Also, in "Mobility Tail Wags the Sybase Database Business," Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen describes how the specialty DBMS vendor counts on secure delivery of data, messaging and intelligence as a boon to financial institutions and a key to long-term growth.
--Antone Gonsalves, Editor
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In This Issue (See Stories Below)
1. Top Stories
- Seven Details That Bust Web Analytics Budgets
- Mobility Tail Wags the Sybase Database Business
2. Channel: Application Management
- Oracle Shows How to Juggle Data for Application Performance on the Grid
3. Channel: Process Management
- American Express Targets 'Maverick' Purchasing, Supplier Overcharges
- CA Unveils Unicenter Service Catalog for IT Services
4. Channel: Enterprise Applications
- Hypervisors May Replace Operating Systems as King of the Data Center
- VMware CTO Sees Linux Advantage in Virtualizing the Data Center
5. Channel: Application Integration
- Java and .Net Come Together in Belgium
6. Channel: Information Management
- IBM Offers Blade Server-Based Information Management
- Google Pack Picks Up Free Office Suite
7. Channel: Business Intelligence
- Analysts' Take: Composite's CIS 4.5 Offers Broader Virtualization
- EnterpriseDB Seeks New Role as a Data Warehouse
8. News & Analysis
- Business Continuity: To Err Is Human, to Plan Is Divine
- Novell Calls for Standardized Certification of Linux ISVs
- Amazon Pushes Data-Center-to-Rent Service
- Financial Firms Discuss How to Build a Better Data Center
9. Opinion
- Business Objects Releases Free Crystal Viewer
- CMS Watch Partners With AIIM on Training
- Oracle Touts Leadership: Should We Believe Them? 数据挖掘研究院
- Europe Drives Omniture's Growth
10. White Papers
- Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on Intelligent Platform Management Interface
- Configuring WMI Performance Monitors
1. Top Stories
- Seven Details That Bust Web Analytics Budgets
By Phil Kemelor
Too many organizations fail to consider these not-so-hidden fine points when implementing Web analytics systems. Whether you choose SaaS or licensed software, here's the nitty gritty that can wind up breaking the bank.
- Mobility Tail Wags the Sybase Database Business 数据挖掘研究院
By Doug Henschen
The specialty DBMS vendor counts on secure delivery of data, messaging and intelligence as a boon to financial institutions and a key to long-term growth.
2. Channel: Application Management
- Oracle Shows How to Juggle Data for Application Performance on the Grid
By Charles Babcock
Oracle is taping a recent acquisition, Coherence, to bolster its applications and take data at a much faster speed directly out of server memories.
3. Channel: Process Management
- American Express Targets 'Maverick' Purchasing, Supplier Overcharges
By Doug Henschen
CatalogPro service puts approved purchasing programs online. Contract Audit & Recovery service spots overspending and seeks refunds.
- CA Unveils Unicenter Service Catalog for IT Services
By Elena Malykhina
The catalog provides a centralized, secure location where users can find, review and order available IT services or request new ones.
4. Channel: Enterprise Applications
- Hypervisors May Replace Operating Systems as King of the Data Center
By Antone Gonsalves
The increased use of virtualization in the data center will enhance the importance of hypervisors and diminish the importance of Windows, Linux and other general-purpose operating systems. 数据挖掘研究院
- VMware CTO Sees Linux Advantage in Virtualizing the Data Center
By Charles Babcock
Is there a virtualization battle with Microsoft on the horizon? Based on the market-share growth of Linux, Mendel Rosenblum seems to think so.
5. Channel: Application Integration
- Java and .Net Come Together in Belgium 数据挖掘研究院
By Thomas Claburn
Mainsoft's suite of .Net-Java software integration tools made it easy for University Hospital of Ghent to implement IBM WebSphere in its .Net environment.
