enterprise users in comment and analysis
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment Fundamental changes are afoot in enterprise apps. The week before, SAP announced it had dropped a lower-priced support service, instead contracting new users to an enhanced and more expensive 24/7 arrangement. [16 Jun 2008]
Darryl West
CIO Profile His team has established a strong enterprise architecture focus and is driving an innovative group-wide simplification programme. His team has forged strategic partnerships with several Indian software companies and are extensive users of the... [11 Jun 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment First, the management of the printing environment is often split between IT, procurement, facilities, department managers and even individual users. Many businesses do not even know how many printers they have, how many pages are printed daily, the... [22 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up According to Gartner, end users' preferences will soon account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise. Microsoft had apparently collected opt-in information from users... [18 Apr 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment This can be done for all assets in an enterprise or, through use of federation standards, can be extended to applications hosted by business partners or third parties without the need for users to reauthenticate themselves when accessing each... [18 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Databases must be protected yet functional - users must be able to confirm identity, yet cannot see particular personal information. The other day we shipped a disk of information to one of the largest middleware providers in the world so they... [25 Feb 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment David: The major difference is the complexity and size of what they are doing, if you think about the number of people that are encompassed by some of the programmes - the number of users, the number of families and other businesses. [05 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment Media within the enterprise has come of age after a series of landmark multi-billion dollar acquisitions including Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn, eBay acquiring Skype for $2.6bn and News Corp's $580m purchase of MySpace. [29 Nov 2007]
Open season
AS Analysis Microsoft has been at the centre of controversy over the past 12 months, mainly because of its statements on open source and its technology partnerships with a range of Linux distributors, which led to Torvalds accusing Microsoft of spreading fear... [12 Oct 2007]
Location, location, location...
Comment The location intelligence market is characterised by the growing trend to integrate geospatial capabilities into enterprise systems and business processes. Alongside vendors of enterprise location intelligence solutions such as those from Pitney... [09 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07
Round-Up A naked PC policy would open the door to Linux distributions but most likely only in the enterprise space or among power users. Now this is nowhere near as interesting, exciting and liberated as it sounds - it just means a computer shipped without... [28 Sep 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment Building on its message of simplicity of use, Vizioncore has established a presence in the small business sector as well as in the enterprise. In particular the V2V capability brought in by the Invirtus agreement is interesting as it allows users... [05 Sep 2007]
BI for all
Comment This means BI can no longer be confined to just the power users in an enterprise and must now be brought to a new and wider audience - the operational workers who can access and act upon business data from the desktop applications they are... [18 Jul 2007]
Leader: Google walks the enterprise walk
Leader Google, not content with owning the search market or with its grander plans for the consumer space, has recently talked up its intentions to crack the enterprise market. After all if you're building up an enterprise-worthy presence then getting... [10 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: DIY enterprise mobility
Comment I was at the Mobility Summit earlier this week (good event, terrible tag line: 'Delivering Business Value in the Mobile Enterprise') and heard about an interesting development. End users, it seems, are to be trusted more and more with choosing... [03 Jul 2007]
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