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| October 13, 2005 -- Market Analysis: Business Intelligence | |
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Market Analysis: Business Intelligence By Lori MacVittie Users want a single source of business intelligence that binds many data repositories. Is it finally within their grasp? |
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Review: Business Intelligence Suites By Lori MacVittie We tested six BI products. One not only earned our Editor's Choice but also a permanent home in our business applications lab thanks to a full-featured Web interface and easy-to-use modeling tool. |
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Affordable IT: Security Outsourcing By Jay A. Milne Outsourcing your organization's information security can expose you to great risks. We show you how a well-planned strategy can realize benefits in cost, efficiency, expertise and peace of mind. |
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The State of E-Mail (In)Security By Terry Dickson Avinti's CEO discusses the successful and unscrupulous of the online underworld. |
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Review: 'Smart' USB Drives By Barbara Krasnoff The Memorex Mini TravelDrive and Iomega Mini let you run applications directly off a USB drive without muss or fuss. Which one is right for you? |
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A 10-Minute Guide to Deploying VoIP
By Matthew Friedman Thinking of rolling out VoIP? It's tougher and more time-consuming than you think. But this 10-Minute guide will give you the rundown on everything you need to know before you get started. |
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Buyer's Guide: HIPAA Compliance Products By Sean Doherty It's time to get serious about satisfying HIPAA's physical-safeguard standards. We'll guide you in choosing hardware and software that satisfies those intricate requirements. |
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Exploring Cricket By Jonathan Feldman An open-source tool, Cricket lets you easily create baselines to monitor everything from frame-relay error rates on routers to disk and CPU utilization on servers. |
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ComBrio's Virtual Service Infrastructure 2.0 (Beta) By Sean Doherty VSI helps you comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations through a policy-based VPN-like environment. |
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ConSentry Networks' Secure LAN Controller Family By John H. Sawyer These appliances restrict network access and block malware from inside your network. |
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Sun Microsystems' Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 By Sean Doherty SRSS 3.1 delivers low-cost server-based computing without--gasp--Windows. |
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Last Mile: Trade Show Trauma Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa In this edition we laugh at the "Top 11 worst places to hold an IT tradeshow" and Pizza Delivery, the next generation. Plus, your chance to rename the Internet. |
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Quick Takes: Business Intelligence Software By Patricia Thomas This edition looks at Adobe Systems' LifeCyle, DataMirror's DB/XML Transform 3.0 and more. |
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Letters: Don't Alter Kernel By NWC Readers Larry Tenison notes, "It's been a long time since I've heard of any vendor advocating modification of a native OS to boost performance." |
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Down to Business: Innovation Is Alive and Well By Rob Preston Just because budgets are tight and too many venture capitalists are chasing too few entrepreneurs doesn't mean innovation is moribund. |
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Reality IT: Business Process Reinvention By Hunter Metatek Hunter deals with an egotistical VP who thinks he knows all the answers regarding a project for converting legacy inventory/warehouse systems to ERP. |
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Behind the MS/Palm Treo Collaboration By Richard Hoffman The new Windows-based Treo smartphone could spell trouble for PalmSource; it could also be a big win for users. |
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Media Player Vulnerabilities Raise Control Issues By Garret Michael Hayes Security breaches in RealPlayer, Helix Player raise questions about how to control deployment and use of multimedia players. |
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Sun's StarOffice 8 Could Give MS a Challenge By Peter Morrissey Offering many of the same features as the ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite, StarOffice could prove to be a low-cost alternative. |
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New Regulations Will Affect VoIP Operations, Deployment By Michael J. DeMaria The FCC recently gave VoIP service providers an extension on their 911 notification program while also imposing wiretap requirements on the technology. |
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FUDBusters: Broadband Everywhere? Not So Fast By Tim Wilson A new survey indicates that broadband deployment in end-user homes has slowed to a crawl after a very fast start. |
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Spyware Plagues Online Ad Networks By Christopher T. Heun The black sheep of the Web-advertising business is the product of a flawed system that distributes ads through companies far removed from the original advertisers. |
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