This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team . See what IT executives are saying about opportunities and challenges on leveraging social media in the enterprise at the Microsoft's recent US CIO Summit in Redmond, WA. Are you building plans around...

This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team . Enabling collaboration and communication using social tools can help businesses be more competitive by allowing people to work in a familiar way, accelerating innovation. At Microsoft, we can help...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect In my last post, I was examining The Evolution of Today’s CIO and What kind of CIO’s will transform businesses? , and how it has morphed into a more strategic...

This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team . In the information workplace of today, a convergence of trends is changing the way we work together. Younger people familiar with a whole new generation of social computing software are entering...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect In my last post in this series , “ CIO Priorities for the Next 3 Years ”, we examined the future of Corporate IT, and made some predictions on what CIO priorities...

Guest Blog post by Marie Huwe, General Manager, Microsoft Dynamics Originally published on Forbes.com on March 5, 2012 Open the information floodgates by letting customers and employees communicate the way they want. A few years ago...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino Employees’ ability to share knowledge with their co-workers about market trends, customer demands, best practices and other information is critical to success in today’s highly competitive business environment...

Guest Blog post by Bob Violino The Internet and social media are making collaboration easier than ever, and many companies are finding that they have an ever-increasing need to allow their employees to be more connected — using tools to share...

Authored by Mike Walker, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Chief IP Architect The face of today’s CIO has changed dramatically. Once upon a time the CIO was only concerned about the business of IT, from the development process and implementation...

Take a sneak peek at some of the buzz around Big Data at the Microsoft's recent US CIO Summit in Redmond, WA. CIOs share their thoughts on opportunities around Big Data and how SQL Server 2012 will help their companies lead the way in this new world of...

Take an exclusive look into the Microsoft US Spring 2012 CIO Summit as Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor from the Economist shares his thoughts on the data deluge. Is "big data" on your agenda? According to most analysts, it should be. How a business...

Bruno Aziza, Director Product Marketing, Microsoft Server and Tools Business Microsoft’s BI expert, Bruno Aziza shares his perspectives around Big Data including: opportunities and challenges associated with Big Data, ideas on the role Big data...

Jordan Chrysafidis, Vice President, US SMS&P, Microsoft Corporation I would like to personally invite you join me on April 24, 2012 at 8:30am (PST) as I host the 2nd Annual US CIO Summit Virtual Event. This exclusive event will be broadcast live...

Interviewed with Rick Mears, by Bob Violino, TechWeb When Owens & Minor, Inc., a Richmond, Va., distributor of medical and surgical supplies and a healthcare supply-chain management company, needed to move its business applications to a more cost...

Written by Bob Violino, TechWeb No matter what industry a company is in and whatever the size of its operations, chances are it is looking for ways to enable IT to better address the ever-changing needs of management, end users, customers and partners...

Presented by Dave Campbell, Microsoft Technical Fellow from the Strata Online Conference on Wednesday, 12/07/11 Big Data is all the rage. While the big data systems, patterns, and value were initially demonstrated at Petabyte scale with large scale...

Guest Blog post by Roy Sharples, Principal, Enterprise Strategy Services, Microsoft Corporation and Fred Warren, Lead Architect, Office of CTO, Microsoft UK Putting people and culture right at the center of the experience We have always identified...

Presented by Dave Campbell, Microsoft Technical Fellow at the Strata 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA on Wednesday, 02/29/12 In a world where data increasing 10x every 5 years and 85% of that information is coming from new data sources, how...

Interview with Dave Campbell, Microsoft Technical Fellow at the Strata 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA in February 2012 O’Reilly Media sits down with Microsoft Technical Fellow, Dave Campbell to discuss topics related to Big Data. Listen...

By Eugene Saburi, General Manager, SQL Server Marketing Team We are excited about the launch of SQL Server 2012. Please join us for SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event kicks off on March 7, 2012 starting at 8:00AM Pacific (-8:00 GMT) with keynotes...

By Bob Violino, TechWeb The business world is becoming much more mobile, and the workforce more technologically savvy. At the same time, new opportunities are arising in cloud computing, social media, “Big Data” and data analytics. CIOs...

An interview with Dave Mariani, Vice President of Engineering, Klout Social networking analysis site Klout is in the business of measuring online influence. Vice President of Engineering David Mariani explains how deriving insight from large volumes...

Join Microsoft® Dynamics CRM Director and industry expert, Matt Keenan, as he breaks through all the hype and shares his point of view on the importance of understanding the stakeholders in your social communities. In this session, he will focus on...

GroupM Customer Story Turning to Avanade to address its collaboration challenges, GroupM is now empowered with an automated global solution which helps to easily capture multiple data sources from its agencies worldwide. Business Situation...

Jean-Philippe Courtois, President Microsoft International As we begin a new calendar year, we’ve been excited to read analysts’ predictions that 2012 will be the year that many companies truly embrace cloud computing. Today, Microsoft is...