e-Business Advisor articles from July 1998

e-Business Advisor archives from July 1998

Insurance: your y2k safety net.(year 2000 transition) (Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
July 1, 1998... When you're applications are finally converted and tested, it'll be time to celebrate. Until then, a little insurance might be what you need. In recent years, we devoted many pages to help you solve Year 2000 problems in your applications....

Integrating the enterprise.(Borland changes name to Inprise Corp.) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... At IT Forum in late April, Borland made the surprising move to change its name to Inprise. In an effort to reposition his company as one focused on simplifying distributed computing in the enterprise, as opposed to "just a tools company," CEO...

Enlivened ads attract impulse sales.(Narrative Communications' Enliven/Impulse electronic commerce software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Narrative Communications Corporation is now offering Enliven/Impulse--ad technology that lets surfers buy goods directly through a banner ad without leaving the site on which the ad resides. Enliven/Impulse is the first electronic commerce...

IBM software to compete with BackOffice.(the ISM Software Suites for Windows NT business application suite)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... IBM has released two server-side software packages designed to make it easier to build, deploy, and manage business applications on Windows NT. The IBM Software Suites for Windows NT offer both Lotus Domino and DB2 Universal Database to let...

NT/UNIX integration.(Microsoft's Windows NT Services for UNIX Add-on Pack) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... At the Networld+Interop show in Las Vegas, Microsoft pushed "integration"--not the integration of Internet Explorer with Windows, but the integration of NT and UNIX. In his keynote, Senior Vice President Jim Allchin announced plans to release...

Office 97 update to stamp out bugs. (Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 1998... Microsoft is planning an Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR2) for early July. The free download includes a number of bug fixes, but doesn't offer any new features. The package provides currently available downloads, such as an Excel 97...

Tracking web site "hits."(Ask E-Business Advisor) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)
July 1, 1998... Q: When it comes to tracking visitors to my site, what statistic is the most meaningful? How do I get those figures? A: The most common statistic is how many unique people visit a given site. This is the statistic you traditionally see in...

10 web development tips.(Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Draw) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... * Adobe PhotoShop * Corel Draw * Internet Explorer * JavaScript * Netscape Navigator 1. JavaScript that works in Explorer and Netscape is handy for quick jumps to URLs in a list (redirection). Place this code between the...

Testing applets.(using Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer to test a built applet) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... * Internet Explorer * Netscape Navigator When testing a built applet with either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer browser, it's annoying to have to quit and re-run a browser every time to avoid an old cache being used instead...

SQL Server security with Active Server Pages.(tip for using Active Server Pages with Microsoft SQL Server) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... * Active Server Pages * SQL Server * Visual InterDev Do you use Active Server Pages with SQL Server to establish web security? If so, this tip is for you. This scenario assumes that your company keeps a user list in SQL...

Using VB with API functions.(Visual Basic and C programming) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... * C * Visual Basic Usually API functions with some extra functionality are initially written in C and only then ported to different languages like V13. And that's where our problem was. Calling perfectly legal code, as an example,...

Business process modeling leads to web warehouse success.(tools and practices for building a data warehouse for a major pharmaceutical company) (Technology Information)
July 1, 1998... To build a data warehouse for a major pharmaceutical company, developers turned to sound practices and powerful tools. Implementing a data warehouse is one of the largest e-business undertakings, and one of the most beneficial. Turning raw...

Data analysis across the web: US Army saves $28 million in three years using SAS.(new database for Champus medical claims) (includes a related article on SAS/Warehouse Administrator and SAS Enterprise Miner) (Product Support)
July 1, 1998... U.S. Army saves $28 million in three years using SAS. Your boss called. He's worried about the increases in one particular budget line item and wants you to design a system to reduce the expense. Oh, by the way, your boss is the...

Build a data warehouse with legacy data.(USAA insurance company uses MicroStrategy decision support software) (Product Information)
July 1, 1998... Changing the way they do business pays off for USAA insurance company. Hey, I read the Dilbert comics, too. The word paradigm has been mocked into virtual non-usability. For the record, I do know what paradigm means: It's derived from the...

Create internet-ready database apps.(Wall Data's Cyberprise DBApp Developer, Cyberprise DBApp Publisher)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Wall Data's Web development tools, Cyberprise DBApp Developer and Cyberprise DBApp Publisher, let developers create Internet-ready database applications with little programming. The products combine a platform of open-standard web...

Data analysis tool uses web interface.(Management Science Associates' BusinessWEB)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... BusinessWEB, from Management Science Associates, is a suite of business analysis and data distribution tools. It's a managed query environment for OLAP databases that lets users analyze business data from diverse data sources, such as...

Multimedia conferences for remote groups.(VTEL enhances SmartLink/W multimedia conference servers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... VTEL Corporation has added the SmartLink/W series of Multimedia Conference Servers to its video networking product line. The conference servers make it easy to increase the productivity of groups at a number of remote sites. You can...

Break free of browser dependencies with the Java Plug-in. (Sun Microsystems' utility for the Java Development Kit) (Java Developer)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 1998... The Java Plug-in lets developers take advantage of the latest Java features, without waiting for browsers to catch up. When the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1 was released in February 1997, developers were excited about the new features it...

Java servlets: advantages and deployment; if you want to improve Java performance, try moving the processing to the server.(Java Advisor) (Technology Tutorial)(Column)(Tutorial)
July 1, 1998... If you want to improve Java performance, try moving the processing to the server. Anyone using the Internet today is aware of the bandwidth problems that plague it. Much of the slowdown is the result of sending data and applets; of ever...

Canvas mode: you can have it all.(Netscape Navigator 4.0's canvas mode) (Internet Advisor) (Product Support)(Column)(Tutorial)
July 1, 1998... Need more screen real estate for your application? You can have it with Netscape Navigator 4.0--but you have to sign the page with a security certificate! One new feature available to authors designing pages for Netscape Navigator 4.0 is...

Security solutions.(Security Advisor) (Question and Answer)(Column)
July 1, 1998... This issue's mail bag contains a lot of questions regarding security policies, so hopefully senior management is starting to wake up to the concerns of the system administrators. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, I answer one general...

Track change requests across the LAN, internet or intranet.(INTERSOLV PVCS Tracker bug tracking software) (Internet Advisor) (Product Support)(Column)(Tutorial)
July 1, 1998... INTERSOLV PVCS Tracker helps you keep track of bug reports, change requests, and enhancement requests. Your team has developed the killer app. Now comes the harsh reality of a released product---bugs will be found and enhancements...

Design multimedia with Jasmine. (version 1.1 of Computer Associates International's multimedia development software) (includes a related article on Jasmine usage) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 1, 1998... Applications developed with Computer Associates Jasmine can sense network traffic and adjust their performance accordingly. Multimedia development presents new challenges to database systems that have traditionally dealt with simple data...

E-biz buzz. (News Briefs)(Column)
July 1, 1998... Spam warning from Buzz's This-could-happen-to-you file: One reader reports that his consulting business' ISDN service was cancelled without notice. Why? Someone called a Spam complaint in to his Internet service provider. The ISP didn't call...