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IT's focus shifts to data management

 24 January 2012

There are signs that data management is eclipsing applications as the IT department’s primary focus

The revolution continues

 17 January 2012

Despite the fact that it has now been around for years, social media continues to disrupt technologies and organisational hierarchies

Big in 2012?

 17 January 2012

Technology is emerging that helps organisations analyse more data at greater spead. But do mainstream business really need it?

Corporate revolution?

 28 October 2011

Social media has proven to be a disruptive force in society, but does business use of social collaboration really threaten corporate hierarchies?

Cashing in on open data

 19 September 2011

How businesses, and the government, can make money from non-personal, public sector data is a matter of ongoing debate

The great integration

 28 July 2011

How the financial services industry is integrating risk with everything

How will the EU's 'right to forgotten' work in practice?

 18 April 2011

The European Commission plans to amend its Data Protection Directive to protect individuals’ ‘right to be forgotten’, but that raises a number of complex questions that have to be resolved

What is big data?

 18 April 2011

What the term 'big data' means, and why experts believe a new breed of technology is required to handle it

Swift justice

 20 December 2010

Competition, commoditisation and client sophistication are forcing law firms to pursue technology-driven efficiencies

Is enterprise 2.0 dead?

 20 December 2010

Claims that the concept of ‘enterprise 2.0’ is defunct have helped to clarify what social technology can and cannot do for businesses

Book review: Bank 2.0

 14 October 2010

A comprehensive analysis of how technology can help financial services win back the trust of consumers post-recession, by Brett King

Degrees of separation

 13 October 2010

Can online distance learning and shared services help the higher education sector withstand impending budget cuts?

Medicinal purposes

 13 September 2010

The business trends reshaping the pharmaceutical industry and how IT is being used to address them

Steps to success

 18 August 2010

Eight ways to improve the security, reliability and value of corporate information through data governance

Living in memory

 18 August 2010

Will in-memory databases entirely replace their disk-based forebears? 

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