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Equant Goes Global

A world-class system for multinational IP and data support.

When Should You Clean Warehoused Data?

Scrubbing your data too soon or too late is a waste of effort—plan carefully to make your quality checks at the right time.



Direct Connect: Users to Data

In IT circles, the term "disintermediation" usually means removing the middleman—the dealer or wholesaler—from the distribution chain, thanks mostly to e-commerce. When Daniel Loranger uses it, he's talking about changes that have removed the middleman standing between users and the information they seek.

Software Asset Management

Increasing numbers of organizations are turning to Software Asset Management (SAM) to help manage and control their software costs

Software Asset Management

The price of software has risen dramatically, especially for large systems. Today, software costs can quickly consume the average IT budget. That's why increasing numbers of organizations are turning to Software Asset Management (SAM) to help manage and control their software costs. Yet according to IDC, less than half of 250 companies it recently surveyed actively practice asset management.

.NET Will Win Battle for Mindshare Among Developers

If history is any indication, the battle for dominance in the Web services space won't hinge upon the overall efficacy of a vendor's advertising hype. Rather, a Web services champion will be determinedby the degree to which they can court the support of enterprise software developers and independent software vendors.

Eclipse vs. NetBeans: A War of Words

So it was a month or so ago that I first caught wind of this new Eclipse project. A colleague of mine shouted over to me, “Hey Matt, did you see the thing about IBM donating $40 million in software to a new open-source developer platform?” No, I said, could you forward it to me? And it was on…

Friends Or Foes?

Expect lower prices, faster deployment and easier integration as ASPs package Web services into their hosted services.

Sun ONE: In the Framework of Java and Web Services

Still in its infancy, Sun ONE is Sun’s product strategy for building Web services using the Java platform. Of course, the big difference between the Java framework and the .NET framework is...

Enterprise Security: Locking Down Web Services

What will be the security challenges of the new Web services model? Your company will be most vulnerable where your Web services meet with the outside world's.

IBM Previews Larger Intel-Based Servers

IBM Corp. used Comdex to share its plans with customers for the greater-than-eight-processor Intel architecture servers it will release next year

UDDI Registry Beta 2 Goes Online

The second beta of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration registry went online today. The registry will offer an automated way to find and use available Web services.