Hewlett-Packard has elected to go the road less travelled to find its new CEO. It was a move few industry …
The end of outsourcing
Most outsourcing analysts and consultants will tell you that the future of the traditional IT services industry is uncertain. Arjun …
Application strategy in a cloud world
Look at where technology is going, or where it’s dragging us, and you see two unstoppable forces that, if mismanaged, …
Framework Wise
CIOs have long struggled to measure and demonstrate the business value of IT investments. But there’s a relatively new approach …
Molding the Future
In the world of enterprise software, there are but a handful of “rock star” analysts who cover the industry well, …
Package Deal
Q: Is there any particular reason for your visit to the Middle East now? A: I am in town …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Setting new standards
AS STEVE JOBS WOULD HAVE IT, THE RECENTLY UNVEILED iPhone 4 represents the biggest revision for the iPhone since the …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Kevin Scott
Kevin’s key responsibilities include leading the sales teams focused on Large Enterprises, communicating the value of SAP solutions, representing SAP MENA in …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker:Fadi Hindi
Fadi Hindi is the Head of Strategic IT Planning & Enterprise Architecture at Dubai Customs. Hindi has eighteen years …
2010 tech career outlook
The good news is that not everyone’s predictions are as dire as Hackett’s, and there are several pockets of demand …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
Stuck with a duopoly
Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM? Loosely defined as software …
Executive exchange
At the recent SAP user group (SUG) MENA meet held in Bahrain, customers of the German-software giant got together to …
Reviving ERP
Everybody knows it. The major ERP suites are old and not as flexible as some newer stuff, and they can’t build …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …