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Bob Evans, TechWeb's Senior Vice-President and Content Director, is responsible for content strategy across TechWeb's online, live event, and print brands. In this role, he oversees not only all content operations but also Audience Development and Software Development. He was editor-in-chief of InformationWeek during its years of massive growth, and has also been Editorial Director for InformationWeek and Techweb. He's an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and speaks at many business and technology events.
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Global CIO: SAP's Last Chance: It's The Customers, Stupid!
InformationWeek, February 09, 2010 SAP will fix its technology, but its entire future depends on whether it can fix how it views and treats its customers. Global CIO: Do CIOs Still Matter? InformationWeek, February 08, 2010 CIOs need to redefine their roles and boundaries in today's age of lean IT and customer-centric business. Global CIO: Oracle And RightNow Have Analysts Bullish On Growth InformationWeek, February 05, 2010 Analysts are bullish on two very different companies, Oracle and RightNow: what does this tell us about the enterprise IT market? Global CIO: Microsoft's Suicidal Infighting: An Insider's Story InformationWeek, February 04, 2010 Microsoft is choking to death on its internal politics and corrosive infighting, says a former executive. Global CIO: IBM Data Strategy Is Flawed, Say Kalido And Informatica InformationWeek, February 04, 2010 For data integration and MDM, everybody's got a story--but which ones are right? Global CIO: Will Informatica's Surging Success Trigger A Takeover? InformationWeek, February 03, 2010 Strong and profitable growth, great technology, a red-hot market, and $500M in revenue: what's not to like? Global CIO: IBM Calls Out Oracle's Ellison On Database Claims InformationWeek, February 02, 2010 Ellison said Oracle-Sun "blew the doors off" IBM's top database system, but IBM says he's blowing hot air. Global CIO: Data Centers Behaving Boldly: Meet Tech's New Rock Stars InformationWeek, February 01, 2010 From Disney tourist attraction to economic-growth saviors to nuke-hardened The Bunker: data centers, always strategic, are becoming way cool. Global CIO: Oracle's Ellison Challenges IBM, NetApp And—Well—Everyone InformationWeek, January 29, 2010 Is Larry Ellison's silicon-to-application strategy the next wave, or is he 50 years out of phase? Global CIO: Apple's Steve Jobs Torpedoes Another Stale Business Model InformationWeek, January 28, 2010 Jobs and the iPad are revolutionizing the book business while picking a big fight with Amazon. What can you learn? Global CIO: Oracle-Sun Biggest Challenge Isn't Technology—It's People InformationWeek, January 27, 2010 Sun's founder and its CEO exhort Sun employees to embrace Oracle, and Larry Ellison promises miminal Sun layoffs. Can they make it work? Global CIO: After Google Cyber Attack, CIOs Must Find The Body InformationWeek, January 27, 2010 The Aurora attacks from China are incredibly advanced and malicious, says McAfee's CTO: "Where's the body?" Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Top 10 Reasons For Buying Sun InformationWeek, January 26, 2010 New customer value, Sun's great technology, an IBM fixation, resetting the IT landscape, something deeply personal, and more. Global CIO: Salesforce.com CEO Benioff On IT Scams And Cloud Power InformationWeek, January 25, 2010 In Part 2 of our Salesforce.com analysis, Benioff describes the power of the cloud and proves it with his company's incredibly lean IT infrastructure. Global CIO: Will Steve Jobs Ban Google From AppleWorld? InformationWeek, January 22, 2010 An imaginative Apple investor says Steve Jobs is preparing to rock Google's world. Global CIO: Salesforce.com CEO Benioff On Beating Microsoft & SAP In The Cloud InformationWeek, January 21, 2010 Part 1 of 2: The cloud's foremost evangelist and highest achiever opines on those two rivals plus partner/competitor Oracle. Global CIO: IBM CFO Offers 7 Key Insights In Earnings Analysis InformationWeek, January 20, 2010 IBM's CFO sheds light on atypical opportunities, applications outsourcing, retail resurgence, business analytics, and more. Global CIO: IBM Iowa's Birthday: IBM Gets $52M, But What Does Iowa Get? InformationWeek, January 19, 2010 IBM promised 1,300 jobs for incentives of $52M but isn't releasing hiring figures. That's not right. Global CIO: Oracle Foes Scurry To Curry Favor With Dictatorships InformationWeek, January 18, 2010 Spurned by his former heartthrob heroes in the EU, MySQL's founder now sings the praises of Russia and China. Global CIO: SAP Blows Huge Opportunity With Timid Support Changes InformationWeek, January 15, 2010 SAP is overblowing its new support plan, which gives customers only marginally more choice. Global CIO: IBM CEO Palmisano Challenges IT Industry Via Smarter Planet 2 InformationWeek, January 13, 2010 Palmisano raises the bar for IT companies by pushing the intelligent potential of IT far beyond products and services. Global CIO: Cisco's Top 10 Predictions Intriguing But Lack Context InformationWeek, January 13, 2010 A top Cisco voice exec's views aren't startling but should give CIOs plenty to think about. Global CIO: iPhone Users Stupid And Steve Jobs Greedy, Says WSJ InformationWeek, January 12, 2010 Steve Jobs is not serving shareholders well, but Apple zealots don't get it, says a Journal columnist. Global CIO: 5 More Things Microsoft Must Do InformationWeek, January 11, 2010 Make some spicy acquistions (SAP? Tibco?) and seriously commit to cloud, data centers, and mobile. Global CIO: Cloud Computing's Deadly Vulnerability--And How To Avoid It InformationWeek, January 08, 2010 This one even trumps concerns about security, compliance, privacy, and management. Global CIO: 20 SAP Add-Ons