June 2010

25 May 2012

Features

Outsource evolution

Guy Clapperton

Demand for clearer value is driving diversity in IT services

Dell outsources its supply chain reinvention

As part of the reinvention of its business model, the computer maker handed the support and operation of its supply chain to a third party

Measuring the zeitgeist

Daniel Shane

Social media analytics technology promises the ability to find out what customers really think

How Twitter predicted the election result

An experiment that measured the 'buzz' surrounding each candidate in the recent general election proved suprisingly accurate when it came to polling day

In the frame

Pete Swabey

Software development frameworks play a pivotal role in the move to cloud computing

Perspective

When the European division of the UK’s largest insurer standardised its HR management systems, it chose a software-as-a-service supplier over its enterprise applications partner. HR director Andy Moffat explains why

Development & Integration

The Guardian attempts to commercialise openness

As rivals discuss paywalls, UK newspaper unveils business model for syndicating content through an open platform based on open source software

Security & Continuity

Breaking the rules at Virgin Media

How Virgin Media broke through the constraints of its overlapping firewall products and empowered its IT workforce in the process

Industry

Business Applications

SaaS revenues thrive but fail to drive profits

Daniel Shane

On-demand applications were one of the IT industry’s few success stories during the downturn, but their popularity has yet to deliver much profit

Business Applications

IBM and SAP pursue big deals

The giants of the IT industry have their wallets well and truly open, and May 2010 saw some big-name companies change hands

Development & Integration

Novell plots recovery as buyers circle

Chimerical systems and software vendor outlines growth strategy as private equity firms court acquistion

Security & Continuity

Symantec’s continued diversification draws criticism

Security software vendor Symantec explains the logic behind its recent acquisitions in the encryption space, but not everyone is convinced

Information Management

Jaspersoft and Pentaho show commercial software’s open source future

The business intelligence space is unusual in that it has two established open source suppliers. The terms on which they compete may be the blue print for the future of the software industry

Departments

IT Services

'Cloud computing will destroy jobs'

Pete Swabey

The use of cloud computing may well reduce the need for internal IT staffing, but will this be balanced by increasing demand for employees among suppliers, or will the total number of IT jobs fall?

Market recovery witnessed in server shipment upturn

Global IT market in 4% uptick this year, says IDC

Recession drives security outsourcing adoptions

UK cloud deployments to soar 78%

Cost cutting drops down CIO priority list – but so does innovation

Back Issues

June 2007

New licensing models, search and BI, Capgemini's global strategy, Q&A: British Energy
July 2007

Agile ERP, financial service innovation, Storage, Business Briefing: XML integration, Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2007, Research Report: Virtualisation
May 2007

Dynamic pricing, business process management, content management, Q&A: Reuters
April 2007

Cyber assault, managed print services, fixed-mobile convergence, Management Report: Business Intelligence 2007
March 2007

SOA design pitfalls, virtualisation and the operating systems, Business Briefing: Enterprise 2.0
February 2007

Out of India, the life and times of the relational database, The Effective IT 2007 Summit
January 2007

Advanced analytics, green IT, the state of security, The Effective IT 2007 Report