Realists dismiss noise surrounding J2EE and .NET to concentrate on more important hurdles on the road to a true distributed component model -- like licensing, reuse, testing and Web services.
Align IT and business goals through the use of common metrics and performance indicators to get both sides of the "technology divide" speaking the same language.
How do you build and manage great teams?
Not all teams are alike, so the solutions they may choose to enhance collaboration can be as varied as the teams themselves.
This is something of a hardscrabble era in which "technology vision" takes a back seat to practical accomplishment. Still, the idea of tighter, low-latency app integration holds promise.
Organizations can avoid missteps by first selecting the right storage model for a project: a DBMS, a content management system or a native XML store.
A look at how four organizations handled their data warehouse implememtations.
Articles concerning the value of data warehouse systems, as well as the tools and technologies used to build, implement and maintain them.
TDWI estimates that data-quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion each year. But new strategic initiatives, such as CRM, business intelligence and supply-chain management are sounding a wake-up call to top executives. Many are learning the hard way that data-quality problems can sabotage the best laid
strategies and expose errors to a much broader, and critical, external audience.
Articles concerning the value of data warehouse systems, as well as the tools and technologies used to build, implement and maintain them.
A guide to available data warehousing products on the market.
Editor-in-Chief Mike Bucken provides some impartial insight into the value of data warehouse systems and the
tools and technologies used to build, implement and maintain them.
As testing responsibilities shift from software engineers to non-programmers, toolmakers scramble to simplify and integrate tools used for different stages of the testing process.
A listing of some of the testing tools available on the market.
Software testing champions quietly acknowledge that some organizations have yet to accept the need for automated software testing, and are expressing hope that an emerging transformation of the testing process will bring more
developers into the fold.
Need a portal standard? Relief may be in sight with the emergence of Web services and the work of the industry group OASIS, which is
attempting to define a standard, Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP), that
will allow the plug-and-play of visual, user-facing Web services with portals or
other intermediary Web applications.
Using components as part of a Web services architecture is a much younger concept, and one that most shops are not yet employing on a mission-critical basis.
Component-based apps are only as good as the weakest link; testing can ensure the health of components no matter where they end up.