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Enterprise business applications

• 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

• Outsourcing trends: Waiting on cloud, CIOs eye two-tier ERP model

  As CIOs wait for public-cloud offerings to mature, they look to offshore providers for services that confer competitive advantage. First up: a two-tier ERP or hub-and-spoke model.Continue Reading

• Enterprise application integration: Beyond SOA and into the cloud

  CIOs look to enterprise application integration to coordinate and consolidate. Learn how to use SOA, cloud computing and application integration providers to your advantage.Continue Reading

• Information systems management for the midmarket

  Systems management is an essential part of IT professionals' responsibilities in the midmarket. Find tips, news and more on the subject in this Midmarket CIO Briefing.Continue Reading

• SAP offers SaaS ERP solutions -- will they stick? News podcast

  SAP's goal is to have 10,000 subscribers to its SaaS ERP solution by 2010, but customers in the midmarket are wary of adopting the tool.Continue Reading

• ERP strategies for CIOs

  An ERP system is a critical component to running a business. Get the resources you need to implement a successful ERP program in the enterprise.Continue Reading