Features & News


Demystifying Enterprise 2.0: It's About Sharing, Not Technology

To get the most from your Web 2.0 technologies, combine them with Enterprise 2.0.

Happy Green-er New Year

All of the Energy Stars in the world will not keep the lights from going out.

Q&A: IT Automation: Trends and Tips

Why is IT the last department to have automated tools?

Security Concerns Hinder Open Source Use

Informal survey highlights misperceptions inhibiting open-source growth

Enterprises Ill Served by Antivirus Alerts, Study Finds

AV solutions from McAfee, Symantec, and CA fail to disclose when they aren't functioning

Zero-Day IE Exploit To Get Out-of-Cycle Patch

"Critical" out-of-cycle patch for Internet Explorer

Microsoft Says IE8 Release Imminent

Exec asks developers to ensure good customer experience prior to release



Analysis: BI Transformation in 2009

Financial disruption may hold promise for BI, but it will also transform BI itself: big tools to small tools, fewer analysts and more business users, and finally appreciation for human intelligence.

Major Data Warehousing Events of 2008 (and Predictions for 2009)

BI analyst Michael Schiff looks at the accuracy of the predictions he made last year, examines the major BI events of 2008, and suggests new trends to watch in 2009.

BI: The Year in Review

For BI professionals, it was a year in which several long-simmering trends seemed to coalesce and boil over.

New CA Modeling Tool Supports WCF

Plex rapid application development environment now lets developers model and generate Microsoft .NET-based services based on Windows Communication Foundation

From the Editor: Consumer Software Driving the Best New Enterprise Features

What features will be included in future enterprise software products? The answer lies in today's consumer software.

Reader Feedback: Readers Speak Out about Green IT Column

Readers share their reactions about Jon Toigo's analysis last week.

Storage 2008: Flashy Storage

Learning the difference between single layer cell (SLC) and multi layer cell (MLC) Flash memory technologies opens the door to better understanding solid state drives.

The Year in Security and the Fresh Problems Ahead

All things considered, 2008 was a quiet but industrious year on the security front.

Q&A: Market Forces That Will Mold BI in 2009

It’s been a year of great change, and there’s more ahead. JasperSoft’s CEO takes a look at four key trends for 2009 that will have an impact on BI.

The Year in Review, The Trends Ahead

It was a pretty good year, for IT spending at least.

Q&A: The Future of SaaS

We look at where software-as-a-service is heading.