New look for WizeHive

WizeHive, a free online collaboration tool that lets users share notes, ideas, files and other content to manage projects, has gotten a new look and a number of other changes, states eWeek.

The software boosts the number of files that can be uploaded at one time from one to 50, and the maximum uploaded file size is now 100MB.

Along with a better user interface designed to help users manage and track files more easily, these enhancements are geared to help WizeHive achieve scale as it seeks adoption against Google Apps, Central Desktop, Liquid Planner and other tools in the enterprise market.

Tight budgets have upped the ante in the IT projects organisations choose to pursue this year, and in some cases the CIO's involvement in those projects has increased as a result, consultants and practitioners say, according to Search CIO.

Yet, the CIO's contribution to project and portfolio management at large enterprises is more often about communication and change management strategy than other parts of the process, SearchCIO.com research shows.

CIOs are involved with managing the project portfolio or adjusting priorities among projects at less than 20% of organisations with more than 1 000 employees, according to our survey of 304 organisations this spring.

Once you strip away the financial, strategy and ad prospects for Microsoft's 10-year search partnership with Yahoo you're left with a lot of IT integration heavy lifting, writes ZDNet.

Make no mistake about it: The Microsoft-Yahoo search pact will flop if it doesn't have some good old-fashioned IT project management.

Sure, the first day headlines are about chasing Google and regulatory approval, but in the end it's about technology management. In the end, the real work will be the 24-month technology integration once the deal closes in early 2010.