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Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:24 +0000

Google is rolling out a new IT administration console for its Apps email and collaboration cloud suite and for other enterprise products such as Maps Coordinate and Chrome OS devices.

Microsoft to boost Office Web Apps features

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 01:13:59 +0000

Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android tablets via mobile Chrome browser support.

Big data gold isn't always where you would expect it

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:55:16 +0000

Many companies are focusing their big data initiatives in areas like sales, marketing, customer service and R&D, but other functions like logistics or finance may offer even greater ROI.

SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service

IDGNS staff — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:38:17 +0000

SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.

Antivirus is ailing: Here are 5 firms ready to replace it

jnaze — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:51:14 +0000

AV companies have been at war with the bad guys for much of the last two decades. And guess what? The bad guys won. Now that the days of antivirus software being in the front line of defense against malware are over, what companies are ready to step in and take up arms against sophisticated attacks and malware? Here are five to keep your eye on.

Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools

IDGNS staff — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:56:54 +0000

Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn.

Salesforce Summer '13 release to focus on Chatter, customer ideas

IDGNS staff — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:54:19 +0000

Salesforce.com's upcoming Summer '13 release of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) software will feature a slew of enhancements to the Chatter social collaboration tool as well as many improvements that are the result of customer suggestions, according to a set of official release notes.

The software licensing gotchas in the cloud

abennett — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:47:56 +0000

Some software vendors have embraced virtualization and the cloud, but others impose defensive licenses that serve no one.

Salesforce.com to ship Communities app in June

IDGNS staff — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:01:17 +0000

Salesforce.com next month will begin shipping its Communities application, designed to let companies build external-facing social sites for interacting with their customers and partners.

Software licence optimization critical to enterprise app store success

IDGNS staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:51:19 +0000

Gartner recently predicted that 25% of organizations will have their own app store by 2017, and while app stores can improve flexibility and empower staff, once the floodgates open it can be incredibly difficult for enterprises to manage software licensing, control entitlement and track actual software usage.

5 reasons to build an enterprise mobile app store

IDGNS staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:47:24 +0000

IT departments can keep employees from using malware-infested mobile apps by creating an internal store of company-approved apps. The store can also collect feedback from users about their preferences.

Oracle lands $100 million ERP project covering 34 colleges

IDGNS staff — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:15:45 +0000

Expert: The project in Washington state looks 'very complicated'.

IBM launches an appliance for the 'Internet of things'

IDGNS staff — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:22:21 +0000

Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages

Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 percent in 2012

IDGNS staff — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:52:56 +0000

Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software segments on average, as companies look to acquire more business and serve existing customers better, according to a new Gartner report.

OASIS: MQTT to be the protocol for the Internet of Things

IDGNS staff — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:37:02 +0000

Setting the foundation for what may be a multitrillion-dollar marketplace, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has declared MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) as its messaging protocol of choice for the emerging Internet of Things.