Gulf Air shunned the expensive solutions of the big vendors jumping on the Big Data bandwagon, and became the first Middle East organisation to implement the technology by embracing open-source software with an in-house team.
Clean bill of health
In the pursuit of top-quality healthcare, Zulekha Hospital enrolled Elitser Technologies to help implement ITIL best practices and gain certification …
Social ROI: Our Industry’s Screaming Goat
Mike Stiles, Senior Content Manager, Oracle, on how to measure social return on investment. You know the screaming goat meme, right? It’s …
The spaghetti problem
Senior IT executives gathered in Jumeirah Emirates Towers on April 24th to discover how enterprise architecture can help them avoid …
Whose job is it, anyway?
A growing number of Middle East CIOs are hiring specialised service providers to manage their organisation’s infrastructure. Is this the …
Telepresence of mind for ROI
The most important question on the mind of every CIO when pitching a project to senior management revolves entirely around …
Calculating cloud ROI
When the time comes to get in line to ask the chief financial officer (CFO) for budget money for cloud …
Big data is for everyone, not just large enterprises, says Oracle
Companies should not make the careless mistake of assuming they do not have big data out there to take advantage …
IT investments deliver profits: research
Investing in IT departments can have a bigger impact on a firm’s profits than similar spending on R&D and some …
Social media offers opportunities that traditional platforms don’t: British Business Group
Social media provides a direct ROI that is simple to measure, despite businessmen claiming the contrary, says Alan Devereux, Communications …