Gartner Tells CIOs to Embrace Social Media
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
Has someone been putting strange substances in the drinking water at Gartner’s Greenwich, CT headquarters? Some of their analysts are beginning to sound like New Age gurus on a mission to bring peace, love and harmony to the corporate world. Consider these words of wisdom recently imparted by Gartner analysts to clients at an Orlando conference…
Cyber Security Red Flags For Insurance
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
They start with basic questions: Are you a public company? Have you been in any actual or attempted merger, acquisition or divestment within the past two years? How many employees? What percentage of your revenue is international? From there they hone in on the specific controls and safeguards you have in place to secure your data and IT infrastructure. Here are seven areas that the insurance carriers are looking at…
New IBM Analytics For Business Intelligence
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
In its recently released Global CIO Study, IBM found that 83% of respondents identified business intelligence and analytics as the best way to help enhance their organizations’ competitiveness. At the company’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM outlined a series of new products and services. It includes tools to analyze the increasing volumes of unstructured data found on Web sites, on social networking sites and in digital files.
Top Six Vendors for Business Intelligence
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
It’s a highly competitive market that’s largely dominated by major software companies that have acquired BI vendors and added their capabilities to existing product suites. Here are the top six vendors by revenue and market share. Together they represent more than 80 percent of the current BI market.
