) of the largest protected health information data...

Let end-user freedom reign, but at the cost of rogue technology?

One of my favorite movies is Poltergeist, with its never-ending quotable lines. "What's happening?" probably is the most famous; but my favorite is when actress Zelda Rubinstein, who plays the spiritualist Tangina, claims, "This house is clean." Not so, if you follow the movie, the premise...