Enterprise


Big-Company Intelligence

For large enterprises that want better business intelligence without the high cost and management headaches of an in-house solution, hosted business intelligence might be the answer.

Planning Skills

A recent <a href="http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=179" target="_blank">news item</a> predicting a mainframe skills shortage that we ran in our twice-weekly Enterprise Strategies e-mail newsletter generated a strong response from readers.

Portals Pay Off

After all the hype from application server vendors in 2001, portals have finally landed firmly on solid, enterprise ground.

Portals

Although the portal market dates back to just 1997, it’s already matured to the point where few independent portal software vendors remain. Large infrastructure, content management and packaged applications vendors—even Microsoft—are fighting over this market.

Wireless Looms Large

The more wireless matures, the more promise it offers. But corporate wireless adoption is facing a classic chicken-and-egg quandary.

Mainframe Shops Eye Web Services

Web services are still in the infant-to-toddler stages. But ultimately, just about any mainframe or host-centric application will be fair game for the technologies.



Choosing the Portal View

Managing its own internal portal project, Perficient Inc. came away with a deep understanding of the ins—and outs—of portals.

Wanted: A Host That Serves Reliability

Despite high-profile blowouts, managed service providers succeed at selling their high-availability message to large enterprises.

SAN Vendors Cooperate? Ha!

Ever wonder what would happen if a truly open, standards-based, highly manageable and intelligent Storage Area Network (SAN) appeared in the market? While the idea is a wishful dream for enterprise managers, it's a nightmare for storage vendors.

UnitedLinux Teams Up

Unified Codebase

WRQ Refreshes Web-to-Host Product

Now Supports Active Directory

Giga Predicts Flat Spending for Year

Application Servers Up