Features
DYNAMIC PRICING
Liquid commerce
Organisations embrace ‘dynamic pricing’ models to drive profitability.
By Pete Swabey
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
The content conundrum
The content management market presents some tough choices for IT decision-makers.
By Hannah Prevett
Perspective
SEARCH
Search pioneers leave majors behind
Software giants may have to buy their way back into the booming market.
By Pete Swabey
MID-MARKET TECHNOLOGY
The middle class
Mid-sized businesses are now starting to receive some long-overdue attention from the upper echelons of the technology sector.
By Hannah Prevett
VIRTUALISATION
Microsoft's virtual balancing act
Virtualisation is arguably the hottest race in software. So why is Microsoft stuck on the pits?
By Pete Swabey
Interaction
SECURITY
Productivity drain
Once lauded as the all-time ‘killer app’ of modern IT, email now poses a threat to business productivity.
By Hannah Prevett
OFFSHORE OUTSOURCNG
The Reuters offshore story
Dave Weller, global head of solutions delivery at Reuters, discusses building an offshore resource.
By Pete Swabey
Industry
FINANCIAL RESULTS
Server returns
After years on the tightrope, the server market is paying out.
By Pete Swabey
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Hired labour
HR automation attracts the business application consolidators' attention.
By Pete Swabey
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
IT consultants' pay soars
Times are rosy for IT consultants as demand drives massive salary increases.
By Hannah Prevett
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Business continuity moves up the agenda
Aproaches to the implementation of business continuity are changing.
By Hannah Prevett
VIRTUALISATION
Measuring success
Quanitifying the business benefits of virtualisation proves tough.
By Hannah Prevett
SOFTWARE LICENSING
Software licensing model shift
SOA and SaaS could end traditional software subscription models.
By Hannah Prevett
IT INDUSTRY
Month in review
April's news reviewed.
By Pete Swabey
SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Software AG’s SOA ambitions
Can the German powerhouse keep up?
By Pete Swabey
VIRTUALISATION
Zeus reigns in the virtual desktop world
Zeus Technology wants to be the trusted traffic cop of the virtualised applications world.
By Chiedu Nosegbe (Squiz)
INTERNET APPLICATIONS
Cisco gears up for a platform fight
The network equipment maker is in a belligerent mood.
By Gareth Morgan
Departments
REAL-TIME BUSINESS
Fluid dynamics
Ripping up the fixed price list can be a lucrative move, says Information Age editor Kenny MacIver.
By Kenny MacIver
IT SERVICES
McKinsey on offshoring
Collection of seminal articles from the McKinsey Global Institute.
By Kenny MacIver
WEB ANALYTICS
Web of confusion
Does web audience measurement - the main issue the Internet promised to resolve - work at all?
By Pete Swabey
INSIDER
2.0 Watch
Information Age keeps track of the various industry visions of everything and anything 2.0.
By Kenny MacIver
SECURITY
Conquering insecurity
Disclosure of security breaches should be mandatory, says Information Age editorial director, Andrew Lawrence.
By Pete Swabey
PURCHASING
Customer satisfaction
The black art of deal-making.
By Gareth Morgan
IT SKILLS
Graduating without honours
A degree of uncertainty.
By Gareth Morgan
MOBILE VOIP
Mobile VoIP causes friction
VoIP functions on handsets give mobile operators a headache.
By Gareth Morgan
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
