IT Business

Our IT business section relates to intersection of techology and work. Related categories include IT careers, IT mananagement and enterprise.

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Top 5 Highest Paying IT Certifications and How to Get Them

May 25, 2012

Just why do you pursue IT certifications? Bragging rights? So that the boss to believe you when you say you're well-versed in Microsoft solutions? Or for...

10 Reasons It Doesn't Pay To Be The Computer Guy

May 22, 2012

I only met my brother’s ex-girlfriend’s family once - the year they invited our family over to share Thanksgiving dinner. Since we were basically a group...

How to Become an IT Director: Tips from the Top

May 21, 2012

Hoping to lead - rather than follow - orders some day? Join the club. Plenty of IT pros aspire to executive jobs, but only a few succeed at being promoted...

4 Top Tech Companies That Failed, Survived (and Even Thrived)

May 15, 2012

Everybody dreams about hitting that big jackpot: an immensely popular app, a game that is so addictive that kids and parents fight over playing time, a...

Millennials and Tech Jobs: A Match Made in Heaven?

May 10, 2012

Millennials. It's that group of people born between 1980 and 1995 (give or take), and the first truly tech-savvy generation. They grew up with computers...

How I Got an IT Job Without a Tech Background

May 02, 2012

Don't have an IT degree or special IT certifications? No problem. You can still get an IT job. I've done it - and then turned my experience into a...

CRM Meets Social Media

May 01, 2012

It used to be that customer relationship management (CRM) was all about a database of leads with contact information and other pertinent data. But CRM has...

How to Use Twitter to Land a Tech Job

April 27, 2012

Need a job? If you’ve been struggling to find one (and we mean a decent one), there's a good chance your bank balance is telling you so, along with some...

BPM and SOA: How They Drive Business

April 25, 2012

Business process management (BPM) is a paradigm that allows enterprises to model, automate, execute, control, measure and optimize the flow of business...

Why CRM Strategies Fail (and What to Do About It)

April 24, 2012

For many years, businesses have implemented customer relationship management (CRM) to increase revenue. Best practices and innovation in CRM strategies...

Data Scientists: The New Rock Stars of the Tech World

April 20, 2012

The data scientist role is fast becoming the most sought after career in the technology world. Companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and LinkedIn are...

Top 6 Trends in Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

April 13, 2012

A few years ago, customer relationship management (CRM) efforts were reported as failures in terms of generating revenue, and the strategy was thought to...

3 Tips for Developing an IT Marketing Strategy

April 11, 2012

Even if you have the best techs and newest equipment of any IT support company or managed service provider in your geographical area, your business may...

Snort and the Value of Detecting the Undetectable

April 09, 2012

There are many instances where networks are hacked, unlawfully accessed or effectively disabled. The now infamous 2006 hacking of the T.J. Maxx network...

An Introduction to Business Intelligence

April 06, 2012

For something so vital to the long-term success of a modern business, the concept of business intelligence is not well defined. But that doesn't stop many...