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  • Interview: Bill Murphy, Hilton's new CIO/CTO

    Posted February 11, 2013 - 12:43 pm

    For Hilton Worldwide's Bill Murphy, attaining the rank of CIO didn't mean his CTO duties disappeared. His slate of new projects includes standardization of the hotel chain's property management platform across 3,900 hotels, rollout of a wireless platform and implementation of an ERP platform.

  • ERP makes a comeback

    Posted December 21, 2011 - 5:08 pm

    Most big companies rolled out their first ERP systems more than a decade ago. Now one in four businesses plans to upgrade or roll out a new ERP system

  • 10 biggest ERP software failures of 2011

    Posted December 20, 2011 - 10:43 am

    With the year drawing to a close, one thing seems abundantly clear: There are still an awful lot of ERP and other software projects running off the rails out there.

  • Legacy application fixer-uppers

    Posted November 7, 2011 - 12:47 pm

    Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive and thus difficult to justify; plus, it tends to interrupt operations. Here's how 3 companies solved their legacy application problems.

  • Vendors roll ERP for medical marijuana dispensaries

    Posted April 25, 2011 - 1:52 pm

    You know an industry has reached critical mass when vendors start developing software for it, and that time has come for medical marijuana.

  • The best open source applications

    Posted August 26, 2010 - 9:00 am

    InfoWorld's Test Center picks the top open source applications of 2010

  • Inside the CIO's 'Big Four' Application Priorities

    Posted March 30, 2010 - 11:35 am

    ERP, CRM, BI and supply chain are among the most core applications to enterprises. Where are CIOs paying the most attention? CIO magazine's new "Technology Priorities" survey shows where companies are in their application evolutions.

  • Bending the back office: Open source CRM and ERP

    Posted June 25, 2009 - 3:41 pm

    Open source "alternatives" from SugarCRM, Openbravo, and Compiere have tapped the power of open source development to make customization easy, but the line between community and commercial is quickly crossed.

  • What Customers Want from ERP Vendors on Software Pricing

    Posted June 15, 2009 - 9:52 am

    "Cost reduction" is, according to a Forrester Research survey of nearly 2,300 IT executives, the single most important goal for 2009. But beyond that, what are technology decision-makers looking to get from their ERP, CRM, BI and supply chain application vendors?

  • How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People

    Posted April 27, 2009 - 10:35 am

    Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment -- from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment -- comes with some amount of risk.
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