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 …
Siemon showcases Intelligent Infrastructure Management solution
Delegates at the seminar saw how MapIT G2 may be integrated into high performance category 6A Z-MAX and 10Gb/s XGLO …
Control Google Buzz Overload
Google Buzz has stirred a lot of emotion since it launched just ten days ago; the new social network has …
Google CEO preaches ‘mobile first’
Google CEO Eric Schmidt put mobile devices squarely at the center of the computing universe in his first keynote at …
Oracle making new push into social services software
Oracle has its heart set on dominating the social services software market, in which its rival SAP has historically had …
Google CEO preaches 'mobile first'
Google CEO Eric Schmidt put mobile devices squarely at the center of the computing universe in his first keynote at …
The sleek BlackBerry Curve 8900
Despite lacking 3G, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is still an excellent SmartPhone, and it boasts an outstanding display. The stylish …
Nokia Mini N97: Strong hardware, OS dated
The Mini also gets the bonus of kinetic "flick" scrolling, which greatly improves Web and menu navigation. But the Mini …
BI's dirty secret: Better tools no match for bad strategy
The pressure on CIOs to deliver business intelligence tools and analytic applications–on the cheap and ASAP–has been building steadily for …
Malware aims to evade Windows 7 safeguards
Experts agree that Windows 7 has enhanced security to ward off attacks on vulnerabilities in old software. But what if …