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Enterprise business applications

• ERP's future value depends on flexibility in the face of tech trends

  The future value of ERP will depend on whether ERP vendors can adapt to tech trends like big data, mobility and the cloud. Continue Reading

• CIO: Forget tech metrics; meeting business needs is measure of success

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

• Content management systems for CIOs

  A content management system (CMS) can help make sense of your organization's various documents, Web pages, blogs and other resources. Learn more in this tutorial. Continue Reading

• Business process improvement is about more than efficiency gains

  Business process improvement begins with efficiency gains, but BPM goals are becoming more about external customers and rapid, real-time improvements. Continue Reading

• SaaS solutions with a vertical slant

  A growing segment of SaaS solutions targets industry-specific needs and mission-critical business functions. Continue Reading

• CIOs: Align technology and marketing strategy to meet customer needs

  CIOs explain how a combined technology and marketing strategy helps companies respond to customers, and why business must serve customers differently.Continue Reading

• PLM software is the go-to guy, increasingly critical to the business

  PLM's star is rising, as IT executives turn to the software to solve problems, error-proof the global design process and speed time-to-market.Continue Reading

• Big Data: Probing global warming with object database engine

  How can we sort out the data that could illuminate global warming's effect on the poles? One IT veteran had to rediscover the object database engine.Continue Reading

• Sentiment analysis turns social media into customer intelligence

  Sentiment analysis tools are creating a kind of customer intelligence that online marketers are finding beats traditional market research.Continue Reading

• Open source solutions offer agility and collaborative development

  Midmarket firms save money while avoiding vendor lock-in with open source solutions that range from operating systems to middleware and applications.Continue Reading

• Subaru CIO gets technology to align with business goals

  Subaru CIO Brian Simmermon replaced more than 90% of the company's technology to remove silos and redundancy, and to align with business goals.Continue Reading

• Business software guides for the midmarket: CRM, ERP, Web 2.0 and more

  Find a wide range of business software solutions for the midmarket, covering everything from ERP software to Web 2.0 applications in our business software guides.Continue Reading

• Enterprise business software and services guides for CIOs

  They're the nuts and bolts of IT, the lifeblood of your IT organization. Explore the critical IT systems and software that you use every day with these CIO Briefings.Continue Reading

• With new enterprise collaboration platforms, 'social' means business

  Forget about pushing people to use wikis and blogs. The rush is on to build enterprise collaboration platforms that pull social networking into every workstation.Continue Reading

• Business process transformation hinges on a flexible management model

  Business process transformation succeeds best in IT organizations emphasizing collaboration and real-time analysis. Learn how IT can bring transformation to the lines of business.Continue Reading