Enterprise 2.0

You are probably most familiar with JavaScript as that sometimes useful, often quirky, client-side scripting language used on websites to enhance user interfaces and enable dynamic content.

Wikipedia describes JavaScript as “dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions … a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.” Fairly generic technical description there. Wikipedia fails to point out that JavaScript may also be a ravenous monster intent on infiltrating every bastion of technology we have!

JavaScript is not...

I recently had the opportunity to take a close look at using spreadsheets and more specifically Excel as a key component of a business process. The tasks at hand were relying heavily on Excel's calculation engine, performing some complex manipulations there, and using a larse dose of custom add-in and macro functionality, circling around and connecting to some databases (in this case, Oracle and Microsoft Access). And in updating with the times and all things going to the intertubes, the need now was to seek out a component that could comparably swap out Excel on the client side and bolt...

Imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about handling authentication for different types of users of your application.  In modern day information technology, businesses want to interoperate with other businesses, and government organizations want to provide more integrated services to citizens.  However, different systems use different authentication systems and businesses want to integrate in a secure, legally compliant manner.

Given this environment where user accounts and applications are located in completely different networks or organizations, imagine that every request...

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Hope everyone had a happy 4th of July!

Some time ago, my colleague Hani Atalla had touched on some of the work that we at Function1 have been involved with in regards to Atlassian Confluence, WCI, and few other products. In my article here however, I'll share some of my experience with an aspect of user management that we had dealt with on that project. Historically, for this customer , the enterprise has had Active Directory (AD) for...