Cisco Adds to Enterprise Social Networking with Versly Acquisition

September 26, 2011

Enterprise social networking continues to be an increasingly important factor for many companies. While companies continue to search for the best way to incorporate the new collaboration functionality into an already crowded enterprise software environment, software vendors are adding new combinations of technology to their offerings. Recently, computing giant Cisco announced an acquisition that moves [...]

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Sustainability–the Next Frontier

September 2, 2011

For years we’ve heard that it pays to be “green” (or environmentally-friendly). But putting a number on just how much it pays can be difficult, since developing metrics for sustainability and green business or IT processes is difficult and can touch on many different factors within an organization. But new solutions and approaches are making [...]

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Application Performance Management

August 10, 2011

When it comes to IT and applications, sometimes you really need to know what’s happening. That’s where application performance management tools come in. Application performance management tools help organizations identify how their applications are performing, and where there might be problems, bottlenecks, or concerns. Application performance management is more important now than it ever has [...]

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Sustainability – The Business Buzzword and Corporate Future

July 17, 2011

When you’re in it for the long haul, it means that sustainability is going to be important for your business. In fact, corporate IT can even hold the key to transforming a business into one that reflects the new goals for reduced consumption of resources like energy and water. But, unlike Enterprise Resource Planning or [...]

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BPM for the Cloud? Appian Thinks So

June 28, 2011

Things are really happening in the BPM space lately. And some of the real interesting changes are occurring in the cloud and social spaces. In fact, one vendor, Appian is focused heavily in these two areas (along with mobile), and even recently issued a press release trumpeting their leadership in cloud BPM. While this market [...]

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Consolidation in the Enterprise Social Media Space

June 10, 2011

Specialized enterprise social network technologies are also starting to be widely used on an enterprise scale, for enterprise needs. The challenge for companies is to find the tools that are best suited for particular functions and help propagate them in a manageable, sustainable way throughout a department or across an enterprise. Beneath the surface of [...]

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Hybrid Restore for Cloud Backup and Recovery

May 26, 2011

Cloud backup and recovery services have made a strong entrance into the consumer and small to mid-sized business market. Yet potential purchasers of cloud backup and recovery solutions should make sure to consider the amount of time it takes to restore data. While backups can be done incrementally, in the event of the total loss [...]

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Business Intelligence vs. Operational Intelligence

May 9, 2011

Insight is everything in business. Having the right tools to optimize business processes is the wish of every business analyst. While business intelligence as a discipline has existed for many years in enterprise computing, operational intelligence has emerged in recent years as the hot-button area for driving business optimization. The goal of operational intelligence (or [...]

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The Dirty Little Secret About Online Backup

May 2, 2011

How do you know your business data is protected? If your server fails or a hurricane hits or some other digital disaster strikes, what would you lose? Your email? Your customer database? Your business contacts? Your business? Perhaps you’re one of the many companies taking advantage of online backup services to protect your data. Online [...]

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HTML5 and Document Sharing

April 26, 2011

Recently, Crocodocs announced its new embeddable HTML5 document viewer and annotator, a self-proclaimed first of its kind. The news came with an announcement of a partnership with Yammer, one of the enterprise pure play social media platforms. The Crocodocs tools give Yammer a full-fledged document sharing and collaboration platform, enabling users to embed any type [...]

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