As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Interest in offering employee-owned notebook programs (also referred to as "BYO", “BYOC” and “Bring Your Own Computer”) is growing due to better technology, rising user demand and increasing pressure on organizations to reduce costs. A realistic preparedness assessment is critical to meeting business objectives and avoiding additional costs. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

Read this white paper to learn why Gartner analysts believe cloud computing and event processing will completely change the face of enterprise IT architecture by 2015. 

Listen to this brief podcast now as Gartner analyst Mark McDonald discusses the roles of amplifiers in the enterprise, touching on how mobility, cloud computing, analytics and social media are driving companies today. Also learn how cost, complexity and duplication can hinder collaboration efforts. 

Cloud technologies and new opportunities in mobile computing will allow organisations to innovate in new ways. This report examines the new business strategies that cloud and mobility can enable. 

As a consequence of tightening budgets and increasing uncertainties, government organizations are looking at how to leverage cloud computing as a model to ensure greater flexibility, lower costs, more-rapid provisioning and greater focus on areas that are more domain-specific. 

This report from Gartner describes six distinctly different styles of "money-making CIO" that are likely to evolve between 2011 and 2020. 

Despite well-publicised concerns regarding security, compliance and data integration issues, banking institutions have begun embracing cloud computing across the services spectrum. 

Programming is a journey between the real world and a computer. This article explains why object orientation is currently the best way we have of making the journey. 

Retail, like virtually all other industries, is awash with stories about the emergence of cloud computing. Much hasbeen written about the ability to remove cost or to greatly speed up implementations. 

This white paper offers a rapid, flexible and simple approach to connect your enterprise and cloud applications in mere days.