One of my usual minor rants is around software licence management and its facile identification with SAM—Software Asset Management. License management, I might suggest, is a burden for the business, invented by companies who seemed to...

So, what's the really hard bit about building automated business systems or services? Picking the right programming language and understanding how to exploit all its options? Hardly; you only need about a dozen basic concepts to make a programming...

Following on from my last piece on CIM (the Computation Independent Model), I thought I'd take a quick look at Aptero Solutions' technology offering. I have to admit that I seem to be rather on Aptero's wavelength and probably have been since the...

Security is really a lot to do with perception and point of view. Yesterday, preventing whistle-blowing was a compliance issue; today, post WikiLeaks, allowing whistle-blowing is starting to look like it might become a compliance issue; and the US...