High quality data is crucial to good IT management. This fact is finally being recognized, and the recent dramatic consolidation in the "data quality" market is proof of that.
Salesforce.com Inc. unveiled the 20th generation of its hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software, announcing a connector integrating its CRM software-as-a-service with SAP AG's R/3 ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications.
The lifeblood of the modern enterprise is information. This isn't news. But as organizations collect more and more information from different sources and applications, it's increasingly difficult to deal with that information.
Depending on which study you believe, the average company has anywhere from a dozen to hundreds of applications that require user log-ins.SSO (single sign-on)...
In a move uncharacteristic for IBM Corp., the company's storage division today shared details of current research projects they hope to realize in the upcoming years.
Every Microsoft Corp.-based corporation has heard about the challenges of deploying Active Directory. And the challenge only gets deeper when coupled with Exchange 2000, which must have the directory in order to operate. Software developer J.D. Edwards & Co. took on the challenge before both products were released and will soon flip the switch on its internal network for the first set of live users on Exchange 2000.
Every Microsoft-based company knows about the challenges of deploying Active Directory. The challenge only gets deeper when coupled with Exchange 2000.