Budgets fall, prices plummet
The cost of programmers has halved. Consultancy fees have plummeted. Software vendors are offering deep discounts. It’s a better time than ever to buy technology.
Back to blue
IBM want to provide all the systems software an organisation could ever need. But is a unified application platform from a single supplier the best foundation for ebusiness?
EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
On borrowed time?
Information Age conducts in-depth interviews with three IT directors from high-profile UK businesses about how they view their changing role.
Hollow promise
Switching to a new web hosting provider is fraught with difficulty.
The Unwired LAN
Despite the cost, wireless networking looks set to take off in 2003.
INFLUENCER
Rene Carayol
The IT director turned author says businesses need aggressive, ‘can-do’ leaders.
Q&A
Reuters
Greg Meekings, CIO of news organisation Reuters, talks about his challenges for 2003.
THE BIG DEAL
Banks overcome reluctance to hand over their IT.
EXPERT ADVICE
Surfing strategies
How can organisations establish a strategy for controlling non-work related web surfing?
LEGAL COUNSEL
Piracy
Does the UK’s new anti-piracy legislation really represent a threat to IT management?
The BPO bounce
Demand for business process outsourcing is reinvigorating and changing the structure of the IT services market.
COMPANIES
Company analysis
In-depth analysis of the big stories impacting technology companies.
Rational
Manhattan Associates
MandrakeSoft
Commerce One
Emerging companies
Profiles of technology companies to watch
Clearswift
Dirig
FINANCE
Financial report
A round-up of the quarterly results of major technology suppliers.
Business applications software
IT services
Infoconomy Index
Adobe
Tibco
M&A
The crucial deals in the global IT industry in recent weeks, plus analysis of emerging consolidation trends. This month: Performance management and business intelligence.
These are the best of times and the worst of times, says Andrew Lawrence.
NEWS AND VIEWS
News review
A round-up of the month’s most important technology industry news.
Insider
Highlights, facts and inside stories from the frontiers of the information economy.
From IT director to CEO — The route to the top?
Outbreak of the killer viruses
Doubletake: web services
Gartner’s ‘must do’ resolutions for 2003
UK misses ebusiness target
IT industry consolidation underway
Top company web sites “wallow in mediocrity”
IT staff want to be flexible
Former IT worker charged with sabotage
CRIB SHEET
Digital rights management
A primer on the emerging technology for protecting the copyright of digital content: trends, major vendors and barriers to growth.
RESOURCES
Industry trends
Numbers, trends and research from the global information economy.
IT services
Storage
PCs
CRM
Co-location
Data centres
Books
Reviews of the latest technology business books
Leading Geeks
M-Profits — Making money from 3G services
The Accidental Zillionaire
