Features & News


Case Study: Virtual Patches Defend Web Applications

Web-application firewalls protect against unknown attacks

Q&A: Preventing “Applications Gone Wild”

Software can establish a baseline of "normal" application activity, then sound the alarm when an app behaves erratically

Q&A: Informatica CEO on Data Integration Trends

Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi charts a pragmatic course when talking about his company’s vendor partners—but pulls no punches on the subject of ETL competitors

Careers: Are You a Security Conservative, Gloryhound, or Gambler?

The security solution you choose has important implications for your company and your career.

MicroStrategy 8 Gets Thumbs Up from Analysts, Users

BI suite boasts improved support for heterogeneous data sources, new data mining capabilities, and integration with SAP BW

In Brief

CSOs concerned by malware and regulations; top IM security predictions; Eudora vulnerability

Business Objects Gears up for Mid-Market Customers

Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite



Five Steps to Data Quality in Enterprise Mergers

As merger and acquisition activity picks up this year, there will be an even heavier emphasis on the quality of data combined from the two enterprises

Careers: Combating Business-Process Change Overload

Compromise may be possible—even within the most control-oriented of corporate cultures

BMC Cuts False Performance Alerts to Zero

BMC says its new performance-monitoring software can help reduce false alerts—and sleep-shattering beeper pages—by almost 100 percent

Careers: Job Openings Grow, Worker Satisfaction Highest Ever

Workers are increasingly optimistic about their job security—and job satisfaction has increased to unprecedented levels

Data Migration Headaches Underscored by Softek Survey

Some people don’t believe in making numbers just fit the bill; they ask at the source and tell it like it is.

Control Systems Leave Manufacturers Vulnerable

Manufacturers' inability to patch their computers against every newly discovered virus and worm leaves their systems highly exposed

Putting Next-Generation Smart Cards to Work

Two trends are driving the growth of digital signatures for sign-off and revisions of digital documents

Oracle and PeopleSoft—The CRM Angle

CRM competitors could target potentially disaffected customers—particularly if Oracle is less than sincere about servicing them

In Brief

Security hiring growth slow but steady; end-users blame ISPs and product vendors for spam

Siebel’s Analytics Push

As the major enterprise application vendors flesh out their analytic offerings, Siebel is in the forefront

BI Vendors Get Failing Grade on Pricing

Business intelligence vendors must make their software more affordable—and provide better service once it’s been sold

Lotusphere 2005: Notes, Domino, and Workplace Take Center Stage

Long-time Notes and Domino customers regard Workplace with suspicion—and IBM is still having trouble positioning the relationship between the two platforms

Sun Outlines Open-Source Plans

A new software license gives OpenSolaris a good foundation—even if Sun hasn’t worked out all the legalities of porting CDDL code to Linux