Three factors driving the marketplace today are security, mobility and convenience. This is where smart cards come in. They really respond to the `anytime, anywhere` requirement and provide optimal extra security.

CIOs today have new responsibilities that will challenge and stretch them beyond their current capabilities.

When the phrase "content management" is mentioned in most boardrooms, it conjures up images of past glories of bygone dot-com days. However, this image is incorrect and potentially dangerous for organisations.

The Enron and WorldCom debacles rocked the core of the capitalism system but gave rise to a need to rethink business objectives.

A security policy outlines best practices and educates employees so that they can contribute to a safe work environment.

It`s a jungle out there: you`ll need to be careful on the content management path, as there is rich camouflage to trap unwary executives.

Companies looking to cut costs and reduce pressure on budgets are likely to target such areas as CRM which are viewed as discretionary. However, in many cases this would be a counter-productive, even destructive action.

There is an ongoing debate about the virtues of business software products and their ability to be deployed in heterogeneous environments.

A company can increase its sales ad infinitum, but if its margins are eroding, it runs the risk of destroying the business.

Technology has made it possible to gather more information on individuals than ever before, leading most people to protect their privacy ever more zealously.

The current trend to integrating enterprise business applications into suites presents new challenges to the extracting, transforming and loading process.

Metadata can make data warehouse management more manageable, but just as clean data is critical in data warehouse creation, accurate metadata management is a make or break aspect in the long-term success of a data-warehousing project.