InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology

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News In Review
February 16, 1998

Highlights
  • Top of the Week
    CA Shakes Up Services

  • Trends
    Enterprise Management: Disillusionment

  • Application Development
    Component Integration

  • Intranet/Internet
    Audit Tools Pay Off

  • Software
    Suite Helps Companies Link Sales, Marketing

  • Networking
    Broadband Services

  • Hardware
    IBM Storage For Unix, NT

  • Channel Strategies
    NT Migration Help

  • IT Management
    Services Driven

  • Financials
    Taking Stock: Put Setbacks In Perspective
  • Top Of
The Week

    CA Shakes Up Services
    Company's $9B offer for CSC is yet another move away from vendor-neutral services.

    FedEx Moves Away From NC Approach
    Courier focuses on Windows-centric strategy with PCs and terminals.

    Next Level For Hitachi
    Mainframe group plans 1999 shipment of 1 billion-instructions-per-second system.

    Baan To Release Component Line
    BaanSeries to offer ERP functionality in pieces rather than as a single large app.

    Support For Online Transactions
    Great Plains to ship E-business suite.

    IBM Sets Business Intelligence Push
    Products and services being readied for data warehousing, other decision support.

    Java Speeds Up On Servers
    Products could help platform scale.

    XML Becomes A Standard; Vendors Ready Products
    Language likely to boost E-commerce, ease Web searches.

    Simpler Desktop Management
    Novell software uses NDS as repository to centralize processes.

    Reuters Unit Prepares Integration Suite
    Active Enterprise software fills gap in integration offering.

    Top of the Page


    Trends

    Enterprise Management: Disillusionment
    Is the promise of enterprise management software too good to be true? Gartner Group says 70% of these packages fail to be fully implemented--even after three years of work. Here's what's behind this massive case.

    Top of the Page


    Application
Development

    Component Integration
    Microsoft, OMG, Sun prepare to update object standards.

    XML Connects Browser To Server Data
    The XML standard is linking server-side data with client-side presentation.

    Dynamic HTML Invigorates The Desktop
    Netscape Communications and Microsoft are charging forward with efforts to make browser interfaces as interactive and programmable as their desktop cousins.

    MQSeries Scales Transaction Performance
    Version 5 of IBM's message queueing technolo gy delivers significant boost.

    New Life For Legacy Code With Component Mining
    RescueWare from Relativity eases code conversion.

    Synon Adds Java-Code Generation To Environment
    Obsydian 3.0 for Windows NT, AS/400 supports 32-bits.

    Top of the Page


    Intranet/Internet

    Audit Tools Pay Off
    Companies report gains in customer satisfaction, traffic, and ad revenue from measurement.tools

    Be nefits By Extranet
    Bentana software package lets companies share data with benefit-management firms.

    Ad Banners Get Orders
    Narrative software keeps buyers on site.

    Decentralized Publishing
    Intranet products make posting easy.

    Top of the Page


    Software

    Suite Helps Companies Link Sales, Marketing
    Bundle allows users to integrate data on customers.

    End-To-End Product Provides Service-Level Management
    Empirical examines compliance issues.

    Borland Adds Feature-Packed Release Of C++Builder
    RAD workbench supports Microsoft's MFC class libraries and ATL frameworks.

    Top of the Page


    Networking

    Broadband Services
    Three MediaOne services tailored to connect business partners.

    Web Server Gatekeeper
    Tool metes out specific data.

    WRQ Offe rs Windows Desktops Access To Unix
    NT Server add-on taps Unix systems running NFS protocol.

    Top of the Page


    Hardware

    IBM Storage For Unix, NT
    Mainframe products cross platforms.

    HP Boosts PC Clusters
    NetServers to limit unplanned downtime.

    Top of the Page


    Channel
Strategies

    NT Migration Help
    Automotive supplier picks VAN reseller for 60-site conversion.

    Top of the Page


    IT
Management

    Services Driven
    Amdahl sees DMR Consulting unit as engine of growth beyond mainframes.

    Unilever's Direct Approach
    The international conglomerate reaps benefits from an X.500 directory that links its computing resources.

    Top of the Page


    Financials

    Taking Stock: Put Setbacks In Perspective
    Even the most well-run technology companies, like ADC Telecommunications, will sometimes have problems

    Top of the Page


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