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Volume 04, May 2007


Enterprise Triple-Play
By Brian Witt

Enterprise Triple-Play is the ability for an organization to deliver Voice, Data and Video services to users’ desktops. IP Telephony and collaboration applications are part of it and are the first wave. Video services such as e-Learning, e-Marketing and IP Video conferencing are the second wave. The desire to stay competitive and cost effective will encourage this mode of collaboration.

IT Standards: Managing Commodity Products and Services
By Jorn Bettin

The increase in IT related standards since the invention of the Web in 1989 can be seen as an indication of maturity of the IT industry. Ten years ago, only a small fraction of personal computers was connected to the Web. Today, all kinds of devices that contain software – mobile phones, digital cameras, iPods, cars, and even washing machines – provide interfaces that allow them to communicate with other devices. Similarly, in the realm of enterprise software, today’s applications are typically interconnected with numerous other systems, across organizational boundaries and across a range of implementation technologies. Distributed, global teams often perform the development and operation of such heterogeneous systems. No wonder that more and more organizations are taking a serious interest in software, process, and quality standards to facilitate interconnectivity and communication. But adoption and implementation of standards comes at a price. Which standards should an organization embrace? The answer depends heavily on the nature of the business, and it is highly recommended to do some homework before committing to achieve compliance with specific standards.

Cisco Goes Ga Ga over India
By SDA India

Cisco set up shop in India in 1996. For 11 of those years they maintained a low-key presence in India, working on government and private industry contracts. The attitude of the organization towards India has changed remarkably over the last three years, however. Since 2004 Cisco has turned aggressive with its India plans and announced an investment of US $1.1 billion in the Indian market. Cisco has also shifted 20 per cent of its global top management to India. Find out the reasons for this new ambitiousness in Cisco.

Can Vista Transform Microsoft?
By SDA India

A new operating system that promises many things also presents a make or break situation for the world’s largest software maker, Microsoft. The growing clout of Linux, anti-trust motions against Microsoft, and the delayed launch of its much-hyped OS, Vista, can harm Microsoft. The company, however, counts on the benefits of its new operating to pull in customers to experience the user friendliness that has made Microsoft a USD281 billion company.

Business Intelligence: Integrating Role-based Information Tools to
Change your Company for the Better
By Karin Borchert

There’s no doubt that knowledge workers have vast amounts of electronic news and information accessible both on the Web and inside of corporate firewalls. As content proliferates, the opportunities for internal and external information to enhance business productivity have shifted. It’s no longer a question of having access to a wealth of valuable internal and external content; employees already have more than they require. The way to help your company remain competitive is to place relevant and actionable information where it’s needed, when it’s needed, how it’s needed. Businesspeople want answers, not just data. And they want to find those answers conveniently. This article explains how to quickly access and integrate crucial news and information into the organization’s everyday workflow.

SOX Compliance for SMEs: Challenges of Being Small in a Compliant World
By SDA India

An IT organization, with well-defined internal controls, enables companies to identify and manage their IT related risks. The ability to manage and contain such risks is critical to ensuring compliance with regulations and mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). However, the understanding of SOX, and the implications of its Section 404, is still unclear, when it comes to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).The article takes an in-depth look at how SMEs are affected by regulatory compliance, where they stand in achieving compliance targets, and why they should take SOX seriously.

Growing India with WiFi
By SDA India

The Indian WiFi market is on the cusp of a huge growth curve that is being sparked off by the increasing usage of laptops and mobile devices, and reduced broadband rates. The booming Indian economy is driving WiFi based equipment sales, enterprise wireless business applications and productivity solutions. The Indian software and services sector are finding a completely new driver with WiFi IP development, Certification and Testing services for the global WiFi chip-set and gear vendors, prototyping services, and systems integration.

Startups Make WiFi a Reality in India
By SDA India

The growth of the Indian economy, experience in developing products for the global markets, enormous supply of engineering talent, presence of top engineering institutions along with increase in availability of funding, has created many new innovators in the telecom and wireless space. Firms and research teams attached to academic institutions like IISc and IITs are driving WiFi start-ups in India. These start-ups are developing cost-effective point-to-point and point-to-multipoint WiFi solutions that are being deployed for large campuses and rural areas.

Weathering, and Even Welcoming, the Perfect Storm
By Michael Burling

The explosion of regulatory mandates has left organizations struggling with compliance reeling. As organizations look for the best ways to meet the requirements imposed by regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), they’re getting a strategic boost from identity management technologies.

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