Software


Cloaking Assets With Identity-Level Firewalls

New technology lets you hide and verify network identity inside the packets themselves.

Hyperion and Deloitte Tout Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Offering

New solution consolidates information from different sources—including financial applications and internal controls—into a single dashboard view.

Security Briefs: Two Protocol Vulnerabilities Disclosed

TCP vulnerability exploit found in the wild; buffer overflow weakness uncovered in Microsoft PCT protocol

American E-business Struggles with Global Fraud

Forty percent of U.S. credit card fraud traced to handful of criminals from just five foreign countries; risk of punishment not a deterrent

Q&A: A Closer Look at Enterprise Budgeting and Planning Tools

Enterprise planning needs to provide CFOs enough reaction time to respond to problems. Spreadsheets are cumbersome and don't provide a good corporate overview. So what tools should planners use?

Siebel and Teradata Form Analytics Alliance

Companies say users of Siebel’s analytical applications can more efficiently get at the massive amounts of data stored in a Teradata warehouse



The Key to Optimal Outsourcing

Outsourcing can bring lower costs and increased levels of service, but be sure your Service Level Agreement is part of your contract.

Q&A: BMC on IBM's Candle Acquisition, Licensing Costs, and Cost of Ownership Issues

BMC's director of its MainView product discusses IBM's takeover of Candle, plus getting the best value from licensing

Enterprise Grid Alliance Premieres, Meets Resistance

Twenty industry members say alliance will encourage and accelerate the development of grid solutions for the data center through interoperability solutions

All Systems Go for IT Spending

International Data Corp. reports the first meaningful increase in IT spending since 2000—mostly in the western U.S.

IT Briefs: SAP Components, Manugistics’ Strategy Summit

Catalyst's visionary ComponentsNow marketplace for SAP users; Manugistics updates its progress on strategies announced at last year’s Envision conference, plus insight into company's view of its market

IBM's New zSeries Attracts Midsize Market with Lower Cost, Greater Scalability

Big Blue continues its push of entry-level mainframes into midsize companies with aggressive pricing, 28 capacity levels

The End of Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster recovery planning must become an integral part of application development so the right middleware and coding choices are made at the outset of system design.

Salesforce.com Unveils CRM Update

Highlights of the latest release include support for WebSphere and Lotus notes, improved sales lead management, and improved calendaring from the hosted CRM vendor.

Disabling Rogue WLAN Access

Detect, then actively block, unauthorized WLAN users

Celequest: The Dashboard is Key

Company replaces Excel with a new dashboard in its Activity Suite, its business activity monitoring software.