Finally, a reasonable alternative to Microsoft Outlook's abysmally-slow search has arrived.
This long-time Oracle tool has been ported to SQL Server, and offers plenty of power for the DBA and developer.
Practical uses of XML, Web services, Java and other technologies in the service of practical applications that help businesses, government agencies and the people they serve are key trends emerging from ADT's 2004 Innovator Awards.
DirectSkin provides an easy way to spiff up your application's user interface. As long as you can use COM controls, the code to do so it almost trivial.
Noel-Levitz is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Tools & Technologies category.
The Directorate of Medical Materiel for the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the E-business Application Development category.
The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) provides access to its front-line services via a Web services-based, data-exchange layer.
Montgomery County Children Services is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Application Management and Deployment category.
The EPA's Office of Technology, Operations and Policy is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Processes & Practices category.
Fairfax County Public Schools is ADT's Innovator Awards Winner in the Web Services category.
It's a stretch to say that XML is a leap forward in managing text on par with say moveable type, but the adoption of a lingua franca for markup is a significant milestone. All it needs to fulfill the promise of making the Web the next leap in the evolution of libraries is an indexing system as effective for XML as the Roman catalogs were for parchment scrolls and codices (precursors to modern-day books).
The U.S. Army's Community and Family Support Center is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Processes & Practices category.
LexisNexis is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Tools & Technologies category.
CompuCredit is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Web Services category.
The very early unveiling of Longhorn and its related tools is forcing organizations to evaluate key technologies that are still three or more years away. Is it worth the time and effort?
According to David Anderson, author of "Agile Management for Software Engineering," it's not that software engineers aren't working hard enough. It's that the software engineering management techniques we are using are so poor.
Alcan Inc. is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Middleware and Application Integration category.
Mesa County Valley School District #51 is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the E-business Application Development category.
Paymentech is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Application Management and Deployment category.