Strategic Sourcing
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Five ways IT departments can win in a crisis
News CIOs need to revise their IT strategies in the downturn to adapt to long-term sustainability, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tags: IT Management, IT Services, Telecommunications, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, strategic sourcing, CIO, organizational structure, business intelligence, software, asset
E-procurement's new dawn
Insight When it was first touted, e-procurement promised an end to the tedium for organisations which had relied on paper-based procurement systems. How does it look now?
IDCs: Still Promising
Insight Gartner believes that the Internet Data Center market, despite its current problems, will continue to show steady and sustainable growth over the next five years, along with robust growth of the Internet across the region.
Commentary: Facing the fiscal music
News In Web-hosting or related fields these days, there is no shortage of companies announcing financial problems.
Enterprise messaging platform connects scattered workforce
Insight For a decentralized company that has many different business units spread out all over the world, deciding how those business units communicate is an important decision. Learn how Illinois Tool Works decided on Mirapoint to make this connection.
Storage: when to outsource (Part II)
Insight Part II of this two-part article explores the risk of storage outsourcing, and looks at future trends in this market segment.
Is Storage Networking Necessary?
Insight If organisations are experiencing rapid but unpredictable storage growth, and they want greater flexibility than internal or DAS storage can provide, then some form of storage network will become necessary.
Business forces spurring IT career changes
Insight Three business forces, including outsourcing, will have a material impact on the work of IT professionals during the next five years, according to Gartner, which has outlined eight guidelines to help you develop your career.
Business Continuity planning
Insight With the growth of e-commerce and other factors driving system availability expectations toward 24x7, the average organization’s requirement for recovery time for a major system outage now ranges between two to 24 hours.
Consolidate to maximise
Insight Corporates across the region are actively looking for ways to reduce expenditure and maximize there return on investments, as revenues decrease so to do IT budgets. Read Gartner's advice on systems consolidation to maixmise IT dollars and available resources.
Former KPMG MD joins Gartner Asia
News Gartner has appointed John Rundell as vice president of its consulting arm in Asia-Pacific.
i2 Technologies buys Aspect Development in US$9.3b deal
News Software maker i2 Technologies has made two acquisitions intended to jump-start its push into the business-to-business e-commerce market.
i2 Technologies buys Aspect Development in $9.3 billion deal
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B2B software maker plans stock split
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