In-Depth Features


Unilever tangos to Sinfonia in Latin America

Unilever Latin America believed there had to be a better way to track regional information and improve business performance.

How to Explain SOA to Your CIO

SOAs will help change how business and IT work together. It will take time, though. Meanwhile, here's what you want your CIO to know so that your company can move in the right direction.

Crosscutting Your Web Service Security

Learn to build a robust, flexible, and secure Web services architecture that leverages the .NET Framework''s existing capabilities and handles security as a crosscutting concern.

Strike up the band

Application development, integration and deployment environments are converging to address an emerging opportunity: Web services orchestration requirements.

The Java Security Landscape

Architects, developers, and IT managers must take collective responsibility for creating secure solutions. Exploit Java's language- and enterprise-level security features to build a secure environment.

Oops! Ford and Oracle mega-software project crumbles

In late August, Ford Motor Co. abandoned its Herculean effort to reach the summit of its five-year Everest Web purchasing project. Neither Ford nor Oracle, its partner, is talking, but according to analysts, while cost may have sounded the death knell, the real killers were poor design, integration issues and IT sprawl.

Longhorn debuts, but few pay attention

Software developers have only vague ideas of what Longhorn will offer, and conflicting opinions on whether those features will be valuable.

The basics of Longhorn

Longhorn will combine a new Windows platform with a new software development platform that expands on and, in some ways, changes the .NET Framework.

Fortune smiles on eBay’s Meg Whitman

Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina used to win top honors in Fortune magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list with the regularity with which a young Ali once KO’d opponents. But for the first time since the list debuted in 1998, there’s a new champion -- Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay is now “the most powerful woman in American business.”

A closer look at Kalido

The Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse was built on the premise that the business model is constantly changing. Because of this approach, the warehouse can provide consistent management information in very complex, multinational enterprises.

Resources for SOA

Check out these links for additional information on SOA.

Process fortifies software projects against failure

Employing standard best practices in a repeatable way is critical for building robust solutions that thrive.

XML lets loose the data stream

XML is here, but experts differ on whether it will bring evolutionary or revolutionary changes to database applications.

Advice to .NET newbies

Intellinet, an Atlanta-based Microsoft reseller that implements .NET in customer shops, provides users with some .NET advice.

What is a best practice?

Defining a best practice

Microsoft makes a play for Web services

Users are awaiting Visual Studio 2005. However, some question whether Microsoft can make inroads into the enterprise by insisting on all Windows, all the time.

Does my process need a face-lift?

Take the following quiz to see if your process is being implemented correctly.

Microsoft’s developer roadmap

Microsoft’s main message to those who haven’t yet implemented its development platform is that .NET is so integrated that software development is easier, less expensive and more productive than ever.

Business Performance Management puts rubber to the ground

BPM, the last untapped market for software automation, is gaining traction with enterprises seeking greater visibility into the business.

SarbOx puts BPM into reverse gear

Once the federal government clarifies the application of Section 409 rules, experts believe SarbOx will drive BPM initiatives in reverse.