Top IT shops have gone from being the No Police to the Frazzled Yes Guys. Project portfolio management can help stem the tide while keeping your hard-won reputation intact
The massive enterprise management vendor consolidation over the past several years means organizations have salespeople promising that their offerings can do everything well. While all certainly try, different products have strengths and weaknesses. We took a look at the major functional areas within enterprise management and picked our favorites in 10 key tech areas.
The enterprise content management market is poised for growth, according to FileTek execs who cited the company's increased footprint in e-mail and fixed content management and new acquisitions.
As startups showcase their collaboration and RIA tools at Enterprise 2.0, IBM and BEA are embracing mashups in a big way. Both are demonstrating tools, due to ship next month, that they claim can empower nondevelopers to create useful business apps. What gives?
RIAs and other new Web 2.0 communications technologies are hot, but applying them to the enterprise can be tricky. Six of the most active areas at this week's show were RSS Enablement, online office suites, mashup appliances, social bookmarking, wikis and all-in-one Web 2.0 appliances.
New search appliances claim to be uniquely adapted to meet enterprise needs. We tested eight enterprise search products and analyzed the technology's security and architectural implications. Our take: The math just
doesn't add up.
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On Network Computing's enterprise apps channel, our real-world technology editors cover the latest developments in enterprise apps, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). We cover the mega-trends, including the fact that large enterprise suites from vendors such as SAP and Oracle continue to dominate the enterprise apps area, while software-as-a-service offerings such as Salesforce.com key fill niches. We cover ERP systems that enable enterprises to track key financial, manufacturing, human resources and other data -- basically the lifeblood of the corporation. ERP challenges include implementing and supporting these typically behemoth application sets. We also cover CRM apps, including sales force automation and marketing automation, that help run corporate sales and marketing departments. We also cover sCM apps, which help manage supplier and partner relationships. You can also learn about new application strategies including Web 2.0, AJAX and mashups that hold the potential to drastically change the make-up of enterprise apps. Already, vendors are offering nearly codeless development environments, in which Web 2.0-like interfaces can be developed quickly. We also cover business process management, or BPM suites, which are moving beyond their early workflow and queue management orientation to become tools for helping to analyze and manage customer relations. BPM suites have been transformed by the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) standard and Web services. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of enterprise applications, and don't miss the latest enterprise apps news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of enterprise applications.
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