That CIOs Will Love InformationWeek, January 07, 2010 This list can help increase the value of your SAP environments, courtesy of analyst Ray Wang. Global CIO: Hewlett-Packard Recruits Microsoft To Raid Sun's Customers InformationWeek, January 06, 2010 HP plus Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell are trying to pull leery CIOs away from Sun before the Oracle deal closes. Global CIO: Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's $5Billion Credibility Gap InformationWeek, January 05, 2010 Kundra's first year brought inspiring visions but also misguided support for runaway spending--will he reverse that in 2010? Global CIO: Oracle's Incredible Profit Machine: 22% Maintenance Fees InformationWeek, January 04, 2010 How important are your 22% annual fees to Oracle? It earned $3 billion on those fees last quarter while losing $800 million across the rest of the company. Global CIO: A Holiday Miracle: Do You Believe In Angels? InformationWeek, December 23, 2009 Our recent column "The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405" sparked dozens of letters so we're rerunning it for Christmas and the holiday season. Do you believe? Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2010 InformationWeek, December 21, 2009 For CIOs, 2010 will require new emphases on customers, revenue, external information, and a passion for rapid change. Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison On The Future Of IT InformationWeek, December 18, 2009 Ellison speaks out on Oracle's new Sun-enabled strategy and how that points to where the entire IT industry is headed. Oracle Makes 10 Commitments To Seal EU Deal InformationWeek, December 17, 2009 Oracle has just released 10 commitments to customers and developers about MySQL's future accessibility and openness in the hope of gaining EU approval to acquire Sun. Global CIO: Oracle-Sun A Bad Deal? Only A Fool Would Say That InformationWeek, December 17, 2009 Oracle buying Sun is bad business, says Motley Fool, but that analysis is simply, well, foolish. Here's why. Global CIO: The World's Largest Private Cloud: Who's Number One? InformationWeek, December 16, 2009 Its 13 petabytes include archived data from the world's top banks and pharma companies, and it's growing rapidly. The owner's name starts with A -- but it's not Amazon. Global CIO: Welcome To The CIO Revolution, Circa 2010 InformationWeek, December 15, 2009 After the craziness that was 2009, what are the top strategic priorities for CIOs in 2010? Four world-class CIOs share their insights. Global CIO: Oracle's EU Nemesis Mocked Intel After $1.5B Fine InformationWeek, December 14, 2009 After fining Intel $1.5 billion, top EC bureaucrat Neelie Kroes joked about Intel sponsoring European taxpayers. What sort of joke was she planning for Oracle? Global CIO: Oracle Customer Comments Will Force EU To Yield InformationWeek, December 14, 2009 Oracle customers last week crushed the EU's case against Oracle by saying its databases don't compete with MySQL. But will the EU listen? Global CIO: Riverbed Sees Cloud Computing Boom In 2010 InformationWeek, December 11, 2009 With CIOs looking to the cloud to help rekindle growth and CEOs dazzled by the economic promise, Riverbed is very bullish on cloud computing. Global CIO: Why SAP Won't Match Oracle's 22% Maintenance Fees InformationWeek, December 10, 2009 Here are five reasons why SAP won't make the awful mistake of raising annual maintenance fees to match Oracle at 22%. Global CIO: IBM Supports Oracle But Microsoft Kisses EU Ring InformationWeek, December 09, 2009 IBM exec Steve Mills says MySQL doesn't compete with Oracle, but Microsoft obsequiously awaits its chance to kiss the EU's ring by demonizing Larry Ellison's company. Global CIO: Steve Jobs Is Bugs Bunny But Microsoft Is Elmer Fudd InformationWeek, December 09, 2009 Windows 7 is nice, Bing is neat, Sharepoint is solid, and Azure is promising. But does Microsoft scare the crap out of any of its competitors anymore? Global CIO: The 50 Top Tech Quotes For 2009, Part II InformationWeek, December 08, 2009 "Take two of the five most-profitable businesses in China: they don't pay for their software." We've got 24 more great quotes in Part II of our best of 2009. Global CIO: The Top 50 Tech Quotes From 2009 InformationWeek, December 07, 2009 What were the most-memorable, confrontational, insightful, and valuable comments in 2009? We've pulled together 50 of the best. Global CIO: Outsourcer HCL To Cut Insurer's Costs By $150 Million InformationWeek, December 03, 2009 HCL is taking on an end-to-end chain of processes in a deal valued at $200 million that blends IT infrastructure and services with deep business processes and more. Global CIO: Will SAP Move To Tiered Maintenance Fees? InformationWeek, December 02, 2009 SAP's intentions are always difficult to discern, but it might be on the verge of revising the support/maintenance fees its customers love to hate. Global CIO: Oracle, Larry Ellison, The EU, And MySQL InformationWeek, November 30, 2009 Would you be shocked--shocked!--to learn that the EU's battle against Oracle is all about politics, power, and preserving jobs? Global CIO: The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405 InformationWeek, November 25, 2009 As Thanksgiving looms, we sometimes overlook those better angels of our nature that are all around us. And that's a mistake. Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers InformationWeek, November 18, 2009 If Larry Ellison were to bid ciao and adieu to the wonks of the EU, here's what his goodbye letter to Oracle customers might say. Global CIO: IT-Led Opportunities Abound, So Stop Sniveling InformationWeek, November 14, 2009 Lose the Depends and ask yourself why you find it so hard to believe when so many before us have given us so very much to work with. |
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