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Relaying the foundation

 19 December 2011

Affordable housing developer Enterprise Community Partners has embarked on a four-year IT transformation that places cloud computing at its heart

Put to the test

 12 April 2011

Businesses are beginning to think more strategically about software testing, providing an opportunity for independent testing services providers

The tangled web

 22 March 2011

Web applications are quick to build and highly flexible, but the fragmentation of development platforms – and the complexity of the web itself – warrant careful consideration

The best of both clouds?

 13 September 2010

The hybrid cloud model is said to combine the advantages of public and private cloud computing, but its complexity could undermine the potential benefits

In the frame

 14 June 2010

Software development frameworks play a pivotal role in the move to cloud computing

Software is not enough

 18 November 2009

Oracle’s move into hardware rewrites the rulebook for enterprise systems vendors

The rise of Ruby

 14 September 2009

Beloved of the software developer community, the Ruby on Rails development framework is now infiltrating the mainstream. But is it suitable for the enterprise?

The integration imperative

 13 February 2009

The current economic pressures have put renewed focus on the critical role of data integration in business and technology consolidation

Cost-cutting conundrum

 10 December 2008

Financial services organisations are under intense pressure to cut IT costs, but many are struggling to do so without impairing future business

Cloud computing in the enterprise

 09 December 2008

The economic downturn has triggered a surge in interest in cloud computing as businesses explore how they might cut costs and overheads by exploiting the revolutionary IT model

Enterprise mash-ups

 17 November 2008

They may not yet be as ubiquitous as some predicted, but mash-ups are set to become an indispensable integration tool

Q&A - Bank of America

 16 September 2008

Bank of America's process architect Sean Cody outlines the challenges and the paybacks of Agile development

The difficulties of Agile development

 07 August 2008

The fluid nature of Agile projects can make them difficult to manage, says Dr Peter Merrick

The Agile revolution

 14 July 2008

How a radical rethink of development processes has aligned software with the business

DHL Logistics

 10 April 2008

CIO Nigel Underwood explains how DHL completed the largest IT integration project ever undertaken in its sector

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