Data & Analytics

Like it or not, you live in the era of the "shadow IT department." Consumer tools and toys have attached themselves to your corporate infrastructure, usually without your knowledge and consent. You feel the impact in the form of security problems, support issues and user frustration.

Compared with competitors such as Oracle, which has pursued an aggressive growth through acquisition strategy in recent years, German enterprise software developer SAP has preferred to grow and develop new technologies organically.

The addition of a new software routine caused the multi-hour failure of Research in Motion's Blackberry messaging service in North America earlier this week, the company said Friday.

From business intelligence to CRM, from scheduling and e-procurement to database management and data governance, there is no shortage of enterprise applications available to help businesses make their processes more efficient. Choosing can be difficult, however: Do you go open source? Software-as-a-service, or in-house deployment? Every vendor has a sales pitch. Here are 10 worth watching.

AT&T Inc. will open a new Internet data centre (IDC) in Thornhill, Ont., which the company says will provide Canadian multinational clients with managed hosting services, including remote monitoring and data management capabilities.

While Whirlpool focuses on the business of making kitchen and laundry appliances, lead network engineer Gregory Fisbeck keeps his eye on thousands of IP addresses.

Phil Cutter seems to have a case of middle-age spread. That

Oracle Corp. plans to purchase Tangosol Inc., a U.S. provider of in-memory data grid software, as a way to further extend its Fusion middleware and make it more appealing to users where rapid access to data is critical to their businesses