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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Collaborative Business Analytics

April 8, 2011

The business analytics market is not immune to the rise in popularity of social networking for the enterprise. In fact, many proponents of business intelligence and decision management solutions see social networking as a way to extend business analytics to the masses. Enterprises have struggled with extending BI functionality beyond the dashboards that power users [...]

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Open Source Databases Flocking to the Cloud

March 30, 2011

The widespread presence of open source databases in web and enterprise applications is not new. But recently, a few upgrades to some of the leaders in the space as well as a much-anticipated new entrant have cast new light on their emerging and important role in powering many critical cloud-based applications. From an enterprise perspective, [...]

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Backup and Remote Access with KineticD KineticExtend and KineticSecure

December 10, 2010

Online backup and recovery is an important market offering for small businesses that often have limited or nonexistent on site IT staff to assist when systems go down. These companies need the same industry-strength storage and backup solutions as enterprises, but without the hefty price tag or labor overhead. That’s where KineticD comes in. KineticD [...]

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Having it Both Ways: Finding the Right BPM Tools for Workflow and Project-Based Processes

September 23, 2010

When it comes to business processes, change is what it’s all about. That holds true even when it comes to business process management. By now we’ve probably all learned that business process management (BPM) is a great approach for automating business processes. And over the past few years we’ve found that BPM solutions have proven [...]

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BPM Implementation Study – ActiveVOS

September 23, 2010

Not only are today’s IT environments more complex than ever before, but the current economic climate is making it more difficult for IT organizations to easily and cost-effectively meet changing business requirements. What’s needed is a way for organizations to streamline business processes, increase efficiency, and empower business users, rather than IT, to be at [...]

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Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS BPMS – ENABLING DYNAMIC GROWTH

July 23, 2010

Click here to download the full Upside Research Report on Western Governors University BPM implementation. Technology doesn’t exist for its own sake—it ultimately serves the needs of the business. But when business needs change rapidly and dynamically, it can be extremely difficult for a company’s IT infrastructure to keep up. Yet when designed correctly, a [...]

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Software. Hardware. Complete.

June 25, 2010

Software. Hardware. Complete. by David A. Kelly May 2010 : Oracle Magazine The completion of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun in January 2010 was big news for Sun customers, but it’s also big news for Oracle customers and enterprises in general. The combined assets of the two companies offer organizations an unsurpassed breadth of products from [...]

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