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IT is Victim of Own Success, Says Wellcome Trust CIO

IT is becoming a victim of its own success, according to the Wellcome Trust's head of IT Mark Bramwell. Full Story »
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Salesforce.Com Shakes Up Standard Support Plan Features

But an improved self-service experience is on the way, Salesforce.com pledges

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SAP Community Portal Launch Date Still Unclear Due to Bugs

A number of "showstopper" technical issues remain

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How CFOs and CIOs Find Hedging Help

Via the cloud or spreadsheets, finance and IT execs can buy a wide range of products and expertise to help them hedge their companies' bets.

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Maple Leaf Foods Digests Rapid, Vanilla ERP Transformation

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

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How IT Helped Shape UL's New Business Strategy

Underwriters Laboratories' CIO Christian Anschuetz discusses UL's recent transformation from a non-profit to a for-profit organization and how IT shaped and supported that change. He weighs in on the consumerization of IT, offers advice for CIOs, explains why 'big data' without 'big discretion' will lead to 'big failure,' and more.

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Pricing Done Right

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

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What We're Reading From the Feb. 1, 2012, Issue of CIO Magazine

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

5 Things I've Learned

Five Tips for Dealing with Your 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.

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John Deere Plows Into Agile

Tractor manufacturer adopts agile development process in what one analyst calls a "big bang" approach

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The Top 10 Tech Priorities of CIOs

Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.'s annual survey of IT executives.

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Lawsuit Claims Epicor's Two-Year Effort Delivered 'useless' Software

Beverage distributor Major Brands says its legacy software ran much faster than the new suite Epicor installed.

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CIO Challenge: Mobile App Vendors Bypass IT

At the AppNation Enterprise Summit, mobile upstarts learn to do an end-run around straight-laced CIOs. This will surely test the often rocky IT-business relationship, but could ultimately improve it.

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Gartner Lowers 2012 IT Spending Forecast to 3.7 Percent Growth

The analyst firm cites Thailand floods, the Euro zone crisis and general economic uncertainty for the downgrade

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CIOs Disconnected From Business Execs

CIOs and their fellow executives have conflicting priorities on cost and competitors, says our 2012 State of the CIO survey

 
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This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.
This paper explores the concept of content-aware IAM, describes the integrated architecture for this new approach, and highlights the benefits that this approach provides.
One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.
End User Experience, 30-Min Webinar
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Are you ready to gain the proactive ability to rapidly respond to end user problems (before they call the help desk)? Then you won't want to miss a webinar that will show you the latest innovation in end user monitoring.
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

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Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
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IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.
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