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Time for Change

Change for the better
Change creates opportunities. Positioning your company for the adverse effects of change can turn your business around. Can you be in any business other than what you are in now?more...

Virtual Workspace
With the cost of petrol increasing making commuting to work costly companies are forced to explore ways of coordinating work in the "cloud". However there are issues related to web based collaboration as this article explains.more...

Teleworking
The Australian Telework Advisory Committee (ATAC) presented its report to Government on Monday 27 February 2006, entitled 'Telework for Australian Employees and Businesses - Maximising the economic and social benefits of flexible working practices'.more...

New Business Models
New business models are creating new companies that did not exist before. These new companies are the result of Internet revolution, people being made redundant from high-paying jobs, business outsourcing...more...

Shared Services Centre
Shared services group centrally manages functions ranging from IT resources and application development to human resources. The group works closely with business units to meet their unique needs. Some of shared services groups are spun off as separate independent business units.more...

Business & Social Climate
Dramatic changes in business and social conditions have also contributed to the creation of many innovative businesses.more...

Technological Change
The platform for doing business on the Internet has matured to such an extent that new web based businesses can be created rapidly.more...

Web Value System

It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts (ch. XX, v. 35). The Biblical maxim, "Give and ye shall receive" is certainly true for the web value system.

Creative Commons
The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.more...

The Gift Economy
Eric Raymond's must read article, "Homesteading the Noosphere" explaining why the Open Source Software phenomenon is so successful.more...

The Wealth of Networks
Yochai Benkler presents in his book how the Internet creates unique web based social value systems. more...

The Future of Media
Are traditional media owners scared or stupid at the same time? What do you think?more...

VE Platform

Strategically, it is recognised that clustering whereby like minded businesses collaborate and share skills and resources can be rewarding. Practically though there is no deliberate platform built to facilitate permanent clustering as modus operandi. Virtual Empire solves this by designing our platform from the ground up with clustering in mind.

Software Architecture
Borrowing design concepts developed in civil and achitectural disciplines. Christopher Alexander coined the term pattern language. He used it to refer to common problems of civil and architectural design, from how cities should be laid out to where windows should be placed in a room. The idea was initially popularized in his book A Pattern Language.more...

VE Cluster Platform
Our business objectives determine how the supporting platform should be designed and built.more...

Virtual Empire Clustering
Since the Internet provides universal connectivity, it matters not where companies in a cluster are located. more...

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Technology

Azure
Once every decade or so something big and radical happens in IT to make us rethink and reshape our business strategies. Is Azure the next wave of computing to greatly benefit business? We at Virtual Empire beleive it will - we were thinking the Azure way since 1997!

Has Web Development Lost Its Way?
To understand where web development is going, we need a brief review of web development history. Many years have gone since the old CGI bridge was invented, a quick hack to achieve the impossible, create server-based web applications. The first CGI based web applications were C (and Perl) programs based on a terrific mix of HTML and printf calls...

SaaS
The latest technical take on SaaS. - Microsoft releases sample SaaS application guidance.

Microsoft formerly enters SaaS market
Watch out Salesforce.com, Netsuite & others.

SaaS Market
What the analysts are saying.

Cisco Enterprise TV
Cisco is announcing Enterprise TV, a YouTube-like video posting and viewing service aimed at enterprises. It is also announcing a security camera that extends an existing line of “physical security” and video surveillance products.

No Code Vendors
Some vendors like Salesforce are claiming that you can develop applications without coding. How true are their claims? Some vendors are listed here.

Top Business Challenges

Must Do's Don't Do
The important things that companies must do and yet they don't do them well.

SME Barriers
If you are small there are many impediments that can cripple your business.

Top Business Problems
List of business problems

Top IT Inertia
What drags business performance down.