Although technology should make tasks faster and easier, it doesn’t always succeed. Despite significant investments in new technologies over the past decade, many organizations are actually watching ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server may be a big dog in the enterprise database market, but its conspicuous lack of user-defined functions (UDFs) has stacked up poorly against other leaders of that pack. Oracle, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Bendor-Samuel is founder & executive chairman of Everest Group. In today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, every company ...

One of the most powerful capabilities of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that conform to the IEC 61131-3 standard is the functionality that allows application engineers to create function blocks ...

Okay, so for reasons I won't get into (and can't change), I have a handful of users on a few of my systems who have Computer Administrator accounts (not that they need them for anything), and some of ...

Windows 8 includes a new menu called the Power User Tasks menu that allows quick access to various power user functions in Windows 8. This menu can be accessed from any screen and includes options ...

What if you could solve intricate Excel problems with a single, elegant formula? Imagine replacing a web of complex, error-prone calculations with one streamlined function that handles it all. Enter ...