Stay out of jail
IT has a pivotal role to play in improving corporate governance practices.
STRATEGY
The lure of offshore
The offshore outsourcing model has gone mainstream. What factors are triggering its widespread adoption by large businesses?
TECHNOLOGY
Crunch point
Apple wants to take on the enterprise, but its target audience will take a lot of convincing.
The peculiar case of SCO
Can SCO win its $1 billion lawsuit against IBM?
Perfect visibility
XBRL promises to give executives perfect visibility into their company’s financial performance.
Q&A
Virgin Mobile USA
Mike Parks, CIO of Virgin Mobile USA, discusses how the company built its IT systems from scratch — in time for the Christmas rush.
DEAL WATCH
Benetton feels privacy pressure
Benetton’s RFID tagging project has been stalled by privacy concerns.
LEGAL COUNSEL
Writ large
What risks do organisations run when they publish material online?
EXPERT ADVICE
Jean-Noël Ezingeard
of Henley Management College on getting board approval for security investments.
Controlling chaos
The move towards more agile, reactive systems means big changes for systems management suppliers.
COMPANIES
Month in review
A round-up of the month’s most important technology industry news.
Infoconomy Index
Company analysis
An in-depth analysis of the events shaping leading technology companies.
Symantec
SAP
Siemens Business Services
Avaya
Emerging companies
Profiles of IT companies to watch
GoldenGate
Panorama Software
FINANCE
Financial report
A round-up of the quarterly results of major technology suppliers. This month: Business-to-business ecommerce and business applications.
M&A
The crucial deals in the global IT industry in recent weeks, plus analysis of emerging consolidation trends. This month: Divine changes from acquirer to acquired, and IBM buys Think Dynamics for on-demand computing.
Executives increasingly rely on technology to keep them from breaking the law, asks Andrew Lawrence.
Readers’ letters
UK companies fail the test, JD Edwards here to stay, and the ‘C’ factor.
UPDATES
Insider
Highlights, facts and inside stories from the frontiers of the information economy.
McNealy cashes in his chips
New role for Wall Street oracle
Job market shows signs of recovery
BSc in virus writing
Nauseating times
New edition of the bible
CRIB SHEET
Spam
A primer on spam — how organisations can fight it and what government and IT suppliers are doing to combat unsolicited email.
RESOURCES
Industry trends
Numbers, trends and research from the global information economy.
Passwords
Firewalls
Corporate governance
Books
Reviews of the latest technology business books
The Strategy Gap
The Maverick and his Machine
