GigaWorld Europe 2004

All the news from Forrester's biggest European conference

Outsourcing

Outsourcing is all about managing your relationships. So how have the most successful companies gone about it, and how are their staff coping?

Integration

Successful integration leads to successful businesses. The more effectively your business or employer can make its software and hardware work together, from business processes to databases, the more effective it is

Outsourcing: know the risks

Organisations are making ever greater use of specialist IT contractors, but the relationship with suppliers needs careful management.

The Value Report

Making efficiency more than just a buzzword.

Offshore outsourcing

An opportunity to improve business processes, or a danger to the UK's IT industry? The outsourcing issue continues to provoke lively debate.

IT outsourcing

The appeal of outsourcing is widening as companies seek to offload the complexity and cost of running IT systems, but for some the risks are still too great.

IT: the real value

The debate about the future of IT needs to face facts: value means more than return on investment or total cost of ownership. Computing's Value Reports lead a debate at a crucial time in the evolution of business technology.

Junk mail

The term 'spam' may have been popularised by a Monty Python sketch but, in the electronic world, junk mail is far from a laughing matter.

IT Week Comment [obsolete page]

Comment, IT Week

IT WEEK FOCUS: IT Services

As the services market changes, how can IT buyers benefit?

Gartner Symposium/ ITxpo Cannes 2002

Vendor bloodbath, Windows cheaper than Linux, the real-time enterprise: Get all the news from this year's event

IT WEEK FOCUS: HP Compaq

Exploring the business implications of Compaq's merger with Hewlett-Packard

Microsoft Licensing 6.0

The deadline is here

IT WEEK FOCUS: IT & Finance

Exploring the relationship between IT and finance managers

Commonwealth Games 2002

Computing reports on the technology driving the Games

Cebit 2002

Roll up, roll up for the biggest IT show on earth

ICL: The end of an era

NetEvents: Telecoms and Networking

The NetEvents European Telecoms & Networking Symposium in Portugal set down a programme that included analyst and vendor takes on industry hot topics. These included questions such as why European telcos are facing mounting debts and falling share prices, and what is the key to ensure profitability in the future, which were brought before a panel of experts.

The new Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard has shocked the industry after proposing to buy rival Compaq Computer for $25bn. If the merger comes off it will be the largest take-over the computing industry has seen to date, creating a giant with current assets of over $55bn. But the move could have adverse consequences for employees, products and users.

The Channel

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