...to mention the increased vulnerability to network outages that comes with the cloud territory. Excel-based application integration: When business users need to combine data from multiple applications, big-company IT creates...

...his company’s history. It’s a comprehensive redefinition of the company’s business processes, intended to consolidate duplicate efforts among its business units. IT first conceived of the effort, and championed it...

...of the IT organization and the company’s technical architecture. This isn’t easily achieved, and the most common tactics — IT treating the rest of the business as its internal customer,...