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Harnessing the power of open-source software in your organisation can reset the economics of information technology. Many CXOs (CIO, COO, CFO, CEO, etc) may not think that they’re using open-source software in their enterprises. But the truth is, most businesses today are already running open-source software somewhere within the organisation — and in many of these companies, it’s being used quite broadly. Consumers c

In the past decade advances in ICTs have resulted in an explosion in the generation of both structured and unstructured information. The prime driver of content management and the development of content management applications has been the quest by Information Age companies to streamline information assets in order to gain enterprise knowledge needed to realise business goals. This is because for contemporary institu

The major impetus behind collaboration (among other aspects) is the widespread use of Web-based applications and the rapid advances in the development of information and communication technologies. These changes have resulted in the emergence of highly networked global enterprises and an increased preference by the organisations to project-based approach to work. The collaboration ecosystem generally consists of peop

A business rules engine (BRE) is a software component that typically automates the process of defining and managing rules underpinning a company’s business logic. This means that there is limited-no hard coding of the business rules and higher flexibility in defining and managing new and established rules enabling easier traceability. A BRE can support higher business complexity associated with the contemporary

Application Server Landscape Application Servers have resulted from a need to simplify the task of creating, managing and maintaining huge and complex applications. The rise in the importance of the Internet as a platform for business applications in the last decade has elevated Application Server technology to become a crucial piece of the Internet infrastructure jigsaw. In the early years commercial vendors such as

Gifts from Red Hat! One very hectic day ended on a relaxed note as staff at SystemicLogic shared an assortment of gifts from Red Hat as part our ongoing collaboration with them and several other Open Source Software (OSS) companies in the field of research. Hats off to the great work SystemicLogic has done in the realm of OSS in 2008. Thank you! 2008 was a hive of activity for the OSS team. Clients in the banking and