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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Attributed to Thomas J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956) while he was president of International Business Machines, this apocryphal quote could turn out to be true in a manner of speaking if one were to rephrase the statement thus: ‘I think there is a world market for maybe five computer clouds.’
Butler Group Review Articles - published 17/03/2009 - Richard Edwards
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SAP offers a replete portfolio of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions which encompass a range of applications targeting specific business functions and requirements. SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management Solutions Release 7.0 (EPM) is comprised of many products, solutions, and technologies, and represents the culmination of a series of acquisitions over a three-year period, with Business Objects being the most significant. SAP’s product line-up includes some best-in-class pr…
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Speech-based transcription, dictation, and translation capabilities have improved markedly over the past decade due to refined algorithms, increased computational power, and general advancements in digital audio and recording equipment.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Richard Edwards
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The WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework (PMF) is an application suite for enterprise metrics management and Business Intelligence (BI). Using PMF, business strategies can be measured and tracked and ‘owners’ are automatically linked to their business objectives. Built entirely on the WebFOCUS BI platform, PMF offers built-in multi-dimensional support. Organisations can benefit from PMF’s rapid start-up and simple customisation capabilities and need not be existing customers as the solution is also …
Technology Audits - published 04/03/2009 - Richard Edwards
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InterSystems DeepSee™ is a Business Intelligence (BI) solution that enables the real-time analysis of transactional data, and is designed to be optimal for embedding within transactional applications. Business users in healthcare, government, financial services, telecommunications, retail, and logistics require analysis and alerting based on current data for real-time decision making. DeepSee has four modules that provide capabilities for building data models, analytical elements, dashboards, and connect…
Technology Audits - published 04/03/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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The acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and Cognos by IBM has caused a great deal of turbulence in the Business Intelligence (BI) world, and this in turn is having an effect on the BI applications market. However, there is also another reason for the slow-down in this particular market: abstinence.
OpinionWire Articles - published 26/02/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Information workers are becoming engulfed in an avalanche of data: becoming ‘digitally snow blind’ as they stare at endless screens of information, trying to decide which link or which search result will provide them with the information they need to do their job. Enterprise Search enables these users to quickly identity, filter, access, and use the information required to do their tasks. MindServer Enterprise Search combines sophisticated search technology with a simple user interface to provide the use…
Technology Audits - published 12/02/2009 - Richard Edwards
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The dns Managed Security Services (dnsMSS) offering is comprised of: managed firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN), Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) monitoring, e-mail security, vulnerability assessments, identity management, content security, strong authentication, and Security Information and Event (SIEM) monitoring. Security, authentication, and compliance management are expensive and specialised tasks that some organisations prefer to outsource to experts. d…
Technology Audits - published 12/02/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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Safend’s Data Protection portfolio of endpoint software security products are designed to protect an organisation’s confidential information from loss and theft by monitoring, detecting, and restricting data transfers to or from Windows-based computers. Any and every digital file type is potentially susceptible to loss or theft as a result of either benign or malignant behaviour. Although Microsoft has introduced some functionality in Windows Vista to address information-security management issues, these…
Technology Audits - published 09/02/2009 - Richard Edwards
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CORE IMPACT Pro is an automated penetration testing product that enables organisations to evaluate the security of their servers, desktop systems, end users’ systems, and Web applications by automating tasks that would traditionally require significant time, effort, and expertise to perform. The solution also tests the security infrastructure’s response to attacks on these vectors. The product is based around a proprietary kernel and Python interpreter which runs a wide range of vulnerability exploit scr…
Technology Audits - published 29/01/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
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Whether it was greed, stupidity, or just bad luck that beset some of the most respected companies in 2008, the fallout from these problems will undoubtedly continue to affect all industries and sectors for the foreseeable future.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/01/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Steve Ballmer picked up the baton from Bill Gates last week as he delivered his first keynote speech at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas. Attended by trade and industry professionals, CES is the showcase for all manner of consumer-oriented technology, and this year boasted some 2,700 exhibitors. In his speech, the Microsoft CEO talked about the state of the IT industry and the need for continued innovation. Mr. Ballmer concluded his presentation by informing the au…
OpinionWire Articles - published 19/01/2009 - Richard Edwards
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LogLogic 4.6 facilitates the collection, analysis, storage, sharing, and reporting of IT system log data thereby enabling it to be actively managed and secured. The introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) regulations have focused attention on many aspects of IT, especially that relating to audit trails. Offered as a range of ‘black box’ appliances, LogLogic has developed this solution with low cost of ownership and ease of implementation and manage…
Technology Audits - published 05/01/2009 - Richard Edwards
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The ISYS Enterprise Search Suite is comprised of ISYS:desktop, ISYS:web, and ISYS:sdk. Together these offerings address desktop search, Intranet search, and embedded search. The applications can be used together to enable search across individual PCs, file shares, Intranets, external Web sites, and third-party software applications. The solution has several features relevant to its target market, such as multiple querying mechanisms, eDiscovery capabilities, multi-lingual support, results navigation, and…
Technology Audits - published 08/12/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Maxine Holt, Richard Edwards
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Recommind, a provider of enterprise search solutions, recently announced a new offering designed to help organisations explore, preserve, and collect electronically stored information to prepare for and comply with litigation and regulatory investigations.
