Having IT and business leaders speaking two different languages is a dysfunction no organization can afford in today's down economy, writes Greg Baker of Logicalis.

Combined with enterprise architecture, SOA can help you meet the demands of the business and IT, writes Stephen Bennett of Oracle.

Data strategy and business strategy are inexorably linked, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Paul Barth of New Vantage Partners.

CIOs need to provide the business with options, write CIOUpdate guest columnists JeffreyShaffer and Douglas Schrock of Crowe Horwath.

CIOUpdate guest columnist Jez Humble of ThoughtWorks Studios explains DevOps or how to end the cycle of finger pointing and deploy software that actually works.

While C-level execs control cloud buying decisions, most still don't measure ROI, said The Open Group.

Software asset management should never be viewed as a “nice to have," writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Phara McLachlan, of Animus Solutions.

Believe or not, they want you to, writes CIOUpdate columnist Patty Azzarello of the Azzarello Group.