There is little doubt that computers play a major role in all spheres of societies today in spite of the challenging arguments of Carr (2004) in a Harvard Business Review article that the competitive advantage of IT is diminishing (Handzic & Zhou, 2005:60). There is hardly any business who doesn’t make use of either a server solution or Desktop computers to conduct there businesses.

Since the mid 1980’s, organizations began to require project managers to be certified or trained as project managers (PM) realising that project management requires a definite set of skills and techniques. This need of certification also resulted in a need for “guidelines and bodies of knowledge (e.g., PMBOK, APMBOK), which addressed some methodology but did not address every industry and type of methodology” (Charvat, J. 2003). Organizations embarking on project...

Many smaller business environments make use of an "workgroup" network environment as opposed to an user-authenticated network and server environment. Here we discuss the differences and why user-authentication offer more options.

To maintain a competitive advantage in today’s technological era, it is more and more imperative for organizations to integrate their different management applications.  “The characteristics of today's competitive environment put a great deal of pressure upon organizations for greater levels of organizational integration” (Barki & Pinsonneault, 2002, p. 7). In both Enterprise Resoure Planning (ERP) and Customer Relations Management (CRM) systems, integration...

The development and design of web sites have changed tremendously over the past 30 odd years. In the early years, web sites were static pages built with html (hyper text mark-up language). Today, most sites are developed with a Content Management System (CMS) which makes web sites more dynamic and ease the constant updates to content.