InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology

InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology
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Bold moves--and, yes, cost cutting--will position your company for economic recovery. Here's how business technology leaders are stepping forward.

Bold moves--and, yes, cost cutting--will position your company for economic recovery. Here's how business technology leaders are stepping forward.  IT buyers aren't happy, our survey finds, but they need to step up, too. Also, the software maintenance model comes under intense scrutiny.  ...and other iconoclastic ideas for retooling Microsoft to better serve customers.  You've promised to name a federal CTO. Here's a slate of priorities, courtesy of two dozen of the country's top tech strategists.  Deploying unified communications isn't easy or cheap. Here's how companies are getting their money's worth.  Amid the recession, even the healthiest companies are scrambling to analyze fast-changing demand data. The goal: improve forecasts and revive revenue.  It's time to think about bringing your IP and storage networks together.  Will enterprise platforms pay off? CIOs are going with their gut.  How intrepid companies are porting business apps to smartphones.  Beyond the puffery, this really is a better way to manage data center resources.  So how did the process get this broken?  Raises are hard to come by, and unemployment's up. Here's how IT pros are fighting through.  New software, hardware, and networking systems are letting companies redefine the upper limits of virtualization.  Forget President Obama's Twitter account. Recovery.gov will show whether government's really becoming more open.  Meet the leaders redefining the CIO's role in driving business growth.  Build a team that melds IT and legal--before the cost breaks you.  How great application development teams focus on business results.  Tighter budgets, stricter regulations, and emerging technologies demand new strategies.  Software that schedules your day. Networks tough enough for outer space. These and other government IT innovations could soon make their way to business. Also, the feds embrace clouds.  It's shiny, trendy, and from Google--but will it ever matter to your business?  There's no better time than a downturn to overhaul server, network, and other architectures to drive future growth.  How healthcare providers are overcoming the pain of going digital.  Predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, and the speed of in-memory analysis are changing what companies should expect from BI.  The right formula's slowly coming together. Also, hard data on 12 cloud providers.  In a brutal economy, these companies delivered.  Windows 7 is the destination. So how will you get there?  Your customers live online. Learn from three industries that are moving in with them.  Cloud computing and a brutal recession have permanently changed how CIOs think about software.  FCC Chairman Genachowski issues a dire warning about wireless networks. Prepare now in case he's right.  From wikis to shared documents, new content types are proliferating. IT needs a strategy to bring them together.  Less than 2% of employees have the ability to query multiple data silos. Policies and privacy fears, not technology, are to blame.  It sounds like nirvana: healthier people, safer streets, more abundant crops, cheaper energy. Here's how IT is being applied in the real world to get us there.  Wide adoption is grudging at best, our survey finds. Companies can, and must, do better.  Cloud computing will shake up the traditional IT organization--for those ready to venture boldly into this largely unknown territory.  Apps are meeting targeted business needs. Also, get exclusive research on app mobilization strategies.  Still shackling workers to a standard company PC? It's time to let employees bring their own devices onto your network.  CIO Vivek Kundra is driving unprecedented change in federal IT. He's got $76 billion, and fresh ideas on where to spend it. 

You vs. The Downturn

Bold moves--and, yes, cost cutting--will position your company for economic recovery. Here's how business technology leaders are stepping forward. Read this cover story here.