For years, the major BI vendors (e.g., IBM-Cognos, Oracle, SAP Business Objects, SAS, and Microstrategy) have offered components that add mobile capabilities to their BI platforms, business performance management, and other analytic products.

Mobile devices have become one of the most important platforms for the distribution and utilization of user-oriented software. Smartphone sales outnumber those of PCs, and application markets represent a primary channel for the dissemination of end-user software products, hosting thousands of apps and reporting millions of downloads per day. Handset terminals have experienced a shift from being simple communication devices to becoming high-end, multipurpose computer equipment.

An agile enterprise is a flexible, robust organization that is capable of rapid response to unexpected challenges, events, and opportunities. Agile enterprises achieve continuous competitive advantage in serving their customers by following strategies that facilitate speed and change.

There is no doubt that business process management (BPM) has made a key contribution to improving performance of business processes via BPM projects, yet the "management" part of BPM has not lived up to its full potential.

Measuring the value of IT can best be determined by building an IT investment portfolio where customer goals drive the IT projects.

Measuring the value of IT can best be determined by building an IT investment portfolio where customer goals drive the IT projects.

Measuring the value of IT is something that every CIO and IT customer has been asking how to do for years.

Measuring the value of IT is something that every CIO and IT customer has been asking how to do for years.

Everyone talks about social media, mobile, analytics, and the cloud (SMAC) profoundly impacting the enterprise. But while these technologies hold tremendous promise, each presents its own issues and considerations when it comes to its utilization for business.

Everyone talks about social media, mobile, analytics, and the cloud (SMAC) profoundly impacting the enterprise. But while these technologies hold tremendous promise, each presents its own issues and considerations when it comes to its utilization for business.

"Leadership training is a must for new managers, and refreshing the outlook and skills of more experienced professionals is one important way to maintain organizational effectiveness."

-- Lynne Ellyn, Guest Editor

What good is a high-performance team in a vacuum, and how long will one last without an environment in which it can thrive?

enterprises are now exploring techniques in all areas for extending communication and collaboration in the complex, task-oriented agile world, from rules and processes up to communications technologies and supporting software. Consequently, there has been a flux in a variety of experiments in creating shared virtual spaces for improving team communication and the ability to work together on complex projects over a distance.

Organizations have been developing mobile BI applications for some time now.

When developing a mobile app, especially one that is consumer-facing and is anticipated to build a large and loyal user base, agile and lean methods can be particularly valuable.

Mobile enterprise application implementation involves carefully considering how providing a select group (or groups) of employees with mobile devices and apps can achieve some business benefit.

A revolution is coming to learning environments, with its initial impact likely to be seen in corporate training. This revolution is being fostered by Big Data analytics.

A revolution is coming to learning environments, with its initial impact likely to be seen in corporate training. This revolution is being fostered by Big Data analytics.