IMPERATIVE 8
Through IT systems and services, facilitate stronger intra-organizational communication and collaboration.
R U Compliant?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance is nothing if not a real-time challenge. Creating a good information flow among potentially hundreds of stakeholders requires a new influx of technology, including solutions based on instant messaging.
by
Stewart McKie
The Collaborative Effect
New business strategies and processes are putting pressure on IT to produce real-time information. Some of the most valuable stuff is held in manufacturing execution and plant processing systems. Integrating these resources is hard -- but competitive business value is the reward.
by
Michael McClellan
Service-Oriented Architecture, Part ll: Leveraging The Legacy
Expensive, dysfunctional integration stymies efforts to gain full value from generations of investment in application systems. By supporting end-to-end business processes, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to bridge foreign software lands.
by
Robert Eisenberg
Less With Less
Spend management is the latest supply-chain buzz - for good reason. But has the pendulum swung too far?
by
Ram Reddy
To Boldly Go
What has IT learned from the evolution in use of personal digital assistants (PDAs)? What are the key issues going forward? As users grow to depend on PDAs, IT must rise to the challenge.
by
Richard Hoffman
Service-Oriented Architecture: The Future is Now
This practical guide to the new era of "synthesized" computing tells you how to make applications that connect software artifacts in a flexible, logical fashion to streamline daily business processes.
by
Robert Eisenberg
Collateral Damage
Spam is bad, but spam filters have become a menace in the supply chain.
by
Ram Reddy
Collaborate to Innovate
How can IT advance making innovation a core competency? Key to your success is collaboration: Find out what inventive software providers are doing to support collaborative ingenuity.
by
Stewart McKie
Practical Tools for New Ideas
Innovation is the wellspring of prosperity. This second part of a series looks at products that help spur new ideas - and prevent them from dying on the vine.
by
Stewart McKie
Companies to Watch 2004
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by Michelle M. Young
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
Let Innovation Thrive
Perhaps no ingredient is more important to business success than innovation. How can your organization deploy knowledge and information management to enable it to thrive throughout the enterprise?
by Stewart McKie
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards: The Intelligent Enterprise Dozen
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by David Stodder
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
Smart Synergy
With real-time business becoming a key objective, the worlds of enterprise application integration (EAI) and business intelligence (BI) are converging. What will it take to forge the most perfect union?
by David S. Linthicum
The Word on Text Mining
Text analytics provide concept discovery, automated classification, and innovative displays for volumes of unstructured documents.
by Seth Grimes
Web Services: It's About Connections
What do Web services really mean for your organization? The most important effect will be a blurring of internal and external services, spurring a need for new architecture. Thanks to competition, the result will be higher-quality software carried by connected services
by Douglas K. Barry
Sharing Leads to Abundance
The three types of knowledge workers differ, but all need transparency
by Don Tapscott
Shared Risk, Shared Rewards
Why is homeland security driving IT innovation? The risks of terrorism endanger both public and private sectors, and privacy concerns must still be satisfied. But potential rewards through collaborative ventures are coming clear
by Seth Grimes
