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XenServer is the family or brand name for Citrix’s server virtualization platform. Packaged as a free entry-level edition and a series of more advanced paid-for editions, XenServer suits customers of all sizes ranging from very small to extremely large. It is the leading commercial implementation of the open-source Xen hypervisor, and one of the most sophisticated server virtualization platforms on the market.
Technology Audits - published 06/09/2010 - Graham Titterington
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The Kaseya IT Automation Framework core and add-ons allow integration and automation of all basic IT tasks including systems management, patch management, IT asset management, software deployment, data protection, compliance, endpoint security, and service desk. Scalability is a key component of the Kaseya K2 platform and the product allows extensibility through multiple platform support and integration with third-party applications. With MITSE and EE, Kaseya has also included enhancements to the applica…
Technology Audits - published 31/08/2010 - Nishant Singh, Stephen Mann
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As IT moves from being perceived as a provider of technology to a services provider that enables business users to drive the organization, the need for CIOs to be able to demonstrate how resources are being deployed is a fundamental requirement. When this is combined with the increasing reliance on the Internet as an essential business tool and sales channel, the importance and therefore the reliability of network services has become paramount, and is also assumed to be always on and available when needed.
Technology Audits - published 31/08/2010 - Roy Illsley
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Singularity Process Platform is a business process management (BPM) solution that enables organizations to model, simulate, automate, measure, execute, and optimize their business processes in an agile way. For SMEs and many mid-market organizations this could mean greater flexibility and scalability, faster processes, greater visibility, and an accelerated time to value.
Technology Audits - published 31/08/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Mike Thompson
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Technology Audits - published 23/08/2010 - Stephen Mann
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As IT moves from being perceived as a provider of technology to a services provider that enables business users to drive the organization, the need for CIOs to be able to demonstrate that current resources are being deployed effectively is a fundamental requirement. To many in IT, automation is seen as the codification of run books, but as rPath demonstrates, its true potential is to transform the way IT manages its relationship with the business units and the technology.
Technology Audits - published 23/08/2010 - Roy Illsley
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Organizations have typically deployed asset management tools to track and manage installed software in the context of purchased licenses, to assess under- and over-provision and remedy accordingly. While this approach and enabling tools can somewhat meet an organization’s need to reduce IT costs, the inability to track the relevance and actual usage of an application is suboptimal. Obvious efficiencies can be made, but many other opportunities are missed. Survey, by Scalable Software, is an IT asset life…
Technology Audits - published 16/08/2010 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Stephen Mann
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The growing range of software and application threats and the need to adhere to regulatory controls has caused the volume of patches and software updates to increase. Organizations need to have software protection controls as part of their risk-management strategy. Facilities should include automated vulnerability detection and patch-management deployment to ensure that service delivery is addressed securely and efficiently. Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) incorporates these security-managemen…
Technology Audits - published 16/08/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan
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T-Impact is a business process management (BPM) service provider that helps telco and retail customers to diagnose, improve, and automate their business processes. Its methodology is backed up by a strong focus on removing process wastage, which leads naturally to increasing both revenue and profitability. T-Impact focuses on these two specific market areas for a number of reasons. First, it is believed that the deep understanding of processes in these areas is weak and T-Impact has the expertise to surf…
Technology Audits - published 10/08/2010 - Mike Thompson
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Founded in 1989, Planview has been a consistent leader in the portfolio management arena. In 2007, it further strengthened its position with the acquisition of Business Engine and its customer base, intellectual property, and employee capabilities. Planview Enterprise 10.1 is an enterprise-level solution that:
Technology Audits - published 23/07/2010 - Stephen Mann
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For file transfer, organizations have traditionally used FTP software, home-grown proprietary methods, and physical data exchanges using a CD/DVD. These mechanisms lack security, reliability, the ability to work within an automated process, and do not track data exchanges. Consequently a range of managed file-transfer products has appeared. At one end are the focused MFT products that support a specific type of interaction such as application-to-application or B2B. At the other end are MFT products capab…
Technology Audits - published 23/07/2010 - Graham Titterington, Karthik Balakrishnan
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Business process management (BPM) is both a technology and a methodology for giving greater visibility and control of an organization’s runtime operational environment. It is built upon the fundamental requirement that organizations have to create a more structured approach to its way of working. Allied to BPM are three other major technology movements: business rules management (BRM), service oriented architecture (SOA), and complex event processing (CEP).
White Papers - published 23/07/2010 - Mike Thompson
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The use that is made of identity and access management (IAM) technology within the public and private sector is growing in line with the threat environment. Most organizations understand the need to maintain control over who is allowed to access their information assets. They recognize the negative impact that not having the proper identity management controls in place can have on the organization and its reputation. They also appreciate that industry regulators have the power to extract fines and impose…
White Papers - published 23/07/2010 - Andy Kellett
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Collaboration between organizations requires them to exchange information regularly. This information is often of commercial value or a sensitive nature. Organizations need to be able to protect the information in transit, audit information flows, control how information is used by the recipient and, in some cases, revoke information access rights if the information appears to have been put at risk. These concerns can also apply to information flows within an organization.
