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Business intelligence (BI) is at an inflexion point. Organisations that have historically applied query, analysis and reporting tools and analytic applications in select areas of their operations - finance, marketing, logistics and a few others - are now looking to use BI in a much wider context.

A responsive future

19 December 2005

In today's speed-of-light, e-business world, the need for business to respond quickly to change has never been more urgent, and the role that IT plays in its enabling has never been so central.

Constant presence, constant collaboration

28 September 2005

The computing and the telecommunications industries have been talking about their imminent marriage for a long, long time. But somehow, the dream has never quite been realised. Over the next five to 10 years, all that is set to change dramatically and irrevocably. The worlds of computing and telecommunications - and that ultimately includes mobile and broadcasting too - will all move onto one common, open and programmable infrastructure.

Enterprise messaging takes on a pivotal role

27 September 2005

Most businesses now recognise that they would struggle to operate without their messaging systems- email, instant messaging, mobile messaging and other collaborative tools. But they also understand that, like any other business tool, messaging needs to be managed judiciously.

Strategies for protecting the enterprise

27 September 2005

Survey after survey confirms it. Security has become the single most important issue for IT and communications management, as companies struggle to deal with an ever-broader range of threats and the associated cost and complexity. To meet these challenges organisations are trying to do less fire-fighting, to move away from 'point solutions' and 'quick fixes' towards a more proactive, co-ordinated, integrated and automated approach to security that encompasses infrastructure, employee awareness and business processes.

Success stories ofITinaction

05 August 2005

Demonstrate indisputable business value has become the charter of IT organisations. At the Effective IT Awards, a group of judges reveals the projects and teams that have excelled in creating that value.

Enterprise security: the balancing act

20 July 2005

IT security is no longer just about applying technology, but about developing policies that govern how different parts of the organisation are secured. It is about how you plot a course for an open and agile enterprise in the face of threats that - if left unmanaged - can induce corporate sclerosis.

The future of the data centre

20 July 2005

Once, it looked as if corporate data centres were destined to become mausoleums for the legacy systems of an earlier era. Today, the data centre is once again a centre for innovation. But that innovation has a price. Once the burgeoning mass of servers in the data centre meant that estate costs were a significant factor. Today's data centres are more compact, but that has introduced its own challenges, as this Infoconomy management report highlights.

Business Intelligence

08 June 2005

Business intelligence is a sector that has grown up without really maturing. But after a wave of industry consolidation over the last two years, products are now coming to market that have unified user environments, consistent metadata models, cross-application functionality. And, for once, the BI sector's timing is impeccable.

Document output management

25 May 2005

In this day and age, there should be nothing in the world simpler than printing. Too often that is the problem. Yet many organisations do not even know how much their printing costs. New tools and strategies, including outsourcing, can help bring printing under control.

Enterprise security

24 May 2005

Corporate information security is a mess of contradictions. Infoconomy polls have consistently found that security rates as a top priority. But organisations with security policies spend roughly the same amount of time fire-fighting security problems as those without. If IT managers are ever to stop worrying about security enough to actually do something about it, they need to take a step back.

Managing information and documents: the definitive guide

26 April 2005

This free 187-page guide and directory covers the range of products and services available to help organisations manage their corporate information and business processes more effectively.

Managing information and documents in financial services

26 April 2005

In few other sectors of industry do people know more about the importance of managing information and documents than in financial services. Unfortunately, that does not necessarily mean that knowledge about correct practice and procedure is widespread throughout the sector. This report from M-iD magazine's Managing Information and Documents in Financial Services conference attempts to provide some solutions to the challenges.

Strategies for delivering enterprise agility

21 April 2005

Modern businesses are built on software. How well these programs are integrated determines how efficiently a business can be run. Sadly, when this is put to the test, software is often found to be an obstacle to, rather than an enabler, of business change. At least that is the established view of business software infrastructure, but it is changing. This Infoconomy business briefing looks at the ways businesses can become the masters of their IT.

Effective IT Summit 2005

21 April 2005

The focal point of the Effective IT Summit, and of all the articles in this report, is on how to deliver more effective IT without increasing spending. Delegates at Information Age's Effective IT Summit 2005 in London reported their IT departments were working much more closely with other business units, helping to overcome the mismatch between expectations and deliverables, and improving the credibility of IT within the organisation.

Managing data for optimal business value

29 March 2005

Despite the marketing hype surrounding Information Lifecycle Management, a term used to describe the pplication of technologies and processes to the management of information across its complete lifecycle, there is a solid business case for its adoption.

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