Enterprise Applications

Why Microsoft Office Going Free Would Be Good For Business (And Users)

Open Source ERP Grows Up

ERP has been a kind of final frontier for open source software. But now more IT leaders at midsize and smaller businesses are saying yes to open source software for ERP systems that pump the very heart of the business.

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