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<item><title>Where the IT Dollars Are Headed in 2012</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:17:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mobility and wireless network infrastructures are the big takers when it comes to IT budget planning for 2012, our latest study reveals. Even so, organizations are moving to the next stage of the IT infrastructure build-out across multiple budget areas, and our 2012 IT Investment Patterns Study shows how the strategy trends of innovation, integration and reversion are having a significant impact on 2012 spending patterns.   -  Capital spending on server hardware and virtualization software will grow more slowly in 2012 than in previous years, as spending on cloud computing rises. This is just one of the many budgeting trends revealed in CIO Insights 2012 IT Investment Patterns Study. Managed services expenses also seem to...]]></description>
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<item><title>Gartner's Top 10 Business Apps for Tablets</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:23:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As Apples iPad and other tablets move from the consumer world into the corporate IT ecosystem, business applications are moving beyond simple personal productivity applications to include enterprise heavy-hitters such as CRM and ERP. Vendors are launching tablet applications to meet enterprise demand, following where users want to take the tablet platform, says Gartner vice president and analyst David Willis, and CIOs should be aware of the ways software is evolving to conform to the tablet platform. “There are many highly visible ‘quick wins for tablets, such as board books and sales automation, which the CIO can use to break new ground,” Willis says. “But not all tablet apps are created equal from an enterprise perspective. Businesses must evaluate tablet apps based on functionality and business process integration, user factors, system integration, management and security, application architecture and vendor viability.” According to Gartners latest forecast, worldwide media tablet sales to end users will total 63.6 million units in 2011, a 261.4 percent increase from 2010 sales of 17.6 million units. Media tablet sales will continue to experience strong growth through to the end of 2015 when sales are forecast to reach 326.3 million units. By the end of 2014, the installed base of devices based on new lightweight mobile operating systems like Apple iOS, Google Android and Microsoft Windows 8 will exceed the total installed base of all PC-based systems. Here, we take a look at Gartners predictions of the top 10 commercial business applications you'll see on tablets.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Computer History Quiz: Ten Most Influential Contributors</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:10:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you consider your computer history chops to be up to snuff? Then test your smarts with our quiz of the 10 most influential contributors to the history of computers. Youll find no mention of the usual suspects, such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, in this quiz, which we compiled based on information from Ranker.com. Instead, we focus on unsung pioneers whose collective work dates back to the War of 1812. Were presenting this quiz in classic “Jeopardy!” answer-then-question format. Ranker.com is a site dedicated to declaring superlatives within the worlds of film, TV, music, games, sports, automobiles, books and technology. It claims more than 2 million monthly unique users. We work on the honor system here, so take the quiz with no help allowed from your “Internet machine”:   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Tablets Rule: 2011 Emerging Technology Adoption Trends Study</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:50:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A little over a year after the introduction of the Apple iPad, nine out of every 10 organizations in North America with 50 or more employees are in some stage of adopting tablets for employee use. And three in 10 organizations are specifically in the testing or piloting stage--more than for any other new technology we asked about in the CIO Insight 2011 Emerging Technology Adoption Trends Study.   -  A little over a year after the introduction of the Apple iPad, nine out of every 10 organizations in North America with 50 or more employees are in some stage of adopting tablets for employee use. And three in 10 organizations are specifically in the testing or piloting stage--more than for any othe...]]></description>
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<item><title>Research Editor Guy Currier Discusses Trends in New Mobile Apps</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:17:51 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New features have come to mobile app development - HTML5, location awareness, near-field communications (NFC). Guy Currier, Senior Editor / Research, talks with Eric about mobile app research planned for release at the October CTIA tradeshow.<br/>   -   Video Content.]]></description>
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<item><title>2011 Vendor Value Study: Research Exclusive</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:01:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Our annual Vendor Value Study aims to provide you with enough objective detail on individual vendor value based on the input of your peers to evaluate your current technology providers and consider the options for your upcoming IT initiatives.   -  The great transformative movements of virtualization, mobility, consumerization and cloud computing that are sweeping through the enterprise coupled with a stuttering economy have confused and stressed IT executives. These same trends are also sending many technology vendors reeling, as they react t...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Investment Trends: Infrastructure Back in the Mix</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:04:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In recent years, recession-fueled cost reduction and efficiency-driving new technologies have pulled IT budgets away from business-technology basics. Our latest study of IT investment trends reveals how -- and why -- spending is returning to these areas.   -  CIO Insights latest IT Investment Trends study shows renewed interest in the fundamentals of the IT infrastructure. This is refreshing amid todays ethereal talk about clouds and virtual machines. Its also a reflection of the uncertain economic state from which businesses are slowly emerging and the ...]]></description>
