March 16, 2012 9:00 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Apple,
CIO,
Google,
IT security,
mobile privacy and security,
YahooMaybe it's an effect of that "Law and Order" marathon we sat through last weekend, but for some reason we were really drawn to things litigious this week. In this Friday's roundup of news and opinion bits you may have missed, Yahoo goes after Facebook, a lawyer slowly backs away from her Pinterest...
March 7, 2012 7:35 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
mobile devices,
rogue IT,
self-service,
self-service BI,
shadow ITSelf-service business intelligence (BI) is the latest development in what can only be described as the user empowerment movement. We saw it with the cloud, and...
February 13, 2012 10:55 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
CIO,
Cloud computing,
cloud security concerns,
Compliance,
Data privacy,
IT and business alignment,
IT spending,
Oracle,
Steve Jobs,
women in ITTop 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...
February 2, 2012 7:47 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
SaaS BIIn 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...
January 26, 2012 10:06 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
BI SaaS,
Business Intelligence,
business intelligence tools,
CIO,
cloud BI,
Cloud computing,
SaaSCoincidence? 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...
January 16, 2012 6:21 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
CIO,
Cloud computing,
consumerization of IT,
rogue technology,
rouge IT,
shadow IT,
shared servicesOne 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...
January 10, 2012 9:38 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
CIO,
Cloud computing,
IT chargeback,
IT services,
private cloud,
shared servicesThe subject of shared services led to a lively debate about the need for IT chargeback -- and, to put it bluntly, the strain and pain it puts on IT and business departments.
To back up a bit:...
December 21, 2011 5:08 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
CIO,
Cloud computing,
hybrid IT,
IT as a service,
IT services brokerJust as surely as you'll hear that Mariah Carey Christmas song 900 more times between now and Sunday, you're sure to keep running into 2012 prognostications on your daily travels around our family of sites between now and mid-January. Because it's such a cheery time of year, I like to think of...
November 18, 2011 3:28 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
application integration,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
enterprise architecture,
enterprise architecture frameworks,
ERPWho says enterprise architecture frameworks are worse than useless? Vivek Kundra, that's who. The former CIO of the United States made a blistering case against enterprise architecture in his keynote at the 43rd Society for Information Management (SIM) meeting this week. It came in a talk on his...
