• Apple has become biggest buyer of semiconductors: Gartner

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 January, 2012 22:20

  Apple became the biggest buyer of semiconductors last year, ahead of Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard, according to Gartner.

• Help desks critical to BYOD efforts

  By Lee Weiner, vice president of support products, LogMeIn | 20 January, 2012 08:31

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• IT leaders continue to juggle multiple priorities in 2012

  By Georgina Swan | 19 January, 2012 12:14

  Analytics and business intelligence has moved back to the top of the technology priority list for CIOs, according to the latest Gartner research into CIO priorities, followed by mobile technologies and Cloud computing — but the pressure is as IT leaders juggle multiple priorities.

• 4 ways to beat data bloat

  By Rick Clark, president and CEO, APTARE | 19 January, 2012 09:38

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Survey: Business intelligence back on top of CIOs minds

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 19 January, 2012 02:22

  Business intelligence and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, replacing cloud computing, according to a survey of 2,335 CIOs conducted by Gartner.

• Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012

  By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41

  ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.

• Selling the new enterprise architecture - Part 3

  By David Braue | 22 June, 2011 07:00

  Despite its value, TOGAF can suffer from intrinsic shortcomings in the process by which EAs are selected and trained.

• Selling the new enterprise architecture - Part 2

  By David Braue | 21 June, 2011 10:09

  Despite years spent trying to encourage staff to think along business lines, many CIOs are still finding technology-focused EAs unable to think in business terms, and vice versa. Even though CIOs most certainly know better, Gartner figures suggest that just 9 per cent of enterprise architecture efforts will be built around business goals this year, with that figure growing to just 30 per cent by 2016.

• Managing relationships with vendors - Part 2

  By David Binning | 05 May, 2011 13:07

  According to Dr Tim O’Neill, co-founder and director of business intelligence specialists Avolution, probably the biggest mistake an organisation can make when dealing with suppliers is to outsource the systems architecture. “This is why there’s so many untold billions of dollars-worth of failed IT projects out there,” he says. “Outsourcing the architecture function is fraught with danger.” In order for projects to be successful organisations need to maintain a healthy degree of cynicism and effectively force vendors to earn trust.

• Managing relationships with vendors

  By David Binning | 04 May, 2011 16:03

  The IT choices a company makes can mean the difference between business success and failure. Whether it’s access to information, communications between staff, partners and customers, HR, inventory management, operation and monitoring of equipment and other and assets as well as business security, IT has managed to make itself indispensible at virtually every organisational level. Yet it would seem that for many organisations, this awareness often fails to translate into properly thought out and well-executed strategies for managing the vendors that supply the technology.

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