Vendors are facing an uphill battle when competing for government tenders as bureaucratic and political obstacles continue to make the process more cumbersome than necessary, analysts believe.
To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
The new wave of government CIOs is business and relationship focussed, with IT knowledge being pushed into the background, according to analyst firm Gartner.
IT leaders need "a new generation of software" that will enable companies to respond more quickly to the changing needs of their business, Gartner analysts said yesterday.
Gartner today outlined the attributes of the "new breed" of chief information officers (CIO) for IT enterprises.
The maturity of open-source software tools and services has created a groundswell of Linux users in corporate Australia, a senior Gartner analyst said.
At the rate the role of CIOs are changing, non-traditional responsibilities such as sales and marketing could soon come under their purview.
Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.
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Intel's CEO addresses execution problems, looks ahead to WiMax explosion.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software.
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