It's no surprise that Box, the content management and collaboration company born in the cloud, has met with so much success among small-to-medium businesses. The service provides SMBs with the kind of enterprise-class content capabilities that they didn't have the money and resources to deploy before.
Computerworld's Premier 100 conference opened Monday with a keynote topic that was close to the hearts of many of the 500 IT professionals in attendance: an obscure acronym called VUCA.
Software patents, facing new scrutiny in the U.S., drive innovation and protect huge investments by developers, representatives of software companies said during a Capitol Hill briefing.
When everyone is touting the value of partnerships, how do top CIOs distinguish a true strategic partnership from the many service provider, supplier and competitor arrangements?
Supporting sprawling business operations seamlessly across 86 countries would challenge any ICT group, but Procter & Gamble, a company known for innovation, that’s not enough. Since the ICT organisation at the 169-year-old consumer products titan was melded into its shared-services business in 2005, CIO and global services officer Filippo Passerini has challenged the technology team to live up to the company’s reputation for creativity.