Technical Introduction from TrueCrypt.org
TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before it is loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) [...]
The CRM domain is dominated by Oracle and SAP in the commercial offerings sector. However, there are a large array of open source CRM applications that give SME companies a more flexible (read cheaper) access to CRM functionality. Some of the open source CRM applications include SugarCRM, SplendidCRM, CentricCRM and VTiger CRM. Among these, SugarCRM [...]
As more and more organizations adopt an open source strategy, BPM is an interesting domain to consider in this arena. This article presents a list of good commercial open source BPM solutions.
JBoss jBPM is a JBoss Enterprise Framework that delivers workflow, business process management (BPM), and process orchestration in a scalable and flexible product footprint. [...]
Today Pentaho released version 3 of their BI suite Enterprise Edition. Apart from a few bug fixes, majority of the functionality is the same as that available in Enterprise Edition version 2 (previous post). One significant addition is the self-service dashboard designer.
Along with the adhoc report and adhoc analysis, you can now create an adhoc [...]
Voice over IP (VoIP) is emerging as one of the most powerful technologies revolutionizing the telecom industry. Most of us are fairly comfortable with using VoIP for personal use, courtesy free telephony services from Skype, Yahoo Voice, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Gizmo5. Apart from free PC-to-PC services, VoIP has also contributed towards low cost [...]
My previous article discussed why “Open Source Business Intelligence is a Good Idea”. In this article, I evaluate Pentaho BI, one the most popular open source BI solutions (others being Jaspersoft and Actuate). Pentaho BI is offered in two flavors namely the community (aka free) edition and the enterprise (aka commercial) edition. The community edition [...]
More and more companies that are interested in improving the way they do business are adopting open source business intelligence. They are choosing open source for a variety of reasons, but primarily they have their eye on the bottom line. Because open source business intelligence gives companies options, they are able to save [...]
A Content Management System, CMS, is a Web interface for manageing the dynamic content of a Website. In other words, using a CMS you would go to your website, login with a username and password, and start making changes to the contents using a convenient WYSIWYG editor. The content you are manageing could be for [...]
A large number of SMEs and big-scale enterprises are adopting the open-source path for their mission critical IT needs. One of the key features of open source software is that it offers added flexibility to organizations to alter the source code of the application to fit their business processes. Along with flexibility, open source systems [...]
