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Turn single-user spreadsheets into multi-user business applications

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Turn single-user spreadsheets into multi-user business applications
Practically every organization has workgroups that depend on spreadsheets to manage a business process. Sharing the spreadsheets via email or SharePoint can be a hassle, especially when multiple people need to enter data or make changes to the data. Now there is a Web-based tool that turns a single-user spreadsheet into a secure, multi-user database that's as easy to use as Microsoft Excel. Read More


WEBCAST: CA Technologies

Close the Gap between IT and Business
Join a panel of international experts as they discuss methods to implement a more proactive approach to application lifecycle management and best practices to ensure an exceptional user experience. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

The Most Important Metric for your VMs
The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More

10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search
Is your job search lagging? Not seeing the results you'd like? Check out these ten expert tips from CIO.com's Kristin Burnham to enhance your search. Read More

Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill
With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

The People Side of Converged Infrastructure
IT is undergoing a massive shift. CIOs are looking for more flexible architectures that will allow them to quickly react to business needs. The Converged Infrastructure delivers the flexibility that CIOs need, with a high level of simplicity and automation that accelerates business outcomes while reducing costs. Read now

'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO
"You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.'' Read More

iOS 5 Meets the Enterprise
Get ready, CIOs! Apple unleashed iOS 5 today, which means employees using iPhones and iPads will be bringing the new operating system to work as soon as tomorrow. The good news is that iOS 5 has plenty of benefits for the enterprise. Read More


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Special Digital Edition: Wan Optimization
This Network World Spotlight Digital Edition, prepared by Network World editors, provides an in-depth look at the latest WAN optimization developments. Read now

Extending the life of your data center
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -- that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had originally planned. Now, even though the school needs a facility with more capacity and better connectivity, Kossuth has been forced to back-burner the issue because of the iffy economic times. Read More

VIDEO: IDG editors reflect on Steve Jobs' legacy
As part of our coverage of the death of Steve Jobs, we've put together a video with several of the editors at IDG Enterprise, the group that comprises the publications of Computerworld, Network World, CIO.com, ITworld and others. Whether you loved him or hated him, Steve Jobs had an impact on all of our lives, both personally and professionally. Read More



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