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Cost reduction tops list of CIO priorities

What tops your agenda for 2003? Security? CRM? If you're like most CIOs surveyed by several large IT analyst firms in recent months, the answer is cost reduction.After conducting interviews with 15 CIOs, Ovum, a UK-based IT analyst firm, found that the most important item on CIOs’ agendas was cost...

Tags: cost reduction, information technology, Jim Zimmermann, Ovum

Technical articles 2003-03-19

Wanted: Workers for wireless communications

Wireless has grown from a techie's dream to a key emerging industry. In this week's Tech Watch, Bob Weinstein discusses the skills that wireless companies are looking for.Barely a decade ago, wireless communication was on the drawing board. In those days, it was a techie vision. But today, it’s no...

Tags: Wi-Fi, wireless communication, Bob Weinstein, worker, wireless, DSP, digital signal processing engineer

Technical articles 2001-01-03

VoIP Quality: Can you make the right call?

73% of organisations that have either deployed VoIP or are planning to, said that quality and reliability is still their biggest concern. This is not surprising given that only 8% monitor, or plan to monitor, every call across the network.* Delivering excellent service can be challenging if...

Tags: Ovum, Telephony, Monitors & Displays, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Hardware, Components

White papers 2006-11-28

VoIP : qualité et performance pour une utilisation optimale

73 % des entreprises qui ont déployé la VoIP (ou prévoient de le faire) ont déclaré que la qualité et la fiabilité constituaient toujours leur principale préoccupation. Ceci n'est pas surprenant lorsque l'on sait que seulement 8 % d'entre elles surveillent, ou prévoient de surveiller, tous les appels effectués sur...

Tags: VoIP, Performance, Ovum, DES, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2006-11-28

Ovum Summit IT Service Management Vendor Report Card

How does your IT Service Management vendor rate? See how the players stack up in this report card by Ovum Summit.

Tags: Card, Information Technology, Ovum, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2006-12-07

Development Intelligence: Business Intelligence for Software Development

There is currently pressure within organisations to apply quality management, metrics, intelligence and insight to the delivery and management of IT solutions. Why? Because, while IT and the supporting technologies have come a long way both in maturity and sophistication in enabling businesses to achieve and connect more with their...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Software, Information Technology, Intelligence, Ovum, Software Development, Operational Planning, Development Tools, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2007-04-01

Ovum Report: IBM Simplfies Service Management to facilitate business and IT

All too often, companies find their IT infrastructure is fragmented and confused. Different parts of the business have different silos of data and applications, with no integrated vision joining them together.This whitepaper reports on IBM's recent Pulse 2008 conference, which explored how IT Managers can simplify and leverage their IT...

Tags: Service Management, Information Technology, Ovum, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-06-13

Ovum: Oracle Revs Up Battle for Mid-market Applications Customers

Read this Ovum report to learn why Oracle is aggressively recruiting partners that have expertise in specific industries and markets. See why Oracle wants partners who will work with them to define standard solution bundles, prices and implementation times that reflect SMBs' typical resource constraints, and lower risk tolerance compared...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ovum, Smb/Sme, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-04-01

Additional Resources

SCO plays a nasty game with Linux market

While most companies attempt to win in the marketplace by providing superior products at attractive prices, some companies try to win through litigation. SCO is trying to make up for past failures by suing IBM and threatening to sue large organizations that use Linux. Most analysts believe that SCO is...

Tags: SCO Group Inc., Jim Zimmermann, game, Linux

Technical articles 2003-06-20

Munich to press on with Linux switch

Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ReutersMore than a year after the German city of Munich declared its landmark intention to abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux, its councilors are finally...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, software, Linux, patent, software patent, Microsoft Corp.

Technical articles 2004-09-29

Web Application Definition

Your programmers keep telling you they need configuration management tools to continue writing software that keeps your e-commerce site robust. Here's a primer on these helpful tools.By Susan DartWeb content involves many types of data: files, documents, graphics, streaming audio/video, source and binary code, and component libraries. The configuration management...

Tags: Web application, Guest Contributor, Web Content, configuration management

Technical articles 2000-01-27

Get IT Done: Is unified messaging poised to take off this year?

The hurdles that prevent widespread adoption of unified messaging are examinedUnified Messaging UM is one of those perennial “this is the year” technologies, always touted to be on the brink of a breakthrough. Is this truly the year for bringing voice mail and faxes into your mailbox? In this article...

Tags: VOIP, Rick Freedman, Get IT Done, unified messaging, fax

Technical articles 2001-04-30

Configuration management meets the needs of the Web

With the new demands of the Web, configuration management tools must keep pace. Learn about the latest innovations and goals of CM.By Susan DartWeb content involves many types of data: files, documents, graphics, streaming audio/video, source and binary code, and component libraries. The configuration management tool must cater to these...

Tags: Team management, Software development, Guest Contributor, Web Content, Web, configuration management

Technical articles 2000-05-02

Constant multiplier

After the widespread introduction of hormonal fertility treatments in the 1960s, the rate of multiple births—twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc.—in humans was in comparative flux. Since the mid-1970s, however, twinning rates have steadily increased.Fertility treatments affect only the occurrence of fraternal twins. Fraternal twins (or triplets, quadruplets, etc.) are the result...

Tags: birth, Guest Contributor, multiple birth, quadruplet

Technical articles 2003-12-16

Does HP need a new course?

Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Nick Gall

Technical articles 2005-02-10

StatCenter: Online financial services

We're heading towards an ever-expanding list of financial services online, including bill payment, credit and lending services, and insurance. The pundits say that many of your customers will take full advantage of these services by 2003.If your company is in the financial services market, you’re heading for fast-paced changes over...

Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, E-business/E-commerce, Financial accounting, Mary Ann Fitzharris, Jupiter Communications, StatCenter, financial service, banking, financial

Technical articles 2000-02-03

Virtualization delivers IT and business benefits for SMBs

Virtualization leader VMware has been a pioneer in both enterprise and SMB virtualization deployments, particularly in server virtualization. In June 2006, VMware launched its VMware Infrastructure 3 bundled solutions, packaging together the company's older and newer product functionality into several easily digestible bundles. This initiative included some entry-level pricing...

Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, VMware Inc., Small And Medium Business, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Smb/Sme, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-06-07

Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows

Read this Ovum Summit paper to see why one of the best-kept secrets in the IT industry is the depth of support Oracle offers to customers deploying its databases on Microsoft Windows platforms. Despite its highly visible support of Linux, Oracle was the first of the major database vendors to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Database, Microsoft Windows, Smb/Sme, Operating Systems, Databases, Storage, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-01

Information on Demand Brochure: Unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage

This executive level brochure provides the strategy behind Information on Demand IOD, the 5 entry points to IOD and includes a summary of the 2008, information market analyst Ovum's independent evaluation of IBM's Information On Demand initiative which declared IBM to be at the "vanguard of the unified information management...

Tags: Competitive Advantage, Business, Information, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-12-16

Save Money on Mainframe Hardware and Software: Five Simple Steps to Start Managing MIPS

Better management of MIPS consumption is one of the most overlooked opportunities for reducing mainframe hardware and software costs. MIPS usage is growing faster than both business growth and IT budget growth, and this trend is likely to become even more pronounced. One industry analyst, Ovum, estimates that "Mainframe MIPS...

Tags: Software, Growth, Compuware Corp., MIPS Usage, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-01