Data & Analytics

In the high stakes world of the oil and gas industry, managing corporate data is a demanding and complex process.

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Friction between IT and lines of business continues to be a reality in many companies. Indications are, however, that the situation is changing for...

In years past Cisco has used its annual December analyst conference to introduce new products and strategies for the enterprise.

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XML seems unstoppable. On the Web, this general-purpose document display language is rapidly replacing HTML. In the office, Microsoft Corp. and OpenOffice have both moved to XML document formats. Even the big database vendors are turning their databases into relational/XML hybrids. That latter effort should soon get a boost, as XQuery, the XML counterpart to the conventional SQL database language, is expected to be become an officially recommended standard of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Leadership. Communication. Strategy. Diplomacy. Money. Technology. Industry. These are the things IT leaders must master. If you want to make it to the top of your profession, these disciplines are no longer fancy bells and whistles you might add on to your basic IT management functionality. These days, they

Yogesh Jagga is the CIO of a successful mortgage brokering company in California, which has its IT as well as its sales staff in India. Parsec Loans, the company, sells loans from some 20 American banks to retail customers in America. Faced with enabling his company's sales with IT that would bring Parsec cost-effectiveness and few headaches, setting up the IT shop in India was a no-brainer. But Jagga took it a step further by not investing in any stand-alone customer relationship management software. He bought seats on Salesforce.com's enterprise edition to enable a sales team that operates from a call center in Gurgaon.