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Challenging Cisco's dominance

 22 June 2006

While many of the established old-guard have struggled to compete in a changing technological landscape, Cisco’s dominance remains implacable.

Back on form

 22 June 2006

Corporate scandals notwithstanding, HP has found the time to unseat IBM as the leader of the IT industry.

Tracking the triumvirate

 22 June 2006

Investment in the business applications market is no longer an easy indicator of the health of the IT industry.

HP shrinks the data centre

 19 June 2006

With its new blade servers, HP promises to more than halve the total cost of ownership of data centre systems.

The truth about business

 19 June 2006

Data quality will continue to undermine BI efforts until senior management get to grips with the issue.

Born to perform

 19 June 2006

Corporate performance management can radically improve insight into operations – providing some basic ground rules are followed.

The metrics gap

 19 June 2006

The successful application of performance metrics across the business requires a keen understanding of social psychology.

RFID suits M&S

 19 June 2006

Marks & Spencer is far ahead of its peers with item-level tagging.

Fixing the odds

 19 June 2006

Criminal activity has exploded online - but ecommerce security need not be a gamble, with data analysis tools that flag up fraud as it occurs.

Searching questions on BI

 19 June 2006

Can enterprise search tools complement traditional methods of accessing structured data sources?

Beating the duplication blues

 12 June 2006

How Business Link for London tackled a major data quality challenge head on.

The virtual desktop

 05 June 2006

Since the mainframe era, virtualisation technologies have added flexibility to the management of IT assets. Now organisations are looking to exploit advanced virtualisation to take the PC off the desktop and into the data centre – without the user noticing a thing.

Creating sustainable compliance

 22 May 2006

CSOs and CIOs discuss building compliance into business processes in our latest roundtable discussion.

Can biometrics safeguard shoppers' identities?

 22 May 2006

Chip and PIN systems have improved customers' security at the check-out, but identity fraud is still a big problem. Are biometric technologies ready for broad deployment? 

Battling in the BI market

 22 May 2006

Microsoft is throwing its formidable weight into the business intelligence market. How are the BI specialists' financials holding up?

Month in review: May 2006

 19 May 2006

May's news reviewed.

BT's integration-as-a-service

 19 May 2006

BT Global Services gives data and application integration the Salesforce.com treatment.

Salesforce.com mobilises

 19 May 2006

Salesforce.com's inaugural acquisition, Sendia, improves its mobile support.

Sage on a collision course

 19 May 2006

Sage is rushing headlong into straight competition with Microsoft and SAP with its new CRM and ERP product for the mid-market, and Salesforce.com in the hosted CRM market.

Tibco: from plumbing to processes

 19 May 2006

BPM is a key differentiation in the crowded SOA market, argues CEO.

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