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RSS downturn3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs
White Paper As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately cutting costs. This IDC White Paper explores 3 tangible areas that IT departments should investigate to help strategise... [02 Nov 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News But where companies have not made such a commitment prior to the downturn however, the tougher economic conditions may have put more of a brake on the progress of green initiatives. Verdantix's Metcalfe agreed... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News In the long term, the costs of sticking with XP outweigh those of moving to Windows 7 - even in the downturn companies will be looking to upgrade. With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's... [21 Oct 2009]
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment Before the downturn, green IT - or environmentally sustainable computing - was one of the common threads on CIO agendas. In good times and bad, green IT deserves a spot on the CIO agenda. Stuart Roberts explains how to... [21 Oct 2009]
Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness
White Paper The economic downturn is forcing businesses to tighten their belts and look for more efficient channels. Using the Internet as a business channel, and sometimes even the only channel, is becoming more prevalent. [15 Oct 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment The downturn has certainly diminished the matrimonial prospects of employees in a recession-hit outsourcing industry, and many are calling off searches and delaying wedding celebrations. Economic hard times are causing... [07 Oct 2009]
How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den judge James Caan explains how to shape up your business through the downturn. Recessions don't need to be a time of doom and gloom. IT is more fundamental to businesses today than in any... [06 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News If IT departments were reluctant to move to Mac OS due to its associated costs before the downturn hit, their recession-squeezed tech budgets have made sure that any big hardware or software shifts are now even less likely. [02 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News CIOs' reluctance to invest in new technology is unsurprising given the ongoing downturn, however - with European enterprises decreasing their 2009 IT operating budgets by two per cent and IT capital budgets by one per... [02 Oct 2009]
Reducing Expenditures in Network Infrastructures: Optimizing Costs and Operating Efficiencies With Today's Data Networks
White Paper In this economic downturn, many ICT (Information and Communications Technology) managers are grappling with hard choices regarding cost-cutting measures in their enterprise ICT architechture. However, some enterprises... [02 Oct 2009]
Chris Hyman
AS Profile There is little sign of the economic downturn impacting on the fortunes of Chris Hyman's Serco Group. By August of this year the support services company had seen its half-yearly revenues grow to £1.95bn, an increase of... [29 Sep 2009]
Retailers' Response to the Global Economy Downturn — Enabling Immersive Shopping Experiences
White Paper The global retail industry is now moving towards the attainment of total immersive shopping experience (ISE) abilities — integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software suites — based upon a common enterprise information... [28 Sep 2009]
IDG White Paper: How You Can Gain Business Advantage by Protecting Against Internal & External Threats
White Paper Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current economic downturn. Recent years have seen increasing... [24 Sep 2009]
IDG White Paper: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data
White Paper Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current downturn. This paper argues that the key to enabling... [24 Sep 2009]
Uncomplaining techies turn in extra hours for free
News With the downturn pushing many IT departments to do more with less, it seems ordinary IT workers are bearing the brunt: among techies who have seen an increase in their working hours, the majority attribute growing time... [23 Sep 2009]
