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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »April 03, 2006 — CIO —
Zend Technologies is porting its PHP development tools to IBM’s Series i servers for small and medium-sized business customers, bringing the popular scripting language to a new platform, Zend announced on Monday.
Zend will port its PHP tools to the i5/OS, the flagship operating system for IBM’s Series i servers, which include a package of hardware, operating system software and middleware aimed at smaller businesses.
The move reflects the growing popularity of PHP, a relatively easy-to-use programming language widely used for building websites and other Web applications, said Bola Rotibi, senior analyst for software development technologies with U.K. analyst company Ovum.
"PHP is getting a hell of a lot more use these days. This reflects the importance of it for a company like IBM," Rotibi said.
Zend helps develop the language and also sells products and services for building PHP applications. It claims that PHP is used on about 21 million websites, and says its tools are used by 15,000 companies worldwide.
It’s in the process of porting its Zend Core, Zend Studio, Zend Guard and Zend Platform products to the IBM platform. The products are planned for release in late 2006, it said. In the meantime, developers can download early versions of Zend Core and Studio from Zend’s website, the company said.
-James Niccolai, IDG News Service
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