e-Business Advisor articles from May 2002

e-Business Advisor archives from May 2002

The bandwidth bonus: more bandwidth is good for users--and developers. (Advisor View).
May 1, 2002... IS MORE BANDWIDTH making a difference in the way you develop Web applications? In January 2002, for the first time, broadband usage out-paced narrowband. Broadband surfers accounted for 51 percent of the 2.3 billion hours spent online in...

C# virus goes beyond .NET systems. (Security).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... http://www.Advisor.com/Article/SMITT607 W32/Sharpei@MM, the second known virus based on the .NET platform, can hurt systems with the .NET framework installed and those without it.

Are windows apps dead? (Advisor View).
May 1, 2002... http://www.Advisor.com/Article/GROHM132 Tradition vs. progress: When should you build a Web form application? Mike Groh, Technical Editor, ACCESS-VB-SQL ADVISOR

UPS creates supply chain solutions firm. (Business News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... http://www.Advisor.com/Article/SMITT600 The subsidiary combines a number of UPS financial, consulting, logistics, and freight operations to help customers improve their supply chains.

CIOs rank fastest-growing jobs in IT. (Advisor Radar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... http://www.Advisor.com/Article/HARTP110 Networking, Web development, and database management are among the most in-demand IT skills.

Who is doing business process integration? (Update).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... NOT MANY. Organizations have barely begun the process of fully integrating their most important business processes, with only 10 percent reaching full integration. According to Tyler McDaniel, director at Hurwitz Group, the primary roadblocks...

Get ready for Palm OS5. (Update).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THE NEXT VERSION of the Palm operating system promises improved security and wireless networking. PalmSource, the newly named Palm OS subsidiary of Palm, plans to release Palm OS5 in the early summer of 2002. Key improvements: ...

Standards for the financial industry. (Update).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Translating a company's financial data into information investors can use to make decisions usually requires an extensive search through volumes of published statements that may or may not classify the information in the same way. The XBRL...

Wireless application platform. (Update).(Qualcomm Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless)
May 1, 2002... Qualcomm is advancing its goal of opening the wireless world to its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform. The BREW platform is a thin application execution environment that provides an open, standard platform for wireless...

BEA turns up the heat in the application server market. (Update).
May 1, 2002... BEA IS USING ITS WEBLOGIC WORKSHOP Java development tool (formerly known as Cajun) to take aim at one of Microsoft's strongest assets: its development community. Dubbed "Visual Basic for Java," WebLogic Workshop is said to make Java as...

Privacy compliance. (product watch).(Zero-Knowledge P3P Analyzer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... Zero-Knowledge P3P Analyzer is a free Web tool for testing and tracking a Web site's compliance with the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), an XML-based language that lets Web sites describe privacy practices in a standard format Web...

Portal building. (product watch).(Novell Portal Services 1.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... Novell Portal Services 1.5 lets users customize portal interfaces, find information, and set up online communities for sharing information and communicating with other users. Communities help create groups that cross organizational boundaries...

Web development tool. (product watch).(Macromedia Flash MX)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... Macromedia Flash MX lets developers create multi-media, Web-based applications using rich-client technology. Improvements to the technology include enhanced video support and tools for working with Flash application components, as well as tools...

Balancing acts: the key to application portfolio management: balance IT and business needs. (Development Strategies).(Interview)
May 1, 2002... IT HASN'T REACHED ACRONYM STATUS YET, but the concept of application portfolio management is gaining momentum within the enterprise. Both IT and business must agree on key decisions about how the company is going to grow and what applications...

Parallels in computing: BEA VP of engineering Adam Bosworth draws on lessons learned from the client-server revolution to guide BEA's vision for Web services. (Advisor Interview).(Interview)
May 1, 2002... ADVISOR: Integration is difficult, but it's a difficulty many companies have learned to live with. Given that Web services is unproven, and that it presents a significant learning curve, at what point is it worth implementing? BOSWORTH:...

E-commerce application adds muscle to U.S. armed forces: army recruiters save time and resources by automating their paper-based supply chain. (Supply Chain Management).
May 1, 2002... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Using Microsoft Great Plains eEnterprise business software, U.S. Army Recruiting (USAREC) transformed its supply ordering system. The move from a paper-based system to one that's fully automated, with exceptional...

