Enterprise


Equant Goes Global

A world-class system for multinational IP and data support.

When Should You Clean Warehoused Data?

Scrubbing your data too soon or too late is a waste of effort—plan carefully to make your quality checks at the right time.



Software Asset Management

Increasing numbers of organizations are turning to Software Asset Management (SAM) to help manage and control their software costs

Big Iron Pays Big

Annual Salary Survey: IT managers with mainframe and large Unix-based systems skills earn as much as 20 percent more than those in Wintel-based positions.

Software Asset Management

The price of software has risen dramatically, especially for large systems. Today, software costs can quickly consume the average IT budget. That's why increasing numbers of organizations are turning to Software Asset Management (SAM) to help manage and control their software costs. Yet according to IDC, less than half of 250 companies it recently surveyed actively practice asset management.

Security Angst

Enterprise managers, your end users are teenagers now; they’re running amok and defying authority simply because they can. They’re doing it subtly by playing on the Internet and by obscuring their non-business use of your systems, and aggressively by destroying property when disgruntled. Ignoring these threats from within will only encourage them.

Shipshape E-business

Even today, storms and other factors make predicting ship arrivals an inexact science. That means data that tracks ship movements is golden, especially if your business depends on it.

Golden Touch

In an outlandish and swanky annual ceremony said to rival the Oscars, The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences makes an effort to recognize the best of the Web. Despite their tone, the Webbies aren't all fun and frolic.

Senate Mobilizes Politicos

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.

Web Services the Microsoft Way

With .NET, Microsoft offers perhaps the most comprehensive Web services product announced so far. But what is it really, and what might be its impact on your enterprise?