Allen Bernard

According to this year’s telework survey by the International Telework Association (ITAC), Teleworking Comes of Age with Broadband, access to a broadband Internet connection away from the office is key to increasing teleworker productivity. For teleworkers working from home one day per week, those with a broadband connection compared with those using dial-up, saved their […]

Even though the name may conjure up dire images to the contrary, hacktivists are not after the corporate database. Rather, the primary target is usually a company’s reputation. “We haven’t seen any cases where the people doing the protest even got close to or were intending to compromise data,” said Electronic Frontier Foundation Legal Director […]

Driven primarily by two European Union directives, the U.S. computer industry is in a state of flux that may place ecological considerations on par with profit, speed and bandwidth in the development of new equipment. In February, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directives, went into force. […]

Unlike other enterprise-wide applications intended to improve the bottom line, corporate portals tend to live up to vendor’s promises and, more often than not, begin to save companies money as soon as they go live. According to a just-released Delphi Group study, only 2% of portal installations failed to return any ROI. This compares very […]

Corporate teleworking programs simply can’t succeed without the proper hardware and software. But teleworking is less about hardware and software than it is about people working together using existing IT infrastructure to make remote employees productive and happy. In a nutshell, a telework application is any application, legacy or otherwise, that is accessed remotely. If […]

Money, time and expertise — or, really, the lack of — is what drove TIBCO to opt for a hosted human resources (HR) solution from Peoplesoft in spring 2000, but reliability, cost savings and ease-of-use is what keeps them using the solution, company officials say. Since going live in June 2000, the business integration software […]

Why did VWR International, Inc. decide to hire SAP Hosting for the implementation of new analytics software instead of installing and running it themselves? The answer? To save time and money, and to avoid risk. “It’s all about risk and how do you control risk,” said George A. Gunther, VWR’s corporate SVP and CIO. “I […]

Traditionally, enterprise resource planning applications have either been an all in-house affair or completely outsourced. But, in this age of shrinking IT resources, the delivery of these applications via the application service provider or, hosted model is gaining popularity. This is especially true when it comes to non-critical applications like HR and financials. To save […]

Like most U.S. industries, the current economic doldrums are negatively affecting application service providers (ASPs). But there is a bright side. In the long run, corporate belt tightening is expected to raise the average businessperson’s awareness of the ASP industry and the inherent benefits of outsourcing will eventually lead to increased sales. “The economy has […]

While service-level agreements (SLAs) are still a requirement of most customers before they sign contracts with software application vendors, guaranteed system availability no longer remains their central concern. This is because, as with security issues, corporate customers have begun to realize their application service provider (ASP) probably has better systems in place than they could […]