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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.
Top Enterprise Applications News
Open-source messaging and collaboration software maker Open-Xchange is set to release its iSync software connector, OXtender for Mac OS X, which will let users access their Open-Xchange e-mail, appointments, contacts, tasks and documents through Mac applications and the iPhone. Supporting Macs and iPhones is increasingly becoming table stakes for enterprise applications users. What better platform to support than Mac for Open-Xchange, which is trying to take down Microsoft Exchange?
Podcast
In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Scott Hebner, the vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM's Rational division, talks about how modeling technologies are transforming the relationship between IT departments and the constituents they serve in the business community by making IT more flexible than ever.
Article
A huge portion of IT resources is being wasted on the support and maintenance of outdated legacy applications. A modern, streamlined application environment can help an enterprise save money and remain competitive. Knowledge Center contributor Tim Pacileo offers CIOs five tips to effectively plan and implement a successful application modernization initiative.
New Slideshow
Released to manufacturing on Oct. 21, the Microsoft SC VMM 2008 can now manage VMware ESX servers. SC VMM 2008 can now also create new virtual machines on Windows Server 2008 systems and will automatically turn on the Hyper-V role if it is not already active on the target hardware.
New Slideshow
Want to protect that new laptop or desktop from malware, spam and other cyber-attacks? A software security suite could be the perfect gift. Brian Prince lists some security gift ideas for this holiday season.
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Nordic River launches TextFlow, a parallel word processing application for consumers and business users who need to spice up their productivity workflow with collaboration capabilities. TextFlow won't challenge Microsoft Word or Google Docs overnight, but it will fire up the conversation about more interactive editing.
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New 25GB and 50GB solid-state drives from data storage maker Samsung are designed specifically for high-performance server applications, such as video on demand, Web serving and online financial transaction processing.
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Spam levels are heading back up after dropping dramatically following the shutdown of Web hosting company McColo. According to Symantec security research, some notorious botnets are back in action.
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Google says GeekCondition.com's claims about a Gmail vulnerability are incorrect. The issue is just an example of a successful phishing attack targeting Web domain owners, Google says.
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The emergence of Microsoft Windows Azure and its Online Services pose a real challenge to Google in enterprise applications, according to one analyst. Another expert argues that Google's native Web position makes it the stronger candidate to pursue business with SAAS and Web services. What cloud computing camp are you in?
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A lawsuit claims the way the Apple iPhone lets users browse the Web infringes on a patent granted in October. The lawsuit was filed by EMG Technology in the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas, by Los Angeles real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht and two co-inventors. The suit alleges that the technology the iPhone uses to navigate and display some Web sites designed for small phone screens infringes on a patent obtained by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors and assigned to EMG.
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IBM demonstrates for eWEEK a new Web collaboration project called Blue Spruce. This coup in application development lets multiple users work together through what look like shared screens and communicate via telepresence. Though only at a proof-of-concept stage, the IBM Blue Spruce messaging and collaboration solution could be a big step toward more collaborative Web services. Questions remain: Will Blue Spruce appear in Lotus or WebSphere? Will Microsoft respond via Silverlight or Adobe via Flash?
Podcast
In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, GSX CEO Antoine Leboyer talks about why IT organizations need to take a more holistic approach to managing collaboration software from Microsoft, Oracle and IBM.
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Analysis: New fixed mobile convergence products from vendors such as Agito Networks and DiVitas Networks are making it easier for businesses to save money and ease concerns about their mobile platforms. Seamless mobility between voice over Wi-Fi and cellular voice service help businesses integrate their mobile phones into the coporate PBX.
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Google Apps Product Manager Rajen Sheth denies any clandestine strategy to help Google Apps steal share from messaging and collaboration software rivals Microsoft, IBM and Cisco. But new voice and video chat in Gmail say otherwise and position Google Apps as a serious unified communications and collaboration suite for cloud computing in the enterprise.
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IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1 offers users a clean and attractive user interface,but it's based on a 4-year-old version of OpenOffice.org. Lotus Symphony 1.1 lacks a lot of the features and support offered in such competitive products as Microsoft Office.
Cardscan's Executive, the midprice product in its line of three, puts contacts in order.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g may well be the best collection of tools for monitoring the overall health and well-being
of the enterprise software giant's various services and systems, but the cost of the product's many add-ons quickly adds up.
Users may have difficulty getting started with
e-mail-oriented Chandler.
Review: While Microsoft's productivity suite for OS X is faster and more usable, the puzzling absence of full Exchange support detracts from Office 2008's basic mandate for providing Windows-world compatibility for the Mac.
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