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Business Objects Ships New Crystal, Mid-Market Planning Products

Business Objects also revealed details about a forthcoming SAP/Business Objects integration road map, slated for early Q1 of next year

Own Your Identity: 10 Best Practices for Role-Based Access

Learn the 10 best practices for access management collaboration.

ParAccel Touts Columnar Analytic Database

ParAccel’s analytic database can be used on its own or dropped right into place alongside your existing SQL Server assets.

SWOT: IBM’s Pending Acquisition of Cognos

What does the IBM/Cognos agreement mean? Analyst Mike Schiff explores the news from four angles.

Podcast: Best Practices for Application Integration

There are better ways than cut-and-paste to share data between applications.

Big Blue Gives Mainframe Programming a Rational Retrofit

IBM’s new Rational offerings make it easier for customers to expose COBOL assets as Web services and automatically generate COBOL or Java code

IT Budgets May Suffer in 2008

Economic uncertainty got you down? You’re not alone. Gartner says you need to start thinking now about a potentially tumultuous 2008.



At the Crossroads: Reengineering Storage from the Bottom Up

How much is storage compromised by simply adding more of the same?

Compliance and Security, Part 2: Uniting Efforts

In the second of three parts, unifying security, compliance, and risk assessment get better results

IBM to Acquire Cognos for $5 Billion

IBM’s bid marks the third acquisition this year of a prominent BI and PM pure-play vendor.

Predictive Analytics: Slow Adoption Despite Big Benefits

Why is a high-value technology such as predictive analytics so under-represented in the enterprise?

Tableau Marries Data Visualization, Dashboards, Collaboration

With its Web 2.0-based Tableau Server 3.0, Tableau touts a data visualization and dashboarding product whose whole vastly exceeds the sum of its parts

Compliance and Security: The Changing Environment, Part 1

In this first part of a three-part series, we look at how compliance continues to change IT security and response to risk

Why Legacy Databases Are Here to Stay

While industry watchers once encouraged customers to think about transitioning away from pre-relational DMBSes, they’re now backtracking

The Greening of IT: More than a Passing Fad

A vendor’s "greenness" matters to IT executives says research firm IDC

Podcast: Application Modernization Strategies

You don’t have to rewrite or rip-and-replace you legacy apps to make them more useful.

How New Technologies Improve E-Mail Control

Lexicon-based and random reviews address only part of the need to internally monitor e-mail. We explain how, to be complete, a message's context must be examined.

Building Storage Shouldn’t Be Trick or Treat

Storage purchasing with an eye toward promised "treats" may ignore the "tricks" that follow.

Best Practices for Buying BI Software

Experts on selecting BI software offer seasoned advice on choosing the right solution.