Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Emerging software tools help boost IT spending projections Case management tools, automated spend analysis, services procurement, supplier risk and performance management are all helping shape the technology budgets of the future
Thursday, October 13, 2011
What does an EBT CIO do? Market research firm Forrester envisions a shift to an era of what it calls empowered business technology (EBT), in which business units are more involved in deciding what their technology needs are
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Use a business approach in SOA design, governance: Expert You likely have the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more. Forrester analyst Randy Heffner offers five points of guidance
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Look to government identity management for ideas: Analyst There are good examples in how the U.S. government is innovating in the area of federated identity assurance, for both government-specific and commercial scenarios that require trusted online interactions
Friday, June 24, 2011
Think SOA when building, running apps on cloud: Forrester Infrastructure-as-a-service platforms will improve. But enterprise architects, too, have work to do in taking an SOA approach to the business apps they build to run in the cloud. Plus, comparing the ROI from CRM, ERP and business productivity apps in the cloud
Monday, June 06, 2011
Forrester: IT depts face decade of fundamental change A senior vice-president at the research firm says technology professionals are beginning a major shift in order to cope with greater demands from end users to implement or use their own systems
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Google Apps, OpenOffice don’t replace Microsoft: study The safety blanket of user familiarity and format compatibility in Microsoft Office often means alternative office productivity tools won’t make it past the pilot stage, according to a new study by Forrester Research
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Numbers you need to know: Employees take tech to work According to a survey, 37 per cent of workers said they've used their own PC or smartphone for work, and 26 per cent have gone so far as using their own money to buy software or other technology
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Microsoft goes on the defensive with Skype acquisition With the US$8.5 billion deal, Microsoft has all the technical assets it needs to compete with Skype, but will gain a big user base, according to industry analysts
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
How to get started with cloud computing Before making a move into the cloud, get educated on the principles and definitions of cloud computing, experts advise
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Mobile app dev goes multiplatform Research finds preferences for iPhone and Android and recommends multidevice strategy, but sees trouble for Java ME
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Delivering IT services without ‘grandma’s quilt’ An ITIL V3 chief architect lists what organizations should do when sourcing new tools to support their IT service management strategies, and the things they should definitely avoid
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Outsourcing customers want more than just low cost A new report by Forrester finds customers are looking for new engagement models with Indian suppliers, based on business outcomes. Find out about these newer pricing models
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Novell extends workload management to Linux Novell has extended workload migration to Linux environments and to Windows clusters in PlateSpin Migrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge. It’s part of Novell’s Intelligent Workload Management strategy, but one analyst said it’s not yet clear how that plan will play out
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
What agile software vendors are missing: Forrester The co-author of a new Forrester report on the state of agile management software lists the functionality that agile developers need but still don’t get. The surprising way that agile shop Ultimate Software tracks project progress
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Agile BI: meet user demand, beat IT complexity An 'Agile BI' strategy gets the development done faster and reacts more quickly to changing business requirements, says a Forrester analyst.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Users advised to be careful with Oracle ULAs Oracle's unlimited license agreements can make great sense for companies that want to use a lot of the vendor's software, but a number of potential pitfalls can get buried in the fine print, according to a new Forrester report.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
CA buys 3Tera, expands cloud computing VP of business unit strategy Jay Fry explains how the acquisition of 3Tera will fit into CA’s overall cloud strategy and recent acquisitions of Oblicore and Cassatt
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research CIOs often look to help out other non-tech departments, but they should ask themselves the following before playing the good Samaritan.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Toronto Hydro Telecom rides a (managed) wave THT's Managed Wave service allows enterprises to consolidate all network services onto a single circuit.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Canadian SMBs very ‘vulnerable’ to new trojan Canadian SMBs that lack an effective e-mail filtering system could be highly vulnerable to a trojan that has infected more than five million machines so far
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Applications cost more to build with Linux/Java: report Development and deployment of Web-based applications using Java and Linux can be up to 28 per cent more expensive than similar applications built using Microsoft Corp.’s software, according to a Forrester Research Inc. study released Monday.
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Report: Applications cost more to build with Linux/Java Development and deployment of Web-based applications using Java and Linux can be up to 28 per cent more expensive than similar applications built using Microsoft Corp.’s software, according to a Forrester Research Inc. study released Monday.
Thursday, May 08, 2003
AT&T Canada sells two business units AT&T Canada Corp. sold two of its subsidiary companies, Contour Telecom Inc. and Argos Telecom Inc. to YAK Communications (Canada) Inc. earlier this week.
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Breaking our fondness for cash Human attachment to cash, be it stones, shells, coins or paper is inexorably linked to our desire to get something palpable in return for goods or services rendered. But cash has one huge drawback — cost. Cash doesn’t last long, a year at best for most bills, and is extremely expensive to produce, document and transport. The goal for most financial institutions is to move all monetary transfers to the electronic world where money would never have a material existence.