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SAP and Google Maps Team Up to Visualize Corporate Data
SAP and Google have announced a new partnership intended to help enterprises use Google Maps to better visualize and use their critical business data. Here's how this partnership can help your company use its data even more effectively.Deciphering Enterprise Apps
Slow Product Ramp-ups Challenge Oracle and SAP
Oracle and SAP still have some things to prove to customers as they continue to unveil their product strategies around Oracle's Fusion Apps and SAP's HANA technologies, according to one analyst.News
Social CRM for the Enterprise: How Analytics Can Move You to Greater Success
Done right, Social CRM can help your company talk to your customers, but even more importantly, it can help you listen to your customers in ways you've never imagined. And that can help your business grow.Feature
For San Francisco Giants, Dynamic Pricing Software Hits a Home Run
Factors such as starting pitchers and Friday-night fireworks help the San Francisco Giants boost revenue by matching ticket prices to demandNews
Has Business Intelligence Failed?
Is your business keeping up with the huge advances in predictive BI technologies that can help your company grow?nFeature
Hot Job: Why Your IT Department Needs Data Scientists
What do you get when you combine the roles of software developer, statistician and data analyst? A data scientist, who can derive tangible insights from huge quantities of data.Feature
The CIO of 2014: Venture Capitalist, Orchestra Conductor, Contract Negotiator
Managing technology is becoming less important to the CIO role than managing change. You can already see it happening.Tip
Five Things You Need to Know About MySQL
MySQL may already be in your enterprise. Here are the basics on the open-source database.Feature
Can Video Analytics Rev Up Marketing?
Harley-Davidson Canada road tests a video analytics system to better target its marketing to customers in its storesFeature
QlikTech CEO's Secret Weapon: Your Frustration With Big BI
Business users often watch as IT deploys costly, complex BI programs that take months to arrive — then fail to deliver the needed insights. QlikTech CEO Lars Bjork says you don't have to take it anymore. In this Q&A, he explains how his company's data discovery tools give the power to users — and even help police crack murder cases.Opinion
Making Space for Creative Thinking
CIO magazine Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson reflects on our April 1 cover story and the ways technology can hinder or aid strategic decision making.Feature
You Can’t Use a Smartphone for Everything
The types of devices you give your colleagues and the way you deliver data have an impact on how they understand information. Business-focused CIOs learn how people in their organizations think, so they can apply the right technology to spark better decisions.Feature
Teach Young Workers to Be Business Thinkers
Train employees how to think about using data, not just how to use IT systemsOpinion
How SaaS Will Impact 6 Key Software Categories
SaaS will steal the show in certain categories but remain a bit player in others, Forrester research shows. Here's a look at how SaaS will affect IT management tools, ERP applications and more, for the next two years.Tip
BI in the Cloud: Advice for Success
To get the benefits of BI in the cloud, pay attention to vendor contract details and integration needsAnalysis
How CIOs Can Enable an Empowered Business
IT will see a lot of change by 2020 and as CIO, you need to help your company get out in front. Here are four keys to success from Forrester Research.Opinion
Four Emerging Positions CIOs Need to Fill
CIO magazine’s latest cover story looks at the talent gaps in today’s IT departments and the four new roles that have CIOs on the hunt for fresh talent.Feature
Risk Management: A CIO’s Strategic Role
CIOs have a unique responsibility to identify the systems and data that executives need to manage through a crisis or make decisions in times of rapid changeFeature
The Long and Windy Road to Oracle's Fusion Applications
Oracle has laid out the Fusion Apps roadmap for its customers. But how each customer actually gets to the Fusion Apps destination is another question altogether.News
Emerging Tech: Business Intelligence Apps Go Mobile
What could your company do with a BI app on iPhones and iPads? Some analysts say this mobile software category will take off in 2011 – but early adopters are already gaining benefits.News
Emerging Tech: Social Commerce Fills the Shopping Cart
Are your investments in social networks paying off? Get ready for a new way of e-business.Feature
11 Hot ERP Topics for 2011: Analysis and Predictions
From courtroom trials to executive shake-ups, 2010 was quite a year for the ERP marketplace. But 2011 has even more drama in store: Here's our analysis of the key problems, players and products.Feature
SAP's Co-CEOs: Are Two Heads Better Than One?
Nearly a year into their tenure as co-CEOs of SAP, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are saying all the right things and getting good marks from industry analysts–proving that a dual-CEO model is not a recipe for disaster. But the duo still faces significant challenges.News
Emerging Tech: Alternatives to Apple App Store, For Enterprises
Apple's App Store and iTunes are great for consumers but kludgy for companies. Yet only recently have enterprises been able to find an enterprise app store of their own — for better mobile app deployment and management.Tip
Using Business Intelligence to Predict Harry Potter DVD Sales
It’s not magic. Business intelligence is helping Warner Bros. make more accurate sales forecasts for the upcoming Harry Potter DVD.News
A Small Manufacturing Company Rolls Out iPad: 3 Tips
Industrial Mold & Machine in Ohio is using the iPad to help bridge a corporate cultural divide. Here, they share three rollout tips.Feature
The App Store Effect on BI Applications and IT
Execs and managers are desperately seeking instant BI application satisfaction, and IT is trying to keep up. Here's why it may be a losing battle for CIOs, project managers and developers.Feature
Oracle vs. SAP: Battle of Fall 2010 Balance Sheets
A head-to-head examination of how the two software giants' revenues, executives and strategies fared during their most recent quarters.Tip
Microsoft’s PowerPivot: Five Things You Need to Know
It comes free with Office 2010 and allows all of your Excel power users to dabble in business intelligence. Is it a godsend for IT or a new nightmare to manage?Feature
CMOs and CIOs: Can This Relationship Be Saved?
