Agencies’ incomplete software application inventories are creating security risks, a government watchdog believes. The Government Accountability Office’s recently published review of 24 agencies found ...

The number of applications that providers interact with in their daily work, as well as the hardware required to support those applications, presents significant management challenges. In healthcare, ...

The continuing advancement in the numbers and kinds of options available to assist with disaster recovery is encouraging growing numbers of organizations to look at ways in which to enhance their ...

As CIOs work through the thorny issues involved in consolidating IT hardware and personnel, another challenge appears on the horizon: dealing with the “application bloat” that has built up within ...

The complexity of managing clinical, administrative, and operational applications in healthcare organizations continues to grow. While many large hospital systems have invested in robust programs to ...

Over the years, organizations tend to acquire more and more applications, usually for good business reasons. However, they often don't have the discipline to remove older, obsolete, or duplicate ...

Gerry Gebel, Strata Identity Head of Standards, former Burton Group analyst and tech executive at Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). For the average large enterprise, answering the question, ...

Customer information, which includes name, address, and a customer number that uniquely identifies the customer. Inventory information, which tracks the amount of each item that is in stock at any ...