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A recent price change on software maintenance contracts will jack up the total cost of owning SAP software. British users are not amused.

Addressing what analysts have said was the main deficiency in its identity management suite, Novell has enhanced the provisioning functionality in the newly released Novell Identity Manager 3 (IdM 3).

For anything more than marginal cost savings, a large enterprise might consider that printers and other imaging paraphernalia deserve better than peripheral treatment. A leading natural gas producer in Alberta is saving $2 million annually by better managing its fleet of printers, photocopiers and fax machines, according to Michael Traynor, president of ComPrint Solutions Ltd.

Canadian retailers and manufacturers are preparing to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), but cost concerns are keeping them from going all the way.