Market Analysis: Understanding Business Process Management By Doug Henschen and Lori MacVittie
Effective business process management integrates people, processes and apps to ensure a cohesive team and boost the bottom line. Join us as we explore the BPM market.
Review: Business Process Management Suites By Lori MacVittie
We put nine suites through rigorous testing. Our Editor's Choice got the winning bid for satisfying the needs of both business analysts and IT staff with its simulation capabilities and standards support. Find out which offering it was.
Review: Web Analytics Products By Jeffrey Rubin and Ravind Budhiraja
Knowing where visitors to your Web site have been can help you determine where to guide them to maximize profits. However, the amount of clickstream data that must be mined and analyzed to ascertain this information is formidable. Web analytics products can help. We examine seven providers to determine which offers the most accurate information in the most user-friendly format.
Affordable IT: Securing Your IM Systems By Michael J. DeMaria
Your end users are going to use Instant Messaging systems--with or without IT's blessing. Find out how to keep your network safe and secure, whether your IM app is public or private.
Workshops
Workshop: A Solution to Linux Management By Jeff Ballard
There's no need to spend big bucks upgrading and troubleshooting your Linux machines. Plenty of free, open-source tools will centrally manage your servers and workstations. The key is choosing the right one for your environment. We'll get you started.
Buyer's Guide: Replication Products By Don MacVittie
Replication systems provide safe, simple copying to multiple locations in near real time. We highlight the hot features.
Sneak Preview: Parasoft's SOAPtest 4.0 By Lori MacVittie
The latest version is bigger, bolder and easier to use, and 4.0's robust regression testing makes it easy to secure your Web apps.
Last Mile: The Tribe Has Spoken Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa We present the Top 11 reasons the next 'Survivor' should not be held in a data center. Plus, the do-it-yourself Grokbot and the really personal computer.
Quick Takes: Security Event Management By Patricia Thomas
This edition looks at Dorian Software Creations' Event Rover, AppRiver's SecureTide, dtSearch Corp.'s Network 7.0 and Bluestream Database Software Corp.'s XStream DB 3.2 Native XML Database.
Letters: IT and Change By NWC Readers
Craig Schwabb says, "As an IT manager, the real challenge is knowing when the latest technology is right for your enterprise."
Columns
Down to Business: RFID Makes Waves By Rob Preston
No budding information technology has caught the public's attention--both positively and negatively--like radio frequency identification.
The IT Agenda: Protecting IT Budgets From Greedy Vendors By Jonathan Feldman
Face it, most vendors are 'in it' to make money, so here are some tips on how to save your hard-won budgets from being snarfed up by those money-hungry outsiders.
Reality IT: Filling in the Void of Key IT Staffers By Hunter Metatek
Hunter deals with the departure of a key network engineer in the ACME IT department and learns some lessons about job descriptions and knowledge transfer.
BuzzCuts
BuzzCut: Cisco Unveils Intelligent, Application-Level Routing By Lori MacVittie Cisco's entry may not be as earth-shattering as some claim, but it will give the technology a new level of credibility, helping it catch the eyes--and pocketbooks--of enterprise IT.
BuzzCut: Report on Growth in Wireless Handheld Market Flawed? By Dave Molta
A new Gartner report indicates strong wireless device sales. But the market share data could be erroneous, thanks to a rather arbitrary classification of smartphones and PDAs.
BuzzCut: Depublishing Cheapens the Value of Online Content By Michael J. DeMaria
Recently, some Web site operators have taken to deleting or rewriting Web content that became controversial or was criticized. Online publishers should be required to leave original content on their sites; after all, print publishers cannot change their published copy.
FudBuster: Court Throws the Book at Adelphia Book-Cookers By Tim Wilson
The company's former CEO and CFO are both up for long stays in the big house, and other stiff high-tech sentences are likely to be handed down in the coming weeks.
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2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
Though raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and job security’s shrinking, IT careers are looking safer than many others in this economic downturn. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's 2009 IT Salary Survey. Available FREE for a limited time.
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