Enterprise Cms News & Articles

In 2013, more companies will begin developing Hadoop-based applications for their most critical Business Intelligence (BI) tasks. That’s one of the predictions in Forrester Research’s crystal ball for BI in the new year.

Today, Couchbase has released the Couchbase Server 2.0, an updated version of its NoSQL database product, designed to improve server functionality and database capabilities.

Yesterday, we reported that BYOD in the enterprise was inviting more security threats -- so for those looking for ways to protect their networks from unwanted hackers, BeyondTrust’s acquisition of Blackbird Group may help. 

The holiday season may be fast approaching but it doesn't seem to be having much effect in the document management space.  Among this week’s highlights -- the release of IBM’s productivity suite, Microsoft finally releases Office 2013 to the business community, Perceptive releases new Outlook app, Snowbound offers right to left functionality for documents and Accusoft upgrades its ImagXpress application.

By the looks of things, we are entering the End of Days for Hotmail. In spite of this, Microsoft is still not finished tinkering under the hood of Outlook.com, Hotmail's replacement, having just introduced new security features that should improve it.

The only way you can truly manage your content is to understand it. Depending on who you are, that may sound really simple. The reality? It’s something organizations struggle with every day.

Microsoft developers now have the option to deploy their Windows Server based applications in the Amazon Web Services, and it's just the latest Amazon move to solidify its position as the true cloud leader.

The fun part of every December is to look back at the year and think through all that has happened. Looking at all the ups, the downs and the unknowns can really be an eye opener to get you ready to make the resolutions and plans for the next year, because there really is no point in looking back if you don’t take the extra steps to plan forward.

My prediction record for 2012 was pretty good. I was dead on, ahead of the pack and stood alone in predicting that companies would be using the product strategy lens on APIs to drive business outcomes. I did not predict that it would result in an all out API war resulting in the mass proliferation of "walled garden strategies", but even Nostradamus didn't bat 1000.

I wanted to challenge myself this year in making a highly bold prediction that could, somehow, be more singularly unique than last year's prediction about something that was at that time so obscure as APIs. So here it is -- Big Data will find its Andy Warhol.

Recent improvements in in-memory and big data analytics technology spell benefits for those working in risk and compliance. 

Enthusiasm for big data has moved beyond a trendy catch phrase to a serious force in shaping business decisions. 

Another top day for business cloud consumers. Last week we brought you news that Amazon had cut its EC3 storage prices by 25 percent, a move that was countered by Google, which slashed its by 30 percent. Today, it’s the turn of Azure, with cuts in pricing of up to 28 percent.

There are many conflicting opinions on the current value and future viability of email in the enterprise -- some observers have gone as far as to declare email dead as a business tool, while others acknowledge its role is changing as communications technology changes, but say it still has an important place. Process/content management solutions vendor Perceptive Software subscribes to the second theory.