IMPERATIVE 4
Realize the value of all operational IT investments through integration and analysis aimed at delivering business advantage.
Solving the Last Mile
Expect some final roadblocks when trying to expose your enterprise systems as services.
by
David S. Linthicum
Fast Forward
High-performance computing: It's finally moving out of science labs and into enterprise decision-making.
by
Seth Grimes
Keys to the Database
Please stay on that side of the database.
by
Joe Celko
Caught in a Crossfire
For IT, managing service delivery is a delicate balance that requires ever greater intelligence.
by
Frank J. Bernhard
Spotlight: Highlights from talks with IT strategists
Spotlight: Highlights from talks with IT strategists
by
Mark J. Smith
The Land Beyond Transactions
Led by RFID and enterprise metadata, new streams of information are in place to move businesses past the traditional world of analyzing only transaction data. Location analytics and metadata mining are key fields to watch.
by
Stewart McKie
Performing ETL With SQL
Who needs an engine? Not Sunopsis V3, which employs SQL to bring a fresh approach to ETL.
by
Ganesh Variar
(Re)Enter the Leader?
Informatica PowerCenter 7.0 takes an ambitious development path to regain data integration leadership.
by
Rajan Chandras
BI Scorecard: The Best BI Tool
Vendor demos often obscure architectural differences between BI suites. Yet, as our BI Scorecard series concludes, you dare not overlook them.
by
Cindi Howson
Execution Systems: The Heart of Intelligent Manufacturing
Steadily evolving over two decades, the manufacturing execution system (MES) now plays a central role in achieving manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness. The MES also commands potentially valuable sources of information for strategic business applications that feed on enterprisewide intelligence.
by
Michael McClellan
A Year in Perspective
A look back at the news of 2003 and a projection of trends in 2004
by Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards
Business intelligence, performance management, and all forms of integration are the dominant requirements addressed by the 12 IT solution providers that make up our supreme list for 2004.
by David Stodder, Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young
Companies to Watch 2004
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by Michelle M. Young
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards: The Intelligent Enterprise Dozen
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by David Stodder
The Portal Reborn
Process management's evolution, supported by recent technology advances, gives IT good reason to look again at what kind of portal will deliver the most value to users. Here are the best practices to help you succeed
by Mark M. Davydov
SOA: The Process Development Paradigm
Leaving software development's dysfunctional legacy behind, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is gathering momentum as the paradigm for developing process management applications. Using Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 as an example, here's a look at how SOA works
by Ira Fuchs
The Composite View
How Documentum allayed its data management problem and cleared the way for future growth
by Amit Asaravala
Integration Rising
Integration is pervasive throughout all levels of enterprise development
by Michael J. Hudson
BSP First-to-Market Opportunity
Many businesses are taking advantage of the Web services architecture to become business service providers (BSPs). Before jumping headfirst onto the BSP bandwagon, it's important to understand, articulate, locate, and pilot your service offering. Here's how.
by Stewart McKie
Real Time, Realistically
Your definition of real time has deep ramifications for business processes and the technologies that support them
by Philip Russom
