Traditional supply chain models are coming under increasing pressure as companies move their business towards ecommerce, according to a study from Aspect Consulting. The survey - conducted on behalf of logistics specialist, Cert - claims over 50...
If you take a snapshot of the database and continue working with that snapshot while everyone else works on the original, what happens 12 hours later when the two versions are synchronised? From a vendor’s perspective, mobile applications pose at...
Later, software tools such as software through pictures started a fashion in using models to represent code, continued into the land of UML by companies such as Togethersoft (now part of Borland). The whole world has settled on a single modelling...
And while this may seem like an obvious step, Forrester found companies are failing to analyse the degree of IT centralisation and the role of IT in the overall performance of the business before picking an outsourcing option.
Businesses must understand all the different demographics that make up their customer base - whether they be digital natives or techno refuseniks, said Jones citing the example of mobile operator Nokia using "massively sophisticated social...
He conceded that issues with broadband connection in developing markets still exist, and these would pose a barrier to adoption of web applications in some countries. Ballmer said: "People expect consistency in interfaces," pointing to Microsoft's...