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HONORS

COVER STORY
IT Skills: Jumping the Chasm

16 The current tech talent gap is just the first sign of a coming revolution in the I T labor market.
Here’s how to secure your footing and brace for what’s ahead.

Technology for
the Greater Good

24 Dozens of 2012 Computerworld
Honors laureates are using
low-cost, consumer-oriented technologies
in ways that benefit society.

Extreme BI
32 Some organizations do
more than generate reports
with business intelligence
tools — they use them to spot
red flags and solve problems.

HEADS UP | 2 Schools need fat pipes. | SAP plans to buy Ariba. | 4 Androiduse is limited in the enterprise. | Utah’s C TO takes the fall for a data breach.

BI practices really pay off.

advised. | 44 Thornton A. May has been thinking about executives and cavemen.

NEWS ANALYSIS | 6 HP CEO Meg Whitman takes a risk by getting involved in the Romney campaign. | 8 New

OPINIONS | 14 Preston
Gralla argues that
Microsoft is an innovator
that often can’t capitalize
on its ideas. | 38 Bart
Perkins says employer
demands for job candidates’
Facebook passwords
are unwarranted and ill-

DEPARTMENTS 10 The Grill: Ricoh Americas CIO Tracey Rothenberger | 36 Security Manager’s Journal: On the lookout for rogue IT | 40 Career Watch | 42 Shark Tank