With the strong resurgence of end-user focused process improvement, Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Business Management Systems (BMS) are back in vogue. So is there a difference between the two or are these just synonymous terms for the same thing? In the majority of organisations process improvement is initiated in one of two ways. Either [...]

As the delivery mechanisms for proprietary software have evolved, from boxed product to server and hosted applications, so have the mechanisms for its pricing. Before the advent of networks, servers and the internet, software licensing was largely determined by connectivity limitations but with connectivity now being ubiquitous and in one way or another server-driven, the [...]