The notion of compound documents - documents made up of other documents - has been around for a long time, and Microsoft has had this in its products for a long time," said Directions on Microsoft analyst Paul DeGroot.
Enterprises, typically within lines of business rather than IT, are already spending on web services applications and deployments, even before standards are firm or complete. Designing from the business down, and implementing from the technology...
IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are all rolling out enterprise scale collaboration suites, application vendors such as PeopleSoft and SAP are embedding collaboration, and document management and portal vendors have added collaboration capabilities.
Given that I must be able to get online everywhere I go, I have five ISPs across the planet providing me a number off access modes including Wi-Fi, wired LAN and fixed and mobile phone lines. As a result of the appropriate application of technology...
According to the report, which was authored by academics at the United Nations University in Maastricht, Netherlands: "Our findings show that, in almost all cases, a transition towards open source [produces] savings in the long-term cost of...
When it comes to the total cost of ownership, most organisations do not fully understand the hidden costs of printing. Uncontrolled printing also raises security issues - through the printed documents themselves but also through the data stored in...