The geographically dispersed nature of Asian software development means that collaboration and integration tools are vitally important. This is why where ALM tools come into play—making software easy to use and accessible to a wider pool of people, by reducing the complexity and taking the mystery out of delivering large projects.

The convergent demands of enterprise application integration (EAI) and B2B commerce are driving IT departments to look for new, advanced solutions that must be easy to deploy, responsive to rapid change, and hugely scalable and interoperable in a heterogeneous environment. Process-oriented middleware, the evolutionary successor to message-oriented middleware, grew in response to such demands and now offers a powerful tool to simplify IT systems management.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is the next-generation data collection technology, which will increasingly impact manufacturing and service-providing industries in the customer order fulfillment network. This article provides an overview of the RFID technology and examines its effects, challenges and benefits.

Many people do not understand what SharePoint is or realise that there is no single "SharePoint" product. Hence, various users talk about SharePoint as a content management system, document management system, or consider it to be new portal software. How does Microsoft categorise SharePoint? They call it "collaboration software"...

Once a server has been compromised, it can be used as a launch pad for additional attacks on other servers. To reduce the risks from such attacks, we need additional protection mechanisms, which will complement the existing one’s (like firewall) already in place...

This article provides a basic description of the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of BPMN, an ambitious and increasingly successful attempt to describe the grammar, syntax and semantics of a common language for technology and business...

Linux has survived many stages of its evolution as a disruptive technology. Today, it is alive, dynamic, and thriving on broad acceptance in a vast, rapidly growing array of application domains...

Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is fast becoming one of the most important aspects of enterprise IT infrastructure architecture. It has drawn significant attention and investment from vendors and IT teams in businesses...

In particular, web services are providing a way to "front-end" legacy applications, as well as allowing applications developed for competing platforms such as Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET to talk to each other...

Traditionally, developing applications in line with their original business objectives has been the greatest challenge facing analysts, architects and developers. In a world increasingly run by computers, few processes have been harder to manage than the design, development, testing or deployment of software...

The defining feature of Eclipse 3.1 is full support for Java Tiger (J2SE 5.0). Of course, there are other important features in the project plan for Eclipse 3.1 [1], each affecting a different functional area...

For all of us, risk is a powerful motivator. Failure to properly manage risk can result in unprecedented professional and personal loss – this includes increased customer turnover, lost business partners, heavy legal penalties, missed market or revenue opportunities, and in the worst cases, a complete loss of business operations...

Users’ identities and their access are at the core of your business and must be effectively managed. Increasing access points, multiplied by the various users both inside and outside your enterprise, cause a proliferation of identities...

If you have ever used tools for software engineering, you must be very familiar with three most popular players in this space – IBM, Borland and IDS Scheer AG, who have released Rational Rose, Together and ARIS, respectively...

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is a mature middle tier technology that has become the norm for building production quality enterprise applications. Scalability, reliability, extensibility, security, etc. are few main operating qualities which give J2EE its edge over competing platforms...

Enterprise development is a moving target. Except for methodologies, the entire software stack turns over every few years. Trying to keep up-to-date is like chasing a train that is not only moving away but accelerating at the same time...

Every year, companies are gradually moving their mission-critical applications and data into web browsers. The reasons are obvious: browser-based applications are easier to roll out, support and maintain...

After experiencing spectacular growth and acceptance in the late 1990s, portals appeared to experience a stagnant plateau. This was partly due to the dotcom bust’s fallout, which hit portal vendors particularly hard...

This article delves into the changing security needs of enterprises and the emerging patterns in delivering and managing security...

Reporting is required in an enterprise to provide this information to relevant people in real-time; the actual reports themselves must be comprehensive and presented in a format that is familiar and intuitive to the target users...