Ericka Chickowski

10 Tips for Getting Started with SOA

As service-oriented architecture technologies and practices have gained the attention of CIOs and executive teams for showing business value, more and more IT managers are facing the prospect of trying out SOA for the first time. Just last year, SOA expanded by 100 percent, according to a study released by AMR Research. Analyst firm Gartner […]

Is Voice Mail-to-Text the Answer?

Emerging voice mail-to-text technologies offer flexibility and conveinence for busy professionals, but is the market headed toward mass consumption? Will mobile and Internet carriers be a barrier or a benevolent player in this technology’s ascension? When the blinking red light on the cell phone or the interrupted dial tone on the fixed line indicates new […]

14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

The technology prognosticators at Gartner say the convergence of new IT delivery models will fundamentally transform the way businesses consume and interact with IT within the next three to five years. “In and of themselves, discretely defined, things like Software as a Service, grid computing and virtualization are important in their own disciplines within IT,” […]