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While small business owners indicate plans to hire in the next 12 months -- the most optimistic outlook since July 2008 -- they continue to indicate some concern around hiring today.
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Businesses continued to invest in infrastructure upgrades, along with new software applications and mobile devices, including tablets.
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Smartphone sales surged past PC totals even with the iPad helping numbers for the first time ever during the fourth quarter, according to Canalys.
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Researchers examined the state of security in SCADA and industrial control systems and presented an ugly picture of the vulnerabilities and challenges in addressing the issues.
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Aberdeen researched nearly 300 companies to determine how well they were performing on the core business of human capital management.
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Google's Android OS finished 2011 with 47.3 percent U.S. smartphone market share, according to comScore. No. 2 Apple iOS garnered 29.6 percent share, thanks to the iPhone 4S.
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CIOs will be expected to do more with less once again in 2012, according to a new study from research firm Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The 2012 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey gathered responses from 2,335 CIOs, representing more than $321 billion in CIO IT budgets and covering 37 industries in 45 countries, during the fourth quarter of 2011. The survey finds that CIOs view technologies like analytics/business intelligence, mobility, cloud and social networking as a way to address business priorities, and changing the customer experience is a main priority. "The 2012 Gartner CIO Agenda survey results show that CIOs believe that the customer experience is the greatest opportunity for IT-enabled innovation," says Dave Aron, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "As business executives see the potential of technology to transform customer channels and the customer experience, their view of technology has leapfrogged conventional ideas of IT." Here we take a look at some of the survey's key findings.
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Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed invested in more than three distinct application and transaction management tools.
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Their budgets are being slashed, yet they're still asked to go out and innovate. Sound familiar? It should, because these are the challenges facing state CIOs and they're strikingly similar to challenges that their private-sector counterparts battle. In 2012, public-sector technology leaders say they will be looking at increased consolidation, cloud-computing services, exploring mobility and sharing services and network connectivity, according to a recent survey of state CIOs from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). NASCIO, which represents state CIOs and IT executives from the U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia, conducts the annual survey to identify the top ten strategies, management processes and solutions states are exploring, as well which tech applications and tools on their radar. And government IT leaders are dealing with many of the same internal and external pressures as those in private industry, especially with respect to funding. "Tough times require smarter decision making," says NASCIO president and Oregon chief information officer Dugan Petty. "Decisions for cutting as well as investing will need to be made with an enterprise perspective, and will need to be carefully evaluated and even defended through appropriate governance and analytics." For more about the report,
click here. Here are their top ten priorities:
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Ford said the lab will become a "hub to develop a wide spectrum of partnerships with established and startup tech firms and with universities in the area, such as Stanford."
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Managing the ever-growing amount of data your organization produces can be a daunting problem. New cloud technologies seem to present some solutions, but they also bring their own data challenges, according to a recent survey from consulting firm KPMG. What do CIOs and IT organizations need to do to make sense of their Big Data? To gain an edge over the competition, they need to reduce the complexity of data and use it to make better decisions, the survey finds. And many decision-makers are turning to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution upgrades to make that happen. "In the past, the focus was usually on connecting processes or transactions from disparate systems, often creating a hodge-podge of unfocused information," says Stephen G. Hasty, national advisory innovation leader for KPMG. "Today, executives have solicited business-unit input in advance, and planning for new IT frameworks at leading organizations already includes data analytics, predictive modeling and cloud strategies to improve corporate knowledge." More than 335 executives took part in the research. Here are selected highlights:
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Telecom equipment spending is projected to show the strongest growth, with revenue increasing 6.9 percent in 2012.
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Mobile has become ubiquitous and the number of qualified, experienced developers hasn t caught up with the market.
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Fueled by Christmas gift giving, Facebook has passed the 300 million monthly active user mark on mobile devices--mainly iOS and Android, according to a recent report from Enders Analysis.
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Mobile device users continue to be lax about installing security software or using strong pass codes to protect data saved on their mobile devices, behavior that can have an impact on enterprises, according to a recent report from McAfee.
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