This report looks at the promise and issues of cloud computing as described today, along with the direction cloud needs to take in order to fulfil on its promise.

Interactive Medica's Life Sciences Application Suite offers a range of cloud-based sales and marketing applications that address the key commercial challenges faced by Life Sciences companies today. The Suite combines the cost, flexibility, and...

This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Master Data Management (MDM) market. Master data is data that is shared between computer systems: data domains such as customer, product,...

For many companies, all their trading of goods or services is with other companies. This is referred to business to business, or B2B for short. This sort of transaction is typified by the transactions that take place between a manufacturer and...

Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is.

Enterprises seeking to simplify managing their IT infrastructure and make it as agile as possible have implemented server virtualisation, typically using VMware, and are increasingly adding storage virtualisation. Yet there are major technical...

If you stop and take a look at all the objects that sit within an arms length of where you are sitting the chances are that a cell phone, in all its guises, is one of the first that you see. The reality is that the cell phone is the first piece...

Most organisations have information in various places that they are either unable (perhaps for governance reasons or because the data is incompatible) or unwilling (either for organisational or cost reasons) to consolidate into a single data...

Local authorities provide a wide range of services from housing and education to business services and the environment. This means that they handle a substantial amount of sensitive information related to individuals, as well as material...

The GCSX Code of Connection is an important step along the journey to provide a secure infrastructure for public sector business. At the time of writing most, if not all, work in local authorities to achieve compliance with the Code of Connection...

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. The effectiveness of public services relies on reliable, accurate and clear citizen communication.

Defence logistics have multiple touch points with logistics systems operated by civilian and quasi-civilian organisations, and must be able to operate effectively, rapidly and transparently with these systems.

Low latency analytics is becoming increasingly prevalent and we expect demand for the sorts of facilities described in this paper to grow substantially with time.

The automation of traditional paper based processes with technology can lead to unnecessary complexity. This leads to increased costs and other challenges which can be avoided if solutions are simple and fit closely to the business task in hand.

Shadow v7 expands the range of SOA and data connectivity options available to existing System z mainframe users.