e-Business Advisor articles from December 1998

e-Business Advisor archives from December 1998

BQM in Action.(business quality messaging specification)(Technology Information)
December 1, 1998... A year after releasing the business quality messaging (BQM) functional specification, and about a dozen BQM-compliant products later, the BQM Forum set out to prove that businesses can reliably and securely perform transactions over the...

Briefly noted ...(ClearCommerce, IBM and Baan announcements)(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 1998... Internet payment processing provider ClearCommerce Corporation established the E-commerce Advisory Board to drive standards initiatives designed to help businesses migrate to online transactions and selling. At the eRetailing '98 show in...

The millennium bug.(Industry Trend or Event)
December 1, 1998... * Year 2000 Q: We keep hearing the experts talk about how widespread the Year 2000 problem is. Yet, we've tested all the systems at our company for potential failure and, so far, we haven't discovered any problems. This means we don't need...

Authorship and originality online.(electronic commerce and copyright law)(Industry Trend or Event)
December 1, 1998... Avoid copyright infringement in e-commerce. E-Business Benefits * The rapid growth of e-commerce has left companies unprepared to clearly answer questions regarding Web content creation, reproduction, publication and distribution. ...

A manager's guide to the Year 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
December 1, 1998... Make the most of your Year 2000 failures. E-Business Benefits * The Year 2000 is fast approaching and with it come considerable problems for many companies. * The first action step is to assess your risk to software applications...

Year 2000 testing tools.(Buyers Guide)
December 1, 1998... You've been working hard to make your applications Y2K-compliant. If you or your clients haven't been paying attention, you're starting now, which means the rush is really on. One of the biggest problems in converting these applications is that...

Take advantage of the Euro.(electronic commerce)(Industry Trend or Event)
December 1, 1998... Europe's upcoming single-currency market can provide real commercial benefits for providers of e-commerce services E-Business Benefits * Europe's currency conversion begins January 1, 1999. * That means if you plan to start or...

Databases on the go.(Computer Associates International OpenIngres/Desktop 1.2, IBM DB2 Universal Database 5.0 Personal Edition for Windows 95, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Personal Oracle Lite 3.0, Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1998... Find out how mobile databases can improve your e-business solutions. E-Business Benefits * Deploying databases on notebook computers lets users access enterprise data anywhere. * When selecting a mobile DBMS, you not only need to...

Manage your Web site.(WebTrends Enterprise Suite Web site management software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1998... WebTrends Enterprise Suite helps Web masters stay on top of the Web site management discipline. E-Business Benefits * As Web sites become more complex, focusing design efforts on the most appropriate aspects of your site is...

Provide fast, efficient service on your Web site.(WebLogic Tengah 3.1 application server)(Product Information)
December 1, 1998... WebLogic Tengah 3.1 is an application server that can speed up processing on your e-business sites and simplify Java implementations. E - Business Benefits * Enterprise JavaBeans are used in the middle tier of a three-tier application....

Advisor tips. (Question and Answer).(Column)
December 1, 1998... Online Copyrights * Legal In print publishing, managing copyright is easy. Managing copyright on the Web, however, is anything but easy. In print publishing, images can't easily be re-created and distributed. This difficulty proves as...

Analyze reports dynamically.(DataWatch Software's Monarch report mining tool)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1998... DataWatch's Monarch lets you consolidate information and effectively analyze it to identify trends. Report Mining is a new concept in business intelligence. It tries to capitalize on the more than 600 billion pages of reports that are...

e-Biz Buzz. (various Internet news).(Column)
December 1, 1998... Politicians and tax collectors are going nuts trying to get a piece of the e-commerce explosion. In the U.S., the National Governors Association (http://www. nga.org/) notes that Internet sales are expected to surpass US$300 billion by 2002....