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Best practices rule at Weston

In an effort to streamline its expense reporting process, reduce turnaround times and save money, Weston Solutions Inc., an environment and redevelopment firm in West Chester, Pa., embarked on its first Web-based, enterprise-wide transactional application rollout.

ETL tools still seeking a niche

Toolmakers hope real-time features, Web services, XML and more can bring extract, transform and load tools to the data warehousing masses.

Briefing Book: Java passes endurance tests

It is not the new kid on the block but Java is proving time tested, and worthy of continued investigation.

Briefing Book: Service-Oriented Architecture

Web services without forethought could prove to be a mess. Enter SOA.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Managing Web services

Insufficient standards and increasing complexity are slowing efforts to tame the Web services monster; management tools are slow to emerge.

The Skeptical Examiner: Some notes on Linux

A comparison of the evolution and impact of Java and Linux.

B2B comes back on a smaller scale

A new, scaled-back B2B vision is emerging from the failed grand vision of dot-com revolutionaries. Austere consortia-run and privately run exchanges are finding small successes.

Toolmakers embrace XML

Veteran and start-up developers use XML in a variety of next-generation tools. Experts expect business to be volatile for some time.

Managing IT in 2003

If you act smart, you can do more than survive, you can help ready the business for new opportunities.

Book Review: 'Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering'

Truths and falsehoods from the world of development.

Project management tools: A new look

A new generation of tools takes on portfolio management, best practices, collaborative development and other tasks.

XML content creation: Danger ahead?

A look at creating XML-ready content.

A sampling of project management tools

Project management tools listed with features and capabilities.

ETL beats at the heart of BI

A look at the relationship between ETL and business intelligence.

Can SOA bring out Web services' potential?

A preview of the cover story on SOA and web services.

Product Briefs

Rundown of new products.

XP lessons learned

Extreme Programming veterans share their experiences using the 'lightweight' methodology to build applications for a client.

Principles of SOA

If Web services are to reach the ''next level,'' IT must adopt loosely coupled, standards-based Service-Oriented Architectures. A new perspective on the role of IT.