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The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment Open source lacks true and defined standards, best-of-breed capabilities, fully functional integration and knowledgeable staff to support it cost-effectively. Is the true cost - including the labour to support it, annual subscription fees and the...

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment Now a fleet of new tech companies have joined the fray in bringing voice-web integration into the mainstream. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web.

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment At this year's Mobile World Congress Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin admitted the rest of the industry was now playing catch-up with Apple following the widespread adulation of touchscreen display and feature integration.

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: If you want to know about Microsoft-Yahoo!...

Comment the drivers have had at least as good a grasp of the subject as I had and have debated the issues with me as proficiently as the interviewers I was en route to - even on issues such as the integration of different instant messaging technologies.

Tags: microsoft, hmrc, taxi, yahoo

[12 Feb 2008]

IT at your service

Comment Whether it's Capability Maturity Model Integration, or Itil in the service delivery part, or Cobit, which is more of a compliance and control standard," says Everson. One answer may to be move the computing department to a services culture, says...

Tags: service culture, service quality, management, itil

[09 Jan 2008]

Banking can execute change in real-time

Comment The project was so successful that the same techniques are now being applied throughout the bank to corporate real estate, trans-continental data transfer, private banking and the integration of a recent acquisition.

Tags: change management, banking, legacy, accuracy

[02 Jan 2008]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment Integration with security systems is a key one, where a biometric measure in addition to standard measures can make systems as watertight as possible. With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit records, the public sector's use of...

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

Tech Visions: TV extends its reach

Comment They want to share - with or without final integration or industry supervision. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning. Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield looks at what's accelerating that trend and giving...

Tags: digital media, mobile tv, slingbox, internet video

[24 Oct 2007]

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.

Tags: merger, cios, m&a

[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...

Tags: sat-nav, lie detector, dna

[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...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[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...

Tags: sas, business objects, cognos, microsoft

[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.

Tags: internet video, quadruple play, iptv

[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...

Tags: cio50, retail, cios

[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...

Tags: post office, ric francis, retail

[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...

Tags: erp, data integration, web services, soa

[14 Mar 2007]

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