The stranglehold that monolithic software vendors once had on the IT industry has been seriously eroded if not permanently disrupted by the proliferation of cloud-based SaaS applications. At one point ...

Last year, I argued that many enterprise software vendors are missing the point when it comes to user experience. They aim to embrace user expectations by providing a user interface that looks good on ...

A reader of my last column--which predicted the ultimate demise of monolithic, ERP-style software--makes an excellent counterargument. "The big ERP systems force organizations to rationalize data ...

This proved impossible. While the 1990s is now viewed as an epoch of business reengineering, the revamp of work processes advanced hand in hand with the rise of centralized corporate IT, enabled by ...

Now that we’ve settled into 2017, IT and business leaders have solidified their New Year’s goals for change and growth. For many, the way to achieve their strategic objects is by enhancing efficiency ...

Lately, Oracle has become the software company the press loves to hate. The Oracle 11i e-business suite is now the designated whipping boy, slammed by Forbes, eWEEK, and CNet's News.com for misleading ...

Having survived efforts to break up its Windows monopoly, Microsoft is now leading the charge to break up the very operating system it defended. With the release of Longhorn in 2007, the company has ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. In a recent report, IDC asserted organisations are “moving beyond the ‘dinosaur enterprise apps’ to ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yves Junqueira in his ...