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Editorial: ADT Innovator Awards, Take 10

Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken notes some highlights of ADT's 10th annual Innovator Awards issue.

Q&A: Best of breed? It depends

Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken recently spoke with Mike Gilpin, VP and research director at Forrester Research Inc., about the state of development tools. This Q&A is part of our ongoing coverage on the State of Tools. For more, please go to http://www.adtmag.com/webextra.asp.

XO Communications warehouse streamlines billing, more

XO Communications is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence category.

XML tools: Who knows where or when?

Depending on the nature and scope of the roject, it is a good bet to start with existing tools, see what XML features they have and go from there.

FleetBoston banks on business intelligence benefits

FleetBoston is ADT's Innovator Awards Honorable Mention in the Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence category.

Innovator Awards 2004: Risk Takers Triumph

Application Development Trends awards Innovator Awards to IT development organizations undertaking risky projects utilizing innovative technologies and/or processes aimed at solving a pressing business problem.

.NET controls set to go

NetAdvantage 2004 Volume 1 is a best-of-breed suite of proven presentation layer .NET, ASP.NET and COM controls from a solid company where developer input strongly influences new product development.

WebFACTS lets Ohio county focus on the kids

Montgomery County Children Services is ADT's Innovator Awards winner in the Application Management and Deployment category.

Review: Graphics Server .NET

Graphics Server .NET provides a 100% managed code graphing package that works on both Windows forms and WebForms.

Review: MMM-Experts

An inexpensive Visual Studio .NET add-in brings a few useful tools to the IDE.

Product briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Review: MindManager

MindManager is an excellent brainstorming tool that can share data across a variety of programs and platforms.

Review: RapTier

RapTier provides fast template-based code generation for .NET applications, enabling you to go from a database to Windows or Web forms very quickly.

The State of Tools

In recent years, tools have taken something of a back seat to languages, platforms and technology. We thought it seemed like high time to ask a roundtable of experts if tools continue to matter.

Portals opening up

A few elements defined the first app servers. Now vendors are moving up the stack, and including easier to program portals in the mix. They adhere to Java standards, to boot!

The changing world of SCM

Once limited to software development, more and more firms are discovering that change management tools and processes can work across the enterprise.

Review: ILOG Gantt for .NET

A very well-done specialized charting control for .NET, ILOG Gantt for .NET features some of the best design and supporting documentation of any .NET control.

Review: Telelogic SYNERGY

SYNERGY provides enterprise-level change management and configuration managment with innovative features.

Briefing: WinINSTALL 8

More features for administrators and a new standalone version for developers confirm WinINSTALL's place as a leading software packaging and distribution application.

Review: CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET

CodeRush offers an innovative way to minimize your typing in Visual Studio .NET, as well as functional eye candy to improve the IDE. Definitely worth a look to keyboard-oriented developers.