e-Business Advisor articles from March 2002

e-Business Advisor archives from March 2002

Success hangs in the balance: the architects of tomorrow's e-business solutions need to strike the right balance today. (Advisor View).
March 1, 2002... E-BUSINESS APPLICATIONS that are finished on-time and under-budget, and fulfill their functional goals, require careful planning. A key part of that planning comes down to a balancing act: balancing budgets with business needs; balancing...

Advisor[R].com.
March 1, 2002... INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ADVISOR ZONE Why Your Company Should Go Global, Now More than Ever http://Advisor.com/Article/DUNLB001 There's a huge opportunity to improve your business by reaching out to global markets--despite, and...

Industry experts respond to Gosling's SOAP bashing. (Update).(Panel Discussion)
March 1, 2002... Philip DesAutels: SOAP is a general messaging protocol capable of supporting all kinds of communication, including RPC. But, it also supports the richer, more loosely-coupled patterns that are necessary for today's business integration...

Microsoft upgrades: slow going. (Update).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... According to an IDC survey of more than 300 IT managers who work with Windows NT or Windows 2000 systems, receptiveness to Windows XP, the Windows.NET family of servers, and Active Directory is lukewarm at best. Companies will continue to...

Top 10 viruses of 2001. (Update).
March 1, 2002... Antivirus software vendor Sophos (http://www.sophos.com) has released a list of the top 10 viruses of 2001. The list is based on the number of reported infections. Sophos says it detected more than 11,000 new viruses, worms, and Trojan horses...

3G phones coming to a network near you? (Update).
March 1, 2002... Wireless handset manufacturers have started sending third-generation (3G) wireless products to wireless operators in North America. The phones are based on Qualcomm's CDMA2000 1X standard for 3G data application services, which promise...

Web services platform. (product watch).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... SilverStream extend Application Server is a platform for building and deploying enterprise Web applications. The server provides full Web services capabilities, including support for XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. It's part of the eXtend Suite 3.0,...

One interface for using many languages. (product watch).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... Jacada Interface Server 7.0 is an integrated user interface development and deployment environment with a common user interface layer for both new application development and existing legacy systems. Jacada Interface Server enhances Jacada's...

Get in touch with your customers. (product watch).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Ask not what your customers are doing, ask why they're doing it. That's the notion behind what Vividence calls "customer experience management" or CEM, the art of understanding what creates a compelling and profitable online experience....

Java application platform for mobile devices. (product watch).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2002... Kada Mobile is a single deployment platform for smart hand-held devices. Powered by Kada's implementation of a Java Virtual Machine, Kada Mobile lets developers to test, optimize, and deploy applications to any mobile environment. The product...

Oracle angles for web services: Bill Dwight, Oracle's VP of application development, sets his sights on Java and Web services. (Development Strategies).(Interview)
March 1, 2002... ADVISOR: Your title suggests you handle an interesting range of duties at Oracle. DWIGHT: I handle our J2EE application development tools, as well as the more traditional tools for those who haven't consumed all the Kool-Aid yet. These are...

The changing roles of the e-business architect: e-business architects wear many hats: visionary, team leader, business person, and technology expert, to name a few. (Project Management).
March 1, 2002... ALMOST EVERY BUILDING that has ever been built, from the most luxurious pleasure palace to the most humble wood-frame home, started with an architect creating a plan. But, a modern enterprise depends more heavily on an information architecture...

Should you bet your business on Java or .Net? Weigh Java's cross-platform portability against .NET's cross-language flexibility. (Enterprise Frameworks).
March 1, 2002... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY If your organization is faced with choosing uniform technology strategy, you aren't alone. Because arguments for .NET and Java are both strong, the choice will come down to which one is a better fit for your environment,...

Getting to the portal payback: portals can be a low-cost, low-risk way to unify business applications--if executed properly. Here are the keys to implementing portals that accomplish that goal, without taking you off-course. (Content Management).
March 1, 2002... THE CREDO OF WORKFLOW, document management, and content management software providers has been to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. Portal technologies have evolved as the latest way to achieve this goal....

Technology + human touch = success CRM: don't forget to add a human element to your customer relationship management solution. (Customer Relationship Management).
March 1, 2002... A GOOD Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution can improve productivity levels, workplace environments, and the bottom line. In fact, despite the economy, the CRM industry is expected to grow to an estimated US$27.8 billion by 2005...

Beware wireless security woes: tips for locking down your wireless LAN. (Wireless).
March 1, 2002... WIRELESS LANS ARE CATCHING ON FAST in the corporate environment because the increased mobility and accessibility improves communication, productivity, and efficiency. And, assuming you have the right skillsets in-house, wireless LANs are cost...

Security in the age of privacy: does the privacy debate really make a difference to information security practices? What new technologies are emerging to address this area, and how should companies be positioned to maximize their return on investment? (Privacy).
March 1, 2002... THE JOB OF PROTECTING an organization's information assets has never been easy, but if you're tasked with this job, you already know that. You also know that the crux of the job is a balancing act. You must balance the risks of loss against the...

Avoid instant messaging dangers. (Usage Policies).
March 1, 2002... * MSN Messenger Service * Internet Relay Chat (IRC) * AOL Instant Messenger * Lotus Sametime Many companies have already instituted formal e-mail and Internet usage policies. But, do your policies cover Internet chat applications, such as...

Disable sending of debug reports. (Security Settings).
March 1, 2002... * Microsoft Office XP * Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5+ Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer versions 5 and higher (and all future Microsoft products) are configured to send debugging information to Microsoft in the event of a...

Track security status. (Tools).
March 1, 2002... * Microsoft Windows platform Knowing which patches have (and haven't) been applied to your machine is critical to the overall security of your network. In large organizations, it's a full-time job; for smaller organizations, it can be...

Use cursors judiciously. (Data Access).
March 1, 2002... * Microsoft SQL Server If you've worked with SQL, you know it's a set-oriented language, meaning you can apply a change to a set of rows as a group instead of running a separate command for each row. The drawback is that set-oriented...

Consider caching options. (Application Performance).
March 1, 2002... * J2EE When it comes to improving performance, many application architects are quick to look to hardware upgrades as the only viable option for making applications faster. While faster hardware always makes a difference, there are some...

Keep it simple. (User Interface Design).
March 1, 2002... According to a Boston Group study, if 100 people walk (virtually) into an online store to make a purchase, 28 of them walk out without buying anything because they couldn't get the application to work for them. It gets worse. Of those people...

IMAC vs. my Windows. (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).
March 1, 2002... Is the password "i" for "innovation"? Apple Computer's iPhoto, iPod, iTunes, iMovie, and iDVD are now joined by a new iMac, the latest product designed to create what Apple calls the "digital hub." Apple aims for Macintosh to be the central...

IBM eclipses Sun. (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).
March 1, 2002... Java developers are jazzed about the Eclipse project, launched by IBM and several tool and OS vendors (http://www.eclipse.org). IBM calls Eclipse "Apache for Java development tools", providing an open-source Java IDE that lets software vendors...

Style vs. substance. (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).
March 1, 2002... When Excite@Home slipped into bankruptcy in November, iWon.com picked up the Excite portal for $10 million--the same portal @Home purchased for $7.8 billion. Adopting the name The Excite Network, the new venture began serving up iWon's version...