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Lower-Cost Options Free IT From Software Maintenance Fees
As sales opportunities diminish, vendors are relying more on income from maintenance contracts to keep growing. With fees generally set between 17% and 22% of the original software license price, such expenses can exceed the original cost of a purchase in a few years.
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Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into An Enterprise Technology?
Wikis, mashups, social networking, and even Second Life can have a place in business, but they need to improve legacy interoperability--and IT needs to overcome its skepticism.
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The Road To Making BI Available To Everyone
For BI to go mainstream, it will take a lot of creative thinking and collaboration between the business and IT.
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SAP: Big Businesses Won't Be Interested In On-Demand ERP
Despite soaring interest in software-as-a-service, SAP's new product is aimed at companies with fewer than 500 employees.
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Enterprise Mashups: Mashed Or Half-Baked?
Enterprise mashup tools are the natural next step for SOA, letting ordinary employees build applications that aren't on IT's radar screen. But security concerns could make this technology a recipe for disaster
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Blogs And Wikis Move In As E-Mail Overload Becomes Unbearable
Collaborative software lets business people communicate without the management and security hassles of e-mail
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The Problems With E-Mail
As e-mails multiply, so do the problems, from the unabated increases in spam to increasing scrutiny by regulators.
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ERP Gets A Complete Makeover
Three major business-application vendors are in the midst of development projects to rewrite their software suites. Given the problems of the past, the improvements need to be more than skin deep. Plus sidebars on Microsoft s effort to unite foru disparate ERP suites; SAP s focus on next generation applications based on SAP s Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture; and Oracle s softare juggling act.
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SOA's Perfect Mate?
Virtualization 2.0 will go beyond server consolidation, making applications more agile and scalable to fit a service-oriented architecture.
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