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Oil companies use BI to adjust prices
Crude oil prices, gasoline at the pump and oil company profits are at all-time highs due to a wide range of economic and market forces. And it is those forces, or the data behind them, that are Read more...
Notification laws have not cut ID theft
Forty-three states have laws requiring companies and institutions to notify residents when there has been an electronic theft of personal identity information--laws that the sponsors had hoped would Read more...
Customer data should drive IT decisions
Michelle McKenna, the CIO at Universal Orlando Resorts, has some advice for her members of her profession--think like your customers and use your data to focus on your company's markets. "In today's Read more...
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Congress backtracking on Internet gambling
Some members of Congress, backed by financial institutions, are trying to enact legislation that would stop the Treasury Department from adopting regulations to enforce a federal ban on Internet Read more...
Survey: U.S. Internet gets a solid 'B'
A new report finds that the United States ranked fourth in the world for Internet savvy, behind three European nations: Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Last year, the United States was ranked Read more...
Gartner: Better BI tools on the way
A new Gartner study finds that the role of corporate IT units in business intelligence will be shrinking. In its place, search and collaboration tools will allow individual users and business units Read more...
Software to protect names and passwords
It's time to get more sophisticated about protecting your name and password. A new technology called ID Vault does just that. It uses its own memory to store your name and password information, and Read more...
Open the gates or keep them slightly ajar?
It's that time of year again, when there is a rush for H-1B visas. Federal officials anticipate it will take exactly one day--April 1--for applications for the 85,000 visas to be snapped up. And Read more...
Announcing a FierceCIO Business Intelligence webinar
Business Intelligence may be one of the toughest tasks for CIOs and IT executives to master as they work to make the best use of their data. For that reason, Read more...




