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After two decades of focusing on operational efficiency, the next decade will be led almost exclusively by software innovation that will yield even more dramatic breakthroughs than ever before. It’s only in the last five years that Asia has witnessed an influx of investment by the IT industry, akin to the trend in the west nearly a quarter-century ago. Asia is poised to play a significant role in pushing the state-of-the-art forward and driving innovation in IT. As Asia drives itself towards the cusp of innovational excellence, this article takes a closer look at several of the factors that will eventually contribute to this movement.

An Enterprise portal moves away from the traditional approach to collaboration and information sharing, and builds a process-oriented solution that acts as a single point interface for all company data and processes. Enterprise portals can significantly improve the ability to predict and respond to changes in the business environment, while improving the organization’s productivity and simplifying its information technology environment. This article explains how enterprises can leverage the benefits of an enterprise portal, and the factors to be considered before choosing the right vendor. The article also tracks the future roadmap in the enterprise portal space, with a special focus on the Asian markets.

ERP and SCM are increasingly becoming popular within enterprises. While ERP is a system to manage business information by integrating or attempting to integrate all the disparate data and processes of a company into a single unified system, an SCM system ties in supply chain partners who help a company find the raw materials it needs to deliver products and services to its customers. The integration of the two systems, while not easy, comes with a lot of benefits. This article aims to explain the relationship between ERP and SCM, by examining the nature of interaction between them, while providing a brief overview of SCM.

The data protection needs of business today far exceed what traditional backup and restore systems can provide. In particular, these traditional systems can’t fulfill escalating requirements for recovery and continuity—requirements that are being driven by numerous factors that include the increasing cost of downtime, recent high-profile disaster response failures, the growing importance of information to the business, and the increasingly distributed nature of IT operations. Traditional approaches alone are too limited to address these more demanding and complex factors.

Enterprise portals moves away from the traditional approach to collaboration and information sharing, and builds a process- oriented solution, that acts as a single point interface for all company data and processes. Enterprise portals can significantly improve the ability to predict and respond to changes in the business environment, while improving the organization’s productivity and simplifying its information technology environment. The article explains how enterprises can leverage the benefits of an enterprise portal, and the factors to be considered before choosing the right vendor. The article also follows the future roadmap in the enterprise portal space, with a special focus on the Asian, and in particular Indian market.

As mobile devices grow more powerful, functional, affordable and ubiquitous, there is little question that they will soon be standard issue at most forward-thinking companies with mobile workforces. Multiple surveys have found that IT executives rank enterprise mobility among their top initiatives for the next few years. These executives understand the potential of enterprise mobility to improve employee productivity, customer service, operational efficiency and revenue generation. However, everyone is apprehensive about taking an unknown path, especially IT executives.

The advertising world is undergoing a structural change with digital advertising slowly but surely eating into the revenues of traditional mediums like television and print. And this trend promises to continue, as more and more users start spending more and more time online. This article looks at this current trend, and the reasons why digital advertising is one up on traditional media.

Linux has seemingly crossed the line to become a true mainstream element, with vendors now eager to showcase solutions to people who run on Linux, as opposed to trying to sell Linux as a capability. The proliferation of enterprise Linux adoption in the ASEAN region over the last two years has driven a high demand for certified Linux professionals. Red Hat recently launched its capstone certification to its current Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) programs, called the Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), in ASEAN. SDA spoke to Gary Jordan, Senior Director of Services,. Worldwide, Red Hat to better understand the swell in enterprise Linux adoption, Red Hat’s challenges and strategies, RHEL 5 development, JBoss integration, and much more.

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