Customers take charge
Consolidation, lower licence fees, extended support periods, zero charge-outs… they all point to a new era of customer power in IT.
MANAGEMENT
Active intelligence
Pressure on decision makers to respond faster to changing circumstances is stimulating a fundamental shift in data warehousing strategies.
TECHNOLOGY
Mistaken identity
Organisations are changing the way they manage access to disparate corporate systems in a bid to increase security and cut costs. Year in review
If there was a year when the IT profession grew through its adolescence, then it was 2003. Multiple forces drove a new maturity in the industry.–>
Bounty hunters
Microsoft has put a price on the heads of virus writers. But will a $250,000 reward end the security threat?
Q&A
Microsoft
Chief security strategist Scott Charney discusses Trustworthy Computing.
INFLUENCER
Sanjay Kumar
Computer Associates' CEO has transformed the company's fortunes.
EXPERT ADVICE
Mark Lycett
…of Brunel University explains how best to bridge the classic business/IT divide.
LEGAL COUNSEL
Marketing meltdown
Sally Annereau of Taylor Wessing explains the new rules on email 'spamming'.
DEAL WATCH
Sweeter pill
PeopleSoft's tactics to fend off Oracle's takeover bid are good news for customers.
Human capital management technologies promise to fully unlock the potential of the workforce.–> WIRELESS FOCUS
Mobile enterprise
An examination of some of the recent developments in the mobile communications sector
WiFi roaming
Nokia and viruses
Broadband-in-the-sky
COMPANIES
Month in review
A round-up of the month's most important technology industry news.
Company analysis
An in-depth analysis of the events shaping leading technology companies.
Bull
IBM
Microsoft
Symantec
Symbian
Financial report
Analysis of the latest quarterly results from some of the industry's key players.
M&A
Recent deals in the global IT industry. This month: Epicor buys Scala and Cedar swallows Goldenhill.
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Customers have redressed the user/vendor power imbalance, says Kenny MacIver.
Readers' letters
Views on email management, instant messaging, public sector work and innovation.
UPDATES
Insider
Highlights, facts and inside stories from the frontiers of the information economy.
Big Brother is watching… and making arrests
Death of Silicon Valley pioneer
Executives retreat at HP
Demand for IT staff to grow
SCO lawyers exercise stock option
Infamous for 15 minutes
CIOs pressured to deploy faulty apps
'IT consultants are cyberskivers'
RESOURCES
Crib sheet
Future Internet
A primer on the technologies and organisations working on the web's future.
Industry trends
Numbers, trends and research from the global information economy.
Online retailing
Security
Wireless LANs
IT spending
IT services
Books
Reviews of:
Global IT Management: A Practical Approach
