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  • Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software

    Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider range of potential users.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 20 May 13 22:36

  • The benefits of cloud-based BPM

    In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

    Written by Art Landro, CEO, Cordys • 20 May 13 20:33

  • Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Tackles Network Switches

    Speaking at Interop today, Open Compute Project Chairman and President Frank Frankovsky announces plans for a new open source project to develop a specification and a reference box for an open, OS-agnostic switch.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 08 May 13 21:50

  • Federal CIOs Fret Over Budget Pressures, IT Talent and Cybersecurity

    TechAmerica's annual survey of federal CIOs reveals anxieties over chronic fiscal constraints and lack of budget authority. But there's more: Add security threats and challenges of recruiting and retaining top talent to the list of CIO concerns.

    Written by Kenneth Corbin • 02 May 13 20:02

  • Is Twitter broken?

    Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 01 May 13 20:57

  • IBM launches an appliance for the Internet of Things

    Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages

    Written by Joab Jackson • 29 April 13 19:22

  • Just how close Is Apple's Tim Cook to being fired?

    Apple CEO Tim Cook needs to show investors where the company's future growth is coming from. If he fails this fall, then he might be in big trouble, say industry analysts.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 26 April 13 16:55

  • Report: Facebook and Twitter don’t change the American political status quo

    Social media has yet to show its supposed promise as a great leveler of American democracy, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, which found that sharp divisions in political participation among socioeconomic groups persist despite the presence of Facebook and Twitter.

    Written by Jon Gold • 25 April 13 06:08

  • The best PM for the job

    As we all know, projects can often fail, end in disaster or are only partially successful. Therefore, having the right project or program manager (PM) is crucial to increasing the chances of a successful project delivery. But how do you find the right PM, and what attributes should the right PM have?

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 24 April 13 11:12

  • VMware Adds Project Management, Secure IM to Socialcast Platform

    The virtualization giant adds project management and secure messaging capabilities to its enterprise social networking and collaboration platform in an effort to break down information silos and centralize workflow.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 18 April 13 17:12

  • CIOs Sound Off on a Role in Flux

    Add business partner, co-collaborator and, um, anthropologist to the growing list of IT executive skills, said CIOs at a recent panel in San Francisco.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 16 April 13 19:58

  • Giving Enterprise Software a Social Makeover Attracts Users

    When it comes to developing enterprise applications, organizations are increasingly realizing that user experience is as important as functionality. In response, vendors are taking a more agile approach to building those apps in order to better meet users' needs.

    Written by John Moore • 16 April 13 14:25

  • Why 'Agile Project Management Controls' Isn't an Oxymoron

    George Carlin made phrases like 'jumbo shrimp' famous. But the need to control agile projects is no joke. Ask the right questions along the way, though, and you'll bring order to a process than can easily turn chaotic.

    Written by David Taber • 11 April 13 13:09

  • Oracle updates Primavera project portfolio management software

    Oracle has rolled out a series of upgrades and new features for the PPM (project portfolio management) software suite it gained through the 2008 acquisition of Primavera.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 08 April 13 19:41

  • Box CEO Aaron Levie: The post-PC era and our partnerships will help us win

    It's no surprise that Box, the content management and collaboration company born in the cloud, has met with so much success among small-to-medium businesses. The service provides SMBs with the kind of enterprise-class content capabilities that they didn't have the money and resources to deploy before.

    Written by John Gallant and Matt Rosoff, CITEworld • 04 April 13 20:11

  • How to Use BPM to Improve Customer Experience

    A Gartner analyst speaking at the firm's business process management summit explains how BPM technologies can be used to bring more success to your enterprise by improving customer experience.

    Written by Kenneth Corbin • 04 April 13 13:23

  • Library Competes Thanks to Agile Development Outsourcing

    One of the nation's largest circulating libraries, the King County Library System, turns to agile development outsourcing to take on commercial rivals such as Apple and Amazon.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 01 April 13 14:23

  • Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way networking battle

    Avaya unified communications products can get along with Microsoft's Lync Server, and many customers will probably choose to deploy both rather than just one, says Avaya's CEO.

    Written by Tim Greene • 28 March 13 17:09

  • Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation

    Avaya is pushing a new range of unified communications products, but is finding that managed services are becoming more popular among its customers who would rather turn over complex UC transitions to someone else for a predictable monthly fee, says the company's CEO Kevin Kennedy.

    Written by Tim Greene • 28 March 13 17:09

  • LinkedIn is down, then up, then down again Wednesday morning

    LinkedIn, the professional social media network, is suffering intermittent service disruptions Wednesday morning.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 20 March 13 16:06
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