After experiencing spectacular growth and acceptance in the late 1990s, portals appeared to experience a stagnant plateau. This was partly due to the dotcom bust’s fallout, which hit portal vendors particularly hard...
Reporting is required in an enterprise to provide this information to relevant people in real-time; the actual reports themselves must be comprehensive and presented in a format that is familiar and intuitive to the target users...
Virtualisation technology can dramatically reduce software development and testing cycles by shortening the time needed to provision, install, build, test and restore a new machine from days to minutes...
Service-oriented architecture or SOA is a software design approach allowing enterprises to focus on business processes in their application development, rather than focusing at a lower level on integration or application issues...
Web services are touted one of the largest technology drivers over the next decade. Gartner predicts that the market for web services-based solutions will be US billion in 2005...
There are some pundits who believe Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is just a warmed-over version of technology that has been available for years. I would argue ECM is a blend of proven technologies with newer, innovative capabilities that are solving a whole new range of content and process-centric problems...
More and more businesses today are crossing borders and going wireless. With this trend comes a rise in the number of remote offices and mobile users, which has inadvertently increased the external security threat towards corporate networks...
By Eric J. Brooks
To its critics, software development appears at times to have more in common with the arts than a technical field. Management often finds it difficult to monitor or understand what software coders are up to. The lack of adequate information makes it impossible to make informed, timely decisions about an application’s development direction...
In 1983 [1], Borland invented the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for software developers with the introduction of Turbo Pascal. Since then, it has come a long way. The latest offering of an IDE from Borland for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft .NET Framework is Borland Delphi 2005...
Web services hold a lot more promises than just inter-departmental application and data integration implementations. We will explore how Microsoft's web services enhancements in its .NET platform can be applied more widely to help solve real world and business problems that not only have grown increasingly complex with time, but also call for more cross-boundary integration and collaboration needs...
