Business & IT alignment
I first read about Business and IT Alignment in January 1993. To be precise it was an excellent article in the IBM Systems Journal by Broadbent and Weill on the Australian banking industry efforts to...
View ArticleDisruptive technology? Not really
Global directors and general managers are riding the wave of innovation. 62 per cent want integrated IM and email. Two thirds want BYOD. A quarter of under-35s are using Facebook for work. This year’s...
View ArticleIT, marketing and the skills shortage
As computing gets less expensive every year, the reality is that data is cheap and plentiful. The skills to exploit that data are not. That point — raised here at Gartner’s ITxpo by an executive from...
View ArticleDo banks need to be IT experts?
There is no doubt that banks are hugely dependent upon technology to deliver services to their customers. But banks differ significantly as to how they address this need. For many years, Santander has...
View ArticleBenefiting From “The Ultimate Network Capacity Test”
At our Istanbul CXO Summit, business and technology leaders heard first hand about the learning from the “most connected Olympic Games ever”. And they shared their own perspectives on what the demands...
View ArticleWhy Embracing Cloud is Common Sense?
BT has come third in a list of global companies that dominate the cloud market — behind Amazon in first place and IBM in second. And just last week we were rated as a “leading” supplier of cloud in...
View ArticleGlobal Horizons for the Cloud
As part of our series on cloud as common sense, we’re highlighting the global reach of BT Cloud Compute, showing how it makes light work of things you most need cloud-based systems to do — anywhere in...
View ArticleCloud: Strategy or Technology?
I actually don’t like the term ‘cloud’, because it distracts people from the reality of what it is, that is a collection of IT services, not some ethereal concept to be afraid of. Cloud is like getting...
View ArticleCloud services offer a single solution to brands trying to break into Asia
By: James Layard, Business Development Director, CPG and Retail Industry sectors, AMEA With over sixteen million shops servicing four billion consumers across the Pan-Asia region, this continent...
View ArticleWhy a blend of services is better than one cloud fits all
By: Neil Lock, General Manager, BT Compute I think cloud is easy, and shouldn’t be daunting. It’s about buying IT processes as a service. But while you might be outsourcing some of your business...
View ArticleBe part of the Data Centre Services Summit 2013
By John Gillam, CTO, Cloud Services, BT It is predicted that by 2016 as much as 64 per cent of all data centre traffic will be processed in the cloud rather than on-premise. But how secure is the...
View ArticleRevealing trends in the data centre
John Leonard, Research Editor at Computing magazine, discusses the results of their research into the future of the UK data centre. We’ve just completed an extensive programme of research into the...
View ArticleDefence and intelligence: the next steps
By Jon Thompson, Permanent Secretary of the MOD Information is critical to every aspect of the Defence business: from managing our finances to communicating on the battlefield; from understanding the...
View ArticleBetter cloud through Microsoft Azure
By Neil Sutton, Vice President, Global Portfolio at BT Global Services Cloud: on paper, it’s one of the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs we’ve had in recent years. In practice? The...
View ArticleThe lifecycle of trade
By Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA, Senior Research Director, CEB TowerGroup Over the last 10 years, a lot of automation has taken place across the trade lifecycle, from institutional trading, to middle-office...
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