A roadmap for mobile & wireless computing: as wireless standards evolve, you need a plan for satisfying short-term mobile and wireless business requirements without locking your company into a dead-end solution. (Mobile and Wireless)(Cover Story).(Tutorial)
May 1, 2002... FUELED BY NEW INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING networks and cellular markets, the development and promotion of the wireless and mobile industry is growing at a pace that threatens to surpass anything seen to date in the IT industry. Wireless...

Get past the Webmaster bottleneck: although content management technologies are evolving, the problem they're trying to solve remains the same. (Content Management).
May 1, 2002... THE PROBLEM CONTENT MANAGEMENT first arose to solve remains the core issue it strives to address today: the Webmaster bottleneck. Although site management tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage let multiple Web designer...

Check it out! Half of the customers who abandon shopping carts do so during the check-out process. Here are some tips to keep them moving toward that that all-important "Submit Order" button. (E-Commerce).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... THERE'S NOTHING MORE PAINFUL for an e-commerce application architect to discover than the rate at which his or her online shopping carts are abandoned. Studies show online shoppers abandon anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of shopping carts....

E-business for the healthcare industry: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) addresses transaction efficiency, and the security and privacy of data--needs that aren't only applicable to healthcare. (Standards Watch).
May 1, 2002... THE HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is about information efficiency, privacy, and security in the U.S. healthcare industry. The issues that relate to HIPAA deal with the transaction efficiency, as well as the...

Lock down Web-based mail systems: Web-based e-mail is vulnerable to five primary security problems. Here's how to address them. (Messaging Security).
May 1, 2002... E-MAIL HAS BECOME A STAPLE of today's business and personal communications. Although the basic technology used to transmit messages around the world in seconds is decades old, e-mail systems continue to improve and mature. The Web, for example,...

Hold onto your laptop: tips for protecting your laptop and other valuables when traveling internationally. (Laptop Security).
May 1, 2002... TRAVELING OUT OF THE COUNTRY is stressful. While you're juggling luggage and itineraries in an unfamiliar locale, it's easy for your laptop to get lost in the shuffle. It's even easier for someone to steal it. Whether you're en route on a plane...

Collaboration? Or information overload?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Collaboration may be harmful to your employees' productivity warns IDC. Yes, believe it or not, offering e-mail, instant messaging, team workspaces, conferencing, and enterprise and employee portals can overwhelm your users with too many...

When to use EJBs (and when not to). (Java Development).
May 1, 2002... With salary premiums being paid for EJB experience, architects and developers are often too eager to use this technology just because it's there. But, sometimes there's a performance and complexity price to be paid for using EJBs. As a...

Web services silliness. (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The major software companies can't say enough nice things about Web services, which promises an amazing future. But more amazing to Buzz is how arch competitors such as IBM, Microsoft, BEA, and Oracle keep proclaiming how much they want to work...

VB or C++? (Languages).
May 1, 2002... If you're a skilled Microsoft developer, you probably have several language skills under your belt; and, knowing when to use what language is a skill in itself. One of the choices you might have to make is whether to use VB or C++ on a given...

Dive into the broker pattern. (Patterns).
May 1, 2002... Design patterns have been gaining mindshare as a way to duplicate the design practices of good engineers. The broker pattern, for example, is an important architectural pattern in building distributed systems. The broker object coordinates...

The buck stops ... where? (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)(Column)
May 1, 2002... Buzz remembers when only computer professionals spent weekends patching software. Now it seems everyone has been sucked into the bottomless pit of constant updates, all for the non-productive purpose of not being hacked, infested, and trashed....

I want my CNN! (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Did you hear the one about the major international news agency whose Web site was down for two days because it failed to pay its domain registration fee? Sounds like headline news to Buzz, but CNN Germany isn't laughing. It happened when parent...

How wide is your wireless LAN? (e-Biz Buzz[TM]).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Buzz can't imagine not having a wireless LAN in his office and home. But keep in mind that radio transmission doesn't respect walls, property lines, or corporate policies. A University of Kansas group is tracking down wireless 802.11b network...