Applications

Wed, August 10, 2011 - The BI-LO supermarket chain is ringing up significant cost savings and productivity increases, following a move to Google Apps from a legacy IBM Lotus Notes system. Find out why BI-LO chose Google Apps over a Notes upgrade and over Microsoft's cloud offering, and about all the benefits the grocer is reaping. Cha-ching!

Wed, December 02, 2009 - Data aggregation vendor QL2 Software Inc. already follows best practices to prepare for the worst. It has redundant systems and regularly reviews its plans for both disaster recovery and business continuity. But when it comes to the ongoing H1N1 pandemic, company executives admit, they were a bit worried.

Tue, June 30, 2009 - Texas Instruments uses Telligent's Enterprise 2.0 apps to create a customer community where TI staffers and engineering industry customers help each other solve problems faster.

Mon, June 08, 2009 - When fears over the swine flu first broke out in many parts of the world in April, El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, was about to pull the trigger on an implementation of Microsoft's Amalga software.

Wed, May 06, 2009 - From a security perspective, service oriented architecture (SOA) is a tricky thing. It's not hard for bad guys to compromise it with SQL injection, capture-replay and XML denial-of-service attacks, which they can ultimately use to bust through walls around a company database.

Wed, March 11, 2009 - Biometric security systems can, at first glance, seem futuristic. In some minds, they are still the stuff of science fiction. Biometrics are often criticized as being expensive and not practical in many business settings. But at Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick, Maine, Chief Technology Officer Bill McQuaid can't stop crowing about the success he has seen with the facility's biometric system (See also: Biometrics: Security is in the Employees Hands).

Wed, September 10, 2008 - Its CEO's vision for Service-now.com for the startup's underlying architecture was that the software must be "simple, approachable, configurable, and easy to integrate" and had to be as "restless and stateless as possible." Translation: He turned to service-oriented architecture and SaaS.

Thu, June 12, 2008 - The aerospace giant used SharePoint and has deployed it to a small test group. Lockheed plans to go enterprise wide once the social software tools mature more during the next year.