In theory, companies are now capable of capturing and ana­lyzing the details of every minute transaction and event that occurs within their walls. Although businesses are being inundated with data, much of it is the wrong data. It’s not timely, and it’s not get­ting to the right end- users. This is perhaps one of the [...]

It’s now been several years since the most significant com­pliance mandates swept through U.S.-based businesses, up-ending long baked-in rou­tines and causing untold num­bers of sleepless nights. The 800-pound gorilla of mandates, Sarbanes-Oxley, is marking its fifth year of existence, and it’s been eight years since the Financial Modernization Act (Gramm-Leach-Bliley) arrived. It’s been more than [...]

There’s no doubt that open source’s time has come. Enterprises are openly embracing open source solutions up and down the stack, to the point where it has become the “ new normal.” But what’s the true cost of this kind of software? A Unisphere Research study of 434 companies, commissioned by IBM last fall, confirmed [...]