Richard Adhikari

Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) yesterday detailed more of its plans to make it easier for users and developers to customize and enhance their Salesforce and Force.com applications, courtesy of two elements of its upcoming Visualforce user interface release. Visualforce is designed as a simplified way for Salesforce and Force.com application users to tweak, mashup or create […]

BeyondTrust has announced version 4.0 of its flagship Privilege Manager product. The new version is designed to make managing security in Windows Vista easier. Privilege Manager 4.0 lets enterprises eliminate local administrator rights while allowing users to run all authorized applications by transparently granting administrative privileges to only the specified applications that need them. It […]

Hot on the heels of Rimini Street’s announcement that it will extend its third-party cut-price support services to SAP R/3, comes SAP’s announcement of its next-generation support offering, SAP Enterprise Support. Announced at SAPPHIRE, the SAP (NYSE: SAP) international customer conference being held in Florida May 4-7, this represents a move from the traditional bug […]

Salesforce.com is the latest addition to Magic Software’s roster of applications and services it supports through its iBOLT business integration suite. Magic’s (NASDAQ: MGIC) iBOLT uses a code-free, wizard-based interface to enable users to merge customer data across the enterprise, sharing information between Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) and other business applications, in real time. The idea […]

Third-party enterprise application support vendor Rimini Street — best known for delivering lower-cost support and maintenance for Oracle apps — has said it plans to add support for the SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite in January. But while Rimini Street is aiming to broaden its business, it won’t be doing so using the […]

Fear and loathing will dominate when Best Practice 6.6 of the PCI Data Security Standard becomes a requirement June 30. The regulation requires that merchants dealing with debit and credit cards tighten up their security by both conducting application code reviews and installing Web application firewalls. It was put forth by the PCI Security Standards […]

In a move that might herald sweeping changes for the mobile workforce, SAP has natively integrated its customer relationship management (CRM) application into the Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry hand-held device. This will give the mobile workforce full access to all of SAP CRM’s functionalities, which will be pushed out to them over the […]

Two years after first launching its Web Services for Management standard, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has ratified it as final. The DMTF, with more than 4,000 participants from 44 countries and nearly 200 organizations, leads the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives. Board members include representatives from IBM, Intel, […]

Size matters in business, especially when large corporations leverage their network effect to cut costs as they keep track of their financials. Small businesses have to handle their financials manually or with consumer-level accounting applications such as Quicken. Not any more, at least where financials are concerned. PaySimple, a software as a service (SaaS) company […]

Much of the excitement about service-oriented architecture has been sound and fury — it is, after all, a fairly new approach and enterprises have learned, to their cost, that the emphasis in the term “bleeding edge” is on the first word. Service-oriented architecture, or SOA , is a lot of things, much of them complex. […]

If e-mail is the lifeblood of a company, then enterprises are pulling out all the stops to keep their e-mail archives safe, right? Not really, according to a study conducted by Osterman Research for Neverfail. Neverfail is a software vendor providing continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions worldwide. More than 50 percent of 117 companies […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has expanded the features offered in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a Web service that provides virtual storage farms for developers. The new features are Elastic IP addresses, and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple availability zones — what amounts to further virtualization of the already virtualized storage service. The […]