How to plan your cloud computing path
Cloud Computing offers the best means to meet the increasing need for dynamic computing resources and reducing IT costs. Enterprises are slowly but surely responding to this technology wave. For most businesses the move to the cloud is geared towards addressing specific and critical business issues. Therefore, it is paramount to address cloud computing with the right goals in mind. It can solve the existing IT pain points for businesses.
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IT and Marketing partnership critical for Big Data and Analytics
Outside the CIO's office, CMOs spend the maximum time on technology among all functions. Especially, with organisations focussing on Big Data and Analytics in a big way, a strong partnership between IT and marketing is essential for its success. While CMOs take the lead on Big Data projects, CIOs implement, maintain and scale these initiatives. Both need each other to deliver actionable insights with newer data collection and analytic tools. CIOs bring the know-how to assess the quality of data and the process to acquire and analyse it. CMOs figure out the use of this data to drive business decisions.
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Oracle survey reveals mobility-related IT expenses set to grow by 50% in two years
A recent survey commissioned by Oracle reveals that mobile-related IT spending is expected to grow by more than 50% in the next two years, among other findings. The report indicates that the rise of mobile devices linked to enterprise systems is not matched by any other enterprise technology. For enterprises, mobility is crucial to serve internal stakeholders and engage external ones. The goals and challenges related to this technology are also changing with time.
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Collaboration Intelligence can tell you who is going to quit
Organisations can learn a lot by watching the way its employees work with each other. Call it collaboration intelligence. This intelligence is derived by seeing who is talking to whom, where the calls and emails are coming from, and other metrics. By observing trends in these metrics, you can figure out the rising stars from the check-out crowd. This provides ideas and ways to optimise like never before.
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