Replacing legacy applications: Four problems solved

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	Replacing legacy applications: Four problems solved Cost-justifying the replacement of legacy software isn't easy. Here's how four shops approached the issue. One common theme: identifying business challenges and opportunities. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Rewriting the rules of Patch Management IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status. Read now In this Issue Pittsburgh looks to save money with Gmail migration Oracle gives sneak peek at MySQL 5.6 features Sharky: Dog, meet pony SAP to link analytics tools to Google Maps, Earth SAP Q2 revenue rises 14% CA equips management tools for cloud oversight Startup helps SaaS vendors boost sales, customer experience F5 eases app-by-app configuration of Big-IP controllers Matt Hauser: Web sites in many languages: The benefits of translation memory Why IT won't like Mac OS X Lion Server IT Blogwatch: Happy Birthday, MS-DOS -- 30 candles RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Real-time Value of BI Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue Pittsburgh looks to save money with Gmail migration In an attempt to get away from paying for high-priced email administrators, the city of Pittsburgh is looking to save money and move to the cutting edge with a migration to Google Apps. Read More Oracle gives sneak peek at MySQL 5.6 features Oracle announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that focuses on improved scalability, integration and performance. Read More Sharky: Dog, meet pony This pilot fish is a trainer at a software vendor that creates products for the communications industry -- and it's in trouble because the new release that customers are clamoring for is perpetually delayed. Read More SAP to link analytics tools to Google Maps, Earth SAP is planning to connect its analytics software with Google's Maps and Earth software, allowing users to mine insights from plotting business data against locations around the world. Read More SAP Q2 revenue rises 14% SAP's second-quarter revenues grew 14%, driven by strong software sales in all regions, the company reported. Read More VIDEO: Cisco Avoid Downtime with Network Resilience Network resiliency is a complex vision that encompasses security, availability, and network responsiveness. No single technology or system makes end-to-end network resiliency possible. However, a combination of Cisco innovations provides your network with high performance, fast recovery, and the ability to adapt dynamically to changing conditions. Learn More> CA equips management tools for cloud oversight CA Technologies has updated a number of its programs to make its users more ready to run some operations in a cloud environment, the company announced. Read More Startup helps SaaS vendors boost sales, customer experience A startup called Totango is hoping to make it big by solving the business problems of fellow SaaS vendors, not end users. Read More F5 eases app-by-app configuration of Big-IP controllers F5 is making it possible to drastically reduce the complexity of configuring its Big-IP application delivery controllers when customers want to provide specific services to specific applications. Read More Matt Hauser: Web sites in many languages: The benefits of translation memory Translation Memory is a tool that helps human translators to work more efficiently and with a higher degree of accuracy and quality. So how does it work? Read More Why IT won't like Mac OS X Lion Server The new Profile Manager is a nice addition, but in almost every other respect, Lion Server is a downgrade that may prompt a move to Windows Server. Read More IT Blogwatch: Happy Birthday, MS-DOS -- 30 candles This week sees the 30th "birthday" of Microsoft's venerable MS-DOS operating system for PCs. Initially "quick and dirty," it soon became merely dirty. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wish Bill & Co. many happy returns. Read More
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