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<item><title>CIO Watch: CRM Apps are On the Rise</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:26:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are becoming increasingly important in todays corporate world. Companies all over the globe count on CRM solutions to help market products, manage customer service, empower sales teams and enhance contact-center capabilities, all with the ultimate goals of increasing revenue and improving customer loyalty. The Worldwide Semiannual Customer Relationship Management Applications Tracker, from research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), finds that CRM solutions gained significant popularity among corporate users in 2010. Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce.com each amassed more than $1 billion in CRM software revenue worldwide in 2010. Business customers are expected to spend even more this year on CRM solutions. If youre thinking about acquiring a new CRM solution, or if youre already invested in one, view the following slides to check out how the market is growing:   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cloud Spending: The Hidden Truth</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:47:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognizing that cloud computing is really a framework for understanding application delivery helps us interpret and adjust our strategies. We can look at where the spending is taking place  not in terms of use case or business unit, but by budget area.   -  Cloud computing isnt a technology, or even a set of technologies. It is a newly understood paradigm for approaching application delivery. This is why every vendor you can think of has been saying for the past two years that it has cloud products: It does. The timeshares of the 1970s were cloud produ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Exclusive Research: Enterprise Security Spending Trends</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:56:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Our latest spending study reveals the many areas of the IT budget that are affected by security needs. It also highlights how many organizations are paying hidden costs with a piecemeal approach in which no central security investments exist to provide guidance, strategy or measurable results.   -  When we initially set out to examine how organizations were budgeting and spending on IT security, we knew it would not be a straightforward or simple proposition. Security spending doesnt take place in a single, well-defined area, with one set of budget lines and discrete products. Rather, whatever...]]></description>
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<item><title>Mobile Mavericks and Wannabes: A Workplace Invasion?</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:24:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The growth of the mobile workforce is unlikely to slow down anytime soon. In fact, a recent study from Forrester, called “The Rise of Wannabe And Maverick Mobile Workers,” reveals some startling new stats about the number of &quot;undocumented&quot; mobile workers in North America and Europe. Forrester defines &quot;mobile wannabes&quot; as those workers who are often at their desks and, therefore, are not considered by IT to be among the company's mobile workers. Forrester defines &quot;mobile maverick&quot; employees as those who use smartphones for work, but go outside of the corporate purchasing process by selecting and purchasing their smartphones and work-related mobile apps on their own. Combined, these two worker segments currently account for 22% of all employees; by 2015, they will grow significantly to 42% of all corporate employees, Forrester predicts. The report is based on data drawn from the Forrester Foresights Workforce Employee Survey, which had 5,519 respondents in the U.S. Canada France Germany and the UK   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Gartner's CIO Agenda: Cloud Computing Tops the List</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:55:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing ranks No. 1 on the CIO technology priority list for the year, according to a Gartner Research report, &quot;Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda.&quot; The report is based on survey responses from 2,014 CIOs in 50 countries, as well as interviews conducted by Gartner analysts with leading CIOs. In fact, Gartner predicts an enterprise boom in cloud computing adoption  in the coming years. Mobile technologies and virtualization are also top priorities for CIOs. These solutions dovetail with the top three business drivers: Increasing enterprise growth; attracting and retaining new customers; and reducing enterprise costs. Read on for more highlights from the report:   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Adoption Trends: Where is the ROI?</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:40:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What's your IT-business relationship like? Do you see yourself and your team playing the role of &quot;order taker&quot; responding to every business demand? Or is your operation functioning as a partnership with the business structure? Perhaps you're in the enviable position of playing a leadership role as a CIO who is charged with driving forward the business agenda in your enterprise. A recent survey of IT decision-makers, conducted by IT adoption consulting firm Neochange and sponsored by Datango, iRise and KNOA, reveals that those organizations in which IT plays a leadership role in business decision-making achieve the greatest return on their technology investments. Neochange worked with CIO Insight's research division, Ziff Davis Enterprise Research, to field the survey in winter 2010. A total of 204 IT and business leaders completed the survey, representing a variety of company sizes and industry verticals. The majority of respondents (59.3 percent) are experiencing positive IT ROI trends by working their existing IT investments for more value. One measure of IT ROI, according to the report, is the &quot;effective usage rate&quot; of a given solution among end users. In organizations in which IT is seen as an &quot;order taker,&quot; IT deployments achieve an average effective usage rate of 48 percent. This contrasts sharply with the average effective usage rate of 58 percent for organizations where IT is considered a partner to business, and the average effective usage rate of 69 percent in operations where IT is considered to be a business leader. Survey respondents also share significant shortcomings in their companies' ability to build end-user capabilities through training and support.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Enterprise IT: What Your Colleagues Really Think</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:45:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the enterprise, IT is a key component in just about every single companys operation. One way or another, companies are dependent upon technology and the implementation of different products and services to compete. As a CIO, you might sometimes wonder if you and your team are really appreciated. You understand the value that technology brings to the corporate world, and chances are, your IT staff does, as well. But you undoubtedly want to know that the rest of your company sees that value. Luckily for you, it seems that the employees at your firm just might. A study from the not-for-profit, IT Governance Institute, which polled 834 executives in 21 countries around the world, reveals that the importance of IT in the enterprise is apparent across all levels of an organization. The study, &quot;Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT,&quot; reveals how IT workers and business employees view their IT organization and its role in the overall strategy of the enterprise.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Emerging Technology Adoption Trends for 2011</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:03:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In these unsettled times, your reasons for investigating or deploying the newest technologies may be different from whats driving your ongoing investment in established infrastructure. Our latest survey shows how this is so.   -  Our annual Emerging Technologies study, which looks at roughly 40 new technologies and strategies (this year its 42), provides insight into the hardware, software and infrastructure solutions being evaluated and deployed by your peers. To download a PDF of the report, including charts and graphics, ...]]></description>
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