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Determining the Value and ROI of an Enterprise Portal, Part 1

As the portal market becomes increasingly more competitive, the vendor choices grow to be even more complex. We discuss the value of an enterprise portal and methods for determining its return on investment.

IBM and BEA Court Enterprise Developers

Vendors tout new products and services designed to appeal to their bread-and-butter application server constituencies—enterprise developers

Why We Need a Data Management Summit

The thought of a vendor association dictating a schema for how companies should characterize their data is a frightening one.

Outsourcing Survey, Part 4: Contract and Human Costs

The results of the 2004 Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Survey are in. In the last two sections of our report, we look at contracts (size and duration) and explore the human costs of outsourcing.

SAS and Unisys Partner for BI on Linux

Companies ally to develop enterprise-ready Linux solutions running on top of Unisys hardware

In Brief

Blame unusable security, not users; Apple worm; high-speed IPS

Caveat Emptor: Put Performance Before Convenience in ERP

An all-in-one approach to performance management has its merits, but companies should look beyond their ERP stacks, too



Bias-Free Security Testing

New security-risk management tools bridge the security/business gap

IBM's BI Middleware Play: It's All About Integration, Partnerships

IBM has quietly stitched together a data-access portfolio that helps position it as a prominent player in the burgeoning EII and BPM segments

Missing from SOX Compliance Efforts: IM Audits, Archives

With the November 15 deadline looming for many organizations, many companies still don’t have a plan for auditing and archiving instant messages.

Careers: IT Hiring Forecasts Still Too Close to Call

There’s little agreement about the prospectus for IT hiring—but there’s also little doubt that outsourcing is a hit

Testing the Waters: HP and SAP Launch Hosted ERP

The two partners will provide software, services, and support for less than $500 per user per month

IBM’s Mainframe Data Access Offering Is Moving on Up

Big Blue says its Classic Federation product boasts several advantages over existing mainframe data-access products

Alacritech: iSCSI’s Quiet Champion

The company's president and CEO helped create SCSI earlier in his career, and the company has since overcome some interesting technical challenges.

Outsourcing Survey, Part 3: What Gets Outsourced and Where It Goes

The results of the 2004 Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Survey are in. In the third article of our series, we look at what functions are outsourced. While application development is at the top of the list, we found a surprisingly large number of companies are outsourcing all IT functions.

In Brief

Antivirus and browser vulnerabilities, unsubscribe may be unwise

Evoke Partners for Data Quality

Data profiling stalwart taps Similarity Systems to provide much-needed data quality capabilities

Google Desktop Search Tool Raises Security Concerns

Free hard-drive indexing utility raises corporate security and privacy questions

Microsoft CRM: An Overnight Sensation

Microsoft’s CRM suite is less than two years old, but it’s already being used by 1,600 customers

XQuery Use Grows Despite Lack of Finalized Standard

After over five years in the making, the XML Query language standard is still missing in action