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• What’s the big deal about Big Data?

  Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 0 Comments
  

  Last week I attended The Cloud Analytics Summit in Mountain View, CA, taking with me a number of new insights on the increasingly buzz-worthy topic of Big Data. The discussions were exciting not so much because of the technologies or case studies presented, but because of the way Big Data was framed as a concept.  More »

• CIOs: Get a grip…on the cloud!

  Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 0 Comments
  

  A year ago, I attended a conference during which it was estimated that 60 percent of active IT projects were being implemented without engaging IT. How is this possible? Cloud services have allowed business users to go around IT when deploying new systems, and this trend continues to accelerate.  More »

• Supply chain is now a top 10 priority for CIOs. It’s about time.

  Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Friday, February 17, 2012 - 0 Comments
  

  The Japanese tsunami and the flooding in Thailand last year were wake-up calls for many companies, forcing them to see the need for serious investments in better collaborative execution tools. More »

• The changing role of IT—services, not servers

  Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 0 Comments
  

  The role of “IT” within an organization has changed dramatically over the last decade or so—and continues to evolve. At the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit in Orlando this past Monday, Gartner Research VP David Cappuccio described the role of IT in this way: “to provide a service to a customer, not a server.” Well put.  More »