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Information and communications technology (ICT) is playing a crucial role in the 21st century. ICT—and high-quality software developed by local ISVs, in particular—is empowering countries and companies in Asia. Ideas and innovations that drive ICT should be nurtured and protected, promoting a virtuous circle of sustainable economic growth—particularly in developing countries.

The same data pipelines which make outsourcing possible also import a black box of risks from your business process outsourcing partner. Learn how your organisation can use enterprise risk management to manage risky externalities.

Let us examine process-oriented middleware, the successor to message-oriented middleware, in greater detail and learn more about how these business processes are executed. The activities that make up a business process can be subdivided into two logical components, an internal and external component.

IT decision-makers need no longer swallow the bitter pill of high-cost, slow deployment and complex management that typifies proprietary IT monitoring systems. Open source IT management solutions are rapidly gaining high-profi le recruits with their comparable functionality, coupled with greater technical agility, faster deployment, lower costs and relative management simplicity. Could open source solutions prove to be the cure-all to common IT headaches?

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is the next-generation data collection technology, which will increasingly impact manufacturing and service-providing industries in the customer-order fulfillment network. The article provides an overview of RFID technology and examines its effects, challenges and benefits.

We expect our application lifecycle management tools to be well integrated. So why are we so worried about upgrading those tools? This is because when we do, the integration breaks. The Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project is going to fix that once and for all.

In November 2006, Asia witnessed a first-of-its-kind conference on Java, XML, Web Services, Enterprise Architecture and Eclipse. Enterprise Architecture Best Practices, Enterprise Debugging Techniques, Enterprise Application Security, Java Persistence, Spring, Eclipse, and all the hot technologies that have made JAX the premier brand for the Enterprise IT Community, greeted delegates at the first annual JAX Asia 2006 Conference in Singapore and Indonesia. The conference comes to India in 2007.

After years of resistance, Sun Microsystems finally announced the open sourcing of Java in November 2006. Since then, discussions on the implications, and debates on the pros and cons of the decision have not stopped. The article, as the title suggests, takes a look at how the community has evolved since the announcement, the impact of open source Java, forks, and much more.