January 2010

8 February 2012

Effective IT Report 2010 – Survey Results

Downturn strategies

Effective IT Report 2010 – Cost reduction was the priority in 2009, and IT strategies that helped organisations reduce their overheads grew in adoption and perceived effectiveness as a result

Payback time

Effective IT Report 2010 – This year's report assessed which IT strategies were most likely to deliver return on investment and business value

Analysis

Still no answer to unified communications call

Another year has gone by without the long-awaited unified communications revolution, but industry activity suggests the anticipation is still high

Break the application chains

Effective IT Report 2010 – On-premise software vendors must grant customers the freedom to innovate if they are to prevent an exodus to on-demand applications in 2010

Smartphones promise to further empower the mobile worker

Enabling mobile working has proved an especially effective IT strategy for many years. Now, the advent of smartphones promises to extend the power of the mobile worker yet further

Social media's untapped potential

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

Cybercriminals exploit technology's cutting edge

From social media to distributed computing, the cybercriminal underground took full advantage of emerging technologies in 2009

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Wanted: Management tools for the virtual / cloud era

The IT industry’s enthusiasm for virtualisation and cloud computing in 2010 must give way to clear thinking, enterprise-class management tools and solid technology offerings

Storage technology becomes a hotbed of innovation

The disruptive impact of innovative technologies made the storage market one of the IT industry’s hottest sectors in 2009

Open source continues its ascent

Effective IT Report 2010 – Open source software certainly has a part to play in the IT industry’s mainstream. How large a part is still unclear, however

Service-oriented architecture approaches maturity

SOA was eclipsed by cloud computing as the development and integration trend of the day in 2009, but reports of its death appear to be premature

Challenge of deriving meaning from data unbowed by recesssion

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

Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

Cost benefits keep green IT on the agenda

Optimism and enthusiasm for the climate change agenda may have waned somewhat, but energy-efficient IT may also prove to be economically sustainable IT

IT Services

A mixed blessing for IT outsourcers

Effective IT Report 2010 – The recession intensified demand for cost-cutting measures, but the associated uncertainty curtailed long-term IT outsourcing deals. However, that may be about to change

Management & Skills

Post-recession CIO

Chief executives see IT as a driver for revenue growth as the economy recovers, but IT leaders cannot expect things to return to how they were

Back Issues

December 2011

A taxonomy of CIOs, cross-sector collaboration on cyber crime, cloud migration, Q&A: US Department of Defense
November 2011

End user computing, Advanced Message Queueing Protocol, Cloud Security 2011, London Conference on Cyber Security
October 2011

The organisational impact of social collaboration, IT in waste management, disrupting the content delivery network industry, Q&A: Thomson Reuters
September 2011

Does SaaS threaten CIO control?, commercialising open data, the UK's Internet of Things industry, Q&A: Experian
July / August 2011

Integrating risk with customer and finance data, The Future of the Data Centre, Q&A: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
June 2011

The mobile executive, IT-CMF in action, data centre security, how the Macmillan Cancer Support manages information across multiple channels
May 2011

Mobile payments, call centre management, Research report: security adoption, Q&A: Accenture CIO
April 2011

What is big data?, the right to be forgotten, IT outsourcing in the energy sector, Q&A – Salvation Army UK
March 2011

Cyber security skills, web applications, Managing IT Cost Effectively 2011, Q&A: Birmingham Airport
February 2011

11 IT innovations for 2011, Information Age innovation awards, Global Tech Report 2011, testing the IT infrastructure for London Olympics 2012