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News about it strategy

• Slack cofounder: 'We didn't have a sense of the scale it could grow to'

  In the two years since its beta launch, Slack has juggled explosive growth, formidable competition and the need to cater to CIOs

• Oracle says state wanted to take 'unacceptable risk' with health care website transition

  It's the latest twist in the ugly public battle between Oregon and the vendor over a failed Obamacare software project

• SAP looks to long-time ally IBM for help expanding in the Cloud

  The move will give SAP access to a total of 60 datacentres around the world

• Price tag for troubled SAP project will skyrocket to nearly $1 billion, audit says

  An 'overly ambitious design' and poor training are cited as reasons for the mess at a New York gas utility

• How to avoid an Oracle ERP upgrade disaster

  Users who have gone through the experience advised their peers during OpenWorld

• Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd: Our IP will help us win in the Cloud

  Hurd has something to sell customers at all levels of the cloud stack

Features about it strategy

• Why enterprises are embracing rogue IT

  Rogue IT has presented problems at companies for as long as employees have been bringing their own devices to work

• Why businesses are turning to managed IT services

  More organizations are turning over certain IT functions to managed service providers, freeing internal staff to focus on strategic projects

• Use software license optimization tools to get your money's worth out of SaaS

  Many organizations fail to adequately monitor SaaS product use, resulting in over-licensed situations

• Microsoft scrambles to simplify its licensing

  The effort to streamline licensing is incomplete

• Foiled! How to beat software vendors' sneaky price increases

  Between complex licenses and the cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have lots of ways to hike up prices. Here's how to fight back

• After getting star billing, Oracle's Fusion Applications take a supporting role

  Some 85 percent of the 650 Fusion Applications customers so far are going with a cloud deployment