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Amid this populist reaction taking place over taxes, the state of the economy and the continued employment of numerous political incumbents, you can’t help but wonder if a similar movement is shaping... More >
One of the bigger challenges facing business managers today is the number of customer touch points they have to manage and monitor. Besides worry about what might be happening in, for example, a stor... More >
While it usually doesn’t require IT people to set up many of the software-as-a-service applications, integrating them with other applications can suck up all kinds of IT time and resources. In an ide... More >
Maybe you can teach an old business dog new social media tricks after all. A survey of more than 500 business and IT executives from 17 different countries conducted by Kelton Research on behalf o... More >
Let’s face it, while archiving data is important, few really want to do it. Part of the problem, of course, is just putting all pieces together to build an archiving system. After all, pulling... More >
Research from the IT security vendor Dasient conducted during the second quarter finds that the number of websites infected with malware has topped 1 million. According to Dasient CTO Neil Daswani, ... More >
When it comes to ERP applications, the conventional wisdom is that this class of software was traditionally the province of mid-to-large-scale enterprises. But the folks at OpenERP are reporting th... More >
With interest growing in using managed services as an alternative to e-mail systems for transferring large files, it’s only a matter a time before IT organizations take a more structured approach to ... More >
There’s a study floating around from research company Challenger, Gray & Christmas that suggests that somewhere close to $1.5 billion worth of productivity is being lost each year because of fa... More >
The quest to find value in the reams of data we store has given birth to a whole genre of business intelligence software, with massive investments being made to simplify analytics applications. Watch... More >
One of the conventional pieces of wisdom about cloud computing is that it’s ideal for delivering utilitarian applications such as e-mail. But the folks at Gartner would beg to differ about the suit... More >
Although Zoho doesn’t get as much attention as Google or Microsoft when it comes to applications in the cloud, the company has been steadily building a following among small to midsize businesses. ... More >
Application modernization is not an all-or-nothing proposition. When it comes to legacy application software, it turns out that not only is there a lot of duplicate code, but a lot of functions are b... More >
A lot of conversations take place on social networks about companies and issues they care about. But marshalling the company’s internal resources to focus on those conversations can be a problem. Try... More >
While it may come as little to no surprise that India, followed by China, is a primary outsourcing destination for many Fortune 1000 companies, what may be a surprise is how strong Latin America is b... More >
When it comes to cloud computing specifically and outsourcing in general, there are obviously a lot of concerns about security . But by and large, the security expertise of IT services providers ten... More >
IBM today announced plans to acquire Netezza, a provider of data-warehousing appliances, for $1.7 billion. Should the deal be consummated, IBM wants to add Netezza’s latest generation of Twinfin a... More >
Hewlett-Packard is hoping that mutual self-interest will trump the internecine warfare between HP and Oracle over the latter company’s decision to hire former HP CEO Mark Hurd. HP is announcing a p... More >
As a subset of business intelligence, the same adoption issues apply doubly to analytics. Analytic applications tend to be hard to access and few people really know how to use them. SAP is trying t... More >
As more IT organizations start to think in terms of business processes rather than applications, many of them are starting to rethink their entire approach to supporting the business. When you get ... More >
Jive Software is talking about bringing one the most intriguing concepts of Web 2.0 into the enterprise. At the JiveWorld10 conference today, the company launched version 4.5 of its Social Media E... More >
IBM today announced that it has acquired OpenPages , a provider of a platform for managing governance, risk management and compliance (GRC), for an undisclosed sum. The most surprising thing about t... More >
When it comes determining the value that workers place on the internal IT department, perception can be everything. Unfortunately, the perception of IT among far too many business users is not all t... More >
While the open source R programming environment for building statistical analysis applications continues to gain momentum in academia, it's not widely adopted in the enterprise. To facilitat... More >
Over the past year or more, security management has been converging with systems and application management as part of a concerted effort to create a real end-to-end approach to security. This conver... More >
In an ideal world, every business executive would have his or her own executive dashboard to craft custom reports using files regardless of the application in which they were created. The problem wit... More >
Slowly but surely, providers of cloud computing platforms are starting to choose up sides. Today Computer Sciences Corp. is announcing that it has partnered with Skytap to deliver application testi... More >
There’s a lot of debate these days over how appropriate virtual servers are for mission-critical applications. The concern is that adding an additional layer of software in the form of virtual mach... More >
There’s no doubt that interest in private cloud computing is growing rapidly. But just because a cloud is private doesn’t mean it will be running on-premise. In fact, chances are that most private ... More >
There’s general agreement that the nature of the security threats facing IT organizations has substantially changed as computing has evolved. With the rise of mobile computing, social networks and We... More >
More often than anybody cares to admit, we wind up recreating versions of the same content over and over. It’s nobody’s fault in particular. It’s just that there has been no simple way to discover wh... More >
One of the things that IT professionals deal with every day is that business executives tend to take information for granted. As a result, little effort goes into making information more accessible a... More >
From the perspective of most existing Hewlett-Packard and Oracle customers, little good can come of the high-profile battle between Oracle and HP over Mark Hurd, unless maybe you’re highly committed ... More >
At the same time that IT's impact on the business grows exponentially, however, the technology that drives business services is growing more complex. Tracking which business processes rely on ... More >
With cloud computing evolving to provide flexibility and cost benefits, it's also raising the odds for management complexity. In the not-too-distant future, many IT organizations will be dealing with... More >
Although IT labor is hardly organized in the traditional sense, a lot of folks in IT use the same kind of rhetoric as labor union members. That’s understandable because even though most IT profession... More >
Just about everybody intuitively understands the potential value of collaboration. But the challenge with collaboration from an IT perspective is setting it up. Today the most widely used collaborati... More >
There's a lot of debate within IT organizations over the merits of deploying Tier 1 mission-critical application on virtual servers. A survey of 109 IT professionals released this week by AppDynamic... More >
Within the business process management (BPM) community, there is a lot of chatter about the rise of social BPM. On the face of it, the concept is pretty simple. Vendors such as Oracle are wrapping ... More >
One of the prevailing thoughts is that customers are wrestling with whether to deploy Windows 7 on the desktop or to embrace desktop virtualization. But at Wanova, a provider of desktop virtua... More >
IBM today laid claim to developing the world’s fastest microprocessor, a 5.2 GHz processor called the z196 used in the company’s most recently launched zEnterprise system . According to Charles We... More >
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