Both of you understand the importance of digital marketing to your company–but CIOs and CMOs are not speaking the same language or playing well together, new research shows. CIOs should take the initiative now, or suffer when the CMO does an end-run around IT.News Analysis
Analysis: HP Spins CEO Carousel and Picks Wrong Horse in Apotheker
Nothing miraculous has transformed Leo Apotheker since his old school ways failed to energize SAP employees or customers during his brief stint as CEO. Apotheker is not the best choice–even if HP has designs on enterprise software or SAP itself.News
Microsoft SharePoint: Three Deployment Challenges
SharePoint is an enterprise behemoth, but getting it up and running is still rife with challenges, according to a new survey.Feature
ERP Sticker Shock: Maintenance, Upgrades and Customizations
Two new studies demonstrate why many companies are suffering from "buyer's remorse" after spending millions on traditional ERP rollouts.Opinion
CIOs Of The Future Need To Capitalize on New Data Sources
As The Internet of Things paves the way to cars that recognize their driver and washing machines that call in for repairs, CIOs should reach out to colleagues in R&D and be at the forefront of driving business strategy.News
DEMO Fall 2010: 4 Cool Mobile Startups with an iPhone Twist
At the DEMO show this week, CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige found 4 mobile startups destined to make a splash in the iPhone apps and services world. Take a peek.Feature
Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Larry, Mark and Lots of Questions
This year's OpenWorld confab will feature Oracle's Mark Hurd — and plenty of customer questions. Will Oracle have good answers or just the usual verbal skewers?Feature
Fantasy Football Guru Ignores Her Instincts, Trusts Analytics
IBM's Hetal Thaker bucks a couple of common stereotypes regarding football viewership and fantasy football leagues — and uses predictive analytics to draft her way to success. Here's her advice on analyzing data on running backs and running your business.Feature
Top 10 Ways CIOs Can Prepare for Recession No. 2
As Gartner warns IT leaders to be ready in case a second recession hits, CIO.com's Thomas Wailgum shares his thoughts on how CIOs can actually slash pesky budgets. Hint: Unpaid interns, meet Russian hackers!News
Beef Up Your BI Strategy
Last year CIOs faced budget cuts, project delays and increased demand for services, and this year IT budgets have – for the most part – remained flat. For CIOs, it’s a challenging time, and one that requires them to move from cost-cutting measures to providing strategic value.Feature
Apocalypse Soon: 52 Percent of CIOs Plan to Blow Up IT Groups
More than half of CIOs expect to restructure their IT organizations within three years, new Forrester Research data shows. And apps organizations face the first salvo.Feature
Why the CIO Is a Business Executive First, then a Technologist
For Healthways CEO Ben Leedle Jr., the CIO’s job isn’t just to run IT. It’s turning the company’s strategy into reality.News
Microsoft's Home of the Future: A Visual Tour
Microsoft's full-scale model home of the future may seem like science fiction, but interactive bedrooms, dishes that charge cellphones, sensors that notify you when plants need water, and kitchen counters that read your recipes may be close to reality in a world where social and interactive technology moves at lightning speed. Welcome to The Microsoft Home, where no wall or table in the house is safe from being a digital device.News
The 4 Tiers of a Secure B2B Framework
Worried about how to link IT networks with business partners without getting burned? Forrester analyst Usman Sindhu offers a 4-step strategy to ensure trust.News
Network Security: Three Open-Source Options
Evolutionary IT's Joseph Guarino explains how to achieve network security the open way (Third in a series on open-source security solutions)Feature
Business Intelligence Meets BPM: Using Data to Change Business Processes on the Fly
When business intelligence is used to inform business process changes, companies find new ways to save money and connect more closely with customers.Feature
BI Moves to the Cloud
CIO survey finds one in five plan to move analytics off-premise in the next three years.Opinion
BI: Useful Analytics Delivers Many Gifts
Dedication to business intelligence and data analytics yields customers, productivity and credibility for IT.Feature
Web Analytics: Turn Customer Feedback into Sales
Online eyeglass retailer EyeBuyDirect.com used a web analytics tool to diagnose dropped sales and win new sales conversions.Feature
5 Must-Read Blog Posts from SAP Sapphire 2010
These five posts offer superb insight into SAP's strategies as well as the challenges (and likely successes) that the ERP vendor will experience.Feature
SAP Sapphire 2010: Observations, News and Tweets
Here are the tastiest bits of news, views and goings-on from SAP's big show in Orlando.
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