In-Depth Features


Giving applications a voice

Most agree that speech technologies still have a long way to go, but IT managers should not ignore some interesting applications emerging from a variety of sources; waiting for Hal.

USAToday.com puts XML to work at the editor's desk

Editors at USAToday.com use the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and other software tools to scan stories and automatically compose headlines, write summaries of the content and list 10 keywords for search engines.

Q&A: Some notes on UML 2.0

Jack Vaughan talks with Rational Software's Grady Booch.

IT still looks for offshore help

Global conflicts and a flagging economy prompt added study, but experts say the benefits still outweigh the risks.

The elements of Web services

What you need to know about standards, technologies and implementations.

Five emerging technologies to watch

In which we tender some views on hot technology trends and offer some thoughts on how to predict their paths to success.

Can IT developers work together?

Collaboration requires a change in developer attitudes, but experts say an emerging union of open source and proprietary mindsets are making CIOs take notice.

Richard Soley, OMG: On modelers, code generation, Web services and CORBA

ADT's Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan talks with the OMG's Richard Soley.

A new component realism emerges

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.

Aligning IT and business goals

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.