IT Priorities
In this series, we look at the responses to our IT Priorities survey to find out just what business professionals around the world -- and in specific regions -- see to be their most important IT issues. These articles drill down into the wealth of data we've collected to bring you new insights around what your peers are thinking and doing. Stay tuned for more coverage.
In Depth Coverage
Related Topics
Featured Videos
Latest on IT Priorities
Cars become 'datacenters on wheels', car makers become software companies
There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data a day — where's it all going to go? That's what many organizations are just starting to find out, as explored at IBM's latest conference.
Bringing design thinking to information technology
'Design is more than just creativity, or a phase in creating a product, service, or application. It’s a way of thinking that can transform an entire enterprise.'
How Microsoft is using Yammer inside the company
Microsoft bought Yammer last summer and already has deployed the technology widely in-house as part of the company's Intranet makeover.
Enterprise and data integration: How urgent?
Enterprise and data integration have been on front burners for years. But a changing business landscape demands a redoubling of efforts.
RightScale survey points toward preference for 'multi-cloud' deployments
RightScale has also unveiled a "Cloud Maturity Model," an analysis and segmentation of companies based on their degrees of cloud adoption.
8 simple rules for achieving 'Lean IT'
An agile response: 'I’m here to prevent more software from being written. We want to write less code, not write more code faster.'
Walmart CTO Chip Hernandez: 'Everyone's going digital'
How the mega-retailer is dealing with technological change, live from the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit.
SOA pays off, paves the way to greater experimentation
The flexibility enabled by service oriented architecture has made it cheaper to experiment and fail with new project ideas — and that's great news for innovation.
Indian public sector to grow on back of modern IT
Modern forms of IT such as cloud, big data and mobility will play a large role in increasing the turnover of Indian public-sector units, from US$383 billion today to US$1 trillion by 2020.
Open source software moves into all businesses
A Black Duck survey and the Linux Collaboration Summit both show that open-source software and the open-source method are moving well beyond where you think they live, and into all businesses.
Engaged employees expect IT leaders to understand their needs
Helping the business engage employees through technology experiences means IT leaders must not view their jobs as providing technology.
Tech firms lobby for US visa expansion
H-1B visas remain a bone of contention for tech companies crying out for skilled workers -- or are they just looking for cheap labor?
IT helpdesk must up ante in cloud, BYOD era
Growing prevalence of cloud services and personal devices in companies' IT environments means the helpdesk risks becoming irrelevant unless it enhances the promptness and quality of support to end-users.
S'pore IT puts mobile security on back burner
Tech departments eager to push up satisfaction rates among end-users are offering "quick fixes" to support mobile devices and applications, often at the expense of the company's security.
S'pore SMBs might fall through Win XP trapdoor
Windows XP support ends in 12 months, but 11.8 percent of PCs in Singapore have yet to be migrated to a newer version. They will need to do so or be vulnerable to online attacks, says Microsoft.