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Features in Business Applications

The great software robbery

 10 August 2006

SAP, Oracle and IBM stand accused of extorting money from customers for the last 30 years.

Collaboration on demand

 25 February 2006

Organisations are increasingly using web meeting facilities as an on-demand service. How does that service compare with installing tools internally?

The assimilation of BPM

 25 February 2006

Early hype and lack of big-name vendor support put many potential customers off business process managament. But now, as a key element of a service-oriented architecture, its star is rising.

Under pressure

 25 February 2006

For Richard Smith, MD of Oxford Chemicals, growing his business means expanding into new markets but also satisfying his existing customers better than competitors.

DIY apps

 25 February 2006

Home grown applications rarely leave anyone satisfied. They are prone to busting budgets and deadlines, and often leave business users frustrated that their requirements have not been met. The deceptively simple solution to this is to bridge the semantic gap, and give business people the tools to develop their own applications.

The 10 worst web application failures

 10 February 2006

Information Age has pulled together what are arguably the 10 worst web applications failures seen in the UK, and has got together a handful of leading experts in the field to draw some guiding principles from the disasters.

Procurement perfected

 10 February 2006

Effective purchasing is about more than paying the lowest price. What tools support a more sophisticated approach to procurement?

The grid groundswell

 09 February 2006

Resource-sharing technology is gaining widespread acceptance. It promises nothing less than to restructure computing.

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