e-Business Advisor articles from March 1999

e-Business Advisor archives from March 1999

E-Business Trends from Consumer to Corporate Portals.(Enterprise Information Portals, or EIPs)(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1999... Corporate Intranets are growing, and vendors are quickly realizing that rescuing these Intranets from "infoglut" presents a key e-business market opportunity. Enter Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs). What is an EIP? Infospace, Inc.,...

Safer Cyberspace?(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... Internet technology has made strides in overcoming perceived security problems, according to research firm Cahners In-Stat Group, but companies still resist moving mission-critical applications onto the Internet. In a survey of 346 companies,...

E-Commerce the BuyItOnline way.(Stumpworld Systems' BuyItOnline online retail service)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 1999... The holidays spurred a revisit to the virtual mall concept by the likes of Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, and several others, all of whom opened their cyber doors to online shopping centers. You can also read about online shopping snags, such as...

Partnerships.
March 1, 1999... AT&T acquired IBM's Global Network business for US$5 billion, with the deal to be completed by the middle of 1999. IBM will outsource a portion of its global networking needs to AT&T, and AT&T will outsource some applications processing and...

Briefly Noted.
March 1, 1999... You can preview the code for IBM's auction application at http://www. software.ibm.com/commerce/net.commerce/auction.html. At press time, IBM was working with beta customers to refine the auction capabilities planned for an upcoming release of...

Managing Colors.(adjusting computer display colors)(Product Support)
March 1, 1999... * User Interfaces The way your computer displays colors isn't controlled so much by your monitor as by your video card. This is true whether you're displaying a photograph for a Windows background or a Web graphic. Most modern color...

To Improve Security, Log System Activity.(in Windows NT, Unix operating systems)(Technology Information)
March 1, 1999... * Security Most operating systems provide a means for logging activity. Logging activity can be used to improve security because it creates an audit trail of who accessed your system and when. Because logging takes processing power and...

Stored Procedures Improve Performance.(stored SQL statements)(Technology Information)
March 1, 1999... * Database Performance Stored procedures are SQL statements that have been parsed, compiled, and stored in the database for later use. These stored procedures often run multiple times faster than their standard SQL counterpart. A...

Information on EDI.(Data Interchange Standards Association maintains electronic data interchange Web site )(Technology Information)
March 1, 1999... * EDI While electronic data interchange (EDI) is an Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) standard nm by the X12 subcommittee, the home page for the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) provides a wealth of information about EDI...

Enhance Table Formats with <COLGROUP>.(HTML 4.0's <COLGROUP> grouping tag)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... * HTML 4.0 , like Fieldset, is a grouping tag. This one specifically groups table columns. By default, all columns in a table are a single group. Using , you can create groups and apply formatting to the individual groups. Say you have a...

Designing Shopping Baskets.(Technology Tutorial)
March 1, 1999... There are three basic ways to implement a shopping basket on your site. Each has its strengths and weaknesses: * Use the Session object (if you're using ASPs). * Use the cookies file. * Use an underlying database. The Session...

Build a Component Architecture for E-Commerce.(Technology Information)
March 1, 1999... A multi-layered Web system architecture increases system efficiency and productivity, and achieves a rapid return on IT investment. Successful e-commerce companies are able to scale operations faster than their competition to meet...

An Objective Look at Component Technologies.(Technology Information)
March 1, 1999... Don't get caught up in the fervor over CORBA vs. DCOM. Simply choose what works for you. With so much at stake in developing new e-business applications, and the prospect of strategic dominance of network communications thrown in, it's...

Reinventing a Business.(ES Performance Lighting )(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
March 1, 1999... Here's how you can tap an otherwise unreachable market via the Internet. E-business is more than simply putting up a Web site to let visitors view information. E-business is about interaction: Retailers not only provide lists of products...

E-Commerce: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered?!(Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1999... Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code may help create a standard for dealing with e-commerce contracts if states adopt it. Recently, a colleague recounted a situation in which he tried to enter the bold realm of electronic business....

Create Smart Applications for Mobile Workers.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1999... Cloudscape Database uses Java to build applications that have their own integrated databases. The Cloudscape Database is a low-overhead, extensible, object-relational database that can be deployed over the Internet to a mobile workforce,...

Security Solutions. (question and answer).(Column)
March 1, 1999... Virtual Viruses Q: Our company has been using e-mail for sometime. To minimize the risk of virus infection, all incoming e-mail is checked by the mail server, and we only have one stand-alone PC that connects to the Internet. However, a...

Dig Into Your Data with Cognos' NovaView.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1999... NovaView and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 offer small businesses low-cost online analytical processing. If you've deployed a data warehouse, you know the next thing users want to do is get their hands on all that data. Reporting tools are a...

Use Cambio to Mine Disparate Data Sources.(Data Junction Cambio 6.0 DBMS utility)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1999... Data Junction Cambio 6.0 can mine the Web for information, then export it to your database. One product making waves in the data mining market is Cambio from Data Junction Corporation. Cambio adds the ability to mine for information from...

Recover Your Source Code--It Can Be Done!(Y2K)(Technology Information)
March 1, 1999... Here's how Y2K protection was provided for Maryland's State Retirement Accounts. If missing source code isn't keeping Year 2000 project managers awake at night, it should be. Missing source code is a common problem, yet an IS organization...

Harness the power of Visual Basic 6.0 in your e-business efforts.(Product Support)(Tutorial)
March 1, 1999... Use VB 6.0's new IIS application technology to write a shopping basket interface. Visual Basic 6.0 opens up a whole new set of options for Internet development. One of today's hottest topics in Internet development is creating e-business...

e-Biz Buzz.
March 1, 1999... Have you been framed? Buzz sees more than a few Web sites that include content from other sites. When outside content is displayed in a frame, it appears to be from the current site. This practice is bad enough when it's used to display content...