The social network landscape is packed with choices and pitfalls for the unwary, so a careful, well thought out and appropriately nuanced respoonse is required.

One of the main headaches is the allocation of expenses to the right client while maximising the amount that can fairly be claimed from each client. Another is ensuring the expenses can be reported in a granular and auditable manner to those clients.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of breakthrough applications in more detail. Further, we will consider the implications for the underlying technology elements (development environment and database) that will underpin these...

This survey looked at the business arguments for using an enterprise social networking (ESN) system based on software as a service (SaaS). We also investigated decision makers' views on the comparative qualities of SaaS based systems and those…

There is much work to be done in providing true data governance solutions. While standard data cleansing, data profiling, master data management and spreadsheet management products are widespread there are a large number of other capabilities...

Test Data Management (TDM) is about the provisioning of data for non-production environments, especially for test purposes but also for development, training, quality assurance, the creation of demonstration or other dummy data, and so on....

The need to ensure that employees remain within the bounds of policies dictating permitted expenses cannot be left to chance, or to expenses being dealt with after the point of transaction.

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...

All organisations need to fully understand their employees' mobile usage and behaviours to be able to put appropriate policies in place to ensure business requirements are met whilst acceptable personal use is still enabled.

This paper is organised into two parts: this section, together with the conclusion, is intended for executives who have no or limited technical knowledge or interest, and the remainder of the paper, which is intended for the more technically minded..

In the UK it is now mandatory for deposit takers (banks, building societies and other institutions) to be able to provide the authorities with a single customer view of all deposits held by the organisation for individual depositors. It is likely...

EMC Data Domain has extended the capabilities of its in-line deduplication appliances, which typically reduce data backup storage by around 95%, to gain greater savings when replicating to remote locations over a wide area network (WAN). In this...

Sybase ETL (extract, transform and load) started life as a general-purpose data integration product. However, today it is a data integration tool that has been specifically optimised to support the loading of data into Sybase IQ.

It is often the case in large enterprises that multiple data marts are deployed, along with a central enterprise data warehouse acting as a system of record. While these data marts serve the requirements of the departments or divisions that...

From customer contact and records keeping, through calendaring and scheduling to mapping and news feeds, the mobile phone is usurping the laptop as the main point of technology for the road warrior.