The research also found that interoperability was not as important an issue as would be expected. The first is to standardise on a single enterprise IM platform and enforce usage of that particular client and the second is to install a management...
However, companies must expect to supplement these suites with best-of-breed marketing automation and analysis vendors, as well as custom enterprise integration to back-office SAP, Baan, Oracle, and PeopleSoft systems.
As PC manufacturers opted to dump their own platforms in favour of licensing them from third parties, horizontalisation helped to cut costs and standardisation helped solve the interoperability problem.
In a bold move to stay in pole position, Michael Capellas, president and CEO of Compaq, is clearly stamping his authority on the company by paying $370m in cash for the custom-assembly operations of US-based PC dealer, Inacom (see 'Compaq buys...
Malicious spammers' aim to spread viruses through electronic communication channels. However, the mobile phone is an altogether different messaging platform, in several respects. Spam falls outside this framework and is defined by Ovum as push...
Outdoor clothing retailer Rohan has completed an application integration investment understood to be worth up to £100,000 over two years that gives it a clear up-to-the-minute view of its customers and control of stock levels across multiple...