A variety of electronics recycling laws, across many jurisdictions, have come into effect recently. Understand why these laws are being enacted; learn about the impact on the IT department, and how producer responsibility programs and consumer fees and levies can affect hardware costs.

Micro Focus has bought the quality assurance (QA) division of Compuware and bid for the QA and application lifecycle management (ALM) developer Borland Software. This bold move gives software professionals an interesting alternative to market leaders IBM Rational and HP.

In a maturing small enterprise market, best-of-breed vendors of IP PBX applications offer functionally equivalent solutions. They all provide the ability to make a clear call over a robust IP network with high quality hardware. To distinguish between like products, scrutinize vendors through the lens of seven key criteria: pricing, ease-of-use, features, long-term support, target market, architectural fit, and experience.

Dashboards and scorecards employ different approaches to the communication of enterprise performance data for management decision making. Knowing the difference is essential for IT managers charged with developing the right reporting tool for the business.