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TechExcel provides a suite of closely-integrated tools under the DevSuite umbrella to manage the application development process from gathering and managing requirements, planning the development process, tracking issues, and managing testing processes. All of the modules are centered around KnowledgeWise, a repository that is key to project transparency and which can handle unstructured information. The development planning module is equipped with industry-standard compliance support, and integrated iss…
Technology Audits - published 08/05/2008 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Michael Azoff
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VMware Infrastructure v3.5 is a suite of virtualisation solutions for businesses, providing them with a basic virtualisation layer enabling the creation and management of multiple virtual machines, but extends the solutions to provide high availability, off-host backup, and support for SMP. As virtualisation moves beyond the simple server consolidation market towards the delivery of agile computing, VMware has produced a series of solutions packaged under its VMware Infrastructure 3 brand that help organ…
Technology Audits - published 07/05/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Roy Illsley
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The Wyse Thin Computing range includes hardware and software solutions aimed at providing users with a near PC-like experience, and administrators with a platform for centralised provisioning and device management. Achieving a near desktop-like experience, the Wyse TCX suite delivers rich multimedia content over the ICA/RDP protocols. In addition, the thin client solution provides a higher level of security and reduces management costs and power consumption. While the company has partnered with VMware (a…
Technology Audits - published 30/04/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Maxine Holt, Somak Roy
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CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager (CA SPECTRUM) version 8.1 is the latest release of the company’s fault management, root-cause analysis, impact analysis, and business service modelling software solution. CA SPECTRUM offers granular layer 2 and layer 3 network visibility down to individual port and circuit levels for Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs), supporting a wide range of wired and wireless and physical and virtual network environments. The solution provides the facilities re…
Technology Audits - published 30/04/2008 - Andy Kellett
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AppLabs is a focused global testing services provider with a service portfolio geared to the full outsourcing of an organisation’s testing function. At the granular level, this includes consulting services on testing strategy and processes, testing tool and test automation implementation services, along with system integration, and functional and non-functional testing. In addition, AppLabs provides application security testing, network security assessment services, and certification services for softwar…
Technology Audits - published 24/04/2008 - Mark Blowers, Somak Roy
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MEGA provides specialised modelling tools for business process modelling and analysis, Enterprise and IT architecture planning and documentation, system design, and data modelling, as well as risk and control policy analysis, which is all aided by a single repository that allows role-based process artefact retrieval, documentation, and impact analysis across disparate modules and solution environments. Worthy of note is the portal-based and multilingual MEGA Advisor, an interface to the repository which …
Technology Audits - published 24/04/2008 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Mark Blowers
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Tideway Foundation is an agentless application dependency mapping tool. It provides an integrated view of applications and services and their relationships with data centre assets and their configurations, by aggregating and reconciling information from various data stores, and comparing the data against a regularly updated repository of patterns of commonly used hardware and software components. Enterprises with a complex and dynamic heterogeneous IT infrastructure with significant investments in virtua…
Technology Audits - published 24/04/2008 - Jasmine Kaur, Maxine Holt
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CA Service Desk is one of the market-leading helpdesk solutions, using the best practice methodologies and processes defined in the ITIL® framework. The primary focus areas of Service Desk, as with any other helpdesk solution, are in Incident and Problem Management, and Change and Configuration Management. The solution has good automation and self-service capabilities, which are aimed at problem and incident resolution at level zero. An optional integratable module, Service Desk Knowledge Tools, facilita…
Technology Audits - published 17/04/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Maxine Holt, Somak Roy
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Envoy and Envoy Management Station (EMS) from Uplogix provide a secure remote systems management platform for companies with distributed IT infrastructures, including the provision of support services to systems that are located at inaccessible geographies. Envoy is set up as an on-site hardware appliance that connects directly via the console port to the devices (servers and network devices), which it is being directed to manage. EMS is deployed in a central location to provide administrators with a Web…
Technology Audits - published 16/04/2008 - Andy Kellett, Balachandar Ganesh
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Transactional Content Management (TCM) comprises a solutions framework and a set of products, which enable the rapid deployment of business processes. It combines content, process, and compliance through the integration of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) functionality. A number of challenges that organisations encounter when handling transactional content are addressed, including insufficient auditing of processes, which leaves organisations open to risk of non-c…
Technology Audits - published 16/04/2008 - Sue Clarke
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Sumerian offers a probably unique set of managed services that apply IT Analytics across IT and business problems. It combines in-depth technical and business data, from diverse sources within customer organisations, to produce insight that addresses issues or opportunities, from service delivery to strategy level. Complexity, scale, and rapid change are universal challenges that beset CIOs and business leaders alike, and almost all struggle to find answers to critical questions about what is really goin…
Technology Audits - published 15/04/2008 - Alan Rodger
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DynaComm PointGuard is an administration and end-point security solution aimed primarily at combating the threat posed to information assets from within the organisation. The solution offers a central management console for creating and enforcing security policies on the client, as well as the ability to define rule-based policies that control or restrict the use of removable storage devices. Butler Group considers the policy management features at the file level as impressive, giving administrators the …
Technology Audits - published 15/04/2008 - Mark Blowers
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The launch of Force.com opens up the salesforce.com platform to developers and helps close the loop between the mainly business users of the platform applications, and the IT department that may be called in to build and integrate systems. Force.com is a Platform as a Service comprising a set of open Application Programming Interfaces and tools for developing applications on the salesforce.com stack, including database, logic, User Interface (UI), and secure computing purposes, as well as for sharing on …
