integration in comment and analysis
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment Ensure that business continuity is absolutely maintained at all costs and that there are no issues with service delivery as a result of the integration. Establish the target operating model and integration options early. [25 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment Integration of multi channel businesses is a very achievable goal, which, for those who have changed the culture to allow it, has reaped considerable rewards in greater understanding of the customer's interaction, channel preference and behaviour... [07 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.08.07
Round-Up First up there's the 'chief integration officer' who works out how all the new shiny stuff links in with the dusty legacy stuff. If you thought that CIO just stood for 'chief information officer' then you are clearly a lunatic of the highest order... [31 Aug 2007]
BI for all
Comment Its suite of business intelligence products not only includes Excel 2007 and Excel services (offering collaborative, security and versioning features) but also SQL Integration, analysis and reporting services and PerformancePoint Server 2007... [18 Jul 2007]
Television 2.0 cometh
Comment IPTV is really about software and system integration. Despite the challenges in bringing IPTV into the mainstream, interest is booming. Howard Greenfield explains why everyone's so excited about this new medium. [04 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where... [02 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
CIO Analysis There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where... [06 Jun 2007]
Steve Lamey
CIO Profile Aside from the challenge of overseeing the successful integration of the IT operations of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and supporting almost 100,000 staff, Lamey is responsible for one of the biggest outsourcing deals in the public sector - the... [06 Jun 2007]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile At DHL one of his main tasks is the IT integration following that acquisition, which is expected to take around three years in total. Integration was one of Underwood's big achievements at Exel where he embarked on an aggressive cost-cutting... [06 Jun 2007]
Stephen Brannan
CIO Profile Brannan has been responsible for delivering the seamless IT integration resulting from the banking group's stream of acquisitions. The integration for Ulster Bank and First Active alone included more than 5,000 IT changes and the deployment of more... [06 Jun 2007]
Gerry Pennell
CIO Profile As CIO Pennell has led the integration of the previously separate IT departments for the banking and insurance businesses and also for the non-financial services parts of the business. After moving up at Barclays to a role in business planning and... [06 Jun 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment Both companies deploying new tools and those wanting to share information and processes between existing systems will have to undertake some form of application integration. Other integration approaches are likely to be more attractive to SMEs, as... [14 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Michael Birch, CEO and founder, Bebo
Comment Well, there's the two types [of online advertising] - we do the very traditional online advertising and then we do what's called engagement marketing - which is a much deeper integration. Michael Birch, CEO and co-founder of social networking site... [02 Mar 2007]
Minority Report: The 10 best things about Apple
Comment The success of the device has been attributed to design, usability and simplicity and its tight integration with the web's largest (legal) music marketplace, the iTunes Store. After naming the 10 worst things about Apple earlier this month, Seb... [21 Feb 2007]
So what is convergence anyway?
Comment Half of them think it also refers to the integration of fixed and mobile solutions. Devices, networks, services, voice, data, media, entertainment - convergence can refer to any one of these areas and is so often used its meaning can be lost. [07 Dec 2006]
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