In the world of enterprise software, there are but a handful of “rock star” analysts who cover the industry well, …
Package Deal
Q: Is there any particular reason for your visit to the Middle East now? A: I am in town …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Setting new standards
AS STEVE JOBS WOULD HAVE IT, THE RECENTLY UNVEILED iPhone 4 represents the biggest revision for the iPhone since the …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Kevin Scott
Kevin’s key responsibilities include leading the sales teams focused on Large Enterprises, communicating the value of SAP solutions, representing SAP MENA in …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker:Fadi Hindi
Fadi Hindi is the Head of Strategic IT Planning & Enterprise Architecture at Dubai Customs. Hindi has eighteen years …
2010 tech career outlook
The good news is that not everyone’s predictions are as dire as Hackett’s, and there are several pockets of demand …
10 IDC tech predictions 2010
1. Next year will be the year of the private cloud. Most IT managers have already begun to offer service-oriented …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
Solving the puzzle
There is no doubt that business process management (BPM), when bring right, can bring immense benefits to an organisation. “Business …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
Stuck with a duopoly
Is the middleware market becoming a duopoly, with users locked in to either Oracle or IBM? Loosely defined as software …
Executive exchange
At the recent SAP user group (SUG) MENA meet held in Bahrain, customers of the German-software giant got together to …
Reviving ERP
Everybody knows it. The major ERP suites are old and not as flexible as some newer stuff, and they can’t build …
Building smart
Sahara Petrochemicals, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), prides itself on maintaining the highest in quality standards and …
Collaboration vendors join for interoperability
A number of unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a group …
Agile by design
Digital conversion and preservation allows content to be available for research, use, and distribution. Future content businesses will be based …
Scaling the storage barrier
Driven by market forces, the broadcasting industry is going through a period of accelerating change. Media is being distributed by …
Red Hat moves into desktop virtualisation
Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualisation platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support …