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/12/2008 - Richard Edwards
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Last week, a year on from staking a claim on the ‘Enterprise 2.0’ landscape, Oracle sought to re-emphasise its credentials by briefing analysts and customers on its progress to-date.
OpinionWire Articles - published 27/11/2008 - Richard Edwards
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Nuance, the largest global speech recognition vendor, recently acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) for €66 million (roughly US$96 million). The deal makes Nuance an up-and-coming player in the enterprise space, especially where speech technology is concerned. The acquisition of PSRS complements the company’s imaging solutions and its market-leading desktop speech recognition solution: Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Indeed, the company now appears to have somewhat cornered the market, as it also…
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/11/2008 - Richard Edwards
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With the announcement of Office 14 for the Web at its recent Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft has fired a salvo across the bows of Adobe, Google, Zoho, and other desktop-apps wannabes, as it plans to offer users familiar tools that will allow them to create, edit, and collaborate online.
OpinionWire Articles - published 14/11/2008 - Richard Edwards
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The Eclipse-based IBM Lotus Notes and Domino v8 suite extends the familiar Notes solution set to an integrated collaboration platform, incorporating access to document creation, document management, project management, and custom composite applications. Composite applications can be developed by combining Eclipse and Notes applications as components; templates can be developed for business managers to drive business process; and the provisioning and management of the offering is all server-based. IBM has…
Technology Audits - published 05/11/2008 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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Organisations, and the IT industry in general, are moving slowly but surely towards a services-oriented, network-centric model of computing, and as a result the venerable Windows-based desktop computer – together with its applications – is starting to be seen as something of a legacy system.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/10/2008 - Richard Edwards
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The term ‘Web 2.0’ has been with us for some considerable time if one thinks about it in terms of ‘Internet years’, and so with some inevitability the phrase ‘Web 3.0’ is starting to be discussed by futurologists and industry observers.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/10/2008 - Richard Edwards
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Like an increasing number of companies today, Sun Microsystems is looking at virtual workplaces. With over half of the company’s workforce working remotely at any given time, the opportunities for impromptu meetings and chance encounters were diminishing, and so the company decided to build a virtual extension to its Menlo Park campus.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 15/10/2008 - Richard Edwards
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The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ has become something of a catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale shift in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative drivers that are forcing organisations to push aside old technologies, models, and architectures to make way for the new Web 2.0 world of service-oriented, highly-virtualised, truly-commoditised, and …
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 18/09/2008 - Alan Rodger, Andy Kellett, Mark Blowers, Michael Azoff, Mike Davis, Mike Thompson, Richard Edwards, Rob Hailstone, Sarah Burnett, Tim Jennings
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Last month I came back from a business trip to the US to find that, unbeknown to me, my all-singing, all-dancing Nokia 95 had run-up a UK£60 data roaming charge with my mobile operator. As I could not account for this data usage, and as this was my personal mobile phone, I decided to investigate further…
OpinionWire Articles - published 18/09/2008 - Richard Edwards
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The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ has become something of a catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale shift in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 03/09/2008 - Richard Edwards
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