"The Pentagon says it is still investigating the source of the documents. The military has detained Bradley Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst in Baghdad, for allegedly transmitting classified information. But the latest documents could have come from anyone with a secret-level clearance...."1

"The Pentagon says it is still investigating the source of the documents. The military has detained Bradley Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst in Baghdad, for allegedly transmitting classified information. But the latest documents could have come from anyone with a secret-level clearance...."1

"The Pentagon says it is still investigating the source of the documents. The military has detained Bradley Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst in Baghdad, for allegedly transmitting classified information. But the latest documents could have come from anyone with a secret-level clearance...."1

In February and March 2010, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey that asked 99 end-user organizations about their various data warehousing, BI, and other analytic efforts. One set of questions sought to determine data growth issues that organizations are facing with these efforts. Basically, my goal was to determine data growth trends and how they affect organizations.1

Most senior executives want to know when they will get business value from a project, more than when it will be complete and at what cost. Without completed projects, you can't implement the strategy; yet today a chasm usually exists between business objectives and project management activities. Even when projects are on target with respect to time, cost, and quality, all too often they seem to fail to achieve the anticipated business results.

The value of "soft" people skills is often severely underestimated in IT organizations. For example, the psychoanalyst Erik Erickson identified trust as the foundational characteristic for identity and relationships.1 A great IT leader at any level must be able to trust and be trusted. A leader's breach of trust will rapidly spread like a fungus throughout the project team to lower morale and decrease productivity.

Master data management (MDM) is nothing new, but recent trends in the enterprise and industry seem to be breathing new life into it. All of the major platform/infrastructure vendors now have products in this space, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, as well as many vendors focused specifically on MDM.

According to our latest research,1 overwhelmingly, the most troublesome "big data"-related challenges organization face with their data warehousing and BI efforts are (1) meeting complex query-processing requirements, and (2) transforming and loading data due to data volumes and windows of opportunity.

The idea of managing demand has gained much traction in recent years, especially with demand for resources outstripping the available budget. Increasingly this squeeze is now affecting the relationship between IT and the business. Any successful business model must be built on effective management of demand as well as supply.

The idea of managing demand has gained much traction in recent years, especially with demand for resources outstripping the available budgets. Increasingly this squeeze is now affecting the relationship between IT and the business. Any successful business model must be built on effective management of demand as well as supply. Yet demand management seems to be deficient or absent in many organizations.

In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we do our part in unlocking the mystery of Gen-Yers/Net-Geners. We examine the powerful trend toward further integration of technology into everyday productivity and the creative processes of this highly innovative generation. Plus, we discuss ways in which we can successfully integrate these individuals into our organizations to the benefit of all involved.

This issue of CBR is grounded in the double loop of influence between IT and behavior as it relates to Gen Y. We asked our contributors to discuss this deeply rooted connection and to provide us with insight and guidelines on how we can successfully integrate the members of this new generation into our organizations. I am hopeful that after having read both of their pieces you feel more confident and optimistic about the opportunities that can accompany Gen Y's imminent entry into your IT shops and, more generally, your organizations.

Knowledge synchronization is a crucial aspect of knowledge management (KM) that bridges the gap between the tacit, subjective knowledge stored in people's heads and the explicit, objective knowledge stored within the organization's IT systems.

The accompanying Executive Report presents a vital aspect of knowledge management (KM) in organizations: bridging the gap between the tacit, subjective knowledge stored in people's heads and the explicit, objective knowledge stored within the organization's IT systems.

The Web as platform will enable firms to collaborate and manage relationships more effectively, deliver more value to new and existing markets, improve software development processes and products, and more fully integrate Web and mobile technologies.

The Web as platform will enable firms to collaborate and manage relationships more effectively, deliver more value to new and existing markets, improve software development processes and products, and more fully integrate Web and mobile technologies.

As the Web continually develops, new opportunities are created but can be exploited only by those with clear insight and actionable foresight.

As the Web continually develops, new opportunities are created but can be exploited only by those with clear insight and actionable foresight.

It should seem rather trite to say that the Web presents opportunities as a platform for collaboration. After all, the very origin of the Web roughly 20 years ago was rooted in the desire to provide the user of computer A with an easy way to access information residing on computer B.

It should seem rather trite to say that the Web presents opportunities as a platform for collaboration. After all, the very origin of the Web roughly 20 years ago was rooted in the desire to provide the user of computer A with an easy way to access information residing on computer B.

The World Wide Web is just two decades old, and it has evolved rapidly. At the beginning, the Web was seen as a content publishing platform. However, with Web-based e-mail, e-commerce, and so forth, the Web has evolved into an application environment.

The mobile application landscape is dominated by Apple's iPhone App Store and, to a much lesser extent, Google's Android Market, Nokia's Ovi Store, and BlackBerry App World. None of these, however, meets the business need for a secure application delivery system where full control of which applications are loaded resides at the server.

The success of enterprises depends upon their ability to define, prioritize, and execute mission-critical projects successfully. Project management is essential, but which project managers (PMs) best serve the organization?