Profile of Doug Henschen
Executive Editor, Enterprise Apps
Member Since: 11/15/2013
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Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.
Articles by Doug Henschen
posted in June 2007
6/27/2007
I'm still thinking about last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which ranks as the most exciting and thought-provoking event I've attended thus far this year... Blogs, wikis, text messaging, presence awareness and all things social networking received a lot of attention... but rich Internet applications, Ajax, mashups, SOA, SaaS and composite applications are also a big part of the Enterprise 2.0 mix.
6/26/2007
Clustering option supports location-independent data services strategies by meeting demanding service-level agreements and backup-and-recovery requirements.
6/25/2007
Oracle BI Standard Edition One answers Microsoft and Business Objects products for SMBs, but is low price and easy installation enough to appeal to neophytes?
6/21/2007
Web sites demonstrate that analysis gets better when it's open to discussion.
6/20/2007
IBM, Microsoft and SAP respond to the social networking innovators.
6/19/2007
The Enterprise 2.0 movement gets an "A" for awareness and technology development, but a "C" for communicating business benefits. This report card, offered today by Harvard Business School professor and keynote speaker Andrew McAfee, sums up the mix of enthusiasm and hunger for practical applications in evidence here at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.
6/18/2007
Drug giant speeds 50,000 requests per month using Web-based forms routing and approval software.
6/15/2007
Complex event processing (CEP) technology is aimed at many of the same challenges as conventional BI technology, it's just that the frame of reference is real-time analysis rather than a separate reporting loop built on historical data. Thus, CEP is another threat to BI as we know it, and it's pretty apparent that this will be one of the next competitive battlegrounds for the big infrastructure players.
6/13/2007
Customers don't have to explain every click and message they encountered on your site. By replaying each customer's online experience, Tealeaf closes a customer-support gap.
6/12/2007
IBM has been making database news of late, introducing an upgrade of the Informix Database Server and announcing a major deal with the City of Los Angeles. IBM says the city is moving from Oracle to IBM's DB2 9 in order to "lower the costs of running the city’s geographic information system (GIS)." Oracle declined to comment on the deal or IBM's claim that its DB business is "soaring." To get an independent assessment of the DB market, we called on analyst Donald Feinberg of Gartner for hi
6/12/2007
Big Blue's other database gains scalability, access-control and disaster-recovery enhancements.
6/10/2007
Complex event processing (CEP) software delivers on the promise of real-time insight, but is the technology too green for mainstream success? CEP was once available only to big financial institutions and government agencies that could afford custom development projects. That's no longer the case, as off-the-shelf products and implementations have proliferated. Intelligent Enterprise shares success stories and explores the potential of CEP as your next competitive edge.
6/6/2007
In a first-of-its-kind tie between BI and BPM, Pega brings standards-based models into its process management environment.
6/5/2007
Focusing on customer, distribution and supply chain interactions that cross enterprise boundaries, Adobe streamlines its business process management suite.
6/1/2007
IBM and Business Objects announced on Tuesday that the two companies will deepen the strategic alliance they announced last November. It's an indication that IBM does not discount BI - contrary to some suggestions - as just the tip of the iceberg. IBM has partnerships with both Business Objects and Cognos, and it's free to work with, rather than against, other independents in a market that is far from consolidated.
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