Perspectives: CA Technologies corporate blog

Is IT on board with consumer driven IT?

Mark Hoffman — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:12:00 GMT

Does IT think the public cloud will lower expense? Is social media key to retaining talent? Does social media positively impact customer satisfaction? Get answers to these questions and more in our latest infographic, driven by polling data from ca.com. This is just a snapshot; click here to see the complete infographic.

3 Ways Automation Powers the Consumer Driven Enterprise

Roger Pilc — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Consumer driven IT presents enterprise IT with stiff challenges. While consumerization wins accolades for empowering users, mobilizing the enterprise, boosting productivity, and shaving costs, it’s also ratcheted up the demand for IT to deliver new, innovative services at the speed of business. Cloud computing offers the opportunity to bridge the gap, but with consumer-friendly social and...

Business Service Innovation: When Simply Managing IT Isn’t Enough

Denise Dubie — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:49:00 GMT

Enterprise IT leaders don’t have time to simply manage technology; they need to master the infrastructure and applications in their environment in such a way to enable employees to produce, businesses to excel and customers to keep coming back. With the current barrage of technology trends staring them in the face – cloud computing, agile development, consumer driven IT and millennial...

Consumer Driven IT in Review - 15th Edition

Jackie Kahle — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Last week Cloud Commons sponsored a tweetchat on “Rogue IT,” featuring a great discussion about why employees go “rogue,” what the risks are, and what IT should be doing about it. (See HERE for the transcript.) One theme was the opportunity for IT to take advantage of rogue IT. Users can be a great source of innovation – they often are the first to know about emergent technologies and they know...

Consumer Driven IT: Accept Imitations, but Not Limitations

John Michelsen — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:20:00 GMT

There is a tremendous amount of software development going on in large enterprises today. Customers often joke that they have more developers on staff than Oracle or Microsoft. But none of this software is developed in isolation. Ask developers, and they’ll tell you that the infrastructure they have to deal with is more complex and interdependent than ever before. In truth, much of software...