CIO Insight Staff

Here’s how technology executives at mid-market companies rate the performance of their vendors. The ranking is a breakout of responses from IT execs at small and medium-size businesses to CIO Insight’s most recent Vendor Value Survey. View Slideshow Rank Vendor Overall Value Reliability Loyalty Worked with during the past 12 months No. of Respondents 1 […]

Devin Jopp still remembers his worst IT experience. he was implementingsome new software for a former employer, and within a month it was clear he had been given the software vendor’s B-team. “It was a terrible implementation team,” says Jopp, who is now the chief operating officer at the Small Business Administration’s SCORE counseling service. […]

It may not be a bonanza on a par with other information-technology job categories, like network administrators and help desk personnel, but project managers will be in demand in 2007. Six percent of chief information officers say IT project management will be their fastest-growing job area in the first quarter of next year, according to […]

Intrusion detection systems used to be a must-have for technology security managers. But as threats to the network evolved, so did the tools that counter them. Today, in-house security experts are building defense systems with multiple components–detection and prevention tools, firewalls and fire doors–to ward off threats like worms, spyware, viruses and hacker attacks. With […]

Signs are pointing to a healthy new year for information technology. The job market for IT workers is expanding, reflecting a strong U.S. economy and an unemployment rate that is hovering near its lowest level in five years, according to job placement firm Robert Half Technology. And a technology spending survey of 21,000 companies released […]

Are you listening, Santa? Exactly 909 CIOs and other high-level technology executives responded to our question: “Which gadget gift do you want the most for the holidays?” And the results may surprise you. The question we have for all of you is: Don’t you have all this stuff already? Here are the top tech gadgets […]

Overview: CIOs Tell Vendors to Get With the Program Those grumbling sounds from the CIO’s office are starting to grow louder, as satisfaction with tech vendors declines. Slideshow: Vendor Value View how each of the top 40 companies ranked in each category versus how they ranked last year. The List: The top 40 vendors by […]

Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 for businesses on Nov. 30, an event company CEO Steve Ballmer said was the “biggest launch we’ve ever done.” After delivering a media address at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in New York to celebrate the product availability, Ballmer sat down with eWEEK Senior […]

Back in July, Valassis Communications, a marketing services firm that’s one of the biggest coupon distributors in North America, announced “exciting” news: It was planning to buy direct-mail firm ADVO. The proposed $1.3 billion cash deal, announced July 6, was to have created “the nation’s largest integrated media services provider,” serving 20,000 advertisers around the […]

When it comes to IT, change may very well be the only thing CIOs can depend on in 2007. That’s what the editors at CIO Insight found when we took each of the 13 surveys we conducted in 2006 and put them under the microscope to project next year’s 30 major trends. We break out […]