Research Notes

Short 'Inside Track' documents providing quick hit insights into industry talking points.

Scoping UC
Just how far should you go?

Can IT Financing and Management Models Survive IT Change?
SOA, virtualisation, Cloud, PaaS, IaaS – Service Models under pressure

Sensible business process management (BPM) for sensible times
Making business as usual, better

Ready for VoIP?
What companies need to consider when assessing VoIP

Videoconferencing comes of age for CIOs
It’s time to get in the picture?

Mid-market management software
Helping smaller organisations make the right choices

How bad are the bad guys?
The changing nature of Web security threats

Breaking out of the virtualisation pilot
Starting gates or flood gates?

Pricing the fluffy stuff
Is SaaS really a cheaper option?

Social computing - start small, think big
It doesn’t have to be a dirty word

Mobile broadband or WiFi? You betcha
Horses for wireless courses

Unified Communications in Context
Making the business case

Delivering on identity and access management
Does authorisation provide the link?

Making sense of energy
How CIOs can understand the cost of power

Perception versus reality in IT
Regular dialogue between IT and business essential to ensure good service alignment

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