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.
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.
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.
Given the lawsuits and general bad blood between Microsoft and Sun, most people are not banking on anything breaking on the .NET and Java integration front anytime soon.
A list of Web sights providing frameworks and libraries to help you build your own tests.
A single point of corporate access to structured and unstructured data appeals to cautious IT managers. This demand is attracting the attention of IBM, Sun and Microsoft developers.
The company started life with the Tuxedo transaction monitor, then its WebLogic Java application server redefined the middleware market. Now BEA Systems will seek to entice a broader group of developers to work with Java.
Microsoft and others champion the coexistence of legacy CORBA and emerging Web services standards. Like COBOL, CORBA has become a part of the foundation of many IT shops.
There has been an explosion in the demand for wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies that is driving growth in newer wireless markets, such as health care, education and corporate office space.
The use of wireless applications in the world of IT still hasn't met the optimistic projections of the late '90s; but analysts still insist that increasing worker mobility makes a corporate spread of wireless inevitable.