Enterprise Applications

Online Shopping: How to Get the Impulse Purchase

This year, e-commerce merchants must turn e-mail, pop-ups and website marketing into spontaneous sales.

How IT Failures Wreck Holidays, Special Occasions for Many Companies

Untested information systems. Unforeseen spikes in demand. A combination of both, and more. Trouble comes in many shapes when companies' computers crash, or information systems fail nto meet customers' expectations. A timeline of recent eve

The High-Stakes Search for Supply Chain Excellence During the Holiday Rush

If your supply chain isn't prepared for uncertainties that arrive with the crowds of shoppers, then you could be in big trouble. Here's why it's so difficult to plan for the holidays and how smart retailers and manufacturers try to avo

Phoenix Hypervisor for Laptops Could Rock Your Mobile World

Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users

From a link to your LinkedIn account to virtual sticky notes to intergrated wikis, we present five of the most business friendly Facebook widgets you'll find.

Evian Jumps Into Second Life

Reduce Information Technology Complexity, Costs with Consolidation

Unnecessary IT complexity adds costs, reduces effectiveness and stalls innovation. According to Forrester research, the answer lies in strategic and ongoing consolidation.

Under Pressure, ERP Giants Struggle to Innovate

Facing mounting competition from upstart application providers and mounting gripes from CIOs, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP nare scrambling to innovate with ERP applications. It's about time, IT leaders say.

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CIOs Want a Single-Vendor Supply Chain

But does one actually exist? A Forrester Research report wades through the players (Manhattan Associates, RedPrairie, Oracle, SAP) and offers a surprising answer.