Today`s CIO is faced with an unprecedented set of challenges. While this statement has been made many times, by many market commentators over the last five years, never has it been more true than today.

The fancy name for e-billing is electronic bill presentment and payment, or EBPP. While most organisations are still coming to grips with the first `p`, this year promises to be the year of the second `p`.

At a time of collapsing world markets, Contracts for Difference (CFD) trading continues to flourish.

Managers should realise that consolidation is key to successful corporate performance management.

Few people in business today can be unaware of the impact of poor data on the effectiveness of customer management, along with other important aspects of business.

South African hospitals should follow America`s lead and put technology to work to help free nurses to do what they do best - care for patients.

Providing depth and breadth in software and hardware requires distributor intervention.

Business intelligence has become a bit like the all-seeing eye: pervasive, ubiquitous and all-encompassing.

With the advent of e-billing, billers and recipients are uncertain about the legal validity of e-bills.

Without a clear picture of a company`s financial status, no performance management effort can succeed.

Many managers and executives confuse traditional outsourcing with business process outsourcing. This leads to a missed opportunity.

Now that the war in Iraq has started, what we can expect the markets to do?