Impact of Big Data on Enterprise Integration
This article explains the new challenges in enterprise integration caused by the advent of big data, and presents some approaches to overcome them. Big data is the latest buzz-word in the industry. At…
Document Management with OpenKM
Document management is an immensely complex task for organisations, where several people work on multiple documents, each of which probably has more than one version. How long can one depend on memory for…
Quickly Get Set, Go with SugarCRM
In this article, we take a look at SugarCRM, an open source, cloud-based Customer Relationship Management solution. We know that organisations and enterprises, big or small, can save a lot (in terms of…
Draw Great Graphs with Open Flash Charts, Part 2
In the first part of this series, I gave a brief introduction to Open Flash Charts (OFC) and discussed how to draw bar charts with it. In this article, I will explain how…
PiCloud — An Easy Way To the Cloud
This article provides an introduction to PiCloud, a cloud computing solution. There are three components to PiCloud: PiCloud refers to the cloud computing infrastructure provided by PiCloud Inc. Client refers to the computer…
FOSS in Academic Institutions
In recent years, we have seen open source being widely adapted by many organisations around the world — not only because of its cost-effectiveness, but also because of its stability, reliability, flexibility and…
Programming Tools for Linux
This article is not so much about the various languages, as the programming tools that can be used to write programs using the languages. When students first start taking programming courses at various…
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 10
Lisp has been hailed as the world’s most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic syntax and academic reputation. This is rather unfortunate, since…






