Enterprise IT

Forty-five percent of marketing executives view return on marketing investment as a top driver compelling their organizations to track and measure marketing performance, according to a recent Aberdeen Group survey of 728 companies. This begs the question: Can the implementation of a marketing dashbo...

Electronics retail giant Best Buy has announced plans to try out a free electronics recycling program at 117 of its stores. The initiative will start in three cities and could spread to others if it succeeds. Best Buy is launching its new program in Baltimore, San Francisco and Minnesota, with up to...

Dell turned in a strong first quarter, beating Wall Street forecasts and prompting investors to buy up its shares on the hopes that the founder's turnaround plans are beginning to bear fruit. Thanks largely to vigorous sales of notebook PCs in the U.S. as well as international sales, Dell posted rev...

Software security breaches add up in recent headlines alone: $13 million in losses; 45.6 million credit cards stolen; recovery costs at $256 million dollars and mounting; and companies driven into bankruptcy or out of business. Financially motivated targeted attacks are becoming more prevalent, and ...

Enterprise application integration services will emerge as the biggest opportunity in the Asia-Pacific IT marketplace, excluding Japan, between now and 2011, according to a forecast by Springboard Research. Defined as "the integration -- typically across varied platforms and applications -- of an en...

The going is tough and the competition fierce, but opportunities are out there for small and medium-sized businesses looking to build businesses more global in scope than ever before. A lot rides on their choice and use of enterprise-wide applications -- software that supports core business function...

Microsoft believes it can grow the market for its Windows Mobile operating system by at least 50 percent in each of the next two years as the market for smartphones explodes globally. The software giant could sell as many as 20 million copies of Windows Mobile during the soon-to-end fiscal year, alm...

Globalization, adoption of more open, capitalist economies in developing countries, and technological advances have made building a small or medium-sized business as tough as it's ever been. The potential rewards are substantial, however. Thanks to developments in the IT and telecommunications indus...

Globalization, adoption of more open, capitalist economies in developing countries, and technological advances have made building a small or medium-sized business as tough as it's ever been. The potential rewards are substantial, however. Thanks to developments in the IT and telecommunications indus...

Globalization, adoption of more open, capitalist economies in developing countries, and technological advances have made building a small or medium-sized business as tough as it's ever been. The potential rewards are substantial, however. Thanks to developments in the IT and telecommunications indus...

For years, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patents covering e-commerce business methods, and companies have exploited such patents to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. In one famous example, Amazon.com sued Barnes & Noble just before the 1999 holiday season, alleg...

IBM has launched a software tool that will help companies analyze the impact of their supply chains on the environment. IBM's Carbon Tradeoff Modeler will enable companies to manage their carbon footprint by giving them insight into how different decisions along their supply chains affect the enviro...

SOA is replacing Web services, which took the spot of object-oriented programming, which usurped the client/server computer, which supplanted mainframe computing as the primary way that companies design their applications. As the latest transition takes place, SOA is encountering some of the problem...

HP's now officially pending EDS buy for just shy of $14 billion positions the combined companies to organize and manage the hosted/on-premises mix to maximum efficiency and lowest total cost of ownership. It's a great goal to shoot for because all they have to do is beat IBM. With this merger, the I...

Securing Web applications is the No. 1 problem facing security professionals today. With 162 million Web sites in existence and millions more popping up each month, the sheer size of the problem is staggering -- not to mention the fact that nine out of 10 Web sites have serious vulnerabilities that ...