Richard Adhikari

Many small businesses use regular spreadsheets for business process management (BPM), but these can take a lot of time to create, and slow down planning. In a survey of 343 financial professionals by the Business Performance Management Forum, all agreed that spreadsheets were one of the major problems delaying or disrupting the budgeting process. One […]

In a move that is expected to offer small and medium-sized businesses a crack at hot technologies like service oriented architecture (SOA), France’s Sopra Group announced today it will buy Tumbleweed Communications. The purchase will be made through Axway, a subsidiary of Sopra, which will pay $138 million, or $2.70 a share, for all outstanding […]

Despite its budgetary woes, California plans to plunk down $3.5 million in a massive effort to put its statewide database of prescribed drugs on the Internet. The project, scheduled for completion by next year, is a bid to prevent drug addicts and dealers from acquiring duplicate prescriptions from unwitting doctors and pharmacists. It also will […]

The Concordia Project has just announced the use case presentation line-up for its first public workshop on policy and entitlements management. This will be held June 23 at the Burton Catalyst Conference 2008 in San Diego. Representatives from Cisco, Boeing, Micron, Oracle/BEA Systems and the U.S. Army will present policy management use case scenarios to […]

Misconfiguring your system can lead to trouble, as any seasoned system administrator knows, and that is as much of a problem in the virtual world as in the physical. The chances of misconfiguring virtual systems are much higher, though, because virtualization is a new technology. But help is at hand. Configuration assessment and change auditing […]

Informatica has unveiled version 8.6 of its eponymous flagship data integration package at Informatica World 2008 in Las Vegas. This is a comprehensive, unified platform for data integration, which lets enterprises squeeze the maximum value out of their data by accessing, transforming, integrating and cleansing all their data so it can be trusted. It has […]

UPDATED: Small businesses with five to 500 employees are getting a plug-and-play IT solution from IBM (NYSE: IBM). Dubbed the IBM Lotus Foundations Start, this is a turnkey solution running on Linux that can get a business’s infrastructure up and running within 30 minutes, according to the company. It includes e-mail, file sharing, remote access, […]

In a bid to catch up to other major database vendors, IBM has announced IBM solidDB, an in-memory relational database package which will deliver data at up to 10 times faster than conventional relational databases. This uses technology from Solid Information Technology, a Finnish company with offices in Cupertino, Calif., which IBM acquired earlier this […]

The fear of online fraud and theft looms large in consumers’ minds. Even among those performing transactions on the Internet — banking, stock trading or checking credit card balances online — appear to be worried about the threat of fraud. A recent survey found that 64 percent of 1,500 Internet users who have performed an […]

The business process management (BPM) tools market is on a solid growth path. BPM, which is designed to optimize and streamline business operations, will grow from the roughly $1 billion in 2007 to $2.6 billion by 2011 according to Gartner. One of the vendors hoping to take advantage of this growth is Metastorm, which this […]

As enterprises gallop ahead towards virtualizing their IT infrastructures, security and compliance issues are going to slow them to a crawl. That’s because virtual environment security is nothing like security in the physical environment. Security measures in the physical environment are based on the servers being fixed, having a constant identity, and being easy to […]

When Sun Microsystems unveiled its xVM Virtual Box high-performance desktop hypervisor, it expected a fairly good response – after all, the hypervisor is open source and it’s free. The response blew Sun away — xVM Virtual Box has been downloaded more than five million times in the 18 months since it was rolled out. It […]