(Jan issue-2012) Email marketing has come a long way from spamming (and irritating) consumers with mass messages that are quickly deleted. Thanks to advances in technology, marketers can target potential customers with email messages that are...

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The email archiving market is a highly fragmented market, with many vendors that are strong in specific areas. Organizations have different needs depending on their industry and geographical location, and are struggling to reconcile their...

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Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

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Use this tool to assess whether a SOA implementation can produce value for your organization. The tool will recommend a SOA implementation or an evaluation of a limited middleware adoption.

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Use this tool to find the ideal integration method for each of the organization's integrations.

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Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

Buyers of SOA technology struggle to reconcile their SOA strategy with other programs, such as BPM.

SOA adoption remains half-hearted. Departments hesitate to use SOA services and secretly develop their own versions on the side.

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The organization houses a multiplicity of messaging protocols, making each new application integration a nightmare of confused standards, hardcodes, and unnecessary complexity.

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Many organizations are abandoning their original Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes email platforms and are faced with email migration for the first time in their history.

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E-Mail vendors release significant platform upgrades more often than organizations need to upgrade, creating pressure to upgrade twice as frequently as upgrades are really warranted.

(9-Nov-09) The world is a different place than it was when Microsoft Corp. released Exchange 2007 software a few years ago – today, the economy is down and the demand for productivity is up as Exchange 2010 enters the market by the end of this...

(By Info-Tech Analyst Jayanth Angl - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com). Implementing a UC (unified communications) platform won't solve all your problems. However, if your organization is dispersed across...

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When implementing enterprise instant messaging (IM), a security policy ensures that users understand and comply with security measures that IT has devised. Rein in IM security risks in by downloading and tailoring this IM security policy.

With the media promoting the benefits of Instant Messaging (IM) as part of unified communications, but discouraging its use due to security concerns, it may be difficult to determine which side of the argument to buy into. If IM helps the...

For many enterprises that have made the decision to pursue Unified Communications, Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 product has considerable appeal, offering flexible deployment and tight integration for Microsoft-centric IT...

Impact Research

Unified Communications (UC) is a broad set of technologies that has significant implications for the way in which individuals communicate and businesses operate. This report will identify the key enterprise adoption drivers for UC, and detail...

Enterprises considering a transition from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 will need to plan the possible deployment before committing. Calculate the enterprise's hardware requirements by focusing on number of employees and...

While Instant Messaging (IM) is widely used as a collaborative tool, if its entry into the environment was entirely employee-driven, important business considerations might have been overlooked in the process. Even if informal IM usage is...

Choosing a platform to mobilize the enterprise messaging infrastructure is a far more involved process than simply picking the coolest looking handheld and handing it out to staff. Understand the bottom line benefits and target the specific...

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The Exchange Administrator's role is to manage Exchange servers and related components to achieve high availability and performance of the various business applications supported. This individual also participates in the planning and...

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Microsoft Exchange Server holds the largest worldwide market share of any enterprise messaging solution. As IT leaders begin to position Exchange 2007 on the enterprise's communication roadmap, this calculation tool will be a key component in...

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The Lotus Notes Administrator's role is to ensure the stable operation of in-house e-mail messaging systems and their corresponding hardware and software. This includes planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and...