Coverage Opportunities
Enterprise Strategies newsletters are targeted at enterprise-level managers at large companies—system administrators, project managers, data center directors, IS managers, etc.—whose responsibility includes one or more mainframes and/or large, high-performance, high-availability, heavy transaction-volume servers.
Our readers may or may not manage the support of desktop products and users, but their primary focus is on industrial-strength back-end systems. These networks tend to support large numbers of users, massive amounts of data or data connections/transactions, and are generally extremely heterogeneous.
If your company or client offers products, services, or technologies with a clear and demonstrable slant to mainframes and high-end servers, please read on. If your company is involved with development products, Web servers, handheld devices, and the like, we're interested if and only if you can explain the products' relevance to mainframes and high-end servers and importance to our readers.
Enterprise Strategies covers the latest news, trends, and technologies of interest to IT managers. The newsletter is delivered on Tuesdays. The content is also posted online in our News section.
Focusing on issues and solutions for IT shops with mainframes and large servers, we feature commentary from industry pundit and well-known storage guru Jon William Toigo, who explains storage terms, cuts through the hype, answers reader questions, interprets vendor moves and announcements, and offers brief, pointed commentaries.
We regularly feature a discussion of the security issues most important to enterprise managers.
A second newsletter, BI This Week, is published in association with TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute). The newsletter addresses the business intelligence and data warehousing markets, offering news and analysis each Wednesday on BI/DW products, initiatives, best practices, and techniques.
Note: We no longer publish a print edition of Enterprise Systems Journal.
Our newsletters are designed to inform our readers about developments in strategic enterprise technology and events that affect the IT world. Coverage centers on large-scale computing systems, data management, and enterprise integration. Our goal is to help our readers learn how technology can resolve business and technology concerns.
Enterprise Strategies newsletters pride themselves on their unbiased, vendor-neutral focus. Therefore, vendor-written articles are accepted only if they are impartial and do not advocate a particular vendor technology or product. Please see our Writer's Guidelines for details about contributing to one of our newsletters. We are happy to accept story ideas from consultants, analysts, and systems integrators, as long as the writer is not aligned with any single vendor.
Enterprise Systems posts a limited number of vendor press releases on our Web site. Each week we’ll select the releases of greatest interest to our readers and make them available online. Releases that are particularly relevant and timely may also be featured in one of our weekly e-newsletters. The index of our Product News page provides a good sampling of the types of releases we publish.
We are looking for:
- technology- and product-related releases
- announcements that describe new techniques you have incorporated you’re your products
- survey results or identified trends (if they are general in nature and not product- or company specific)
Please do not send press releases announcing:
- personnel changes, mergers, office address changes, new sales office openings
- financial results, venture capital infusions, sales figures, market standing, etc.
- customer "wins" (e.g., "Corporation X has selected our product")
- partnership agreements, alliances, licensing deals, affiliations, patents awarded or trademarks registered
- analyst's comments about your products; awards from organizations or other publications
To submit your release:
- Send your announcement to jpowell@esj.com as an attachment in text or Word format, or as text within the body of the e-mail message.
- Be sure you include a simple announcement headline (no more than 14 words) and a sub-head (not to exceed 200 characters).
- Avoid special characters (such as copyright and trademark symbols)
- You may include company name, address, telephone number, and Web site address at the end of your announcement. Please include your contact information (name, e-mail address, and telephone) so we can contact you if we have any questions (and notify you if the release is selected); this information will not be published.
Q&As
Enterprise Systems produces a series of articles in the familiar question-and-answer format. Vendors, analysts, and end users are invited to suggest topics on which they are experts. After a brief phone meeting in which we will jointly determine the subject area for the article, ESJ will develop a set of questions that the expert will answer via e-mail. Answers are edited, and the list of questions expanded, until the final article properly covers the topic, typically in 800-1200 words.
To propose an expert or topic for a Q&A, please contact ESJ Editorial Director James E. Powell.
Podcasts
We no longer produce podcasts.
Our newsletters are primary driven by industry news. However, we also publish several special issues throughout the year. You'll find our editorial calendar here.
The fastest way to reach our editors is generally by e-mail, at least three days in advance of the publication date. Please note, however, that due to the volume of inquiries we receive, we will only be able to respond to queries about products and services we intend to write about.
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