Pitney Bowes is acquiring data quality tools vendor FirstLogic for approximately US $50.3 million. Pitney Bowes plans to integrate FirstLogic's specialized data cleansing and enhancement technology with its own data quality, enterprise mail, and document management systems, thus further solidifying its position as a major player in the market for such products and services.

Determining the range of actions that an organization needs to take to reduce security risk to an adequate or acceptable level depends on what an organization needs to protect and what it needs to prevent. Consider the following questions from an enterprise perspective:

Event-driven architecture (EDA) has been at the center of an architectural controversy lately. The basic question is: Is EDA the same as service-oriented architecture (SOA), part of an SOA, or different than SOA? Let's examine what EDA is and put the debate into an architectural context to determine how EDA and SOA relate.

In my previous two Advisors (" Align IT Strategies for Delivering Right Business Value: Setting the Ground Rules," 20 July 2005, and " Align IT Strategies for Delivering Right Business Value: Developing Effective IT Strategies," 3 August 2005), I discussed setting ground rules to establish and

The explosive growth of the market for wireless devices is stimulating widespread efforts to clone almost any technology developed for desktop computers to wireless handheld devices connected to a wireless network. This is challenging, as mobile applications must work within the daunting constraints of devices that have the following characteristics:

During this summer's family week at the beach, my wife bought a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle for us to assemble during hot afternoons and periods of rain. I noticed several things about assembling a jigsaw puzzle that may apply to projects and project management.