Understanding the needs of society, as opposed to showcasing feats of technology, is pivotal to the long-term success of the robotics industry. While hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on cool robotics demonstrations, the industry...

Every year, around this time, I publish an estimate of what Q4, the "Christmas Quarter," will look like, particularly from the perspective of technology markets. For almost all vendors, it represents the busiest quarter of the year, often by...

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Every IT department needs to match its maturity level with the needs and wants of the organization, not the desires and interests of the IT team. There are three levels of IT maturity: firefighting, housekeeping, and innovating. As IT...

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Ninety-six percent of respondents believe that IT activities and the IT department maturity level must be aligned with business priorities and plans, but only 41% are actually parallel. This storyboard helps assess the current and ideal levels...

Solution Set

IT leaders must wear many hats in order to address both operational and strategic initiatives as laid out by the business. They need to formalize process, stabilize technology, and bring key people on board.

A great number of electrons have been accelerated in describing Google's move to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings for about $12.5B. During a dinner I shared with MS Chief Research and Strategy Officer (and member) Craig Mundie that evening,...

Steve Jobs calls this the "Post-PC Era," so maybe it's all his fault. On the other hand, Gartner ought to take its share of the blame, since it was the first to start putting out misleading titles about PC vs. pad and netbook sales suggesting...

Vendor Research

Info-Tech conducted a survey of 285 North American technology solution providers, which revealed their interest and ability to make money from cloud-based solutions and services.

Few firms can get by these days without good information and communications technology (ICT). Thankfully, much of today’s tech is perfectly tailored to the needs of small and mid-sized enterprises; there are software programs, apps and...

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The ease-of-use of SharePoint leads to the false expectation that all IT needs to do is install and let each department begin using it, which results in disorganized and poorly implemented SharePoint solutions. Use this tool to assess the...

(15-Feb-11) After a two-year absence, IBM's PartnerWorld Leadership conference is back and nearly 2000 business partners from around the world have descended on Orlando to hear the latest on IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) technology roadmap and...

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies while discarding obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies while discarding obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies and discard obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

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To maintain parity with competitors and exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of new technologies, while discarding obsolete ones. Assess which of Info-Tech's 2011 technology trends the...

Solution Set

To maintain parity with competitors and especially to exceed their capabilities, IT must take advantage of the ongoing introduction and evolution of exciting new technologies, while discarding obsolete ones.

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Each year there are numerous technology developments that provide IT with opportunities to offer extended value to the organization. Some simplify IT's work. Others are just plain cool. And some create challenges for IT in its traditional role...

Today, we face a greater challenge: preventing past and current human activities from bringing so much climate change upon our species that we suffer beyond imagination. While fools spend money to make sure no action is taken, so they can make a...

Let's look at the two major worlds of consumer commerce, and give a cold assessment of what we see, in terms of profits.

You have watched the industry strategic energies move over time from fewer users of more powerful machines, to a global base of users of many types of less-expensive computing and communications devices. It is almost fair to wonder about the...

Publisher's Note: For several years now, we have been watching, predicting, and documenting the basic military profiles of China and Japan, but only as they have affected international trade and markets. The latest aspect of this would be the...

(4-Aug-10) High school teacher-in-training Demos Antonopoulos does just about everything over the net, including watching movies, gaming, surfing on his iPhone and downloading music. So you can imagine Antonopoulos’ relief when he learned a...

(21-May-10) The age of innocence, when companies could rely on only basic security to keep their systems safe, is sadly long gone. This presents a challenge for smaller organizations: How do they keep their computers and data secure without...

(21-May-10) In Internet time, with Web apps seemingly continuously updated, last fall’s release of Win7 seems eons ago. Although the new OS is an undeniable hit with consumers—its rate of initial adoption is twice that of much-maligned...

Last week I had a chance to do my second interview with Mark Hurd, recently departed CEO of Hewlett-Packard and now president of Oracle. We covered a great deal of technology landscape in 45 minutes, and one of the critical issues we covered...

Premium Resource

Learn how your IT department compares to your peers in the Insurance Services sector by using Info-Tech's IT Budget & Staffing report. The attached PDF contains a consolidated report covering both Financial and Insurance services research.

There are times when something critically important is being missed by not only the larger, non-specialist community involved, but even by those at the core of the conversation. I am going to focus this week's issue on a problem of that nature.

A little jostling for market share is always a good thing, and the occasional sector blowup or segment technology revolution keeps everyone on their toes and healthy. But what happens when a global duopoly in the most strategic technology sector...

Intel Corporation and McAfee, Inc. announced a definitive agreement for Intel to purchase McAfee. The purchase price is currently set at USD$7.68 billion where Intel will purchase all of McAfee's common stock for $48 per share. The deal is...

Publisher's Note: Our Asia Editor is in Stealth Mode, for reasons you are free to guess, and which we will neither deny nor confirm. Suffice it to say that he is happily employed and is producing the kind of terrific insight and on the ground...