Technology

The CIO View

Michael Jones and Maureen Hayes tell Twin Cities Business about their IT organizations.


Cloud Confidence

Cloud Confidence

Cloud computing is reaching the middle market.

February 2011

Bring Your Own PC

Bring Your Own PC

BYOPC (bring your own personal computer) has been embraced by a handful of leading technology companies. But it faces resistance from managers concerned with security, liability, and the potential for support headaches.

September 2010

Negotiating Software Costs

Negotiating Software Costs

Software vendors are experimenting with new pricing models—in many cases it involves making less money upfront and more from long-term maintenance costs.

September 2010

business intelligence, dashboards, business metrics

Business Intelligence and Dashboard

Increasingly, companies are extracting information from their databases to feed dashboards—computer displays that offer at-a-glance measures of how the business is doing.

March 2010

B2B Goes Web-Centric

B2B Goes Web-Centric

More and more B2Bs are using their sites not as static presences but as active players in the selling process.

December 2009

The Get-Along Gang

The Get-Along Gang

IT and marketing needs do sometimes conflict, causing projects to derail and resources to be squandered.

December 2009

Visi’s data center, which offers managed hosting and cloud computing services.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing—the renting of virtual servers, software, and hard drives—is providing a range of benefits to businesses that want to focus on their core competencies.

September 2009

IT Cost Management

IT Cost Management

Twin Cities experts offer advice on the best options for trimming IT budgets.

September 2009

Kristina Halvorson, president of Minneapolis-based Brain Traffic.

The Wisdom—and Editing—of Crowds

Minneapolis Web content guru Kristina Halvorson explains how she used crowd sourcing to write her new book.

September 2009

web hosting

Choosing a Web Hosting Firm

Web hosting firms can help you choose the right option, such as shared hosting, a dedicated server, managed services, or a virtual server.

June 2009

Closing the Loop

Closing the Loop

Closed loop CRM provides the most complete picture of your customer base.

March 2009

Putting the Serve in Server

Putting the Serve in Server

Service-oriented architecture improves how quickly an organization can bring a new business capability into the enterprise.

March 2009

BusinessCard2

The Business Card, Supercharged

A new kind of business card better suited for the times?

November 2008

Jim Griffin

After the Merger: Integrating IT

All technology changes are traumatic. So what happens when two merging companies have to choose between their respective systems?

September 2008

Computers Go Green

Computers Go Green

Eagan-based Greeneye Technologies aims for computers that can cut energy costs.

September 2008

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