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- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...
- Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-02
- Survey: CIOs 'out of the loop'
- CIOs are often seen as "glorified IT directors", looking after the day-to-day running of IT systems, instead of being used to align IT with business aims. Chief information officers are "out of the loop", according to a survey carried out by London-based Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management....
- Tags: CIO, Role, Strategy, Management, IT mangement, survey, IT systems, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-01
- Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming
- Two recent research studies have found that the demand from U.S. consumers for HDTVs hasn't slackened despite the tough economy, but confusion remains about what you do with the TV once the set is purchased. You would presume that people are seeking out HDTVs in order to...
- Tags: HDTV, Survey, Blu-ray, Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Which firm really gets it? A social public relations survey
- As PR and social media become more integral to other areas of business, there is more pressure to show ROI for your department's activities. Who should you hire to help? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Agency, Social Media, Survey, Public Relations, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care
- Up to date equipment is key to productivity in any business and it's clear that the device industry's policies are holding down that productivity here. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Medical Device, Health Care, Productivity, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn, U.S., Norway, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Will OpenID catch on?
- A survey of more than 300 people shows that few people have heard of OpenID, and even fewer are actually using it. Chris Messina, the guy with the guitar pictured here, has written up results of a survey conducted using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Messina, rightly, took...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Survey, OpenID, Marketing Research, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- SIM survey 2008: Top 10 IT management concerns
- Because SIM's annual IT Trends Survey polls many of the world's leading IT executives, it is an excellent indicator of the current state of the CIO role throughout the planet. See six charts that paint of picture of the CIO in 2008. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: SIM Card, CIO, IT Administration, Information Technology, Survey, Flash Memory, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Marketing Research, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Marketing, Jason Hiner, IT Professional
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- SIM's 2008 Survey: Organizations are looking to IT for help, not cuts
- On Monday, the Society for Information Management SIM released the results of its 2008 IT Trends Survey and it contained a generally upbeat forecast for IT in 2009, although the survey was conducted in June, before the global economic meltdown. In Orlando at its annual SIMposium conference,...
- Tags: SIM Card, IT Budget, Information Technology, Survey, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROI
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROILooking in all the wrong placesThe real problem with ROI is that many IT shops are looking for the ROI within IT instead of the business. I totally disagree with the survey that states reuse is where the biggest ROI is. IT...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI, SOA, information technology, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Survey: Companies struggle with SOA's hard-to-pin-down ROI
- Savings from services reuse is the most common economic benefit in SOA projects globally by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: ROI, SOA, Survey, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Roi/Tco, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Survey: Still no clear mind-share leader when it comes to green IT
- The team at Hansa|GCR will be happy to know that I FINALLY am blogging about their Green TECHpulse 2008 survey, which set out to assess current and future green tech buying intentions, capturing the opinions of business technology decision makers at 600 organizations that were at least midsize in stature...
- Tags: Data Center, Leader, Green IT, Survey, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
- Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.Cox in Rhode IslandFor the most part, I'm satisfied with the cost and the speed. I pay $41.99 per month and get about 7 Mbps on my down pipe. However, their email servers are frequently down....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Marketing research, Comcast Corp., survey, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-11-02
- Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
- The heart of any wireless network is its Internet connection, since sharing Web access among multiple computers is one of its most if not the most important tasks. While its best known for conducting user surveys among car buyers, J.D. Power also measures user satisfaction with broadband ISPs around the...
- Tags: J.D. Power Associates, EarthLink Inc., Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Survey, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Software Engineers and Engineering: A Survey of Undergraduate Preconceptions
- Past research has demonstrated that student misconceptions about degree programs can negatively affect enrolment and retention rates. Software engineering is a relatively new discipline that is distinct from computer science and other engineering specializations; however, it is still rapidly evolving and consequently there is potential for misconceptions about the new...
- Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Misconception, IEEE, Survey, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2008-10-31
- ESP: Electronic Survey Program (exe)
- ESP is an easy-to-use survey creation, administration, and compilation program. You can create surveys with open-ended responses, multiple choices, multiple responses, and branching questions change depending on users answers. Surveys can be taken on a network LAN, Internet, or printed. Results are instantly calculated and can be exported to a...
- Tags: Survey, Gepeto Software, ESP, Results, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-24
- After the layoffs: Increased workloads stress out those left behind
- Job cuts are never easy - and finding your name on the layoff list can be traumatic, especially this time of year. There's no disputing that. But what about the folks whose names are not on the list, the ones who get left behind to pick up...
- Tags: Layoff, Workload, Survey, Job Cut, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Head-scratching survey: UK SAP sites lag in SOA adoption
- Head-scratching survey: UK SAP sites lag in SOA adoptionLet's see...SAP UK are a bit of an odd bunch who seem to paddle at a slightly different rate to everyone else. The head honcho of the UK SUG certainly gets it and I expect that to be a major talking point...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), RPC, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, SAP AG, SOA Adoption, survey, SAP UK
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Head-scratching survey: UK SAP sites lag in SOA adoption
- UK companies lag in SOA interest. Why? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SAP AG, SOA, U.K., Survey, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Survey shows risky use of mobile e-mail devices
- Survey shows risky use of mobile e-mail devicesPretty disrespectful, if you ask me....[i]Also, 11 percent of respondents said they have used such a device during a romantic moment [/i]If you’re not already married to them, then DON’T![i]…and 79 percent said they have used one in the bathroom, it said. [/i]Pathetic![i]Eighteen...
- Tags: mobile e-mail device, mobile e-mail, mobile, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Survey: 88% of Mumbai's wireless networks easy to compromise
- Survey: 88% of Mumbai's wireless networks easy to compromiseSSID broadcastingBroadcasting your SSID isn't necessarily a security issue in that all it does is hide it from Microsoft's default wifi network listing and configuration tool. Any other OS and almost all other wifi networking tools will still easily see wireless access...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, survey, SSID, wireless network, wireless, network, WAP
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
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