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Article | 23/05/2012 Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties
Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, e...
Article | 23/05/2012 CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously
CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, acc...
Article | 25/04/2012 Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price
Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bea...
Article | 24/04/2012 Oracle rolls out updates to JD Edwards ERP applications
Oracle on Monday rolled out what it called major upgrades to its JD Edwards line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications during the Collabo...
Article | 19/04/2012 Amazon Web Services offers one-click purchase of cloud apps from IBM, SAP, others
Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hou...
Article | 19/04/2012 SAP designs facility for 'agile' cloud application development
SAP intends to become a major player in cloud-based software, and has been adopting agile software development practices as one means of reaching that...
Article | 18/04/2012 $500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs
An expensive and long-troubled software program for California's pension system that went live last year has stumbled out of the gate, with some areas...
Article | 11/04/2012 Epicor customer lawsuit may show danger of going solo on ERP software project
Epicor is being taken to court by a customer over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation, but the case may illustrate t...
Article | 10/04/2012 Oracle attacks tape management with analytics software
Tape-storage administrators will be able to get performance information and immediate directions to prevent data loss in new management software, call...
Article | 7/04/2012 IT contractors help companies meet changing work needs
Whether companies require specific tech talent for a project or need extra help meeting a business uptick brought by the recovering economy, corporate...
Article | 6/04/2012 Sage rolls out subscription pricing for ERP apps
Taking a cue from the steady rise of SaaS (software as a service), Sage is giving customers who run its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software on...
Article | 4/04/2012 Dell buys application modernization firm Clerity
Dell said Tuesday it has purchased application modernization vendor Clerity Solutions, in its second enterprise software-related acquisition news this...
Article | 3/04/2012 Watchdog agency report shows beleaguered state of US military software projects
Public-sector ERP (enterprise resource planning) software projects historically have experienced some of the industry's most dramatic cost overruns an...
Article | 31/03/2012 Old software blamed for city's failure to collect $17.6M in parking fines
Traffic-law violators in Long Beach, California, have gotten to keep a little more money in their wallets, as the municipality has failed to collect U...
Article | 29/03/2012 California scraps massive courts software project
California's Judicial Council has put the brakes on a long-running, massive software project that was supposed to modernize the state's trial courts c...