CIO Magazine

February 1, 2012 Issue
Features
Cover Story

The Art and Science of Pricing

IT leaders need to step up and provide the company with the sophisticated tools needed to make smarter pricing decisions, which lead to greater profits. Full story »

Pricing Done Right

Setting prices is a strategic decision that needs C-level attention. Your profits depend on it. Full story »

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What We're Reading

Books on innovation, leadership and careers chosen by the editorial staff of CIO magazine Full story »

Editor's Letter

Beyond Gut Feel

CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses her take on pricing and the role the CIO needs to play in this business function Full story »

CEO Letter

Hadoopalooza

Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friendenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke. Full story »

News

IPhone Users Hog Data

iPhone 4S users consume twice as much data as iPhone 4 users, signaling that operators will have to continue to battle with growing data volumes, according to a report published by network management software vendor Arieso. Full story »

Grow

By Hook or By Nook

Book retailer Barnes & Noble adds a massive database and improved business intelligence in hopes that a smarter sales team will drive its ereader past Amazon's Kindle. Full story »

Run

No ROI? No Problem.

Defying expectations of for-profit retailers, Patagonia invests in an eBay partnership that allows customers to resell their used clothing. ROI be damned. Full story »

5 Things I've Learned

Five Things You Need to Know: Impressing the CFO

CFOs are increasingly calling the shots, which means CIOs are reporting to them, not the CEO. Do you know how to talk business in a way they'll understand? If you're all about the tech, the answer is no. Full story »

Connect
Connect

Embracing Vanilla

The CEO and CIO of a Canadian food conglomerate explain the rationale behind their decision to enforce minimal customization of SAP Full story »

Sounding Board

Charting Success

How CIOs are determining if new attempts to partner with the business are making a difference. Full story »

Columns
Advice & Opinion

Make IT Irreplaceable

How do you turn captive IT users into loyal customers? Start by asking whether they'd use your IT operation for their next project. Full story »

This research assesses the impact of the growth in media tablets and other "off desktop" form factors entering IT deployments and makes recommendations on building an enterprise management plan based on industry best practices.
This BYOD implementation guide from Absolute Software provides three simple steps to legally secure and manage employee-owned devices within a corporate environment.
The promise of enterprise mobility means that employees are more productive and address business issues in a timely, untethered manner.
Read this new eBook to learn the top five scenarios and essential best practices for preventing database attacks and insider threats.
This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions.
The options for securing increasingly valuable databases are very broad and deep, and can be confusing. This research provides an overview of three categories of controls that should be implemented to ensure that enterprise data is protected in the most efficient and effective manner.
Ben Snyder, Desktop Support Analyst at Under Armour, discusses how this fast-growing company with thousands of mobile employees uses an automated process to manage its mix of PC and Apple devices from a single console.
View this demo and learn how IBM InfoSphere Guardium database activity monitoring can help protect your sensitive data in distributed DBMS environments with a holistic approach to data security and compliance.
These flash modules make warehousing more tangible and relevant to business users through detailed explanations of the InfoSphere Warehouse Packs.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
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