How much time do you usually spend securing a new system? Does security play a major role in your software architecture? How much security is enough? Securing web applications traditionally consists of two components referred to as authentication and authorization. Authentication is wrapped up in the log-in process, during which your system needs ...

When a new solution is being discussed, it’s easy to focus on all of the things it should do, what it should look like, and what technologies it should be based on. It’s very easy to get caught up in discussions with business resources about comprehensive feature sets and ways to present the information to customers. With a technical audience, ...

If your IT organization is one of the many experimenting with a simple SharePoint implementation, you'll agree that the out-of-the-box functionality is quite amazing. You can enable your business users to quickly manage their own content, setup workflows, and collaborate. The part that gets interesting is when you're ready to actually ...

Can you believe there are still places in this world where an always-on connection to the internet is not a given? I was recently working on a project for a company that was in the process of finding a new system for their mining operations. This system would need to support employees in their field offices as well as management in their ...