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While acquisitions of software vendors are usually filled with unlimited potential for the buyers, customers are often left trying to integrate applications that have dramatically different code basi... More >
Theoretically at least, there’s no way an internal IT organization building out its own private cloud could be as cost competitive as a public cloud computing service. After all, the economies of sca... More >
It use to be that the definition of a smart building was one that could sense when nobody was in a room and would shut off the lights. Now we're talking about smart buildings that can actually reduce... More >
When being sued, one of the excuses that many companies have come fall back on is known as the "IT burden" defense. The basic premise is that locating the information sought by the court puts too muc... More >
Slowly but surely, application development in the cloud is gaining momentum. A survey of 400 developers by Evans Data released this week ranks IBM at the top of a heap of providers of cloud computi... More >
With the security of cloud computing, there are two main problems. The first is that the level of security that is provided by any given cloud computing service varies widely. The second is that most... More >
One of the bigger challenges that most companies struggle with is that when it comes to governance, risk management and compliance, the finance and IT departments are worlds apart. When it comes to G... More >
In an ideal world, every department would pay for IT based on the amount of resources it consumes. The problem with that model, of course, has been finding an easy way to determine who used what reso... More >
In IT financial management, things are not only getting more complicated, they are getting more contentious. Nothing makes that more apparent than virtual machine software where the underlying IT inf... More >
While most people generally appreciate the pay-as-you-go nature of software-as-a-service, the more significant benefit of the SaaS model may be how quickly it allows many companies to collaborate on ... More >
No matter what the industry, the failure rate of most new products is unacceptably high. The trouble is nobody is exactly sure why. Obviously, to some degree, the people in charge of product developm... More >
As one of the more compute-intensive applications used on the desktop by any business, the hardware investment needed to run CAD/CAM applications from Autodesk can be quite substantial. In addition... More >
As part of a rapidly expanding set of services that will be delivered via cloud computing, CSC today rolled out CloudProtection for Mail and Web . On the face if of it, the new CSC service is pretty... More >
It’s getting increasingly hard to tell where one Web application ends and another begins. Everywhere you turn these days some provider of a Web application is announcing another application programmi... More >
Since marketing began, the ultimate goal has been to identify not only the most likely buyers of a good or service, but also when they are most likely to buy it. Thanks to advances in information tec... More >
Most IT organizations have no idea how many of their workers use Google’s productivity applications. Available as a free service that makes it easy to share information with colleagues, Google claims... More >
Although the Apple iPad is all the rage with consumers these days, chances are pretty high that the iPad will change the way we think about consuming data. That's the thinking behind a relatively ea... More >
It's inevitable that social networking and unified communications ultimately will converge. Unified communications rapidly is becoming the standard for internal communications. But social networking ... More >
One of the dirty little secrets of data governance is that most data governance tools can’t readily be applied to unstructured data in files. So while most tools offer protection for structured data,... More >
One of the primary challenges that IT organizations face these days is that too few IT people are being asked to support far too many enterprise applications. The simple solution would be to start ju... More >
Every now and again, two trends converge to create something that is slightly greater than the sum of the parts. In this case, the more obvious of the two trends is that more end users are emb... More >
As it becomes more apparent that more e-mail and unified communication applications in general are going to be delivered as a service , determining what type of service provider to rely on becomes t... More >
With a finance reform bill winding its way to the president’s desk , IT organizations can be certain that more scrutiny of transactions surely will follow. The problem, however, is that many IT or... More >
One of the big challenges that any business faces is trying to dynamically change workflow associated with a business process. Beyond all the political and cultural issues, it can be difficult to pin... More >
One of the problems with a lot of classes of technology is that they all too often don’t solve an immediate business problem. A case in point is enterprise content management, which brings together a... More >
One of the unfortunate challenges associated with any modern business in the enterprise today is that the tools that we use to manage IT and the software we use to track compliance are not particular... More >
As business intelligence software becomes more widely used, it was only a matter of time before these applications started showing up on smartphones. For example, Birst , a provider of business inte... More >
The problem with project management software is that the average user can’t readily discern what is happening with any given project. The fact that most users of project management software have to b... More >
Two of the things that result in more applications going unmanaged than anyone cares to admit are that setting up the application management console is fairly cumbersome, and nobody wants to experien... More >
Beginning in October, a wave of corporations are expected to acquire new PCs running Windows 7. Since the new fiscal year generally starts either Oct. 1 or Jan. 1, they're expected to then be relati... More >
As IT organizations move to embrace iterative application-development methods, the way they manage the application development process increasingly is being challenged. For those who manage th... More >
With the big final between the Netherlands and Spain coming up this weekend, SAP wants to change the way soccer fans experience the World Cup. Since the launch of the games, SAP has made available a... More >
As application testing increasingly moves into the cloud , the question that arises is how to manage the overall application testing process. We’re likely to see hybrid approaches where some applica... More >
Like it or not, workers install their personal applications on corporate computers all the time now. And probably the most common personal application being installed, especially if they have a Macin... More >
As previously noted, most IT organizations have saved money by cutting back on comparatively simple stuff , such as eliminating excess server capacity by adopting virtualizaton, so any additional sa... More >
While just about every business intelligence application allows users to analyze data to some degree, few allow a user to kick off a business process based on the data being viewed inside a business ... More >
As more government bodies around the world focus their regulatory efforts on carbon emissions, it’s clear these new regulatory requirements are going to have a profound effect on the business as whol... More >
The most disappointing thing about business intelligence (BI) applications has been the lack of adoption. Despite their potential value, these applications have yet to be widely used. There are plent... More >
Although most of us will probably enjoy some sort of fireworks display or another this holiday weekend, there are also plenty of hot-button issues in the land of IT that are capable of generating fir... More >
Offering further evidence that IT vendors want to automate the management of IT on a massive scale , IBM today announced it is acquiring managed services provider BigFix . BigFix has developed a se... More >
Given all the fuss this week concerning government administrative issues related to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, now might be a good time to review the state of data governance. While many wo... More >
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