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Perspectives & Trends in Information Management

BI adoption to boom in 2010, says IDC

 14 July 2010

Take-up of business intelligence software will be subject to significant double-digit growth this year, according to research by an IT market analyst

Private sector reluctant to join open data movement

 14 July 2010

Most private sector companies have no plans to jump on the open data bandwagon, despite generally approving of various public sector moves towards openness

Preparing for prediction

 17 May 2010

Expert advice Carl Bates, data partner at business advisory firm Deloitte, explains the preparations and precautions businesses must undertake as they build a predictive analytics capability

Should businesses put a price on privacy?

 19 March 2010

Experts react to the Information Commissioner's proposal that businesses place a financial value on their customers' privacy

Confidence in planning and reporting grows

 22 January 2010

The economic downturn has driven businesses to place greater confidence in their strategic planning and reporting processes, according to Oracle

Social media's untapped potential

 14 January 2010

Effective IT Report 2010 – Social media’s growing role in society was highly visible in 2009, but in business its potential remains largely untapped

Challenge of deriving meaning from data unbowed by recesssion

 14 January 2010

The recent hiatus in economic growth has done nothing to alleviate the challenge of understanding the ever-growing ‘digital universe’, and demand for technologies that help organisations to do so has persisted

Building global consensus on data protection

 10 December 2009

Formerly the UK’s information commissioner, Richard Thomas is now working to develop a global agreement on how data protection and privacy should be safeguarded

Book review – Enterprise 2.0

 19 November 2009

MIT academic Andrew McAfee combines theory with practice in making the case for business use of Web 2.0 technologies

Threat of litigation leads to Web 2.0 ban

 19 November 2009

Almost one company in five has had to produce content from Web 2.0 as a result of legal request, law firm finds

Business intelligence too expensive, say business users

 19 November 2009

BI deployments trigger a "barrage of complaints" from the business, according to Kognitio research

Generation Y 'more competitive than collaborative'

 19 November 2009

The arguments that graduates now entering the workforce will demand Web 2.0-like tools may be overstated, Forrester Research study finds

Social media investments failing to deliver

 16 July 2009

Companies are investing more in social media but few consider the technology effective

One in three admins light-fingered

 16 July 2009

Snooping around pivileged information and stealing data on termination are commonplance among IT admins, finds report

Business intelligence thrives in recession

 16 July 2009

BI is thriving despite the economic downturn and falling IT budgets

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