Bob Violino

In good times, retaining top IT talent is a top priority for CIOs. Now, in the recession, many IT leaders are scrambling to keep their most valuable staffers from jumping to better opportunities. Management and technology consulting firm BearingPoint, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, is taking several steps to retain its […]

Retaining top it talent has always been a high priority for cios, and in this tough economy, the issue takes even greater precedence. Skilled IT workers remain in high demand, and technology executives need to find creative ways to hold onto their best people. While paying staffers competitive salaries and offering other financial incentives such […]

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Want more on this topic? See a slideshow here. Reducing healthcare costs and inefficiencies by providing electronic health records to individuals has long been one of those goals that keep receding into the future. Now Dossia, a non-profit consortium of large companies committed to providing electronic records to employees, has begun working with its founders […]

When Enterprise Rent-A-Car deployed a business process management (BPM) product to help revamp the process by which employees request IT hardware, software and services, the company’s strategy for implementing BPM and maintaining the request system going forward was every bit as important as the technology itself. The St. Louis based company, one of the largest […]

Haven’t noticed the dramatic growth of server virtualization? Clearly, you haven’t been paying attention. Hordes of organizations have embraced the technology as they look to consolidate servers, reduce energy consumption in the data center, increase business agility and reduce costs. But there’s life for virtualization beyond the server: The future of this technology likely will […]

With a tough economy forcing organizations to look for ways to cut costs–and with many open source projects reaching a maturity level that IT executives are comfortable with–the technology might be on the verge of making serious inroads into corporate IT environments Not that long ago, open source software was regarded by many technology leaders […]

IT infrastructure consolidation has become a priority for many organizations–and the sluggish economy is accelerating the trend. As economic woes linger, CIOs continue to look for ways to rein in technology components such as servers, storage, desktop computers, networks and mobile devices. However, like any other big technology initiative, there’s a right way and wrong […]

Businesses rely heavily on data they gather from the field to determine whether they’re meeting goals and customer expectations. Papa Gino’sis no exception. The problem was gathering all that data caused some serious indigestion. The Dedham, Mass., restaurant operator pulls in massive amounts of data–everything from statistics on how long it takes customers to receive […]

By now, every CIO should be aware of the enterprise potential of Linux and other popular open-source software offerings. But the number and breadth of open-source projects has increased steadily over the years, and organizations can apply these tools to virtually any type of business process. Three emerging areas in which open source could make […]

The applications that represented the beginning of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions appeared in the 1960s in the form of material requirements planning efforts, which helped companies plan and schedule materials shipments for the manufacture of products. The 1970s saw the founding of SAP, Oracle and JD Edwards–vendors that would eventually shape the ERP market. […]

Mention enterprise resource planning to CIOs, and you’re likely to get an emphatic response–either positive or negative. Depending on their experiences with ERP systems, they’ll either profess that it’s a game-changing technology that vastly improves enterprise processes, or claim it’s the centerpiece of an unwieldy project that consumes incredible amounts of time, money and resources without delivering […]