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Enterprise application software includes the latest news about IT compliance, business intelligence, office productivity suites, enterprise resource planning (ERP), call centers, and Software-as-a-Service (SAAS). You can also find information about CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Sales Force Automation (SFA), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), BPM (Business Process Management), databases and database analysis tools. Enterprise Applications is also the place to find news about emerging Enterprise 2.0 products such as enterprise Web applications and wikis.
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Growing up in a world immersed in digital technologies, Generation Y holds the highest of expectations about how they think their online banking experience should be. Knowledge Center contributor Shelby Hutcherson explains how regional and community banks can develop online financial services that attract and retain members of Generation Y, their toughest new customers yet.
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Apple's Macworld Conference & Expo keynote kicks off without CEO Steve Jobs. Instead, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, gives the address. Coming in to the event, rumors abounded about red iPhones, upgraded iMacs and a new Mac Mini. But Schiller unveils 2009 versions of iLife and iWork, the new iWork.com service, a massively upgraded 17-inch MacBook Pro, and conversion of the iTunes Store to all DRM-free tracks.
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Cisco and Apple together release a Cisco WebEx Meeting Center application for the Apple iPhone 3G. The move could be a springboard for greater Web conferencing collaboration using the world's most popular smart phone and a boon for corporate road warriors craving mobile enterprise applications. This will be crucial to cementing the iPhone as a reliable alternative to RIM Blackberrys and Nokia Symbian devices in the enterprise mobile and wireless space.
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X computers, boasting a user interface that lets users access Notes' full messaging and collaboration features from one screen. The new release also interoperates with Web calendar applications from Google, Yahoo and other public Web calendars, allowing users to display their Lotus Notes work calendar and their personal Internet calendar on the same screen. IBM claims this is its attempt to make Notes more social -- integrating work and play -- as it seeks to compete with Microsoft.
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Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo and others have plenty of pie to chow down on in the market for messaging and collaboration SAAS. Forrester Research sees value in cloud-based e-mail, finding it less expensive than on-premise solutions up to 15,000 seats. What side of the fence is your business on, or does it use a hybrid on-premise/cloud approach?
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Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software, says programmers should emphasize coding on their resumes, particularly when looking for application development jobs at startups and small companies.
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Cloud development platforms, mobile application development and the increasing acceptance of dynamic languages for Web development were among the top 10 stories in the world of software programming. With each passing year, software tools have become more sophisticated. While developers have more languages and tools to choose from than ever before.
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An international team of security researchers uncovers a way to forge digital certificates, potentially allowing hackers to launch virtually undetectable phishing attacks. The research underscores why certificate authorities and browser vendors must keep up with the latest anti-malware measures.
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The economy may have slowed, but the security needs of businesses did not. From Symantec to McAfee to Sophos, security vendors have not been shy about putting new products out on the market to help companies fight malware, data breaches and unauthorized intrusion. Here are a few of the products from security vendors that hit the market in 2008 and were aimed at enterprises.
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For software developers, 2008 was the year of the cloud, and 2009 will pick right up from there with more and more cloud computing activity. Application developers are jostling to get into the fray as more and more vendors enter the realm of the cloud.
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Some enterprise VOIP systems are all but unusable from the time they are implemented because nobody took the time to properly profile the existing network. Before implementing a VOIP system, a thorough application impact study should be completed. Knowledge Center contributor Tim McCreery offers five critical steps enterprises should take to ensure a successful VOIP system implementation.
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There is no question that the need for environmentally sustainable business practices exists. Enterprises can proactively improve their business operations in ways that will have a positive impact on the environment, deliver measurable cost savings, as well as a long-term platform for ongoing sustainability and strategic advantage. Knowledge Center contributor Laura Mooney explains how business process management and enterprise architecture and modeling can help your organization to go green.
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SAAS integrator and consulting services firm Appirio has some strong opinions about the way cloud computing will evolve in 2009. In short, it sees open clouds from Salesforce.com and Google duking it out with Microsoft's Windows Azure and Microsoft Online Services. Appirio sees big things for the cloud, from enterprise applications and business intelligence to enterprise social networks. What do you see for the cloud in 2009?
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The 451 Group says mergers and acquisitions declined 40 percent in 2008 from 2007, thanks to the limping U.S. economy. The research company, which looked at high-tech deals in enterprise applications, search engines, Web services, cloud computing, and the mobile and wireless sectors, said to expect more of the same in 2009. Valuation deals will be lower and hostile bids will be higher in a world where the cash-strong will survive.
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IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1 offers users a clean and attractive user interface,but it's based on a 4-year-old version of OpenOffice.org. Lotus Symphony 1.1 lacks a lot of the features and support offered in such competitive products as Microsoft Office.
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