CIOMore from CIOAll TechnologyPricing Dips as Cloud Computing Services Become CommoditiesCloud computing is slowly becoming a mainstream technology. However, even before the hype cycle has died down, cloud providers are already starting to see downward price pressures. Every hosting provider under the sun is now repackaging itself as a cloud provider, and basic capacity and services are quickly becoming commodities.August 30, 2012All TechnologyPerhaps the U.S. Can Learn Some BYOD Lessons from ChinaSmartphone owners in China don't want to carry around a personal and a corporate phone. Instead, they're accessing work data from new-fangled phones under emerging corporate policies known as BYOD, or bring-your-own-device.August 28, 2012All TechnologyWhat's the Right Price Tag for CRM System?Making the business case for an accounting or HR system is clear-cut: Avoid unnecessary costs, manage cash better, reduce risk and you're done. If you were to invest twice as much in one of those systems, you might increase business payoff by 20 percent, so you can find the optimization point for ROI in a single spreadsheet. But what about the customer relationship management system?August 20, 2012All TechnologyWhat's the Best Way to Structure Contract with SaaS Provider?All companies great and small will eventually work with a SaaS provider. In most cases, the standard contract should suffice, but CIOs will never know what they can add (or subtract) if they don't ask.July 19, 2012All TechnologyThe Big-Data Challenge Is How to Develop a Winning StrategySo-called Big Data can be defined as datasets so large and diverse, they break traditional IT infrastructures. What Big Data is, however, isn't as important as what you can do if you harness its potential and uncover new business opportunities through Big Data analytics.June 20, 2012All TechnologySwimming in Big Data Can Flood You with Red InkData is a powerful lure, promising to turn the massive and ever-increasing volumes of data inside an organization into a pool of intelligence that promises deep, actionable insight into every aspect of a business. However, that lure can lead you into an expensive trap if you don't plan carefully.May 10, 2012Global Supply Chain ManagementWith a Personal Device at Work, Can You Check Facebook and Be More Productive? Yes.Bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, is a movement blurring the line between work and personal life. After all, BYOD is all about employees using personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes.May 2, 2012All TechnologyWhere Are You Going to Put All That 'Big Data'?Disk storage is a lot like closet space-you can never have enough. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of big data.April 30, 2012All TechnologyForecast Is for Stormy Weather: How to Get Out of Cloud, SaaS ContractsOne of the most common mistakes that companies make when they enter into cloud and SaaS contracts is failing to negotiate exits from the contract as fully as they negotiate entries.April 17, 2012All TechnologyIs 'Big Data' to Blame for Sales Forecasts Not Being Realized?At the end of any quarter, the last thing CFOs want to hear is that more than half of forecasted sales did not close. Unfortunately, this scenario is quite common. CFOs blame sales staffs for faulty forecasts, while sales teams try to shift the blame to IT for not giving them the right tools to turn fuzzy forecasts into actionable data.April 9, 2012Previous PagePage 7 of 21Next Page