A grid control for .NET that's so customizable that it would be almost overwhelming if not for all the great documentation and code samples.
Source code control features improve the team experience with this help and documentation tool.
SQL Deploy provides an easy way to upgrade SQL Server databases without losing customer data.
MindManager X5 Pro is a mature and flexible brainstorming tool that interchanges data with many other products.
A free monitoring application for SQL Server DBAs that packs quite a punch.
Software configuration management (SCM) is about to emerge from the shadows cast by supercool, hyperbole-laden IDEs.
Q&A with Dale Vecchio of Gartner Inc. on the resurgence of mainframes.
OmniView provides a serious tool for the power user who needs to work with SQL Server data.
Scouts Canada has installed a centralized database system with Web-based access to membership information.
Some new BI products on the market.
We speak with Jim Rhyne, a distinguished engineer and legacy modernization architect, based at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab.
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) helps execs to sift seas of changing data. But a move to BAM means taking on tough integration issues.
Experts such as Stephen Brobst say the overriding trend in data integration today is toward an Active Data Warehouse where event-based triggering occurs. But a mix of batch- and trickle-feeds will rule for quite a long time.
Grand unification efforts have historically fallen short because they were too rigid, but SOA shows flexibility and promise for integration.
Applying force field analysis to Web services shows that they provide the path of least resistance to integration goals.
The BPM supplier crowd is also doing deals -- technology and/or marketing -- to help their wares include more real-time features.
Server pages, both Active- and Java-type, using what many in the industry still call a portal, serve up the coolest view of integrated data. We recently took a peek inside the minds of a couple of portal partisans, from different points on a vast spectrum.
They said it was dead, but the mainstay IT platform is ambling into the modern era. The mantra for many shops now is to ‘refresh and renew.’
Even the most perfect BI system will flop unless project managers overcome individual and organizational resistance to change.