Busting down the info silos
Savvy business leaders are starting to recognize the paybacks of helping all their business groups work from the same data.
Savvy business leaders are starting to recognize the paybacks of helping all their business groups work from the same data.
Timing is essential to the success of a mobile application. Just ask Richard Peltz, CIO of <a href="%20http://www.cio.com/cio100/detail/2159">Marcus and Millichap</a>, a $13.5 billion commercial real estate investment services firm. In January 2010, when the commercial real estate market was starting to emerge from a two-year slump, the company began looking for ways to increase brand awareness and exposure for its 1,200 agents nationwide. Peltz came up with the idea of providing searchable profiles of agents and loan originators on the company's website, which clients could access with their iPhones or Android smartphones.
Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is IT leaders' concerns about the security of mobile devices, which are often employees' personal devices, and are vulnerable to being lost, hacked or stolen. While there are plenty of established tools and practices for keeping Web visitors from straying (or hacking) into sensitive corporate data, managing security across a diverse set of mobile devices remains a challenge, IT experts say.
Self-service tools are becoming a must-have for successful BI vendors.
Tough economic times, and the availability of more software licensing models than ever before, have combined to shift more negotiating power into customers' hands.
Several years ago, Flextronics was struggling with a thorny security issue: figuring out how to prevent sensitive and proprietary information from going astray once it was in the hands of authorized users.
For Logiq the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a matter of cost and flexibility.
Their cost effectiveness appeals to corporate managers. Their novelty and technological sophistication add an aura of sexiness to them. And some industry analysts predict they will take over the remote access and WAN markets. They are the VPNs.