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June 2007

Features

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The search for intelligence
The fusion of BI and search will allow companies to leverage all of their information.
By Pete Swabey

SOFTWARE LICENSING
Flexible terms
The licensing crisis as buyers reject old ways to pay and vendors struggle to adopt new models.

By Pete Swabey

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING
How Capgemini embraced India
Capgemini reversed its fortunes with a dramatic shift to a global delivery model.
By Pete Swabey

Perspective

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Data centre control
Business leaders are scrambling to impose order in the data centre.
By Gareth Morgan

DATA CENTRE
Data centre in a box
Can the pressures for more IT space be overcome by pre-building data centres in standard shipping containers?
By Gareth Morgan

Interaction

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Virgin visibility
BizTalk deployment helps Megastore chain accelerate its stock order process.
By Pete Swabey

EMAIL MANAGEMENT
Inbox surveillance
Dorset Police home in on email security and archiving.
By Pete Swabey

DATA CENTRE
Intel's green design
Energy efficiency is being built from the data centre up.
By Gareth Morgan

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
British Energy
British Energy’s CIO tells Information Age how he oversaw change in the organisation’s IT structure – and culture.
By Pete Swabey

Industry

FINANCIAL RESULTS
Fiorina's legacy
HP's PC arm puts it ahead of the game. Plus: Salad days in the networking industry.
By Pete Swabey

DATABASES
The heat is on
RDBMS vendors need to stay ahead of the curve if they are to get a slice of the action.
By Hannah Prevett

IT INDUSTRY
Europe falls behind
Industry index for May

By Pete Swabey

ANALYTICS
Fair Isaac shoots for broader analytics future
Predictive analytics giant pushes into new verticals

By Pete Swabey

IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
May's news reviewed.
By Hannah Prevett

SECURITY
All change
The role of the modern CSO is facing drastic changes.
By Hannah Prevett

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
SAP looks beyond its borders
German applications giant at last looks to the outside world.

By Phil Jones

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
SAP joins acquisition game
German software maker buys BI, telecommunications and identity management.      

By Pete Swabey

BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT
BMC looks to close the loop
Building holisitic business service management.

By Pete Swabey

Departments

IT AND THE LAW
The law is a luddite
Does the law understand IT?

By Pete Swabey

SECURITY
Conquering insecurity
Disclosure of security breaches should be mandatory, says Information Age editorial director, Andrew Lawrence.
By Pete Swabey

SOFTWARE PATENTS
Microsoft threatens patent war
Can Microsoft persuade users of open source software to pay it royalties?
By Gareth Morgan

BOOK
Across the divide
A guide to achieving sustainable IT and business strategy alignment.

By Gareth Morgan

SYSTEMS FAILURES
City confidential


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EDUCATION
Unsentimental education
Platform games in the world of charity computing.

By Pete Swabey

IT SERVICES
IT and the East
Two highly respected Gartner analyts map the impact of China and India.

By Pete Swabey

Back issues

Information Age, July 2008 - The evolution of the CIO, Agile development, enterprise content management. Management Report: The Future of the Data Centre 2008

Information Age, June 2008 - Offshore innovation, Green IT in action, storage deduplication. Management report: Business Intelligence 08. Research Report: The value of IT

Information Age, May 2008 - The coming energy drought, women in IT. Research report: Information orchestration. Business briefing: Shadow data systems. Management report: Future of Software 2008

Information Age, April 2008 - Corporate social networking, securing virtual environments, an interview with HP's enterprise chief Ann Livermore

Information Age, March 2008 - IT opportunity and threat in the new Chinese economy, thin provisioning, the Effective IT 2008 Summit

Information Age, February 2008 - Living without an IT director, alternative biometrics, WiMax. Research report: Data governance

Information Age, January 2008 - The Effective IT 2008 Report: The technologies and services behind today's most dramatic business success stories. Plus: Management Report - IT for the M Business

Information Age, December 2007 - Data centre mythbusting, protecting against floods, SaaS meets SOA. Management report: Eco-responsibilty in IT

Information Age, November 2007 - Contactless payment systems, data centre co-location, systems management & virtualisation. Research report: Maximising IT's potential

Information Age, October 2007 - Serious business in virtual worlds, agile development at Standard Life, VMware profile, NHS Direct Q&A

Information Age, August 2007 - The insider security threat, video conferencing, Effective IT Awards winners report

Information Age, June 2007 - New licensing models, search and BI, Capgemini's global strategy, Q&A: British Energy

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

Information Age, May 2007 - Dynamic pricing, business process management, content management, Q&A: Reuters

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

Information Age, March 2007 - SOA design pitfalls, virtualisation and the operating systems, Business Briefing: Enterprise 2.0

Information Age, February 2007 - Out of India, the life and times of the relational database, The Effective IT 2007 Summit

Information Age, January 2007 - Advanced analytics, green IT, the state of security, The Effective IT 2007 Report