Guest Blog post by Bob Violino Employees’ ability to share knowledge with their co-workers about market trends, customer demands, best practices and other information is critical to success in today’s highly competitive business environment. Given the frenetic pace of change and the need to be continuously innovative, workers need to be able to effectively and easily keep in touch with each other, share documents, view demonstrations and otherwise work together to grow the business and better serve customers. Enterprises find that they have an ever-increasing need to allow their employees to work in an environment that is more connected, using tools such as social media sites, unified communications and customer relationship management (CRM) to share ideas and collaborate in real time in a way that increases productivity. Social networking is playing a significant role in helping to build more collaborative enterprises. Each day, more people are becoming more familiar with social media...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino The Internet and social media are making collaboration easier than ever, and many companies are finding that they have an ever-increasing need to allow their employees to be more connected — using tools to share ideas in ways that boost productivity and provide more di...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect The face of today’s CIO has changed dramatically. Once upon a time the CIO was only concerned about the business of IT, from the development process and implementation to the operation of the IT world. What these CIO’s ...

Take a sneak peek at some of the buzz around Big Data at the Microsoft's recent US CIO Summit in Redmond, WA. CIOs share their thoughts on opportunities around Big Data and how SQL Server 2012 will help their companies lead the way in this new world of data.

Take an exclusive look into the Microsoft US Spring 2012 CIO Summit as Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor from the Economist shares his thoughts on the data deluge. Is "big data" on your agenda? According to most analysts, it should be. How a business uses data today has significant implications for how co...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect The face of today’s CIO has changed dramatically. Once upon a time the CIO was only concerned about the business of IT, from the development process and implementation to the operation of the IT world. What these CIO’s have learned, and some the hard way, is that isn’t enough. This narrow view has gotten IT in a load of trouble over the years. This is manifested in many ways, the first being how consumers leverage our products and services. In 2009, the Better Business Bureau in Vancouver Canada listed Computers and Technology as the number one complaint across all areas. As shown in the report, computer software and services are worse than those pesky car salesmen hunting you down on their lots. We not only see this from our consumer base but also from within our four walls. It is easier to not look at but there are systemic issues with the business of IT as it is today. As an example, the Standish Group...

By Eugene Saburi, General Manager, SQL Server Marketing Team We are excited about the launch of SQL Server 2012. Please join us for SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event kicks off on March 7, 2012 starting at 8:00AM Pacific (-8:00 GMT) with keynotes from Microsoft Executives including: Ted Kummert, C...

Written by Bob Violino, TechWeb A growing number of companies are moving to cloud computing environments to take advantage of potential benefits such as lower IT costs, increased efficiencies and the greater flexibility provided by the cloud model. Many of them are implementing private clouds or inf...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino Employees’ ability to share knowledge with their co-workers about market trends, customer demands, best practices and other information is critical to success in today’s highly competitive business environment. Given the frenetic pace of change and the need to be conti...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino The Internet and social media are making collaboration easier than ever, and many companies are finding that they have an ever-increasing need to allow their employees to be more connected — using tools to share ideas in ways that boost productivity and provide more di...