Part of Rhodin's strategy is to create an adaptive suite of open standards-based, composite applications that meet the evolving needs of today's knowledge workers

[ January 2008, Opinion Columns, ]

With the growth of fringe BI areas, such as corporate performance management (CPM), business activity monitoring (BAM), and process performance monitoring (PPM), the requirement is to take realtime data and apply it 'instantly' for more adaptive decision-making

[ January 2008, Business Intelligence, ]

Web 2.0 is an umbrella term that encompasses a number of consumer-driven technologies, including collaborative tagging (or 'folksonomy'), virtual worlds, mashups, wikis, blogs, and more

[ January 2008, Opinion Columns, ]

BEA allows Oracle to be a one-stop-shop for enterprise software, a position for which the goalposts are shifting more broadly with each software merger and acquisition today

[ January 2008, EAI & Middleware, ]

This is a good move by Microsoft for three reasons: it allows Microsoft to play in a rapidly growing segment of the market; it plugs a big hole in Microsoft's search strategy - that of searching for non-Microsoft based unstructured data; and it makes searching of unstructured dat

[ January 2008, News + Events, ]

Release of version 3 is prodding many IT organisations to start taking a lifecycle approach to the way they serve the enterprise

[ January 2008, News + Events, ]

In terms of the kind of information technology that will take hold in 2008, IDC expects that application appliances will go mainstream

[ January 2008, Opinion Columns, ]

It is becoming increasingly important for all organisations to begin to lay the foundations for making possible the availability of common communication services, either by software upgrades or through the use of managed services

[ January 2008, Communications, Messaging, ]

There are signs that vendors are now changing tactics to win acceptance of ALM

[ January 2008, Opinion Columns, ]

The launch of Fusion Applications is scheduled for some point during 2008, yet even as CBR went to press, Oracle announced yet another potential acquisition: this time making an unsolicited, $6.7bn bid to acquire middleware vendor BEA

[ January 2008, Business Applications, ]

Existing processes are documented using the ARIS modelling toolset; these processes are then analysed and opportunities for improvement identified; the to-be process defined, and initial improvements implemented

[ January 2008, Business Intelligence, ]

The booklet is intended for CIOs, their boards of directors and senior management of organisations

[ January 2008, Legislation, ]

New regulations on both sides of the Atlantic, such as the Freedom of Information Act (2000) in the UK or new electronic data retention rules in the US (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26, 2006), mean electronic data now needs to be retained for compliance reasons

[ January 2008, Storage, ]

Device management systems enable enterprises to provide better control and safety for their growing fleet of smart devices, allowing increased efficiency and decreasing the possibility for device downtime

[ January 2008, Mobile Technology, ]

South Africa is an emerging market that had early exposure to enterprise tools such as instant messaging and e-mails

[ January 2008, Communications, Messaging, ]

I remember how everyone always exceeded their targets, and had lots of fun.

[ January 2008, Opinion Columns, ]