Editors' Picks
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Harsher penalties for HIPAA violations altering compliance efforts
More frequent audits and larger penalties for violating HIPAA are motivating enterprises to tame HIPAA compliance challenges, Gartner analysts say.11 Jun 2013
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Cisco revs lead generation program to drive $1B in deals to partners
Cisco plans to drive $1 billion in midmarket lead value to partners in fiscal 2014. Find out how the company is generating the additional leads.10 Jun 2013
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IBM gets real about being a cloud provider
In this week's Searchlight: IBM puts billions into being a public cloud provider, science thumbs its nose at Verizon, keeping cloud honest and more.07 Jun 2013
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Better data quality process begins with business processes, not tools
Efforts to improve data quality should start with procedural changes to help avoid data errors, then the possible addition of data quality software.06 Jun 2013
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Land O' Lakes CIO turns 'dirty data' into customer insights
Land 'O Lakes is combining 'dirty data' with company data sources and -- Eureka! -- putting customer insights into the hands of the business.05 Jun 2013
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Business decision making must progress in the age of big data
Speakers at MIT and Gartner conferences said the process of making business decisions needs to keep up as big data inundates organizations. Can it?30 May 2013
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Harnessing potential, avoiding problems with smaller PaaS providers
Smaller PaaS providers or the usual suspects? Gartner's Yefim Natis discusses the pros of partnering with PaaS startups and how to avoid the cons.09 May 2013
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Putting a price on information: The nascent field of infonomics
Companies are behaving as if information has a monetary value. The question is how much? The nascent field of infonomics aims to provide answers.08 May 2013
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Putting a price on information: The nascent field of infonomics
Companies are behaving as if information has a monetary value. The question is how much? The nascent field of infonomics aims to provide answers.06 May 2013
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What CIOs can learn from Facebook's success with data discovery tools
Three hundred million photos uploaded to the site daily? Check. World's largest Hadoop cluster? Check. Data discovery in users' hands? Priceless.24 Apr 2013
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Gartner's basic business rules for capitalizing on big data
A breakthrough like big data comes around only once in a blue moon. Here's what business executives need to do to capitalize on it.24 Apr 2013
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Gartner outlines the IT essentials for building a big data strategy
Building a successful big data strategy takes discipline, imagination and a CIO who can work with the business. Here's how to do it.24 Apr 2013
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Oracle Taleo integration progressing well despite some customer pain
Although some Taleo customers report support and renewal changes since Oracle took over, one expert says the integration is on track.22 Apr 2013
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Big data integration requires firm handle on info at hand
Efforts to integrate big data into BI and analytics systems should start with a solid understanding of the available information and how clean it is.22 Apr 2013
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Gartner forecasts rising interest in cloud-based security services
Gartner forecasts that security services in the cloud will soon account for 10% of the enterprise IT security market, largely driven by compliance.17 Apr 2013
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What CIOs can learn from Facebook's success with data discovery tools
Three hundred million photos uploaded to the site daily? Check. World's largest Hadoop cluster? Check. Data discovery in users' hands? Priceless.16 Apr 2013
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For strategic CPM, finance must make itself relevant to operations
Extending financial analytics beyond the CFO suite and linking financials with performance metrics are technical lynchpins.10 Apr 2013
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Signal, noise and big data hype at the crossroads of Gartner BI, MDM summits
SearchCIO reporter Nicole Laskowski and Jack Vaughan from SearchDataManagement discuss the big data hype in this podcast recap.04 Apr 2013
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CPM suite adding more BI, tax functions according to Magic Quadrant
In part two of this Q&A, a co-author of the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPM describes where BI and CPM might overlap.29 Mar 2013
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Creating an SOA center of excellence for application integration
A well-built SOA Center of Excellence for application integration is crucial to service-oriented architecture. Here is a breakdown of how to build it.28 Mar 2013
Security Management Strategies for the CIO