Enterprise Applications

Can SAP’s Global Reach Help It Weather the U.S. Economic Storm?

A new ChangeWave survey finds that U.S. companies are spending less on SAP software. However, SAP execs say not to worry, as they look to Asia and Europe to buoy sales.

Intel Passes on Vista for Own Employees

CRM Collaboration: Real Estate Firm Implements Zimbra For All Its Agents

The CIO of Zip Realty talks about embedding Zimbra on top of his homegrown CRM system, and how agents have been able to customize their email and calendars with Web 2.0 features such as tagging.n

Trendlines from 7/01/08: New, Hot, Unexpected

In this issue: SAP skills gap; CIOs' campaign donations; Mash-ups; Virtual worlds; and CIOs Reap Realignment Benefits.

Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps, Data

The move deepens the partnership between Google and Salesforce.com and fuels more speculation about a future acquisition, analysts say.

Firefox 3 Add-Ons: Five Must-Have Social Networking and Business-Friendly Tools

These five add-ons make your browser more social and improve the user interface, while making you more productive. n

RideCharge: Reserve Taxis, Pay Fares Sans Cash Via BlackBerry

Open-Source SOA Proves Valuable to Business Processes

A presenter from JBoss at the Red Hat Summit itemized the stages of service-oriented architecture, showed how businesses are benefiting today from the company's SOA platform and offered SOA predictions for two years in the future.

Study: Companies Need Better Enterprise Search

While vendors such as Google and Microsoft have offered companies search appliances, a new study contends that IT organizations have not utilized them. Instead, employees have been forced to use different search engines spread out across disparate ap

Why Microsoft Should Bring Facebook-like Look to SharePoint