James Kobielus

Over the past few years, enterprise software vendors have ventured well beyond their traditional focus on licensed software packages. Many have begun to offer solutions that incorporate such diverse approaches as open source software, service-oriented architecture and software-as-a-service.

Compliance has been one of the dominant themes in the post-Enron age of corporate IT

Many software providers tout their offerings as solutions for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and every other regulatory mandate, industry best-practices framework and corporate internal policy.

Collective intelligence is an organization

Client virtualization is an underlying theme in many recent industry announcements. In virtualization, the external interface of every service becomes unmoored from its implementation in particular physical platforms, operating systems, application frameworks and software components.

Business battles are fought in real time, and IS must keep pace. Real-time business intelligence infrastructures promise a never-ending stream of fresh information, insight and decision support to frontline knowledge workers.

Companies cook the books at their own peril. That

Digital rights management is a technology with many ideological enemies. DRM got a black eye in the business-to-consumer market recently from such public relations fiascos as Sony