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Guardian Web Filter from SmoothWall is an intelligent Web content filtering solution with anti-spyware, anti-virus, and browser-exploit prevention capabilities, among many others. Aimed at controlling access to inappropriate Web content, Guardian blocks potentially dangerous and productivity-depleting Web sites and resources via a set of granular and flexible policies that can be quickly and easily maintained and deployed. It is offered as a pre-built, hardened appliance; as a self-install software solut…
Technology Audits - published 16/10/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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Next week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas will be the first public event to focus on SharePoint 2010 – Microsoft’s next-generation business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the Web. Although Microsoft’s SharePoint products and technologies have found favour within many organisations in recent years, the offerings themselves have started to look somewhat dated when compared to the competition, and so Microsoft executives will be keeping a close eye on this event as the company’s flagship…
OpinionWire Articles - published 15/10/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Mindjet, a company best known for its visual mind mapping software, has just launched Mindjet Catalyst; a product the company describes as a visual collaboration platform. Utilising the Adobe Flash platform to deliver a rich collaboration environment, Mindjet Catalyst provides knowledge workers with a new way to work together on complex issues in real time.
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/10/2009 - Richard Edwards
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If enquiries from our subscribers are anything to go by, then organisations are clearly re-thinking their Enterprise Collaboration strategies as the momentum from consumer-oriented Web 2.0 collaboration services builds. The question on everyone’s minds seems to revolve around what Microsoft will do next, and will this be any different from what has gone before?
OpinionWire Articles - published 02/10/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Over the years, the notion of collaboration has been responsible for some of the most utopian and naďve visions of what IT can deliver in terms of enterprise IT, and yet organisations continue to seek new means by which that most expensive of all human corporate resources – i.e. the information worker – can become more efficient, effective, and productive.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Richard Edwards
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During the summer holidays Microsoft and Nokia announced a new global alliance, whereby the two companies will collaborate on the design, development, and marketing of mobile productivity software for Nokia smartphones. Details of the announcement suggest that this relationship is focused solely around the Symbian platform, and poses some interesting questions relating to the potency of Microsoft’s own Windows Mobile platform strategy and Nokia’s relevance to the enterprise market
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/09/2009 - Richard Edwards
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When it comes to Enterprise Collaboration, many organisations remain 'land-locked'; restricted by the architectures, deployment models, and functionality of solutions that were conceived in another age - an age when there was no Web 2.0, no mobile Internet, no impending pandemic, and no economic crisis. Of those organisations that are trying to move ahead in the 'new world of work', many IT departments are struggling to keep pace with the rapidly-changing world of information worker solutions and with th…
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 09/09/2009 - Angela Eager, Balachandar Ganesh, Chandranshu Singh, Mark Blowers, Richard Edwards, Rob Hailstone, Sarah Burnett, Sue Clarke
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Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) is an integrated set of online applications that enable users to communicate and collaborate. The primary components of this offering are e-mail, calendaring, chat, document authoring, and sharing. As a hosted service, GAPE offers a cost-effective service with straightforward per-user/per-year licensing, and contrasts markedly with traditional products and solutions where IT departments have to procure server hardware and manage a range of software patches and upgrades....
Technology Audits - published 11/08/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Organisations have an increasing range of viable alternatives to traditional Enterprise Collaboration solutions, as Adobe, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and others back cloud-based Enterprise Collaboration services. But are these offerings any match for those consumer-oriented products and services that so many of us increasingly rely on to do our jobs?
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/08/2009 - Richard Edwards
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IBM’s Enterprise Collaboration offering is comprised of a plethora of products, services, and solutions, with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Quickr, and IBM WebSphere Portal being the primary components. Enterprise collaboration systems, along with their supporting communication technologies, underpin many of the value-add activities of organisations, and so it figures that companies and institutions with complex business processes are likely to require a sop…
Technology Audits - published 10/08/2009 - Richard Edwards
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The Enterprise Collaboration market has been dominated by two vendors for the last couple decades: Microsoft and IBM. This domination has been driven, in the main, by extensive deployments of the vendors’ messaging products (Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino) and the fact that most collaboration still takes place via the e-mail Inbox. However, new offerings from EMC Documentum (CenterStage), Oracle (Beehive), and others could provide some organisations with a more compelling proposition.
