Software projects versus software products

Jul 23, 2015

When building software solutions, whether internally or outsourced, much of the focus is often on enforcing budget and deadlines, or on risks, such as choosing and implementing the right methodologies, technologies and platforms. Included in this list of pitfalls is a...

VMware introduces new open source projects

Apr 29, 2015

VMware has announced two new open source projects built to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications – Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project that will extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications; and Project...

Five tips for successful ERP projects

Dec 1, 2014

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are notoriously complex to implement successfully. Companies that start out with realistic expectations based on a sound business case, scoping, planning and execution can accelerate their return on investment (ROI) from ERP.

Projects fail ERP

Nov 12, 2014

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects have a bad reputation. Like wayward children, they can be difficult to control and expensive to bring to full maturity. Yet just as parents often fail their errant children, ERP projects that go bad often do so because...

Three reasons government tech projects fail

Jul 8, 2014

A number of high-profile government IT projects have ended in failure in recent years, says Gartner research director Darryl Carlton. Take the British Child Support Agency for example, which ranks as one of the worst public administration scandals of all time. Not...