Software services such as Gmail, Facebook, and Bing have become an everyday part of the lives of millions of users. They are all considered software services because:
 Users do not (or do not have to) install desktop applications to use them
 The software provider controls when upgrades are deployed and features are exposed to users
 The provider also has visibility into the data center running the service, granting access to system data, diagnostics, and even user data subject to privacy policies.

It’s gone, the familiar Windows desktop. Your journey ‘where you want to go today’ will start from now on with a touch-centric tiled start screen that relegates the desktop we were familiar with for decades to a secondary role.

The overwhelming success of tablets and their increasing importance in our daily lives played a crucial role in the development of Windows 8. However, Windows 8 is not a polished up carbon copy of its competitors. Compared to Google or Apple, Microsoft approaches user interface and user experience design in a fundamentally different way. The Redmond-based company has shaken off its tradition of minor incremental changes to its user interface in favor of a completely new design language that merges desktop and tablet experience into one.

Windows 8 is one operating system (OS) that runs on desktops and tablets, touch and non-touch devices facilitating users to switch between their Windows 8 devices without being disrupted in their experience or activities. Windows 8 aims at delivering a unified user experience across platforms and devices.

But what does this paradigm shift mean for designing new applications for Windows 8? We’ll give you 10 tips to get you started.

“Successful Projects above all require Business-IT Leadership” At the beginning of every company’s ERP adventure an inventory of critical success factors is assembled. As every ERP implementation requires a huge effort from the organization it is indeed of utmost importance that all risks with regards to the project are mitigated in order for the project to be heading for success.

It’s been creeping slowly into our daily lives since the nineties, and today it’s big business. And. it’s here to stay. Right now, you’re living in the e-commerce era! Some Baby Boomers may still struggle with the idea of buying something without seeing or touching the actual product. But for Generation X, who witnessed the birth and rise of e-commerce, and certainly for Generation Y, who never lived in a world without it, buying online feels as natural as stepping into the store around the next block...

For almost all classes of businesses in Europe and the United States, expenses form an important part of their revenue expenditure. A recent study has shown that apart from salaries and benefits, these expenses are the next highest level of controllable cash outgo. They comprise nearly 8% - 12% of the total budget of large businesses. For smaller businesses, the percentage is slightly smaller but at 7% it still represents a large amount of their budget.

For a CMS implementation to be successful, it is crucial that the system is user-friendly. There are a couple of arguments that support this statement. A CMS is often maintained by a large group of decentralized content owners, often lacking the time to spend on it and most important lacking the experience to use complex and technical authoring tools. They will need a clear, intuitive and efficient user interface for editing, uploading or organizing their content. A content management system that does not meet those requirements will not be used and the content will not be updated. Consequently, the productivity of the system will get lost and the ROI of the system will be neglectable.

“HELP! I need to change!!!” Although this cry for help is not usually heard out loud, it does represent what’s going on in people’s minds when they’re faced with change. Whether it concerns your son or daughter who need to learn how to ride their bycicle by themselves, or your employees who need to learn how to use a new software, your ‘target of change’ will always be confronted with stress...

Responsive web design (or RWD in short) is a relatively new and fast developing trend on the web. Lots of web designers and web developers we know are currently working on new responsive websites or they have their hands full with porting existing websites to responsive ones. Unfortunately, responsive web design seems to be quite hard to grasp for ‘not-so-tech-savvies’.

People ask us all the time: What is RWD? What is it good for? Do we need to do something about our current website? Can you give us some advice, you guys being usability and UX experts? Sure we can. More specifically, we will answer 2 questions:

1. What are the basics of responsive web design, without diving in the developer deep
2. How will users benefit from responsive web design?

Deze whitepaper geeft inzicht in de technologie van In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG, vaak aangeduid als ‘spacing’ of ‘elastic caching’) en de voordelen die het biedt bij toepassing in applicatie- en integratieomgevingen. Spacing maakt op vernuftige wijze gebruik van in-memory-technologie en verschillende manieren van data-replicatie. Hierdoor verloopt de communicatie en de performance daarvan tussen verschillende applicaties optimaal, wat een veel voorkomende bottleneck is bij EAI platformen.

Password-Protected Website? Ensuring Trespassers Can No Longer Pass.

Learn how authentication tools safeguard user login and ensure that only authorized users gain access to your password protected website, like an extranet or web portal.

Discover how other business owners secure user access to websites containing sensitive information such as sales and transaction data, special pricing info, strategic plans, competitive data, and private information. The implementation of one-time passwords (OTPs) will also protect your users against identity theft, by eliminating the risk of weak static passwords, key loggers and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.