CIO News

• Week of 06 Feb 2012 Big data is dead? Long live analytics apps? (07 Feb 2012)

  The view of BI as an enterprise-wide system similar to ERP is giving way to a more tactical, "disaggregated" approach based on analytics apps.

• Week of 30 Jan 2012 CIO: Forget tech metrics; meeting business needs is measure of success (02 Feb 2012)

  Don't ask iRobot CIO Jay Leader to calculate tech metrics on IT projects.

• Is SaaS BI in your 'best interest'? (02 Feb 2012)

  There's so much to say about cloud-based business intelligence tools. Until the next big story, here are some SaaS BI tidbits to tide you over.

• Quick take: Why iRobot's CIO doesn't like enterprise cloud computing (02 Feb 2012)

  Contrarian iRobot CIO Jay Leader explains why he has no use -- at the moment -- for enterprise cloud computing. It's all about the economics, stupid.

• SaaS BI gains traction in the enterprise (01 Feb 2012)

  Citing easy setup, cost effectiveness and faster time to value, IT execs are turning to SaaS BI tools, one cloud-based offering that has come of age.

• Shared services model puts focus on external customer (31 Jan 2012)

  For Owens Corning CIO David Johns, a shared services model is key to a low-cost, high-value IT and business services delivery strategy.

• Who's the 'insider' security campaigns target? (01 Feb 2012)

  Can CIOs learn anything from a security campaign launched by the military more than 60 years ago?

• Week of 23 Jan 2012 Cloud-based BI tools a trend with legs (27 Jan 2012)

  Some are using them already; others want to but aren't. Everyone, however, seems to be talking about cloud-based business intelligence tools.

• IT salary survey: Highest earners are cozy with business, hard on IT (24 Jan 2012)

  The highest earners among IT senior and midlevel leaders differ from their less well-off peers -- and not just because they make more money.

• IT salary survey: Highest- and lowest-paying industries (26 Jan 2012)

  Our IT salary survey reveals a shakeup in the highest-paying industries, with financial services knocked off its perch on top and health care rising.

• The CIO and the extended enterprise (23 Jan 2012)

  The CIO role is stretching further into the outer limits of the "extended enterprise."

• Your technology investments are vital to the business, so prove it (25 Jan 2012)

  CIOs are proving the value of technology investments with a few of their own, and generating revenue for the business with existing technologies.

• Week of 16 Jan 2012 CIOs: Should your next IT hire be a consumer advocate? (19 Jan 2012)

  How IT shops are changing and whom CIOs need to hire are big topics in the age of cloud and mobility. Should consumer advocates be on the list?

• IT salary satisfaction survey shows CIO salaries dipped in 2011 (18 Jan 2012)

  Our annual IT salary survey shows CIO salaries dropped in 2011, but some are still cautiously optimistic about their compensation.

• IT service catalog not always necessary in a shared IT environment (17 Jan 2012)

  Shared services in a virtualized cloud computing environment add complexity to developing a service catalog but don't change its basic purpose.

• Is rogue technology the cost of end user freedom? (16 Jan 2012)

  CIOs inherit their predecessors' IT foundation, but as they clean up past mistakes, could they be laying their own foundation for rogue technology?

• Salaries don't drive job satisfaction for senior IT executives (19 Jan 2012)

  Salary increases in 2011 weren’t enough to make senior IT executives feel warm and fuzzy when it came to job satisfaction.

• Week of 09 Jan 2012 CIOs proving the value of technology investments (12 Jan 2012)

  There's no easy way to prove the value of technology investments, but smart CIOs are finding new ones -- and smarter still, being proactive about it.

• IT chargeback rankles the ranks and IT (10 Jan 2012)

  IT chargeback is often called a necessary evil for shared services, but many IT executives are saying, "No, thanks" to such service charges.

• IT executives putting their own stamp on shared services model (11 Jan 2012)

  Definitions and approaches vary, but IT executives are forging ahead with their own takes on shared services to cut costs and serve customers better.

• IT forecast for 2012: Cautious growth in U.S. (12 Jan 2012)

  Though spending is expected to grow in U.S. IT departments, our IT forecast for 2012 shows a smaller increase than expected.

• Mobile, social engineering top data security management concerns (10 Jan 2012)

  Spear phishing, mobile device management and social engineering top IT executives' data security management agendas for 2012.

• Week of 02 Jan 2012 Big data, mobile IT, cloud drove fast-moving 2011, set stage for 2012 (05 Jan 2012)

  Driven by mobile IT, big data and clouds of all shapes, the pace of change sped up for CIOs in 2011 and set the stage for an equally disruptive 2012.

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