Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
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7 Clauses that IT Customers Should Consider
26 Jan 2011 -
LibreOffice ready for mainstream
- Managing Editor 24 Jan 2011 -
Muglia's departure leave a hole in Microsoft's tech direction
- Managing Editor 20 Jan 2011
I've been negotiating quite a few IT contracts this week and I thought that it would be interesting to reflect upon the kinds of clauses that IT Customers should ask for but which they often don't. ...
LibreOffice will be available for download from 25 January. Finally people will be able to use an Office suite that's not backed by Microsoft, Google, Oracle or IBM. LibreOffice uses Java and is ...
After 23 years at Microsoft, leading the server division and developing its mobile business, Bob Muglia is leaving. In a letter to staff, CEO Steve Ballmer, said:"Bob Muglia and I have been talking ...
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Indemnities in IT Contracts - What is the "standard" position?
19 Jan 2011 -
Ingres and JasperSoft take on the big BI and database players
19 Jan 2011 -
IBM and London South Bank University use BI to track performance
18 Jan 2011 -
Review: Iomega delivers Linux NAS to home users
- Managing Editor 17 Jan 2011 -
What is Your IT and Business Strategy?
12 Jan 2011 -
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update - 11th January 2011
- Managing Editor 12 Jan 2011 -
Can cross-functional teams bridge the divide between IT and the business
- Managing Editor 11 Jan 2011
Imagine the scene in one of the deals I was doing recently. It was a long negotiation on an IT deal which was nearing its conclusion and I was acting for the IT customer. One of the last issues to ...
Ingres and JasperSoft, two of the heavyweights of the Open Source community, have announced today that they have certified the latest release of each others software on their platforms. As part of ...
At a time when the debate over students fees is raging - literally - London South Bank University (LBSU)has announced that it has deployed a BI system from IBM to understand how the University and ...
Why bother with Windows Media Center when you can have media streaming, when you can do pretty much the same thing with a low-cost Linux NAS box - plus you get file and print services
If you don't talk to your lawyer about your IT and business strategy regarding an IT contract, but simply ask your lawyer to do a 'legal review' in isolation, then at best you will not obtain much ...
With this Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a very small set of updates in comparison to the massive updates from last year's November and December updates. In total there are 2 updates with ...
Brian Joyner got in touch last month regarding a blog post on how IT can take the driving seat for cultural change.However, when I recently interviewed Bill Jensen,co-author of Hacking Work, Jensen ...
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Would Rights Management reduce leakage from increased BI use?
10 Jan 2011 -
Will 2011 improve on 2010?
04 Jan 2011 -
IBM unleashes Cognos and then uploads it into the Cloud
03 Jan 2011 -
3D or not 3D
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update - 14th December 2010
- Managing Editor 16 Dec 2010
Anytime you allow people access to core and sensitive corporate data you need to ensure that there is a security process in place. With users now being encouraged to use BI to mine through those ...
On the positive side, the big thing for 2010 was the amount of data being moved into the Cloud. This was helped by increasingly aggressive marketing campaigns from Cloud vendors and the promise of ...
IBM unveiled Cognos 10 in Las Vegas late last year and then went on a worldwide press trip to get out its marketing message 'Cognos 10: Intelligence Unleashed'. As taglines go, it really begs to be ...
Having paid good money to watch Tron Legacy in 3D at the Odeon, I have to admit that I was certainly not wooed by all the effects, The best 3D I've experienced is the Renault environoment ad - ther ...
Greg Lambert, Technical Director, ChangeBASE, examines the impact of this week's Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft.