Enterprise News & Articles

The BlackBerry and PlayBook maker will return its focus to the enterprise after reporting sizeable losses and seeing its former CEO leave the board. Will the new boss's brutal honesty help the company turn things around? 

As expected, Apple has confirmed 7 March as the launch date for the iPad 3 and possibly a couple of surprises. But, beyond the launch, will Apple start to make a major play for enterprise users before Windows 8-powered tablets arrive later in the year?

Google has been a very busy company this week, making moves at the top of its businesses and changes across its wide range of products. You can now edit docs on your Android phone, as the Chrome browser improves its privacy and Google+ features appear across the brand.

In a hands-on, sneak peek of Oracle’s upcoming Big Data Appliance due to ship Q1 2012, the company is making available for download today its Oracle NoSQL Database with Enterprise Grade support that was announced in early October. 

The technology represents a shift for Oracle. We’re talking “massive amounts of data” including data maintained by social networks, and other dynamic schemas including web log, plus sensor and smart meter data and data gathered for personalization.

Collaboration is not new to business, but the recent advent of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 tools and technologies have changed the collaborative abilities and scale of distributed collaboration for the enterprise. Whether it’s because the “World is Flat” or you want to tap the “Wisdom of Crowds,” collaboration, we are told should be a part of your business strategy.

This week, the mobile enterprise explores the appeal of Apple’s iPad and the explosive global expansion of the mobile web.

Fans of the OpenPublish (news, site) packaged Drupal (news, site) distribution aimed at publishers will be pleased to know that creator Phase 2 Technology has some interesting updates coming, and big plans to complete before the next Drupalcon.

Since the iPad release, many new apps have made their way onto the market, some useful, others in the novelty category of apps we could do without. However, the newly released iPad app from TeamViewer (news, site) falls into the' very useful' category for businesses and private users as it gives them the ability to control remote PC’s from the iPad.

Google's already done so much with its search engine, its app store, its controversial--but popular--social features. Why not throw printing in the mix? Still in its early stages, Google Cloud Print eases the process of printing from mobile devices like an iPad. 

Stirring up the vibrant web publishing game is WoodWing, a company we haven’t mentioned in a while. The last time we spoke of them they were playing around with Alfresco and partnering for Smart Newspapers.

This time they’ve brought to the table the latest version of their flagship product, the somewhat awkward to pronounce Enterprise 6 Content Publishing Platform and they are building new and interesting bridges with their pluggable repository architecture. Let's take a quick look at how they're evolving the web publishing side of our landscape.

Informative Graphics Corporation, a company that develops viewing, annotation and redaction technology, has announced the latest version of its Brava software suite for multi-format viewing, annotation and secure content delivery.

We had an opportunity to talk with IGC CEO, Gary Heath about Brava and their work within the records management industry.

CMS Watch has a pretty interesting content management vendor map (see link below), laid out in the format of a subway map, which makes for intriguing viewing. The diagram is overtly enterprise-oriented, and links vendors according to their scope of operations across various content management arenas like Enterprise CMS, email archiving, DAM, XML management, etc.

It’s interesting to note that there are five main ‘Hubs’ — extending the subway metaphor — of vendors who can provide pretty much everything. Microsoft, IBM, OpenText, EMC and Oracle.

Finding good hosting can always be a pain if you don’t know where to go. But there is one thing you should know — when you’re in the search for a hosting company, there is something that you need to look for, particularly if you want to install a CMS.

That thing is Fantastico De Luxe. Does your hosting company offer Fantastico?

Enterprise info management firm Datawatch has announced that Monarch|RMS, its hosted report mining and analytics offering, is now integrated in IBM’s DB2 Content Manager OnDemand.

Monarch|RMS enables clients to view statistics relevant to their sites from remote locations so they can make more expedient decisions about what’s working and what isn’t. It does this by converting existing reports in a given CMOD system into hosted, filterable and more pliant data.

Clients can filter data most relevant to themselves and even perform multidimensional cube (OLAP-style) analysis. And at will, they can convert reports into tables, charts, graphs or spreadsheets.

Data can also be exported to templates, spreadsheets and even presentations in XML form.

You — the tech guy! — could look like the coolest kid in the boardroom.

Discover the magic at the Datawatch website.

For years the war for the enterprise has raged between Microsoft and Java with the heaviest battles occurring since the inception of .Net. However, recent research indicated that .Net is now coming out on the winning team.

This news is from Info-Tech Research Group - an IT research and advisory firm. According to an article on InfoWorld, Info-Tech’s research indicates that in a survey of over 1,850 organizations of all sizes and industries: .Net is the choice over Java most often.

The report indicates that 12 percent of the surveyed companies focus exclusively on .Net, while only 3 percent are exclusively Java. That’s a big difference and should spark some lively debate in the Java community.

To throw the Java community a bone, Info-Tech compares Java to legacy code in that it will always be around just like the infamous Cobol. Not sure if that’s a postive thing or not.

The report (which is not sponsored so it should be vendor neutral) is entitled It’s Official: .Net Roasts Java’s Beans and is available for a fee on the InfoTech site.