While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has entered the mainstream with 70 percent of smartphone-owning professionals using their personal devices to access corporate data, almost 80 percent of today’s BYOD activity remains ...
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These products help organisations achieve certification and implement complex frameworks that would otherwise have unnecessarily cost them thousands of Euros. The growing range of toolkits covers most IT disciplines, including ITIL, ...
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Ventana Research believes Location Analytics is an important emerging technology and has commenced new research focused on it.This research program will identify trends,market opportunities and organizational requirements associated with ...
More CIOs are planning to expand their IT departments in the coming quarter than they were three months ago. However, compared to other professions, projected IT hiring in Q4 lags behind fields such as legal, sales and marketing, according ...
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The technique of using deception and manipulation to gain sufficient knowledge to dupe an unwary individual, employee or company into revealing personal information has the potential to be one of the biggest security threats in 2013 ...
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Research and advisory firm, Gartner, has released its list of technology predictions and trends for the years 2013 and beyond. According to Gartner, its top predictions focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that will ...
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Ventana Research has announced that the firm will share key findings from its yet to be published Business Technology Innovation Benchmark Research, as well as present facts from other new and recently released research on big data, cloud ...
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The IT job market is either hot or lackluster, but mostly it is difficult for anyone who is seeking a job or hiring. There are plenty of companies searching for employees, but jobs are nonetheless elusive for many. It's a job market of ...
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Hiring is flat and Europe's economy continues teetering, but IT spending is beating forecasts, says Gartner. Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $3.6 trillion this year, a 3% increase over last year, reports Gartner. The report, ...
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New research to investigate effective practices and challenges in long range planning. Ventana Research is conducting new benchmark research to explore how organizations perform long-range planning, the challenges they face and their ...
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Findings highlight the need for a set of core best practices coupled with a dedicated PIM environment. Ventana Research has released its latest benchmark research on trends in product information management (PIM). The research was ...
Microsoft has fixed 26 vulnerabilities in its software products, including several considered critical, the company said on Tuesday in its monthly security patch report. The security holes, described in five critical and four important ...
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Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The software maker is working on a fix. The advisory addressed the “zero-day” ...
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New research sheds light on changes occurring to traditional business intelligence as it intersects with mobile and social collaboration. Ventana Research has released its latest Benchmark Research, Next Generation Business Intelligence. ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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