Paraphrasing Heraclitus here to introduce Change Management concept, as a set of tools and techniques to manage people-side of change process.
In times of change, as current ones worldwide, the natural human reaction is to resist: changes introduce the unknown. They take us out of a place we know and are comfortable with and force us [...]

Times of every terminal connected to all-omniscient mainframes seems to be far away. Nowadays, enterprise users work with several devices (smartphones, laptops…) and their aim is clear: get to the applications and data they need, when they need them.
Current solution toward anywhere, anytime access to business applications is the so-called cloud computing (see previous post [...]

Microsoft just launched their Cloud Computing service architecture: Azure
With similar idea of the existing Google App Engine, Microsoft introduced itself on the new trend,  the Cloud Computing, over The Internet.
This is the Azure architecture schema :

Azure is provided with a full integration on Microsoft Visual Studio, to enable developers to publish applications easily on the [...]

Current world-wide financial crisis means, as we can see in any newspaper around the globe, cost-cutting initiatives, which turns into less production and increasing unemployment. What about IT markets?  Are IT services a worthwhile investments in crisis times?
The answer, definitely, seems to be yes: enterprises still expecting IT to deliver distinctive solutions that serve customers [...]