In a week filled with mobile madness and malarkey of all kinds I have decided to buck the trend and talk about music, mainframes and meringues. Music was my previous blog on coding tunes, so now to ...

Because so much organizational work is done in silos, we sometimes forget the common skills and approaches that can be leveraged across the enterprise. One such skill is portfolio management, the ...

CIOs and the IT departments they are responsible for often spend very little of their budget on new development, implementation or upgrade projects. When they do, there are a multitude of products ...

The biggest single business issue that many IT organizations wrestle with is trying to contain the size of the applications portfolio they are asked to manage. Many organizations simply fail to take a ...

Federal CIO Tony Scott said he would declare victory for FITARA if it helped agencies determine their most important IT assets. Chris Steel, chief solutions architect for Software AG Government ...

Reducing the number of applications can save money, but be prepared for a potentially tedious inventory process -- and for users with emotional attachments. Paul Valente, a Chicago Public Schools ...

At Paris-based Veolia, executives see a bright future in helping to deliver the smart cities of tomorrow. Much will depend, of course, on the €26 billion company’s success in deploying digital ...

According to the global IT research and advisory firm, strategic portfolio management has evolved from various other capabilities and vendor solutions but is often misunderstood, which can make ...