By Francisco González, Data transformations expert

Nowadays, an absolutely necessary condition for the sustained growth of a commercial company is how easy it exchanges information electronically with customers and suppliers. It is unthinkable today that a company that receives 100 orders and generates 100 invoices a day, takes orders over the phone or sends 100 envelopes by ordinary mail to their customers. As the business grows, the amount of staff resources required to handle such a lot of manual work increases proportionately.
Even if the order data arrives in an email’s body or the invoices are ...

By Bernardo Ramos, IT security expert

Information Technology and fashion

New trends in Information technology appear often as a matter of fashion

New trends in IT use to emerge as oscillations between two extreme positions:

• Centralized / Distributed
• Simple / Complex

Around 1980’s IBM launched a computer series based on an architecture labelled “RISC” (as "Reduced Instruction Set Computing") RISC was the answer to the need of improving the old good IBM 360 complex architecture (CISC) that had been designed as a rich and complex instruction set processor to maximize the computing speed by ...