A former judge hired to settle a protracted legal dispute between Marin County, Calif., and Deloitte Consulting over a botched SAP project last week dismissed all charges made by by the county in one of two lawsuits.

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) later this month will host the three-day National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the seventh consecutive year.

California's Judicial Council has put the brakes on a long-running, massive software project that was supposed to modernize the state's trial courts case-management systems, saying the software is viable but that there's simply no money to continue installing it.

Organisations must jump on the Big Data bandwagon now to protect themselves from falling behind competitors or perish, according to analyst firm Deloitte.

The problem with pricing, say consultants at Deloitte, is you. Senior executives don't recognize the importance of consistent and detailed pricing strategy, Deloitte says, and leave it to employees further down the chain to manage. Companies that do this pay the price in lost profits.

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

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.