Enterprise Applications

“Best” BlackBerry Apps: Not All Lists Are Created Equal

High Travel Prices Leading to More Web and Video Conferencing

With the cost of airfare going up, more companies have begun looking into video conferencing to see each other in real time time and web conferencing software to help them do it, according to analysts and vendors in the online conferencing market.

Microsoft SharePoint Add-On Tracks Usage, Value

A reporting tool from Nintex, a Microsoft partner, could help CIOs and other information technology leaders learn how their SharePoint sites are being utilized and by whom, so companies can build a more devoted user base.n

The Benefits of the All-SaaS Shop: Money, Application Integration, and Did We Mention Money?

While many companies have dabbled with adopting software as a service, one CIO at an open-source database vendor has taken the plunge. "On premise" software applications have become a thing of the past.

CIO’s 50 Most Popular Articles

From 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless to Six Free BlackBerry Downloads You Don't Want to Miss to 5 Things You'll Love about Firefox 3, take a look at the most popular articles from May through July.

The CIA’s CIO navigates a tense line between making data visible and keeping secrets

The CIA's big IT revamp required a resetting of relationships among IT and operations leaders, getting the mission side of the agency involved in data-sharing discussions and project management. And the CIA's CIO found himself navigating a

How IT moved to center stage at the CIA in the wake of 9/11

The CIA suffered through budget and personnel cuts and was a less-focused place in the days after the Cold War ended, and its IT systems struggled to aid in the CIA's new missions. But everything changed on 9/11, and IT became a focal point in t

Doctors Group Mashup Uses SaaS Apps to Staff Hospitals During Hurricanes

Using SaaS apps such as Google Maps and Salesforce.com, the Schumacher Group, which provides staffing to hospitals in the south and Gulf of Mexico regions, has built a mashup that shows the likely location of both on-duty and off-duty physicians, an

Who Is Al Tarasiuk?

The details on the CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency

Inside the CIA’s Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 1

Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments t