Enterprise Applications

Wired Asks the Wrong Question about Open Source

Forrester: Consolidated Web 2.0 Market to Reach $4.6 Billion By 2013

The vendor market will shrink as IBM and Microsoft absorb the majority of the Web 2.0 pie, says an analyst report.

Innovation, Disruption and Riding the Waves of Change: CIO’s New Partnership with LinkedIn

Four Facebook Faux Pas to Avoid

SAP Pays Partners, Goes with Gusto for Small and Medium-Sized Business Customers

Enterprise software vendors such as SAP and Oracle are hot on the trail of the SMB market, offering substantial referral fees to technology partners for delivering small and midsize customers to them.

CIO’s 50 Most Popular Articles

From programming language dos and don'ts to must-have BlackBerry tips and downloads to expert advice on how to be more successful, take a look at the most popular articles from January through March.

Socialtext To Add Features to Its Enterprise Wiki

Text Analytics: Your Customers are Talking About You

When your company's customers talk, do you listen closely and nquickly enough? More CIOs are deploying text analytics ntechnology to examine customer comments on websites, surveys and the like.n

Analysis: Salesforce’s Addition of Google Apps Shows Google’s Intent to Enter Business Software Market

By tapping into Salesforce's customer base and latching on to that company's reputation as a trusted corporate technology provider, Google can make inroads in selling its software to businesses.

The Man Behind ‘Half Off’ Third-Party Software Maintenance

Rimini Street's Seth Ravin has quietly amassed nearly 200 customers who don't want to pay Oracle's annual maintenance fees. In an interview, Ravin discusses why that's so, the turbulence in the market and whether SAP is next on hi