Many organizations are deploying new systems – RDBMS, business applications such as CRM or ERP, data warehouses, etc. This paper describes a number of real-life applications and databases interoperability scenarios and explains how an Open Source approach helps solving the interoperability challenge VIEW SUMMARY

Does social networking breach your network security? As social media permeate the business world, the need to defend against data leakage and malware grows more urgent.When employees tweet, blog, and post, who do they give information to? VIEW SUMMARY

A turnkey MDM solution allows you to collaborate on, maintain and provision accurate and reliable data across the enterprise. Extended implementation times can delay time to value. Open source provides a vehicle to start your MDM journey and deliver value VIEW SUMMARY

Looking at Software licences can be confusing. Different practices or terms of use can sometimes blur a decision. This paper outlines the most common types of licenses and what this means for all organisations VIEW SUMMARY

This report serves as a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source, introducing the basics of financial analysis, concepts, processes and elements to help identify and capture the costs and potential benefits for adopting open source software VIEW SUMMARY

This report discusses the current trends IT service providers across the UK have adopted as business models and the technology platform that will deliver profitability and growth. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper discusses the most commonly used data integration technologies, their benefits, and the associated decision criteria. It also highlights the types of projects open source data integration is used for, and how it complements other data integration technologies. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper provides case studies and compares open source data integration technology with proprietary alternatives, giving ten reasons for choosing open source VIEW SUMMARY

The emergence of high-speed IP networks, such as GEANT2 in Europe, is creating opportunities for new kinds of real-time applications in universities and schools around the world. The most profound changes are in the area of bandwidth-hungry visual communication applications. VIEW SUMMARY

Video is leaving the video conference room and becoming a standard tool and part of daily workflow. In turn, this trend is having a profound impact on the scalability requirements of the visual communication system which now must support tens of thousands of users. VIEW SUMMARY