Features & News


IT Spending: Following the Money

Business leaders are focusing on strategic technologies, including BI, Web-based apps, and vertical solutions

Google Courts Business Intelligence Players

Business Objects and IBI hop on Google’s OneBox Enterprise Bandwagon

Informatica’s Software-as-a-Service Gambit

Hail Mary or Hail Abbasi: Is Informatica’s come-to-SaaS moment a case of a vendor leading the market by its nose?

SAS Jumps Into the Performance Management Fray

SAS’ PM platform release gathers together—under one big proverbial tent—several PM products it has marketed for years.

Herding CA(T)S Caringo Launches Software-Only CAS Solution

The fur will fly as Centera flaws are exposed

Test Your Knowledge of Broadband Use

Match your knowledge with In-Stat’s latest broadband report.

Q&A: Achieving More Value from Enterprise Applications

From SOA-enabled versions of third-party applications to SOA toolkits, we examine how to gain more value from your enterprise applications.



Best Practices for Effective URL Filtering and Monitoring

Employee abuse of an organization’s Internet access -- from running outcall services to illicitly selling a company’s products on eBay -- illustrate URL filtering and monitoring issues. Enterprises cite inappropriate content, productivity concerns, and lost bandwidth as reasons to monitor their employees’ Web use.

Worker Shortage May Stymie Strong Mainframe Growth

What Big Iron shops of all sizes have to say about the future of the mainframe is encouraging—to say the least

Integration Key in CA’s Approach to Change Management

CA says it has developed a change management product family the integrated whole of which is much greater than the sum of its parts

Analysis: Enterprise Applications Giant Introduces a Mid-tier Support Choice

Many market observers might yawn at SAP’s recent Premium Support announcement, but users increasingly appreciate more choice and certainty, and may take notice of what the market leader is trying to do with this middle-of-the-road support option.

CIOs Lack Content Control; Spyware Guns for SMBs

Are content management systems up to SOX compliance? Also, how spyware affects small and medium-size businesses.

TDWI Conference Kernels: a Data Strategy Survival Guide

If your company lacks a data strategy, can you really reap the benefits of business intelligence?

Enterprise Information Integration: Lead-Pipe Cinch or Pipe Dream?

Is EII a lead-pipe cinch or a lead-pipe dream?

Exeros Touts an Rx for Metadata Babel

How can companies automate the heavy lifting of metadata integration and entrust the rest to domain experts who really know the data?

IBM Acquires Yet Another Business Intelligence ISV

Unicorn’s technology will help beef up the SOA and MDM capabilities of Big Blue’s WebSphere and Rational product families.

Podcast: Managing Availability

How to maximize system availability in a Web-enabled environment

Behind Big Blue’s SOA/Mainframe Blitz

Big Blue announced initiatives to help programmers and ISVs get that old-time mainframe religion

SOA, BPM and Model-driven Development: Creating the Perfect IT Storm

BPM is both a management discipline and a technology platform; modeling complements -- and is a critical aspect of -- a larger BPM strategy.

Careers: The Vanishing Vacation

If you want to make the most of your vacation, you should be working in a Big Iron shop.