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Enterprise application software includes the latest news about IT compliance, business intelligence, office productivity suites, enterprise resource planning (ERP), call centers, and Software-as-a-Service (SAAS). You can also find information about CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Sales Force Automation (SFA), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), BPM (Business Process Management), databases and database analysis tools. Enterprise Applications is also the place to find news about emerging Enterprise 2.0 products such as enterprise Web applications and wikis.
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Storage management software maker Acronis is trying to bridge the gap between needs of small and larger enterprises with Backup & Recovery 10, a new, more scalable version of its backup and data recovery software.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple is more appealing to the enterprise than ever. And yet, despite the developments around the iPhone and the Mac in the past few years, Apple has not done much to make that happen.
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Microsoft is prepping fixes for vulnerabilities in the DirectShow and Video ActiveX Control components as part of July's Patch Tuesday. The Patch Tuesday release will consist of six security bulletins, three rated critical.
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Microsoft will release free CRM Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that allow the enterprise to pull data from social networks such as Twitter, centralize sales management across multiple channel partners through a common Website, and integrate Dynamics CRM with Web portals. Microsoft has been heavily promoting its Dynamics CRM throughout 2009 as an alternative to Salesforce.com and other cloud application companies.
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With its recent move to peel back the beta label from Gmail and other Google Apps, Google has admitted that lots of companies aren't comfortable with using beta products.
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A new survey by research firm Gartner found that businesses were relatively lukewarm to software as a service, suggesting that, despite the hype, these applications need more work in order to gain full acceptance within the enterprise. Those who declined to use SAAS cited high costs, difficulty with integration and failure to meet technical requirements as primary reasons.
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Government contracting company Smartronix nabs a contract worth $18 million to redesign the Recovery.gov, the federal Website dedicated to tracking stimulus spending.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Google's new operating system, called Chrome OS, is exciting consumers and those interested in netbooks, but does it have what it takes to take on the enterprise? If Google does target the business world, it will then have to take on Microsoft head-on. We take a look at what Google Chrome OS holds for the enterprise.
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Research by Symantec MessageLabs shows the amount of spam that contains links masked via URL shortening services has jumped dramatically in the past few days. While services like TinyURL and Cligs are popular for legitimate users, people should treat shortened URLs with at least as much caution as other links, security researchers say.
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Microsoft names Steven Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, president of the Windows Division. The role involves overseeing the engineering and marketing for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer, just ahead of the Oct. 22 rollout of Windows 7. Microsoft needs its new operating system to be a hit to overcome bad memories of Windows Vista and help keep revenues up in the midst of a global recession.
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NEW YORK—T-Mobile's new phone, the MyTouch 3G, is a direct follow-up to its T-Mobile G1 smartphone, and like the T-Mobile G1 also features the Google Android mobile operating system. Users can download multiple applications from Android Market and customize menus and other elements to fit their personal style. In addition, several Google features such as Google Maps and YouTube have been preinstalled on the MyTouch 3G smartphone.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: On July 8, the world learned that Google would challenge Microsoft in the operating system market with its Google Chrome OS, which is based on open-source code and is geared toward netbooks or mini-notebooks. Microsoft has been in the operating system game for a while and eWEEK Labs analyst Jeff Cogswell look at what Google can learn from Microsoft as it expands its business.
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Facebook, which claims to have more than 200 million users, played a central role in interactive Web communications during the event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The social networking site reported some impressive traffic-related statistics shortly after the 2-hour-long event ended.
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The OffiSync plug-in, which marries Google Apps, Docs and search engine functionality with Microsoft Office documents, is coming to enterprise users. For $10 per user, per year, businesses will be able to bring Microsoft Office documents into the cloud, saving them for collaboration in Google Apps. The tool comes as vendors grapple with how to expose more on-premises users to cloud computing.
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Dell has announced sweeping additions to its virtualization solutions suite, paying particular attention to accelerating the delivery of benefits to its corporate clientele. In an interview with Ziff-Davis Enterprise Contributing Editor Steve Kovsky, Dell Solutions Director Anthony Dina explains that in the past, customers were frustrated by the length of time it took for a new technology investment to pay for itself. Dell’s new approach emphasizes quicker returns and better measurement of each customer’s ROI. "There’s a lag time between when a person decides they want to get after the advantage, and when they actually get the advantage, so with this announcement, we put a lot of effort into what we call ‘the fast track to efficiency’," Dina said. That fast-track approach calls for a combination of pre-configured hardware and software packages, bundled with advisory and consulting services that are designed to let companies plan, deploy and manage their server virtualization investment with a minimum of downtime or delay.
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In the last year, Firefox has faced challengers in areas in which it was always comfortably ahead. However, with the release of Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has addressed many of the biggest problems of its Web browser. Most of the changes are under the hood, but the improvements are enough to make Firefox one of the most compelling browsers available, and enough to earn the new version an eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice award.
Opera Unite is essentially a Web server embedded within a browser. This has the potential to make the exchange of data on the Web more efficient, but any Web server carries with it security risk--especially one on end users' systems.
During eWEEK Labs' review of the iPhone 3.0 software upgrade, the remote wipe feature worked great. Unfortunately, the restore feature did not. But a trip to the Apple Store brought surprisingly fast relief.
Open-source software allows a great deal of flexibility and configurability, and can help organizations avoid vendor lock-in, but it has to be the right open-source software. Open-source enterprise applications such as Zimbra that provide hosted, on-premises and independent options are the most attractive.
REVIEW: The open-source Concrete5 content management system trails its rivals in terms of templates but offers a powerful API. The free CMS offers strong administration features, and companies will be able to quickly customize sites.
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