Features & News


It’s Official: Google Enters the Apps Game

Can Google Office—not to mention a Google/Microsoft grudge match—be far off?

This Just In: The Ever-Expanding DW Appliance Marketplace

Why are the majors suddenly hip to the promise of DW appliances?

Insider Threat: Three Steps to Restoring User Accountability

How to protect your organization from the most prevalent insider threat: legitimate users with access to confidential information

Podcast: Preventing Application Attacks

After protecting an enterprise from common virus attacks, IT must now protect its online applications.

SAS’ Channel Play

SAS last month kicked off an ambitious new effort to train and educate VARs, integrators, and other resellers about its BI software

Back-to-School Supplies for Secure Campus Networks

Labor Day marks the move-in for most students, and it also marks the beginning of labor-intensive work for IT departments across colleges and universities nationwide. Find out what one institution is doing to secure its network for the school year.



Will Open Source Be One of Your BI Sources?

Are you open to open-source? It’s out there, but look twice.

Applying Business Intelligence to Business Intelligence

WebFOCUS Resource Analyzer, a tool that’s designed to help organizations accelerate the performance of their WebFOCUS-based BI infrastructures.

Business Objects Embraces Eclipse

The certain undeniable logic of Crystal Reports for Eclipse.

JasperSoft’s Burgeoning BI Stack Coming into Focus

It’s a milestone release, analysts concede, even if—in most other respects—it brings little new to the table in terms of either features or functionality.

2006 Salary Survey, Part 4: IT Attitudes

While salaries are rising, angst continues to rise

IT Learning at the Boundaries of Your Ignorance

To maximize learning, operate at your boundary of ignorance

Case Study: Integrating Mainframe and Web-based Data Entry

Mainframe integration tool improves customer service, productivity, accuracy

Customers Get Hip to System z Value Proposition

Are a pair of recent Intel-to-System z defections a harbinger of what’s to come?

Storage Half-Truths and Deceptions

The Wild West adage “Never trust nobody” should be a storage manager’s creed.

Security and SOX: Are CIOs Missing the Boat?

Many CIOs arrived late to Sarbanes-Oxley efforts

New Yahoo Shield May Dry Up the Phishing Well

One search engine is developing a solution that helps users secure their data from phishing attacks.

Neon Upgrades, Extends IMS Toolset

Customers are still betting their businesses on IMS and other “legacy” datastores—and mainframe ISVs are more than happy to oblige.

Cognos, Google Sound Off on Information Security

The challenge is to simultaneously ensure both the integrity and the appropriateness of BI data for the users who consume it.