Enterprises like Sears, Starbucks and Harvard are hiring Chief Digital Officers to help monetise digital content, better connect with customers and drive their businesses forward. But does every company need one?
More than half of all SharePoint shops have had to add functionality to the core software, which came as a surprise to a number of them. Here's what they're doing.
At least one analyst is predicting social, mobile and cloud technologies will spell the end of the corporate help desk. Not so fast, say corporate IT leaders.
More and more companies are creating private social networks that help their employees learn from each other and drive the business forward. Here are tips from four companies that are finding success with internal social networks.
Great CIOs and IT executives help drive their companies by being agile, innovative managers. They nurture their employees, build talented teams and foster creativity in their people. They try new things. They lead by example.
The rapid-fire spread of mobile devices being used by enterprise employees can be a huge boon for businesses in productivity and customer service gains, but those advantages don't come without a price.
Now that Apache.org has listed more than <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/359899/Hadoop_Is_Ready_for_the_Enterprise_IT_Execs_Say">150 enterprises as Hadoop users</a> -- including JPMorgan Chase, IBM, Google, Booz Allen Hamilton and the New York Times -- it seems likely that the big data management system could soon become all the rage among corporate IT executives.
CSI and its imitators have introduced TV viewers to some of the advanced technologies used by crime-scene investigators. But they aren't the only law enforcement personnel benefitting from technology; police officers across the nation have an arsenal of high-tech devices to help them investigate and solve cases.
Hadoop is <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221636/Hadoop_ready_for_corporate_IT_execs_say">all the rage</a>, it seems. With <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy">more than 150 enterprises</a> of various sizes using it -- including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136345/Google_Update">Google</a> and Yahoo -- it <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221495/Q_A_Hadoop_creator_expects_surge_in_interest_to_continue">may seem inevitable</a> that the open-source Big Data management system will land in your shop, too.
When powerful ERP applications are needed by growing businesses today, SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viable option to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERP suites. And while SaaS ERP is still young, in the right setting and with the right users, it's offering some eye-opening real world gains for a variety of organizations.
It's not budgets, technology issues or strategic worries that are creating roadblocks for Cloud projects in many enterprises. Instead, deep-seated fears of change and requirements for more Cloud education are keeping many enterprises from moving forward.
Once you move your core IT systems into private or public cloud networks, your work isn't over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off for your enterprise and deliver the efficiencies and ROI that you're expecting.
It's scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they're all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses.
Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped home and work PCs to instantly access information and data on just about any topic via the Internet.
We take the Internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socializing, commerce-helping, video-sharing behemoth it is today.
