A proposed standard for querying structured and un-structured data has been a long time coming
IBM, Oracle, BEA, and others elbow into burgeoning EII market, but no single vendor offers complete EII solution
Resistance to process change, not inadequate funding, is largest obstacle in CRM implementations
Cognos updates Series 7, data quality system DataFuse gets usability release, Advizor ships updated data visualization software, and Decision Point releases a new financial reporting compliance tool
This year, as security incidents meet last year's level, e-mail administrators will finally fight back against spam and companies will kiss their first-generation intrusion detection systems (IDS) goodbye. Those are just a few of the trends in Boston-based analyst firm Aberdeen Group's security predictions for 2003.
IT managers craving a simple way to trade compressed and encrypted files usable on almost any platform, take note. PKWare Inc. recently announced a range of compression products that can trade “zipped” files with 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)—an encryption algorithm—across a range of operating systems, including Windows, Unix, MVS and AS/400.
Avoid these weak spots in your Web applications.
Akamai uses massive parallelism to reach end users globally.
Sprint's new data mining system yields rich stores of customer information.
Managing and mining corporate information is a huge challenge...but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Storage vendors join together
Scrubbing your data too soon or too late is a waste of effort—plan carefully to make your quality checks at the right time.
Republicans just might have an IT edge in Washington—wireless e-computing technology that lets senators and staff check on the latest developments via PDA.
Business intelligence is really about answering questions, not about providing better information. To get started, you should ask four questions about any business intelligence project ...
We all have times when we put off tasks until the last minute. It's called procrastination, and it's generally considered a habit to avoid. But there are situations in life—and in data warehousing—in which it's actually smart to wait until the last minute. I call that healthy procrastination.
The rise in e-business makes it more important than ever to get a grip on your Web-based information assets. New tools can help you manage your Web content.
If you read the trade magazines, you’ve seen an endless stream of information and opinion about data warehouses, data marts and operational data stores. But what about staging areas—the forgotten data store?
Many well-respected analysts and academics claim Linux will never become a major industry force, but try telling that to the folks at Seton Hall University, and reactions will likely range from raised eyebrows to quiet bemusement. Why? Because, after extensive analysis and reporting, Seton Hall has overhauled its network and launched itself into the 21st century, using Linux as its primary OS.
Just as financial planners manage monetary assets, so should IT managers manage technological assets. The plan is simple: Identify the corners where inefficiencies and underutilized assets lurk, and form a solution that ultimately results in higher cost-savings. Here are some solid suggestions to get you started.
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) found itself in the middle of an application conflagration when new, Oracle-based applications refused to share desktop space with older, internally-developed applications. GTRI considered several options to help the applications learn to coexist, but, eventually, turned to Chicago-Soft's WALLS implementation that allows GTRI to create packages, identify conflicts and insulate executables, simplifying the overall software-deployment process.