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To help security and risk professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created a data privacy heat map that highlights the data protection guidelines and practices for 54 different coun…

Social collaboration improves an organization’s ability to react quickly to new data and information

The social and collaborative tools built into Office 2016 and Windows 10 allow you to take your teamwork to the next level. An online immersion session is not your typical online event. Each 90-minute interactive session starts…

What’s new in Office 365 administration—October update

The new admin center reached general availability one month ago . This was a big milestone in our mission to provide you with a first-class admin experience, with tools that enable you to efficiently manage all aspects of the ser…

Over the last month, the Office 365 team has continued to introduce new security features and capabilities. Here is a roundup of some key security and compliance news from the last month: Applying intelligence to security and c…

Enhanced control over third-party apps now available in Office 365

Do you have users connecting third-party applications to Office 365? Many organizations allow users to connect apps to Office 365 without IT intervention to help them be more productive. The challenge is that it reduces the visi…

SharePoint welcomes PowerApps and Microsoft Flow

Today marks general availability of Microsoft Flow and PowerApps , which enable people to automate workflows and quickly build custom apps that suit their specific needs. Earlier this year, we announced integration of SharePoint …

Sonatype provides Nexus. An extensive artifact Repository Manager. It can hold large amounts of stored artifacts and still requests get processed quickly. Also it has an extensive easy to use API which is a definite asset. When a…

Over the past six months, we have developed new security-focused modeling tools that capture vulnerabilities and their propagation paths in an architecture. Recent reports (such as the remote attack surface analysis of automotive…

Video conveys emotion unlike text and can show features and functionality unlike any picture. That's why retailers see nearly triple the conversion rate on product pages that have video versus those that don't. Entering w…

Corporate HR: Three Ways for HR Business Partners to Improve in their Role

HR business partners work with line and functional managers to help them with any HR-related issue, anything from performance management to helping run an employee engagement survey. At a recent webinar almost 1,400 HR business …

Introducing our new scheduling experience for Outlook for iOS

From the very beginning , our goal with Outlook has been to provide a mobile experience that’s good for more than reading messages while standing in line for coffee. As part of our mission, we released a new and improved calenda…

CodeSOD: The Wisdom of the Ancients

As Halloween descends upon us, mysterious emails start reaching our inbox. These plaintive missives are but the screams of the damned, encoded and sent over SMTP. For example, someone known to us only as DBA Guy sent an email w…

Oracle PaaS Cloud – The API Platform Service – launch date Winter 2016/17

APIs are hot. Public APIs are an enterprise’s programmatic interface to B2B partners, governments and other stakeholders including app and web builders. Internally, APIs are the touch points for encapsulated functionality and dat…

Cloud based Human Workflow and Business Process automation – PCS, BPM Suite on the Cloud, BPM Suite on Premises

On premises BPM Suite has been Oracle’s flagship product for business process automation for many years. Based on the industry standard of BPMN and tightly integrated with SOA Suite for integrations, it has been widely used to im…

Oracle’s portfolio for Custom Application Development – snapshot taken at Oracle OpenWorld 2016

Custom applications with a user interface can be categorized along various dimensions. Is the user interface a front end for a system of record or a system of change or innovation? What about the users: trained power users or ver…