6. Channel: Information Management
- IBM Offers Blade Server-Based Information Management
By Antone Gonsalves
IBM unveils Information Server Blades, a combination of hardware and software for building data warehouses on grid-computing environments. 数据挖掘研究院
- Google Pack Picks Up Free Office Suite
By Thomas Claburn
The addition of StarOffice to Google Pack shows Google confronting Microsoft more directly than ever before.
7. Channel: Business Intelligence
- Analysts' Take: Composite's CIS 4.5 Offers Broader Virtualization 数据挖掘研究院
By David Stodder
By supporting service-oriented architecture and data services, Composite's new release fills scalability holes in the middle tier.
- EnterpriseDB Seeks New Role as a Data Warehouse
By Charles Babcock
By adding a multiserver, parallel query capability, EnterpriseDB is trying to provide a low-cost alternative to other commercial database systems.
8. News & Analysis
- Business Continuity: To Err Is Human, to Plan Is Divine
By Larry Greenemeier
Although disasters make headlines, 80 percent of all IT outages are caused by human error. To defend against downtime or service interruptions, organizations need to maintain strong business continuity plans.
- Novell Calls for Standardized Certification of Linux ISVs
By Antone Gonsalves 数据挖掘研究院
Ron Hovsepian tells the LinuxWorld audience that it needs to be easier for developers to write software that runs on multiple distributions of the OS, if Linux is to compete with Windows.
- Amazon Pushes Data-Center-to-Rent Service
By Antone Gonsalves
With EC2, the company CIO hopes application service providers can focus on adding features and not on power generators, bandwidth and hard-disk failures.
- Financial Firms Discuss How to Build a Better Data Center 数据挖掘研究院
By Elena Malykhina
Despite slow progress in some areas, virtualization is clearly making a splash on Wall Street and becoming an important component of next-generation data centers.
9. Opinion
- Business Objects Releases Free Crystal Viewer
By the Product Maven
Crystal Reports Viewer XI is an Acrobat Reader-style viewing client for Crystal Reports. The free, downloadable software lets you open and explore Crystal Reports documents, and you can generate customized views without placing demands on the report designer. While some reporting environments rely on static document formats... this viewer lets you drill down into the report tables and save personalized views. 数据挖掘研究院
- CMS Watch Partners With AIIM on Training
By Tony Byrne
This week, CMS Watch officially kicks off a formal training program. In conjunction with AIIM, we are providing classroom workshops (leading to official AIIM designations) in Information Organization & Access (IOA) and Business Process Management (BPM). The coursework was developed under the guidance of AIIM's Educational Advisory Group, and both organizations will be leading courses throughout North America, Europe and (next year) the Asia-Pacific region. Here's why these courses are so important. 数据挖掘研究院
- Oracle Touts Leadership: Should We Believe Them?
By Mark Smith
Oracle has gained a lot of weight in the BI market with its recent acquisition of Hyperion. The company is aggressively pushing its new agenda and is stating its differentiation as having the first complete, integrated, end-to-end enterprise performance management system. I am not sure what Oracle's definition of "complete and integrated" is, but at best the system is loosely coupled, with different generations of BI technologies and performance management applications yet to be fully integrated.
- Europe Drives Omniture's Growth
By Phil Kemelor
Omniture added 300 customers to its rolls in Q2 2007, including some high-profile European companies such as Siemens AG Medical, British Sky Broadcasting Group and FD Mediagroup. It's certainly in Omniture's best interest to get new customers up and running as soon as possible. But as a customer, you should carefully plan and manage implementations so they're not rushed.
9. White Papers
- Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on Intelligent Platform Management Interface 数据挖掘研究院
By Avocent Corp.
As a standardized systems management interface, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) simplifies the management of today's multivendor environments. Learn how IPMI can help you better manage more infrastructure with fewer resources.
- Configuring WMI Performance Monitors
By Ipswitch Inc.
With WMI, WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition monitors and sends alerts based on performance counters that are reported from Microsoft Windows devices. The data collected is displayed in graphical reports that show historical trends and provide highly visible network status information.
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