Web-application firewalls protect against unknown attacks
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Software can establish a baseline of "normal" application activity, then sound the alarm when an app behaves erratically
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The security solution you choose has important implications for your company and your career.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BI suite boasts improved support for heterogeneous data sources, new data mining capabilities, and integration with SAP BW
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    CSOs concerned by malware and regulations; top IM security predictions; Eudora vulnerability 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Compromise may be possible—even within the most control-oriented of corporate cultures
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BMC says its new performance-monitoring software can help reduce false alerts—and sleep-shattering beeper pages—by almost 100 percent
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Workers are increasingly optimistic about their job security—and job satisfaction has increased to unprecedented levels
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Some people don’t believe in making numbers just fit the bill; they ask at the source and tell it like it is. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Manufacturers' inability to patch their computers against every newly discovered virus and worm leaves their systems highly exposed
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Two trends are driving the growth of digital signatures for sign-off and revisions of digital documents
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    CRM competitors could target potentially disaffected customers—particularly if Oracle is less than sincere about servicing them
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Security hiring growth slow but steady; end-users blame ISPs and product vendors for spam
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As the major enterprise application vendors flesh out their analytic offerings, Siebel is in the forefront
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Business intelligence vendors must make their software more affordable—and provide better service once it’s been sold
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Long-time Notes and Domino customers regard Workplace with suspicion—and IBM is still having trouble positioning the relationship between the two platforms 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    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