Enterprise software
Why IT vendors must raise their game
CIO tells vendors to listen and understand
Suppliers need to spend more understanding the value chains of prospects to win deals more...
Enterprise software Indepth
How the CIO made Coca Cola green
Green IT improves Coke supply chain
Cutting IT emissions in Coke empire more...
BBC CIO Tiffany Hall is setting standards and building platforms
Auntie opens up
The BBC opening up to suppliers, viewers and staff. more...
CIO CV: Damian Ghee
Grist to the mill
Warburtons mixed ERP improvements into its expansion plans under the careful eye of IT director Damien Ghee more...
Warburtons mixed ERP improvements into its expansion plans
Grist to the mill
Warburtons mixed ERP improvements into its expansion plans under the careful eye of IT director Damien Ghee more...
Back to basics: Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Past, Present, Future and successful implementation
ERP in simple language, a cut out and keep guide to get your CEO and CFO up to speed on what these technologies do for your organisation more...
The CIO Questionnaire: Adobe CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger
Adobe CIO draws on secret SaaS
The IT chief of graphics software powerhouse Adobe lays out her thoughts more...
Government IT: why getting it right matters
Policy could kill IT innovation
The government must stop making excuses and get to grips with the way it runs IT before innovation dries up in Britain, argues the CEO of software company Erudine more...
Enterprise search - the killer app CIOs seek
The Searchers
Enterprise search is becoming the killer app for harnessing internal knowledge and converting e-commerce visitors more...
Arts Council CIO Owen Powell manages a change in scene and service
A change of art
Arts Council IT director Owen Powell paints a picture of occupational psychology and IT as the canvas for transformation more...
Enterprise software news
Morrison add £200 million to IT investment
Overhaul of systems contributes to increased profit
WM Morrison is planning to invest a further £200 million in rejuvenating its IT systems over the next three years. more...
CA acquires Nimsoft in cloud computing services extention
CA pays $350m for systems monitoring firm
CA inks a deal to acquire for $350 million Nimsoft, an IT service management player with customers in the managed service provider market. more...
IDC report datacentre management remains sloppy
Recession drives improvements but still much to do
CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to analyst group IDC. more...
Bill Gates slips to second world's richest man
Mexican telecoms tycoon takes top spot
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either. more...
CIOs lose confidence in predicting IT budgets
IT spending 'not on the rebound'
The "vast majority" of IT budgets will not grow this year, said analyst house Ovum. more...
Procter and Gamble allow staff to use own laptops
Legal and security issues remain unsolved
Procter & Gamble (P&G), which is ranked 20th on the Fortune 500 list, can afford to buy its employees laptops. But it is instead letting several hundred of its workers use their own laptops as part of a workplace experiment. more...
Standard Life expects £350m efficiency gain with IT
Process and technology overhaul delivering the goods
Standard Life has raised its cost cutting targets by nearly half to £350 million by 2012, as it reported strong progress on a technology and process overhaul. more...
Microsoft patches hit Excel
Redmond giant closes hacker hole
Coming off a record making Patch Tuesday in February, Microsoft announces a lighter load of bulletins and advisories targeting client operating systems, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. more...
Sun's open source chief quites in Oracle merger
Simon Phipps: Open source success wasn't enough to rescue Sun
Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog on Tuesday. more...
Ex-Sun CEO Schwartz tells it like it is on Gates and Jobs
Apple tried to sue Sun and .Net platform ripped-off Java, says Jonathan Schwartz
Jonathan Schwartz is starting to share stories about his days at Sun, possibly in preparation for a book. more...








