Big ideas heard at the InformationWeek 500 conference include a renewed focus on innovation, the importance of data visualization, and the ongoing agony of maintenance fees. By Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek October 23, 2010 06:00 AM My top-level take away from the recent InformationWeek 500 Conference is that the economic doldrums may not be completely over, [...]

By Erika Morphy E-Commerce Times 10/19/10 2:17 PM PT Growth in IT spending will be sluggish over the next few years, suggested Gartner, but companies will likely be more creative in making their investment decisions, becoming far more willing to spend on new technologies such as social network analysis, cloud computing and context-aware computing. Global [...]

Growth is back on the agenda of IT leaders. There’s still a great deal of caution, but that’s the conclusion we see in InformationWeek’s 2010 Global CIO Survey of 333 U.S. IT leaders, either C-level or VP. Download the data charts and see what our latest research has to say about the CIO state of [...]

Ellison admits Oracle trails SAP in enterprise applications and IBM in high-end servers, but lays out plans for becoming #1 in each sector. Citing surging demand across his software portfolio and ongoing optimism about his new hardware assets, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has brashly declared war against the two companies currently leading Oracle in key [...]