Technology Audits - published 14/04/2008 - Michael Azoff
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Bloxx is a provider of third-generation Web Filtering solutions. Its appliance-based Tru-View Technology (TVT) solution is tasked with reducing the risks to business and its users from inappropriate Internet use and as a result helping to enhance employee productivity. Functionally, the company’s patent-pending approach to filtering out risky activities utilises all of the conventional components of Web Filtering and then significantly begins its real work by adding layers of analytical intelligence that…
Technology Audits - published 08/04/2008 - Andy Kellett, Balachandar Ganesh
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EdenSOA from Datadialogs is a solution for creating process-driven services that can be used within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) or using a Web services access approach. The solution adopts a code free, drag-and-drop, and at the same time a GUI approach to building re-usable services that can be loosely coupled in order to design, develop, and build processes. As business processes continually change, the solution has been designed to incorporate a strong reuse capability, enabling updated and n…
Technology Audits - published 08/04/2008 - Andy Kellett, Balachandar Ganesh
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Composite Information Server (CIS) 4.6 is an information integration development environment and run-time query engine, enabling real-time data access across disparate sources, through the use of data virtualisation and a federated architectural approach. It addresses the need to dynamically access, combine, and repurpose data to improve strategic and operational business efficiency. Key benefits are its use of SOA concepts, its highly visual, declarative data modeller and automatic code generator, exten…
Technology Audits - published 31/03/2008 - Angela Eager
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IBM Cognos Now! Monitor is an operational BI solution that is offered exclusively as an appliance or hosted as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). IBM Cognos Now! Monitor 4.5 represents an expanded appliance with enhanced new features. It continues to offer real-time capabilities for operational BI, but additionally brings standard data access and traditional BI capabilities in a pre-packaged hardware appliance. IBM Cognos Now! Monitor is targeted at organisations of any size with a specific need to monitor hi…
Technology Audits - published 28/03/2008 - Sarah Burnett
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Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management solution, Alfresco 2.1, provides an open source platform for Document Management, Web Content Management, Records Management, Image Management, and Digital Asset Management. Enterprises and business units often struggle with ad-hoc document management and collaboration, and Alfresco’s model reduces acquisition costs whilst offering a highly scalable Web-based architecture, that simplifies roll-out to a broader user population. The shared drive-like interface, inte…
Technology Audits - published 25/03/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Tim Jennings
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Appian Enterprise is a fully-featured Business Process Management (BPM) suite that has been designed to enable business professionals and IT to work in harmony when building end-user applications. All functional components of the suite are Web-based, and have been specifically designed that way to support a collaborative approach to process and application development that allows all relevant business users to interact and make effective contributions at each stage of the process development lifecycle. B…
Technology Audits - published 25/03/2008 - Andy Kellett
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed a turnkey solution based on standard infrastructure components that offers customers a robust flexible infrastructure solution that is both repeatable and reliable. A flexible infrastructure can be provided in many ways, and the Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ approach has been to incorporate a comprehensive management capability with a pre-build hardware solution. The ability to integrate with all the leading systems management tool vendors is a particular strength. Ho…
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2008 - Roy Illsley
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The Gomez Reality QA suite provides a SaaS-delivered automated testing tool for testing Web applications. It focuses on testing Web sites with AJAX capabilities across a test bed that simulates combinations of a wide range of Operating Systems (OS), browsers, and device form factors, and a network of 25,000 consumer PCs that enable performance testing across different connection profiles. With the growth of customer facing Web sites with AJAX and Flash capabilities, enterprises require a simplified testi…
Technology Audits - published 14/03/2008 - Sarah Burnett, Somak Roy
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WebFOCUS is Information Builders’ flagship Business Intelligence (BI) product; a highly-respected platform, that can provide organisations across all sectors with just about every facet of the BI stack, ranging from back-end Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) services, through to advanced visualisation technology and strong integration with desktop tools. WebFOCUS can create, consume, and publish Web Services, and so this makes it an ideal platform for the development of enterprise BI applications. As a …
Technology Audits - published 12/03/2008 - Sarah Burnett
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BMC positions itself firmly in the Business Service Management (BSM) space, with a large range of products that ties in classic systems management with the new requirement of ensuring that the IT assets and resources of an organisation are used from a business perspective. Central to a good BSM solution is the Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB), and BMC is well served in this area with the BMC Atrium CMDB. Unlike some other solutions, BMC does not use the CMDB as a tie-in to its other products; it …
Technology Audits - published 11/03/2008 - Mike Thompson
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IBM Tivoli is a suite of products under the Tivoli brand that enables organisations to manage effectively the complex infrastructure required to support businesses today. As the demands on CIOs increase, the effective use of human resources becomes a critical factor in any IT department; Butler Group likes the ability that IBM Tivoli has to automatically correct predicted problems before the end-user is aware of the problem. However, we believe the packaging and marketing of these products can appear ove…
Technology Audits - published 11/03/2008 - Roy Illsley
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CA’s systems management capabilities are provided by a number of discrete products; however, CA Unicenter® NSM is the product that acts as the foundation for infrastructure optimisation and management. Users gain an holistic view of all components in the IT infrastructure, and best-practice fault management methodologies are incorporated. The solution monitors a wide variety of system environments and operational platforms, and can accommodate information from third parties, all of which CA Unicenter NSM…
Technology Audits - published 11/03/2008 - Roy Illsley
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