InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology

InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology
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May 25, 1998

Highlights

  • Trends
    2000 Beyond The Mainframe

  • Application Development
    Outside Help

  • Intranet/Internet
    Software For Rent

  • Software
    'Superglue' For Apps

  • Networking
    Management Plan

  • Hardware
    High-End Storage

  • IT Management
    Easy Integration

  • Financials
    Taking Stock: Catching Up With Rational
  • Top Of The Week

    Value Proposition
    Microsoft is pumping up its technology bundling strategy--even as the government takes issue. Customer reaction is mixed.

    Dell Keeps Soaring With Another Record Quarter
    PC vendor says it's now No. 2 in revenue.

    Rivals Of Web Businesses Fight Back
    Appliance makers balk; wine seller sued.

    Lotus To Add Real-Time Collaboration To Groupware
    Server will provide application-sharing.

    Clarify Moves Into Front-Office Suite
    Package integrates call-center, field-service, and sales-force automation apps.

    Oracle Debuts App Upgrade
    CEO Ellison touts Web-based design; customers cautious.

    64-Bit Solaris Enters Testing Phase
    Sun seeks to ensure that major software programs will support final version.

    TME 10 Upgrade Readied
    Tivoli builds in agents to do auto configuration

    Nuance Aims To Boost Voice Recognition In Apps
    Objects designed to cut development time.

    New Tools For Active Directory
    Entevo offers unified view of NT domains.

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    2000 Beyond The Mainframe
    PCs and servers are vulnerable to year 2000, too- and fixing them will cost IS managers plenty.

    Top of the Page


    Application
Development

    Outside Help
    Outsourcing application development can let companies deal with complex applications.

    Porting Tools Pave The Way For Unix On NT
    Products help combine familiarity and ease of use.

    Visual Basic Scales
    IT managers see a role for VB 5.0 in distributed systems.

    Top of the Page


    Intranet/Internet

    Software For Rent
    Internet providers hope renting apps will bring them closer to customers

    IT Joins The Bidding
    Web auctions lure business buyers.

    Intranet Text Miner
    Semio tool displays document clusters.

    Debugging Java Still Takes Work


    Top of the Page


    Software

    'Superglue' For Apps
    Software Technologies' DataGate helps tie together disparate applications

    Fix 2000 Completely
    New products check niche platforms

    Disk Imaging Gets Simplified
    PowerQuest's Drive Image features Windows-like user interface, wizards.

    Windows Preserver
    System lets Win98 users revert easily.

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    Networking

    Management Plan
    Bay aims to combine network, service-level management.

    SportsLine Scales Sites
    Cisco machines do Web load-balancing.

    Outsourcing For All
    Convergent's Enterprise Network Services give smaller companies a break.

    Top of the Page


    Hardware

    High-End Storage
    IBM, Clariion to shi p data-storage, distribution products.

    HP Servers: RAID-Ready
    NetServer LH 3 adds high availability.

    All-In-One Presentations
    Compaq, InFocus, and Iomega team on lightweight PC-projector-storage bundle.

    PC Leasing Gains Ground
    Shorter life spans popularize practice.

    Top of the Page


    IT
Management

    Easy Integration
    Digital's BusinessBus tool promises to eliminate custom coding.

    Euro Benefits Explored
    Companies anticipate financial consolidation.

    Lawsuit Raises Questions On EDI Insurance-Claim Standard
    Furor over prescription-drug filing snafu.

    Value Your App Inventory
    Knowing your software's worth improves decisions.

    Top of the Page


    Financials

    Taking Stock: Catching Up With Rational
    Nearly a year after acquiring Pure Atria, Rational's revenue is growing nicely and business is stable, though competition looms.

    Venture Capitalists Bet Big On New Technologies
    Record sums invested in software and information companies in first quarter.

    Informix Restates Earnings
    1Q profit turns into $386,000 loss.

    Novell Turnaround Continues
    Profitable quarter is third in a row.


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