February 16, 1998
CA Shakes Up Services
Enterprise Management: Disillusionment
Component Integration
Audit Tools Pay Off
Suite Helps Companies Link Sales, Marketing
Broadband Services
IBM Storage For Unix, NT
NT Migration Help
Services Driven
Taking Stock: Put Setbacks In Perspective
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IBM Storage For Unix, NT
Mainframe products cross platforms.
HP Boosts PC Clusters
NetServers to limit unplanned downtime.
NT
Migration Help
Automotive supplier picks VAN reseller for 60-site conversion.
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.
Taking Stock: Put Setbacks In Perspective
Even the most well-run technology companies, like ADC Telecommunications, will sometimes have problems
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