I still can’t get why most ECM, DMS, e-Archiving solutions are in love with RDBMS, whatever the technology they adopt : MSQL, DB2, Oracle, … it’s not only about additional licenses (and cost) for the entire solution, but also about features and performance. The key feature in DMS, ECM, or e-Archiving solutions is the “Document” [...]

Today I was reading on Okaz newspaper a news about a contractor who abused of their confidence and programmed a password change after leaving his position at King Abdul Aziz University. Things that creates troubles in administrative transactions in the entire university. Without entering into further details, how this could happen, and why … It’s [...]

Every time I read a paper about open source I can feel how it’s trying hard to oppose to closed source or proprietary software. People in the closed source side seems to take things differently : ” we are doing business and we have to generate sales, closed or open doesn’t matter”. I’m not going [...]

Part of Yesser e-Gov program an interoperability framework called YEFI. The framework concern any entity that exchange data and integrate services for the consumption and benefit of the public. From yesser website, YEFI is defined as “a unified framework to implement e-government. It includes cross – governmental specifications and policies, to enable cross – governmental [...]

Ten years ago, e-Government was a term that every Government started working hardly to study, implement, and understand better how new information technologies could help making better Government services for people. Things started with legislations and laws in different countries, and step by step we started seeing countries embracing the e-Government concept 100%.

One of the web applications that I have deployed in the last year in a Government institution is using Internet explorer mainly as web client. Even if the web application was mainly based on open source technologies, I had to deal with closed source issues. Using windows as terminal for a web application is not [...]