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Oblix focuses on identity management

CTO Enrique Salem explains his company's approach to securing access privileges

Farming out CRM

Outsourced CRM is poised to take off as companies look to avoid the frustrations and failures of implementing CRM in-house

The next big thing

Before you leap at the opportunity to use Web services, use experience as a guide to possible pitfalls

In praise of laziness

Applauding the unlikely qualities that CTOs should look for to create an effective and efficient IT team

Fostering a CTO community

A rise in CTO professional groups across the country provides both aspiring and current chief technologists with opportunities to mentor and be mentored

Divided security focus

Finding a niche

Gruvo's CTO uses animation and live chat to grab eyeballs in the auction marketplace

Self-service CRM

CRM price optimization

Sun rises on Java Web services

CTO Demo 2002 road trip

A CTO finds some interesting offerings at the Demo conference

Terraspring fights waste

CTO Ashar Aziz describes the need for intelligent systems management tools

Don’t lean too heavily on the ‘code of ethics’

Written ethical rules may have unintended consequences

Salesforce.com ramps up

Infravio exec explains why run-time management of Web services is the next big challenge for IT

Buy versus build

Don't expect Web services to ride in like a white knight that will slay all your integration dragons

Peer to peer pays off

Whenever CTOs have the opportunity to network with one another, they should take it

A grip on the grid

Networking CTOs lead the way

A towering decision

For Tower Records, the question was whether to develop or outsource a better search engine

Rules engines get power users running

Droplets execs explain the benefits of their service in delivering full GUI applications online

All is not lost for privacy

There's no need to make a bad problem worse

Taken out of context

Question today's popular notion that your business should outsource everything but its core functions

To the editor

Backbone builder

Terremark CTO brought all his talents to bear on construction of the 'NAP of the Americas'

Insuring IT innovation

Squeezed by tighter competition and budgets, insurance industry CTOs face unique product integration and customer challenges

A genuine gee whiz

802.11 is a wireless wonder, and there are sound business reasons for CTOs to consider buying

The bottom line

Web services today

Understanding the WLAN alphabet

Insurance goes to PARIS

Intraspect execs explain why knowledge management is critical to the enterprise

Finding the culprits in Enron

Getting to the bottom of the scandal of the century

Insurance industry imposes unique burdens on its CTOs

BEA exec discusses the Cajun Web services development tool

Transforming the datacenter

Server blades' flexibility and low-cost nature is changing the architecture of the future

Relationships matter

In designing relationships, what is more important — skills or manners?

Surviving the shakeout

2001 tested the fiscal health of companies big and small. Some dot-coms prospered by turning back to basics and to CTOs

Netting options for connectivity

High-speed optical links and Ethernet technologies give businesses more flexibility in their connectivity choices — and a chance to avoid monolithic ILECs

Optimistic skepticism

The promise of Web services is there, but providers and customers need to know the downside

Gazing at the future

Youknowbest's CTO leans on Web services when building the company's shopping service

W3C’s chairman talks about the momentum of the Web services standards effort

iBusinessHub’s CEO talks about facilitating the integration of business processes

Meaningless choice is no choice

When your options multiply, watch out

Campfire wisdom

Before you redesign internal relationships, listen to tales that tell the truth about those relationships now

Charting IT’s costs

Managers ditch homegrown applications for professional services automation to track time and costs of IT projects and services

Selling outsourcing

Critical business initiatives are only as good as the around-the-clock technical support they get

Streamlining IT

Textron's chief technologist is transforming the conglomerate's operations with a tech infusion

Commerce Events’ CEO discusses the drive to create real-time environments across supply lines

Moving into real time

Enterprises can now do business with up-to-the-minute data feeds, but getting all the pieces in place may be challenging