Features & News


New Imperative for Business Intelligence

While many large companies began installing enterprise resource planning systems several years ago, the push for Y2K systems remediation, combined with the cost-effectiveness of shared information over the Internet has prompted smaller companies to begin building their own. This growing interest has vendors rushing to find their niche.

Be Prepared: How to Deal with the Suprises That Are Going to Happen to Your Data Warehouse Project

Suprise! You thought that your little warehousing project was going to move along without a hitch. Well, guess again.

Data Mining Growth Reflects Strategic Mission

IDC predicts a 23 percent annual growth in the data warehousing tools market. This article presents strategies in data mining, developed by IBM and SAS Institute, as well as up-and-comers NeoVista Software and HNC Software.

Cross-Platform Information Sharing

Heralded as the “Holy Grail of IT,” cross-platform information sharing actually has more to do with the security, integration and transaction of the data and less to do with simply providing users with common access.

Enterprise Storage Battle Shifts to Storage Managment, SANs

In the battle for the hearts and IT budgets of enterprise users, storage vendors are moving beyond the issue of sheer capacity to the more compelling value propositions of storage management and storage area networks.



May Industry News

CA to Acquire PLATINUM technology, Compaq and Polaris Partnership Improves SNA Traffic Patterns, Web-Hosted Y2K Analysis, SAP–RS/6000 Performance Plan, TrackIT.

The Enemies Within: Building a Multi-Layered System Security

Today’s trend toward enterprisewide information sharing has network administrators scrambling to “build a better mousetrap.” This solution presents blueprints for building a seven-layer security system within your own network neighborhood.

Data Profiling: The First Step in Creating a Data Warehouse

No matter what form of data conversion project your organization is involved in, the methods can be time-consuming and a little risky. But one thing is for certain: The critical first step in data migration is data profiling.

Business Metadata: The End Users’ Roadmap Through the Data Warehouse

As an organization’s data warehouse grows and changes, managing the volumes of data stored in the warehouse becomes increasingly complex, paving the way for metadata and metadata management

"Web" in the House

Web-enabling a data warehouse has a seductive lure. In this article, David Cook explores the strategic challenges that face businesses and navigates through integration, analysis, structuring and reporting to reach the next level of data retrieval.

Drill Down: Beyond the Relational Database

Beyond the Relational Database

April Industry News

Amdahl's Multi-Server Feature; Isogon's SoftAudit; CorVu Enhances Business Performance with IBM; Cisco's Channel Program; Elron Year 2000 Kknowledgebase

Your Security Umbrella Integrating Encryption, Authentication and Access Control

The trend toward greater local and remote interconnectedness is driving the development of more sophisticated security and management solutions. Doing some home-work can really pay off when finding a security solution that falls under one easy-to-use, flexible management umbrella.

Euro Change: The United Kingdom: Sitting Out the Euro Dance for Now

United Kingdom: Sitting Out the Euro Dance for Now

A Search and Deploy Mission, Part 2

In the conclusion of this two-part article, tips and techniques of software defect investigation and resolution are discussed.

Time-Sensitive BI Determines Competitive Advantages

Companies in industries that were handcuffed with only syndicated data have discoverd reservoirs of data within their own organizations, but are struggling with how to extract and use it. Business Intelligence systems that recognize and prioritize critical data can give companies the competitive edge they crave in their race against time.

BI Blues

BI Blues