OpinionWire Articles - published 24/07/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Oracle Beehive is the next generation of Oracle’s enterprise collaboration technologies. Oracle Beehive provides a unified collaboration application and platform comprised of a comprehensive set of integrated, Java-based services. Oracle Beehive unifies common, yet typically disjointed, collaborative services, such as e-mail, time management, Instant Messaging, and Document Management, and delivers these through familiar desktop tools, such as Microsoft Outlook. Access through standard Web browsers is su…
Technology Audits - published 09/07/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Adobe AIR is a runtime environment that allows applications developed using HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Flex technologies to run outside the browser similarly to a native application. The same AIR application can run unmodified on Windows, MAC OS X, and Linux operating systems. Enterprises can make use of this new runtime environment to develop custom applications that reach out to customers and employees, providing rich, interactive multimedia experiences. Building on established Web technologies, the …
Technology Audits - published 29/06/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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FICO Xpress is a suite of mathematical modelling and optimisation products that allow organisations to model and solve large, complex optimisation problems. The offering is based on an optimisation engine and a modelling language – Mosel – which enables model definition and offers various solution techniques with the help of specific solver engines. This functionality is provided through a visual development environment – Xpress-IVE. Developers and business analysts can create and deploy models in Mosel …
Technology Audits - published 29/06/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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Telligent Community Server 2008.5 is an enterprise collaboration software platform that can be deployed as a private, corporate solution, or as public, Web-facing social networking site. The primary versions offered by Telligent are: Community Server Evolution, for internal collaboration and knowledge management; and Community Server, a proven platform that enables deployment of branded Web-facing applications and social communities. Key capabilities of the platform include: wikis, blogs, forums, groups,…
Technology Audits - published 19/06/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is an on-premises search solution suited to either Intranet use or an Internet-facing Web site. Within an Enterprise setting, the GSA is able to search across corporate portals and Web sites, file servers and Content Management systems, and a growing list of business applications. Recent upgrades have improved the GSA’s scalability, provided for increased customisation, and enhanced search results. The GSA integrates well with enterprise Identity and Access Management so…
Technology Audits - published 18/06/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro 7 is a Web conferencing and persistent online meeting solution that provides real-time collaboration features, end-to-end event management, and a rich eLearning environment. This Flash-based collaboration platform is offered in a range of guises, such as a virtual classroom for online training, and the product can be tailored and branded to meet specific business requirements. Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is consumed through a Flash-based client, and thus is accessible to a range o…
Technology Audits - published 12/06/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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During a keynote address last week at Computex 2009 in Taipei, Microsoft’s Steve Guggenheimer (VP of Microsoft’s OEM Division) announced that Windows 7 will be Released To Manufacturing (RTM) in the second half of July this year, and that General Availability (GA) is planned for 22 October 2009. During the announcement, Mr. Guggenheimer also said: “we’ve received great feedback from our partners who are looking forward to offering Windows 7 to their customers in time for the holidays.”
OpinionWire Articles - published 11/06/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Lotus Connections is an enterprise social software offering from IBM that is designed to help organisations “work smarter” and more effectively by empowering individuals and teams. The features offered by Lotus Connections can enable those within a business or institution to keep track of people, ideas, and know-how. Corporate employees spend a great deal of time collaborating via e-mails, documents, spreadsheets and presentations; however, the social network that ties all of this ‘stuff’ together is mis…
Technology Audits - published 01/06/2009 - Richard Edwards
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The information required for business decision-making and operational activities is contained within both structured and unstructured data sets, and these in turn are generally stored within siloed repositories and IT systems that are scattered across the enterprise. Furthermore, an increasing amount of actionable business information is now stored beyond the corporate firewall, either with partners and suppliers, or with customers and communities. Only through the application of Enterprise Search soluti…
OpinionWire Articles - published 28/05/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Corporate employees now spend more time working on e-mails, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations than ever before, and as a result the number of digital assets that have to be stored, managed, shared, and protected each year is increasing.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/04/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Corporate Intranets have been with us for well over a decade, and so as organisations consider all aspects of their business at this critical juncture, now is as good a time as any to revisit this highly important aspect of Information Management and corporate culture.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/04/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Capscan’s Matchcode is an address management solution that accurately captures and cleanses address data against the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF) and other international address files covering about 240 other postal territories worldwide. The solution operates in two modes: point of capture and batch mode. Matchcode can infer a complete and accurate address from partly accurate information at the point of data capture. In the data capture mode, the solution can be integrated with applications…
Technology Audits - published 15/04/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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Corporate Performance Management (CPM) has been born out of the need to proactively manage performance for business optimisation. CPM can play an important role in controlling costs, optimising resources, and ensuring that business units are adding value. Business Intelligence (BI) has a crucial part to play in performance management, by presenting information in a timely and easily consumed fashion, and in providing the ability to reason and understand the meaning behind performance information through …
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 01/04/2009 - Balachandar Ganesh, Richard Edwards, Sarah Burnett, Tim Jennings
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Corporate employees now spend more time collaborating via e-mails, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations than anything else, and as a result the number of digital assets which have to be stored, managed, shared, and protected each year is increasing. With a faltering economy and fierce competition across all markets and sectors, organisations must now ensure that their collaboration facilities are up-to-scratch, and that staff are employing these tools efficiently, effectively, and securely.
OpinionWire Articles - published 27/03/2009 - Richard Edwards
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