Technology Audits - published 19/07/2010 - Graham Titterington, Karthik Balakrishnan
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Provisioning the correct access rights for privileged users across growing and often complex operating environments is a time-consuming effort in its own right. Growth in the use of virtual servers and ever-changing business and compliance requirements, have made it even tougher for organizations to maintain effective control over privileged accounts and to manage user-access permissions. These issues are driving the requirement for privileged access-management solutions such as FoxT’s ServerControl prod…
Technology Audits - published 08/07/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan
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Global 360’s Process360 BPM is closely aligned to the Microsoft technology stack and, hence, a good fit for organizations that are essentially Microsoft shops. The solution has been built on the .NET platform and is only supported on Microsoft operating systems. Process360 leans heavily towards document and content management. The solution aims to co-opt tasks, documents, and people into its process model. A key aspect of the solution is its role-based visual end-user applications, which are specially de…
Technology Audits - published 08/07/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Mike Thompson
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Small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face many of the same pressures and problems as their much larger counterparts, but need software that reduces the complexity and timescales involved in implementations to provide a faster route to operational use and the attainment of benefits. Vivantio Service Desk is just such a solution for requirements relating to service-desk operations, and can also be used for other needs involving management of contacts and enquiries.
Technology Audits - published 08/07/2010 - Alan Rodger
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LISA Suite provides a comprehensive set of testing capabilities that will allow customers to improve the effectiveness of their QA function for SOA or other component-based development environments. The functional modules can be enabled individually to satisfy point-solution testing requirements, but make most sense when deployed together as an integrated suite. LISA Suite is targeted at large organizations serious about the use of SOA, but limited deployments at the department level provide a common ent…
Technology Audits - published 01/07/2010 - Rob Hailstone
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Newgen, an India-headquartered enterprise software provider, offers OmniFlow, a business-process management (BPM) solution for automating processes for very high-volume document-intensive tasks with a substantial paper-based component. The OmniFlow suite includes a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC)-aligned process-modeling tool, a process-execution engine, rules management, a forms builder, a business-activity monitoring (BAM) dashboard, and a simulator. O…
Technology Audits - published 23/06/2010 - Somak Roy
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Losing data from unsecured laptops and other mobile devices is not acceptable. In the public sector, the impact of losing citizen or operationally secret data can be disastrous; for the private sector, it can lead to brand damage and financial loss. The use of software disk encryption helps to address many of the required protection issues, but even here the facilities need to be first class. Stonewood, and Eclypt range of hard-disk encryption devices, provides strong data protection that has little or n…
Technology Audits - published 23/06/2010 - Andy Kellett, Somak Roy
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Fiserv is a leading player in the fraud-detection and AML sector. The company’s anti-fraud and compliance solutions are used by over three-quarters of the top banks in the US and Canada, by many of the leading banks in the UK and Ireland, and by all the leading Australian banks. The strength of its Financial Crime Risk Management platform is, in Ovum’s opinion, upheld by the breadth of the overall solution, and further product integration work is ongoing.
Technology Audits - published 23/06/2010 - Andy Kellett
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Corporate IT functions are being squeezed, not only by the enterprise-wide mandate to “deliver more with less”, but also by IT-specific drivers, to demonstrate business value through business alignment and the need to maximize the availability of business-critical services. IT departments within medium-to-large organizations have also long faced the increasingly complex task of provisioning IT services to business users (via multiple IT teams or functions acting in unison) to support business priorities....
Technology Audits - published 14/06/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Stephen Mann
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The use of mobile devices to interact with financial, government, and commercial systems is still limited, but is about to see significant large-scale growth. The demand is coming from the business and user communities and is being driven by the functional capabilities of the mobile devices, ease of use for users, and cost benefits to business. There is tough competition among service providers in the banking sector to provide better authentication and customer management solutions for their online, phon…
Technology Audits - published 11/06/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Nishant Singh
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The high acquisition cost of proprietary BPM solutions makes them inaccessible to many organizations. The licensing cost is a barrier, and the recurring software maintenance/technical support costs may be too high for enterprises as well. A relatively routine BPM deployment can cost a company anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million, with annual support costs in the range of $40,000 to $150,000. In Ovum’s view, for BPM to penetrate all segments of the market, there is a need for products that offer essential…
Technology Audits - published 11/06/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sandeep Mishra, Vuk Trifkovic
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The identity and access management market is highly competitive, as one would expect from a sector that includes large IAM and infrastructure providers such as Oracle, Sun, IBM, and CA. In response, Entrust provides an impressive portfolio of identity-based authentication, access control, and user protection products.
The latest releases of the Entrust IdentityGuard, GetAccess, and TransactionGuard platforms provide an extensive and integrated range of identity management, risk-based authentication, acc…
Technology Audits - published 08/06/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Nishant Singh
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