Inside the Briefcase
By Earl Wright, BandwidthAs communication technology evolves, unified communications and managed service providers are racing to stay one step ahead of your needs. A big piece of this is their ability to offer you a broader palate of communications services. Read More >>>
Those with green thumbs are using them to search through some useful new gardening apps that provide information on everything from seeds to seasons, from proper growing techniques to pest identification. Gardeners like the ability to access handy information without having to leave their rows of tomatoes or petunias, but there’s also the opportunity to show off what they’ve reaped and sown via the sharing features in the apps.
Do hackers writing malware-stuffed links in search results find a way to avoid Google’s search bots? That may explain a new report from a German security firm evaluating the safety of results returned by some of the world’s top search engines, including Google, Bing, Baidu and Yandex. The news isn’t good for Bing, but the search engine says it’s working hard to find those poisoned links and sniff out hackers when they use SEO techniques.
Given a worldwide IT skills gap and the reality that technology is beginning to permeate a wider range of job descriptions across industries, the number of certification offerings and the need for IT specialization is expected to increase.
OpenText Media Management 7.2 accelerates secure file delivery, fosters collaboration and enables integration with leading customer experience technology
What makes a ‘Killer App’ killer? Why do some app writers strike it rich, while others go broke? Why do some startups feature their apps at both Apple’s iTunes store and Google’s Android store, while others go with one or the other?
Equidity™, the company dedicated to better IPOs, today formally launched Equidity 360˚, its new IR platform beta, PIPO™ Advisory, and announced 135 Economic GrowthSTARS Award nominees. The GrowthSTARS awards honor the top late-stage, IPO-track companies, the “Heroes of the Economy,” which collectively have the potential to deliver five million new jobs, upon remediation of the IPO process and the completion of their IPOs.
APPLICATION INTEGRATION, Newso streamline warranty claims and supplier recovery processes, Oracle today unveiled the Oracle Supplier Warranty Management solution, part of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
Major PeopleSoft Release Provides a More Intuitive and Productive Customer Experience
Forrester Research recently completed its Forrester Wave: BPM Suites, Q1 2013 study and identified Appian as the market leader for business process management software.
BPMonline, the global provider of the first-class Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, is proud to be named the winner of the European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2013 – the pan-European awards event for IT, ISV and Telecoms channels.
APPLICATION INTEGRATION, NewsWith the Azul Systems solution, Groupe Mutuel has realized a number of business advantages. The solution has provided a substantial improvement in the performance of the customer portal and the scalability of the applications for both customers and service agents. The result is the ability to ensure the best online experience for its customer base.
New product extends enterprise identity and access management systems to enterprise and partner mobile, web and desktop applications
By Michael Zuckerman, Knoa SoftwareGiven the criticality to the operation of the business, training and efficiency should be at the utmost importance to the company. The ability to precisely measure capabilities and performance of the user during and after training should be available to convey how the applications are being used. Read More >>>
PUMA uses a variety of Java-based applications for their web presence, stores and manufacturing operations. The PUMA custom product and supply chain application has about 1 million lines of code and 150 Enterprise Java Beans. During peak times the system reads/writes about 55 million records a day. The company’s rapid growth and innovation as one of the few true multi-category global brands caused them to reach the limits of what their current JVM and Java infrastructure could deliver.
APPLICATION INTEGRATION, NewsJoin IBM for this complimentary webcast and learn how service virtualization can enable continuous integration to increase quality, reduce cost, and decrease project risk.
OpenText announced that Gartner has recognized OpenText in its recent research report Market Update: Match BPMS Vendors to Your Usage Scenarios1.
Talend announced that FN Hersta deployed the Talend Platform for Data Services, made up of Talend’s data integration and ESB tools, to guarantee the interoperability of its information system and thereby increase agility
BPMonline, the global provider of the first-class Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, has been named the winner of the CRM Watchlist 2013 published on ZDNet.com by CRM thought leader, Paul Greenberg. The company has won this prestigious award for two years running.
APPLICATION INTEGRATION, NewsJoyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution, built using the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), that allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the high-performance Joyent Cloud
By Cliff Schertz, Tiempo DevelopmentMost IT organizations are talking about Agile, but few are truly putting it into practice. Why is this? Old habits die hard, and getting the entire IT organization on board with a new methodology for development can be a tough undertaking. Read More >>>
Facebook’s privacy critics might have a point when it comes to the new Graph Search function, which security researchers warn could be used to amass information to be used in phishing campaigns. “It will simply help expedite and simplify creating a targeted social-engineering attack,” said Angel Grant, senior manager at RSA. “Think about how many of your Friends you really know.”
ou could call Ian Sefferman’s initial rise to CEO of MobileDevHQ a bootstrap career move. Seeing the rapid growth of consumer interest in mobile apps, he jumped into an infant industry to learn what would push it forward. His interests fell on a gaping opportunity.
Many fresh fruit and vegetable suppliers are officially allowed to tick the GS1 compliance box. ZON fruit & vegetables, based in the Netherlands, went beyond this type of superficial GS1 compliance and is the first in its sector to not only fill all item attributes with real values, but to also close the entire loop from GSDN publication to EDI invoicing.
The original aim of service-oriented architecture (SOA) was to prevent vendor monopoly, whether in software or underlying hardware, allowing greater user freedom when choosing applications for various business or personal applications. However, many vendors try to tie users to their products, preventing the mix and match of applications on demand and making it difficult to link to existing legacy applications and platforms.
The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate Hewlett-Packard’s recent acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy, HP said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
Google has updated its search experiments — and you can still get in on the field trial if you want to — to integrate personal information stored in a user’s Gmail and Google Drive accounts into a traditional Google search. That means users will have more tailored experiences and will be able to access important information more quickly. It also may give Google more leverage with advertisers.
London-based business tourism specialists Travel Boutique chose BPMonline CRM to automate processes, which allowed elevating customer experience to a new level. What BPMonline offered was not just a simple software package but a complete business process management tool that could solve all the current issues, whilst assisting the company with any number of real-world problems that could occur in the foreseeable future.
SOA Software, today announced the publication of the eBook, Building Successful APIs.
Organizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Software-defined networking holds significant promise to deliver a new network architecture that is abstracted and virtualized; however, organization would be well served to learn from previous efforts to virtualize other domains in order to avoid making the same mistakes.
