Although the outsourcing market has matured rapidly in the last couple of years, we still encounter many companies that see outsourcing as a cost-saving exercise. These companies are often the ones who then lay blame at the outsourcing provider's door, saying the savings weren't big enough (if they existed at all), that the outsourcing company was inflexible, that it didn't respond to the company's needs and so forth. ...
19/01/2007 | Outsourcing wont save you money.pdf | VIEW
As we bid farewell to 2006 and begin to see the realities of 2007 (ie, no real change to the problems we had in 2006), I thought I would have a look at what could change 2007 into a more interesting year in the IT space. ...
17/01/2007 | What Direction Will IT Take in 2007.pdf | VIEW
Is there really such a thing as the mobile Internet, or is a mobile phone just a phone? ...
11/01/2007 | Mobile internet reality.pdf | VIEW
Spam filters can easily be trained to give better than 90% effectiveness with zero false positives, and for those who still suffer from a lot of spam in their inboxes, they are either not updating their spam databases often enough, or they just do not see the value of getting 90% fewer e-mail messages. ...
01/01/2007 | Preventing Spam over IP Telephony.pdf | VIEW
The online world does not look like it will be getting any safer in 2007. The number of web-based threats continues to grow: spyware, phishing sites, viruses and so on. Meanwhile the volume of spam continues to increase - not just the number of messages but also their size as picture, video and sound files are increasingly attached to spam to entice users to activate malware. ...
18/12/2006 | The web at work.pdf | VIEW
If you're an independent software vendor (ISV) and concerned that you are about to miss the software as a service (SaaS) bandwagon, rest assured there is no shortage of organisations out there ready to lend a hand. ...
06/12/2006 | Feel as though you've missed the SaaS bandwagon.pdf | VIEW
The ultimate goal of business intelligence is to drive better business performance through providing the right data at the right time. However, implementing a business intelligence (BI) platform can be costly and complex to use and deploy. Traditional BI solutions are often only used by a small proportion of users - the analysts and power users - and even then, the tools can be difficult to use. ...
01/12/2006 | BI to go mainstream.pdf | VIEW
Corporate secrets and intellectual property falling into the wrong hands rank as one of the highest security breaches for any organisation. It is widely accepted that security threats are on the rise with identity theft, fraud, spyware, and phishing permeating cyberspace. Whilst many organisations go to great lengths to establish a security strategy to safeguard their network and intellectual property, the document production environment is often overlooked. ...
20/11/2006 | Securing the print environment.pdf | VIEW
Many of us who are active on the internet, giving our views on what is happening, are used to getting "flamed" (having hostile messages about us posted online). ...
16/11/2006 | World of Virtual Lessons for e-Business.pdf | VIEW
The difference between involvement and commitment is often represented by the role of a hen and a pig in a breakfast of bacon and eggs: the hen is involved, the pig committed. Many employees are increasingly being issued with smartphones, BlackBerries etc. to access their email, or a networked PDA to access form-driven applications, or a wireless laptop to access all sorts of enterprise resources. But are they actively committed to the whole process of keeping the organisation secure, or simply, passively, just involved? ...
13/11/2006 | Commitment to Mobile Security.pdf | VIEW
