Outsourcing
Published: 1st June 2002 | By: Graham Fisher
Outsourcing today is bigger than ever before. Whilst Outsourcing is one of the longest established IT strategies, thinking has now evolved in line with the post dot com economy. The traditional customer-supplier relationship is being replaced by partnerships with both…
Fast ROI
Published: 1st June 2002 | By: Robin Bloor
In the current economic climate the desire to take risks is diminished and the need to cut costs is paramount. Corporations and IT departments are looking for technology propositions that are low risk and likely to deliver a high return…
Storage Management
Published: 26th March 2002 | By: Tony Lock
The massive number of tools that fall under the umbrella of “Storage Management” makes it difficult for every feature to be fully assessed. This is a complex field with many different facets. However, it is clear that in most areas…
Service Management
Published: 1st March 2002 | By: Steve Barrie
Whilst the role of IT as a service is now firmly entrenched in our minds, the ability to measure the quality of the service actually being delivered is still not clear. This report is aimed at helping organisations that need…
Web Content Management
Published: 15th February 2002 | By: Ian Hugo
Content management is an idea whose time has come. Originally, it was derived from a need targeted at media companies seeking to move their content to the Web. At least one major CM vendor got started that way. Now content…
Databases
Published: 1st December 2001 | By: Philip Howard
This report represents a new way of considering the leading database vendors. Instead of considering them simply feature by feature, this report focuses on the different types of applications that you might want to develop. Thus each product is considered…
Enterprise Information Portals
Published: 1st September 2001 | By: Philip Howard
There are far too many sources of information: external, internal, e-mail and so forth, for a user to make sense of. Often you feel as if you could simply spend all day sorting the information and never actually doing anything.…
Mobile Enterprise
Published: 30th November 2000 | By: Mat Hanrahan
If there is one concept that the communications industry understands, it is convergence. Over ten years ago, the seamless integration of the worlds of data communications and telecommunica-tions were seen as the Holy Grail, with great rewards for those that…
Enterprise Information Portals
Published: 23rd November 2000 | By: Philip Howard
This report is about what we call Enterprise Portals. We are aware that different organisations var-iously use the terms “Enterprise Information Portal” (EIP), “Corporate Portal” or “eBusiness Por-tal” to mean the same thing. While we explain the reasons behind our…
The Intelligent Enterprise
Published: 1st November 2000 | By: Philip Howard
This report considers some of the trends and technologies that are emerging in the BI space with the move from the enterprise to the e-nterprise. In addition, there are some issues that have not been properly addressed in the past…