07/01/2002
Top 100 Power Picks
It's your turn. In this year's annual Enterprise Systems Power 100 issue, we threw the selection process open to readers and widened our focus to companies, products and technologies. Check out who and what your peers in large systems voted the best and worst, the most over-hyped and wrongly ignored, most credible and least promising—and most boring topics in the enterprise today. We a
Web services—one of the latest waves in business and technology—is closer to reality now that we almost have an agreed-upon security framework: Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML). It may soon be possible for companies to use Web services securely.
In many respects, the past decade could be called the "Big-Box" era—when big-box stores and big-box cars came to dominate our landscape. The computer industry went the other way—to very small boxes.
Facing security challenges? Staff shortages? Worried about replacing retiring mainframe programmers and analysts? You're not the only one. When we asked readers in our annual survey for this issue to name the top challenge your IT organization faces in the next 12 months, those were some of the responses we heard over and over.
Laying off part (or all) of the IT staff is the toughest job an IT manager will face in his or her career. That’s what 403 enterprise systems professionals told us in our “ES Power 100” reader survey.
In keeping with the theme of this issue of Enterprise Systems, I proudly present my selections for the best (and worst) storage products of 2001-2002.
A look at top influencers, forces, technologies and products in large enterprise computing.
A look at top influencers, forces, technologies and products in large enterprise computing.
Office Depot needed to massage sales data for employee bonuses, with minimal IT involvement.