Social networking for businesses is taking off, as was evident at last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, because it allows workers to collaborate and knowledge share. Where will it be most useful? Social software can be applied anywhere but will work best in the areas of budgeting, customer support, governance, and compliance.

A new study has found that employees are the biggest security threat to a company's data. These security breaches aren't coming from disgruntled employees -- they're usually mistakes by workers who do things like download data onto their unsecured mobile devices and share passwords.

The market for corporate performance management (CPM) continues to grow, according to an April Gartner report, primarily because spreadsheets for CPM are being replaced with products that have built-in analytics.

Desktop virtual infrastructure (VDI) can save companies money by eliminating the need to maintain a fully configured PC for each employee and reducing the technical support burden.

How many IT vendors does a company need? The more IT vendors a company uses, the greater the overall cost, yet one vendor won't meet the needs of most companies.

There’s no one right way to organize IT, according to IT expert Richard Ross, however there are some basic guidelines to follow when trying to get your organization on track.

The dream of unified communications, which would allow the seamless flow of voice, data, video, and applications across different networks, protocols, vendors, and devices as if they were all one, is becoming a reality. Telecom vendors, carriers, and mobile providers are in on the action and major players like Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft are staking their turf.

Before you decide to outsource your company's IT, try these five steps to revitalize the current IT operation and make it competitive with outsourcing vendors.

Whether you win or lose, litigation is expensive. Tech tools can help cut the cost.

Companies are struggling to find out where the cash is and most are trying to generate it internally. To manage the issue, companies need visibility into organizations' cash-generation and cash-consuming activities, which requires performance management or business intelligence tools.