June 2009 Issue

Window of OPPORTUNITY
Acxiom’s Marty Sunde and David Guzman believe now is the time for IT to seize the moment.

The June issue of Smart Enterprise magazine features IT leaders and their IT organizations seizing the opportunity in today’s economy.

Our cover feature examines how forward-thinking IT executives such as Marty Sunde and David Guzman of Acxiom Corporation, Ted Mansk of  Blue Cross Blue Shield,  Antonio Di Caro of AXA Tech and others, are rising to the challenges of today’s economy by demonstrating IT’s value to the business. By examining key areas where ITs potential is urgently needed to achieve new levels of efficiency and reshape the competitive playing field, they are also offsetting the economy’ effects.

We are also seizing an opportunity in this issue to enhance the magazine with several new and exciting editorial sections to serve the needs of our evolving global readership.

World Watch is our new look at important IT and business developments around the globe.  In this issue, World Watch profiles “green” computing in Germany, examines how an Australian state plans to centralize IT services, and reports on CIOs in the UK.

Smart Exchange is a new column by Paula Klein, the editor of Smart Enterprise Exchange, our exclusive membership program that provides IT executives with business-driven resources and interaction. In this edition Paula explores how resources, risk and reliability drives a renaissance of the mainframe.

CIO Roundtable brings unedited insights from two recent Smart Enterprise Exchange events as IT leaders from Embarq, Pacific Coast Companies and Forbes share their best practices.

Our case takes an in depth look at how the U.K.’s largest retailer Tesco plans to add 100 stores this year thanks in part to its unique approach to standardizing IT.

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