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Seven Strategies to Maximize Your Supply Chain Solution

Research firm Aberdeen Group says 2004 will be the year enterprises extend their supply chain solution, integrating it with other systems to reduce costs and improve performance.

Reducing Unsolicited E-Mail: Making Senders Pay

Microsoft's Penny Black solution may impose fees on those sending unsolicited e-mail, while a service from Vanquish adds economic penalties for such messages.

Q&A: Getting Back to OLAP Basics

Almost one year ago to the day, Applix jettisoned its CRM assets to refocus on its TM1 OLAP engine, the original source of the company's growth. We look back on that move, and ahead to the company's interest in business performance management.

Best Practices: Collecting Computer Forensic Evidence

Gathering information in a legal, court-friendly way is vital if computer forensic evidence is to hold up in court.

Briefs

Voice-over-IP vulnerabilities; impact to Microsoft's ISA Server 2000

Battling Blended Threats with Pattern Detection

IT needs to move from looking at events coming from particular sensors to recognizing patterns of activity coming into that infrastructure.

Simulation and Modeling: Beyond Fear and Loathing

Fifteen to twenty years ago, simulation was over-hyped. Today it's time to investigate the wide range of cost-effective, working solutions for business design needs.



Serial ATA: Coming Soon to a Data Center Near You?

Industry watchers say that solutions based on the parallel ATA or Serial ATA standards are coming on strong, especially in disk-to-disk backup.

SCO to IBM: I’ve Shown You Mine, Now Show Me Yours

SCO has at last turned over a list of files and code snippets it claims violate its intellectual property rights.

Why Systemic Storage Problems Remain Unsolved

Last year saw a dearth of real industry leadership, especially in storage technology, and a lot of posturing and posing. Why can't innovators with great ideas find venture capital?

Securing Mobile Workers

The wireless debate has moved from demonstrating that wireless is a viable technology to solving the associated management issues. New software and upgrades may hold the answer.

The Power of Business Intelligence: A Mortgage Banking Industry Perspective

Faced with systems that didn't adequately track, alert, and analyze data effectively, a BI solution united data from disparate systems to provide analysis capabilities that allowed a mortgage banker to better understand its customers, markets, and risk.

Q&A: Super-Charging OLAP Performance

HyperRoll says it can squeeze out the most performance from your existing investments in Oracle and Hyperion Solutions OLAP platforms without investing in more processing power or storage.

Case Study: Watching Sensitive Database Information at Toro

Sarbanes-Oxley, the need to improve monitoring, and a desire to move administration and accountability closer to end users, drove Toro to invest in record-level enterprise application monitoring software from Prodigen.

Briefs

Using investigations to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley requirements; learning from 2003's vulnerability onslaught

BI Leaders Drive Java Standards

A group of BI powerhouses have joined forces in two competing organizations with the same goal: to reduce the pain of building BI solutions with Java and Java-related technologies.

Business Objects Announces Integration Strategy, Product Road Map

Analysts say the combined company looks like a winner.

SCO/IBM: Readers Respond

Strong responses mostly positive

IBM's Latest Blades Show Slim Is In

All grown up, blade servers are seen as a complement to mainframe and large Unix systems. Now they're slimmer than ever—just one of recent trends in this hardware.