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What Bad Programming Costs | IT Chief Of The Year

What Bad Programming Costs | IT Chief Of The Year
December 12, 2011
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Between The Lines Columnist Starbucks' Stephen Gillett: InformationWeek's IT Chief of The Year
By Chris Murphy
Starbucks' CIO blends technology, marketing, and innovation, a winning formula in our annual recognition of IT leadership.

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Badly Programmed Apps Costing IT More
Cast Software's analysis of 365 million lines of code shows hurry-up development passes along problems to enterprise IT.

Kindle Fire: Major Software Update Soon
Amazon says the patch will resolve customers' gripes about performance and privacy on the hot-selling tablet.

Dell Resellers Pitch EHRs To Physicians
Computer maker partners with value-added resellers on electronic health record hardware, software, and services for small medical practices.

HP Blows Through Final TouchPad Stock On eBay
HP sold the last of its TouchPad tablet stock through a firesale that nearly broke eBay. Was demand sparked by HP's open sourcing of webOS?

Microsoft, GE Tackle Healthcare Analytics, Data Aggregation
Joint venture will market an open source technology platform and develop applications that focus on interoperability and advanced analytics.

Database Security's Biggest Problem: People
Many database security projects arrive DOA because database administrators and security pros aren't singing the same tune.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. -- Arnold H. Glasow

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• Evaluation Guide for Cloud ERP
• Attend Enterprise Connect

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Flexibility or Death: Choosing a BI Platform that can help you thrive
Flexibility and "agility" are mandatory to maintain market competitiveness and to ensure long term viability. In fact, companies that implement agile budgeting and forecasting models on average are more profitable and have larger market shares than their competitors who don't. Learn what the challenges and benefits of agile budgeting are - and how choosing the right business intelligence platform can help you achieve the goal of a more agile, more responsive - and ultimately more profitable - business.
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Online tools let you get going fast and pay as you go, two factors that appeal especially to SMBs. From productivity to analytics, these 10 apps deserve your attention.

10 Epic Android Apps
Among the hundreds of thousands of Android apps, we've rounded up 10 epic, must-have choices. These apps will save your bacon, day in and day out.

7 Health Education Tools For Patients
Patients can benefit by getting a variety of healthcare information electronically--as these seven options prove. The tools also help healthcare organizations comply with the HITECH Act Meaningful Use requirements.

5 Cloud Lessons Learned From Finance Industry Gurus
The advantages of private clouds and the lack of good IT talent gets Boston members of the Wall Street Technology Association talking.

 


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12 EHR Vendors That Stand Out
 With the federal incentive program for electronic health records well underway, hundreds of companies are selling EHRs. InformationWeek Healthcare has cut through the noise and identified a dozen vendors worth watching. View Now

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Former Hacker: Software Should Be More Secure
Charlie Miller, a former hacker turned information security consultant, spoke at the recent conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.   Watch

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