Enterprise IT and business management

The IT and business management page provides CIOs and IT management with up-to-date information and resources on budgeting, IT governance, IT spending, leadership and strategy, ... More about Enterprise IT and business management

Recent Definitions

• vendor neutral

  - Vendor neutrality is a business and design approach that seeks to ensure broad compatibility and interchangeability of products and technologies. The model ...

• zero-based thinking (ZBT)

  - Zero-based thinking (ZBT) is a decision-making process based on imagining yourself back at the point before particular decisions were made,...

• job hopper

  - A job hopper is someone who works briefly in one position after another rather than staying at any one job or organization long-term.

Highlights

• Social media, engagement reinventing business model, tweet jammers say

• Technology Priorities for 2013

• The end of enterprise cloud computing is near... sort of

More Enterprise IT and business management Topics

• Business process management

• IT spending and budgeting

• CIO career development and career paths

• Contract negotiations and legal issues

• Cost-cutting strategies for CIOs

• IT governance

• Enterprise ITIL and ITSM

• Leadership and strategic planning

• Managing cloud computing

• Offshore outsourcing

• Domestic outsourcing

• IT project management and portfolio management

• Return on investment

• CIO and IT salaries

• IT staff development and retention

• IT training and certifications

• Vendor selection and management

• Vertical industries

Enterprise business software

Enterprise business software is the lifeblood of your IT organization. Find the latest on enterprise business software here, including news, tips and other resources on business... More about Enterprise business software

Recent Definitions

• Vine (Vine app)

  - Vine is a free mobile application that enables users to record and share an unlimited number of short, looping video clips with a maximum length of six se...

• story point (story points)

  - A story point is a metric used in agile project management and development to determine the importance of a particular story.

• user-generated content (UGC)

  - User-generated content (UGC) is the words and photos that unpaid contributors create and provide to publications, particularly Web prop...

Highlights

• Social media, engagement reinventing business model, tweet jammers say

• Pseudo data-driven CEOs and mistakes they make in taking on big data

• Will big data spawn the next big CEO management revolution?

More Enterprise business software Topics

• Enterprise application development

• Enterprise application integration

• Enterprise business intelligence software

• Business performance management

• Enterprise CRM software

• ERP software for enterprise CIOs

• Open source enterprise software

• Enterprise SaaS

• Enterprise SOA and Web services

• Supply chain management software

• Web 2.0 applications

Enterprise data centers and virtualization

Find resources on enterprise data centers and virtualization in this section that will help CIOs and IT managers manage data center operations, with insights into areas like des... More about Enterprise data centers and virtualization

Recent Definitions

• Vine (Vine app)

  - Vine is a free mobile application that enables users to record and share an unlimited number of short, looping video clips with a maximum length of six se...

• Google Wallet

  - Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows smartphone users to store debit and credit card information for online and in-store ...

• device ID (device identification)

  - A device ID (device identification) is a distinctive number associated with a smartphone or similar handheld device.

Highlights

• Enterprise cloud services dominance by Amazon could be good for CIOs

• Your virtualization vendor strategy: Beware the pitfalls

• Policies for BYOD: Readers talk back about mobility, security

More Enterprise data centers and virtualization Topics

• Cloud computing for enterprise CIOs

• Desktop and laptop management

• Email and messaging management

• Green computing and energy efficiency

• LAN and wireless LAN management

• Legacy systems migration and integration

• Mobile technology and management

• Enterprise network management

• Operating systems management

• Remote connectivity management

• Enterprise server management

• Enterprise data storage management

• Virtualization for the enterprise

• VoIP and unified messaging management

Enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning

Disaster recovery (DR) planning and business continuity (BC) are critical to the survival of any organization. CIOs must work with the business units to create effective disaste... More about Enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning

Recent Definitions

• business continuity management (BCM)

  - Business continuity management (BCM) is a framework for identifying an organization's risk of exposure to internal and exte...

• hot site and cold site

  - A hot site is a commercial disaster recovery service that allows a business to continue computer and network operations in the event of a comput...

• X-engineering (cross-engineering)

  - X-engineering (sometimes called cross-engineering) is a collaborative and process-oriented approach to change management in the...

Highlights

• Need for speed driving one CIO to DR/BC in the cloud

• Disaster recovery in the cloud takes on new significance post-Sandy

• By a landslide, data mining and STEM are big winners on Election Day

More Enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning Topics

• Enterprise business continuity management

• Enterprise disaster recovery planning

Enterprise security and risk management

The nature of a disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) plan is that you must anticipate the unanticipated -- hurricanes, floods, insider threats and other catastrophe... More about Enterprise security and risk management

Recent Definitions

• business continuity management (BCM)

  - Business continuity management (BCM) is a framework for identifying an organization's risk of exposure to internal and exte...

• data latency

  - Data latency is the time it takes for data packets to be stored or retrieved

• vendor risk management (VRM)

  - Vendor risk management (VRM) is a comprehensive plan for identifying and decreasing potential business uncertainties and legal liabilit...

Highlights

• Enterprise cloud services dominance by Amazon could be good for CIOs

• Policies for BYOD: Readers talk back about mobility, security

• The end of enterprise cloud computing is near... sort of

More Enterprise security and risk management Topics

• IT asset management

• Compliance strategies and best practices

• Enterprise data security and privacy

• Information technology laws

• Enterprise risk management

• Enterprise information security management