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Google Apps still trying to win over corporate users

While Google is often cited as having a golden touch, the company's productivity application suite is still a mere bronze competitor to Microsoft's Office and collaboration tools despite upgrades over the past year that focused on evolving and securing the online tools for corporate users.

By John Fontana | 19 December, 2008 13:48

Tags: google apps

Microsoft eyes game-changer for application development

With its ambitious Oslo software modeling platform, Microsoft seeks a new application development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has brought up questions about whether Oslo crowds the modeling landscape and whether Microsoft can achieve its lofty goals.

By Paul Krill | 16 October, 2008 08:03

Tags: programming

How IT could have prevented the financial meltdown

In the coming weeks the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could it have been used to prevent the bad debt from hitting the fan in the first place?

By Ephraim Schwartz | 25 September, 2008 09:05

Tags: business intelligence, finance, industry verticals

Building a new window into crime

By combining business intelligence and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in the US state of Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.

By Heather Havenstein | 12 September, 2008 10:18

Tags: business intelligence, mapping, mashups, police, search

'Distributed Web' takes center stage at DEMO

DEMO executive producer Chris Shipley isn't sure what to call the evolution of Web 2.0 software and applications, but she is sure of one thing: It shouldn't be called Web 3.0.

Running on AIR: Great office apps you can get now

The release of Adobe's AIR runtime platform was supposed to inspire the development of sophisticated business applications to take advantage of its media-rich capabilities.

By Howard Wen | 09 September, 2008 08:52

Tags: adobe AIR

Google App Engine: Getting Data Out Ain't Simple. Yet.

Developers who adopt the Google App Engine for their cloud computing platform today may fear data lock-in, since the only way to import or export data is using a Python-based API. Google is working on a tool to improve data exchange to improve data portability.

By Esther Schindler | 05 September, 2008 11:28

Tags: google apps

Who provides what in the cloud

The news that US telecommunications provider AT&T has joined the rapidly growing ranks of cloud computing providers reinforces the argument that the latest IT outsourcing model is well on its way to becoming a classic disruptive technology.

By John Edwards | 28 August, 2008 09:33

Tags: cloud computing

How to troubleshoot sluggish apps

There's more at stake than lost productivity when application response times slow to a standstill. Company revenue also takes a hit.

How to mashup without a screwup

Given the short history of mashups in the enterprise, IT departments likely don't entirely understand the technology's role in the business. Organizations can fall victim to mashup mistakes given the markedly different approach necessary to deploy and maintain them across the organization.

What's new from HP

HP introduces increased automation capabilities and advanced integration across multiple applications in three major software suites.

CA jockeys for position in security, management markets

CA this week is set to unveil a slew of security, management and automation products that have industry watchers and IT managers speculating the embattled software vendor may succeed at making its technology better integrated and easier to use.

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BEA takes an SOA approach to e-commerce

BEA Systems' latest version of its e-commerce tool takes a services-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to tackle challenges brought on by current e-commerce trends, said a company executive.