e-Business Advisor articles from June 2002

e-Business Advisor archives from June 2002

Back to business basics: lessons learned from the demise of Microsoft. NET My Services. (Advisor View).
June 1, 2002... IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR Microsoft stunned the Visual Studio .NET developer community by discontinuing support for its .NET My Services initiative (Hailstorm), which was based on the .NET Web services architecture. My Services was intended to...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 spotlights privacy policies. (Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... HOW MUCH ATTENTION are you giving your company's privacy policies? It may be time to consider implementing Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), a standard from W3C to help users understand a site's privacy policies before they release...

Oracle outsourcing. (Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Outsourcing was Oracle's big push at AppsWorld in April where it announced an Oracle9i online service offering. Customers have the option of having the hardware and software hosted and managed in Oracle's data center or a secure data center of...

Java Community Process goes open source. (Update).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Java Community Process (JCP), the guiding force behind all things Java, is working with Apache Software Foundation to strengthen its relationship with the open source community. In response to Apache concerns that Sun was hindering open-source...

Linux: ready for big business. (Update).(Red Hat Linux Advanced Server)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... To woo large companies that haven't been ready to trust mission-critical applications to Linux, Red Hat has released Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, an enterprise-level version. Red Hat says Linux Advanced Server incorporates core performance...

Portals. (product watch).(IBM WebSphere Portal 4.1 )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... IBM WebSphere Portal 4.1 gives users a single point of contact with applications. Using WebSphere Portal, business people, on their own, can create collaborative places where team members can edit documents on virtual whiteboards, establish...

Global e-commerce. (product watch).(Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 lets companies engage and manage a global network of customers and trading partners, transact business in multiple languages and currencies, and give users Information via reporting capabilities. The latest...

Instant messaging. (product watch).(PresenceWorks Enterprise Server and Software Development Kit )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... AOL and PresenceWorks are helping companies embed AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) in their Web applications. Web developers can use PresenceWorks Enterprise Server and Software Development Kit to embed presence information (the AOL instant...

Toward Web services security. (Update).(WS-Secuirty Web services security specification)
June 1, 2002... Addressing what many perceive as the primary obstacle to Web services adoption, IBM, Microsoft, and VeriSign have published WS-Security, a Web services security specification. This is the first step toward interoperable Web services companies...

Avoid an identity crisis: Joe Skehan, product line manager for Novell's provisioning and identity management solutions, discusses how companies are using these security technologies today, and where Web services might take them tomorrow. (Advisor Interview).(Interview)
June 1, 2002... ADVISOR: Let's start with the basic terms. What is the difference between identity management and provisioning? SKEHAN: If you start at the bottom, you have identity repositories where organizations store information about customers and...

Optimize your supply chain: remove the barriers between your customers and suppliers to reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction. (E-business Strategies).(Industry Overview)
June 1, 2002... THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGY a company can undertake is to create a frictionless channel between its suppliers and customers, thus eliminating many obstacles to profitability. Whether the industry is retail, insurance, manufacturing,...

Get in touch with your customers: interactivity shouldn't just be a piece of your Web site, it should be the basis of your customer service and sales strategy. (Customer Relationship Management).
June 1, 2002... THE INTERNET HAS GONE FROM OVER-HYPED to under appreciated in less than a year. At the height of the Internet frenzy, the Web was the be-all, end-all business tool. The dot-com implosion set the pendulum swinging the other direction. Good...

Advisor Academy: pro-to-pro tech advice.
June 1, 2002... Q: When learning technology, how do you get beyond the basics? How do you discover what's not obvious? How do you find out all the stuff the docs don't tell you? A: Get the know-how of someone who's spent a whole lot of time figuring it...

Best practices for performance: the success of your business applications depends on the the performance of the application servers on which they run, Here are tools and strategies for keeping your Java application servers running a optimal levels. (Administration).
June 1, 2002... ENTERPRISES ARE INVESTING a lot of time and effort developing cutting-edge Web applications built on J2EE-compliant application server technology (e.g., BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere Application Server, iPlanet Application Server, HP Application...

Improve user trust on the Web: Platform for Privacy Policies (P3P) takes hold. (Standards Watch).
June 1, 2002... INCREASINGLY, WEB USERS WANT to choose who has access to their information and how it's used. Can you blame them? You've probably experienced the mail file bloat involved with filling out a Web form you shouldn't have. I know, I know; you...

Instant messaging risks and rewards: make sure you provide business-grade instant messaging software to let your users communicate efficiently--and securely. (Messaging).
June 1, 2002... IT WAS BACK IN LATE 1996 that I received my first "uh oh." That first "uh oh" was a sound effect telling me my ICQ client had just received an incoming message. ICQ, short for "I-Seek-You," was the first popularized form of instant messaging...

Control user access: self-service account provisioning can give you more control, with less work. (Access Management).
June 1, 2002... "MY NEW EMPLOYEE STARTED today. She's going to need access to all of her systems and applications by the end of the day." The reality of an overburdened and under-staffed security group will probably leave this new employee waiting days,...

Unit testing. (Project Management).
June 1, 2002... Testing: an ugly word that, for most developers, ranks right below documentation in the continuum of things they don't want to do. Why don't programmers write tests? The common response is "I don't have time," "I'm under heavy deadlines," or...

Distributed computing dangers. (Security).
June 1, 2002... Distributed computing is hot right now. The goal of the movement is to farm out computing jobs in small chunks to ordinary PCs across the Internet, finding a use for otherwise untapped processing cycles. For example, Google has released a new...

HP+XP<>= BB. (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Buzz can't resist a bargain. Strolling the aisles of a Best Buy store, he spotted an HP 760n computer, monitor, and printer bundle that, even with the lame table Windows XP Home Edition, was a really good deal thanks to generous rebates. Buzz...

AOL: not so easy to use. So why is it #1? (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... AOL Time Warner had to eat crow when it reversed an enterprise-wide directive mandating all AOL Time Warner employees use AOL e-mail. The system, designed for consumers, wasn't up to serving e-mail for business use. Frequent crashes were the...

Do as we say, not as we do. (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Microsoft and Unisys have launched "We Have the Way Out," an ad campaign claiming UNIX ties companies to an inflexible system and requires them to pay for expensive experts. Buzz can't help wondering, does Windows require inexpensive experts?...

Yahoo! Hooey! (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).
June 1, 2002... A leader must set a good example. So, how come Yahoo's TV Listings have been screwed up since at least the first of the year (according to complaints to the Buzz line)? The big problem is Yahoo's DirecTV listings for CBS and ABC. Comparing...