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Your company's most valuable resource may be locked inside the brains of employees. A W. P. Carey School of Business professor has written a paper that describes ways a business can unlock and use this powerful resource.

Many IT professionals, called upon to specialize in the integration of Web services, have morphed into "service choreographers." In working to employ service-oriented architecture (SOA), they are developing "ecosystem" awareness, an understanding of IT services interrelationships.

Businesses large and small are becoming familiar with SaaS (software as a service) -- most easily defined as software bought and maintained by an outside party which charges business customers to access their applications via the Internet.

There may actually be a useful purpose for those annoying song lyrics that get stuck in your head. Easy-to-remember phrases could be the basis of a much more secure method of protecting computer information and accounts. They can be used as pass phrases.

Hurricane Katrina delivered an excruciating lesson on "information integration in action, not theory," according to Steve Cooper, chief information officer at the American Red Cross.

Like a physical supply chain, an information supply chain (ISC) is comprised of the organizations that connect with each other to produce a desired end -- product or service -- for a user.

Thin client technology and the Java card have enabled business to create a data-centric world with a mobile workforce. The creative possibilities in this environment are boundless, but freedom from the office comes with increased risk.

Convenience and cost-savings are powerful incentives for companies to use technology as a way of convening meetings, and they do so knowing that an electronically-mediated session will be different from a face-to-face meeting.

Until now, the data collected by companies about their customers and their business processes was relatively cumbersome to use.

In the wake of spectacular corporate collapses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act established new rules on a scale not seen since those meant to ameliorate the economic calamities of the 1930s. But three experts at the W. P.