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Entries from April 2008

Vista Survey Results Launched

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Whilst few large businesses are actually using Windows Vista, companies do see a long-term (24 month) future for Microsoft’s latest software platform - according to the results of a Corporate IT Forum survey of its members released today.Download your copy here.
The survey garnered 78 responses from 53 companies - all of which are FTSE 100 […]

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Tags: Applications · Business Relations & IT Policy · Infrastructure · Supplier Management & Procurement · Technologies

Google apps on the corporate desktop?

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Desktop applications hosted from outside the enterprise - or Google apps for short - are now being seriously considered by many large companies and are being discussed for the first time at a tif. workshop being held in May.

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Tags: Applications · Architecture & Strategy · HR & People in IT · Infrastructure · Operations & Service Management · Technologies

Will Office 2007 ‘professionalise’ blogging?

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Whilst corporates are using so-called social media tools - such as blogs, vlogs and micro tools such as Twitter - more than ever, many companies are stopping short of considering such technologies as ‘official’ corporate communication channels - such as email.
Reasons for this appear to be twofold: cultural and technological.
In general, senior business managers view […]

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Tags: Applications · HR & People in IT · Programme & Project Management · Technologies

What’s the value of collaboration?

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Putting a cost and value on enterprise-wide collaboration seems to be proving a real barrier to its implementation for big businesses - this according to a senior group of IT managers who met up this week through one of our workshops.
Whilst the IT directors taking part all seemed to understand the drivers of increased collaboration - […]

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Tags: Architecture & Strategy · Business Relations & IT Policy · Governance & Standards · Technologies

Security chiefs opt to ‘grow their own’ teams

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Increasingly, large businesses are growing and developing their own senior security managers rather than hiring in from outside according to security chiefs taking part in a recent tISS online workshop.

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Tags: Governance & Standards · HR & People in IT · Security & Business Continuity