
By Vera Alves, Auckland | Friday, 24 February 2012Auckland-based IT services and consulting company Crossware has traditionally been associated with IBM, due to the company’s long-standing relationship. That’s about to change. Crossware is working on a major rebranding, to be announced mid-March, which will include a change of name and a move…

Real Time Innovations (RTI), a developer of service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware for the aerospace and defense industries, is branching out into health care with its new Connext software suite. Connext provides a DataBus to link information within applications across medical devices and IT systems. The software incorporates peer-to-peer messages to…

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to test email and other office software in a cloud computing environment and to try out potentially lower cost alternatives to Microsoft Office products — such as Google Apps — in two pilot projects set to kick off this year. VA announced both projects in…

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloneyas community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She Atlassian, which…

Social Media Week: Business Metrics Take SpotlightAt the global social event that expanded to 21 cities this year, business metrics dominated discussion. Hot topic included analytics and internal social business tools. At the global social event that expanded to 21 cities this year, business metrics dominated discussion. Hot topic included analytics Social…

This week, we wrap up our Lotusphere observations.
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Now that the dust has settled on IBM’s Lotusphere symposium, perhaps this is an opportune time to take a quick look back and try and analyse whether customers and partners "bought" the social business wave line so volubly amplified by Big Blue during the event. The company has of course…

As most of us have experienced first-hand, 2011 brought about a sea change migration of user traffic from online to mobile. This sea change was evident in the fourth quarter numbers recently announced by Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung amongst others in terms of both the unit shipments of smart Along…

Enterprise content management looks set to make a comeback this year. While most of the curtain calls over the past year have been in the mobile and social media space and enterprise content management has been neglected in many enterprises, new research from Forrester suggests that companies will be investing…

Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework, along with COMPU-DATA International, LLC, provider of repository management product DigitalAsset Finder (DAF), has deployed Concept Searching’s conceptSearch, conceptClassifier, and conceptTaxonomyManager for the US Army – Records Management and…