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By David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research It is nearly impossible to exist in today’s world without some mention of “green” or “eco” initiatives. Corporate IT has not been immune to this sustainability movement, and in many cases hold the key to transforming a business into one that reflects the new goals for reduced consumption of resources like energy and water. Read More >>
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research Recently, we discussed the crowded marketplace for online backup and recovery services, and how many companies are taking advantage of the flexibility of the cloud to achieve enterprise-strength back-up services at SMB prices. Today, it is increasingly apparent, that the Cloud is relevant to most of the enterprise software categories that exist. BPM is no exception, and Appian Software is trying to stake out a big spot in this nascent space. Read More >>
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchSocial networking tools aren’t just for connecting with friends. Specialized enterprise social network technologies are also starting to be widely used on an enterprise scale, for enterprise needs. Many of them have grass-roots support from departments within a larger company, and some of them are actually sanctioned by and managed by IT across the enterprise. The challenge for companies is to find the tools that are best suited for particular functions. Read More…
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside ResearchCloud backup and recovery solutions have at least one important consideration: the amount of time it takes to restore data. While backups can be done incrementally, in the event of the total loss of data, organizations want to restore completely. A newer option in this market is a hybrid online/local service that allows organizations to maintain up-to-date local copies of critical business data that are available to speed the recovery process in the event of a data loss. Read More…
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research Insight is everything in business. Having the right tools to optimize business processes is the wish of every business analyst. While business intelligence as a discipline has existed for many years in enterprise computing, operational intelligence has emerged in recent years as the hot-button area for driving business optimization. Read More
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting web content. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices. The new developments of HTML5 support the growth in sharing multiple media forms easily through web sites, micro blogs, and on mobile devices, which are increasingly becoming as necessary for the enterprise apps to support as PCs. Read More
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research The business analytics market is not immune to the rise in popularity of social networking for the enterprise. In fact, many proponents of business intelligence and decision management solutions see social networking as a way to extend business analytics to the masses. Enterprises have struggled with extending BI functionality beyond the dashboards that power users inhabit. New social networking and collaboration capabilities foster advanced analyses and better brainstorming among BI users, which may be just the antidote this segment needs. Read More…
Written by: David A. Kelly and Heather Ashton, Upside Research The widespread presence of open source databases in web and enterprise applications is not new. But recently, a few upgrades to some of the leaders in the space as well as a much-anticipated new entrant have cast new light on their emerging and important role in powering many critical cloud-based applications. Read More…
