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  • The evolution of the hosted app

    Posted March 26, 2001 - 4:35 pm

    APPLICATION SERVICE providers, or ASPs, first gained traction as a way to reduce the pain and cost of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications. But although interest in ASPs remains keen, the IT community is leery of this software delivery model.

  • Tom Davenport critiques the CIA's new knowledge management system

    Posted March 26, 2001 - 11:46 am

    Ever see the movie Enemy of the State? In this (pretty decent) movie, Will Smith witnesses a murder by a U.S. senator and then has to outwit an intelligence agency with virtually perfect information on his whereabouts, vocal expressions, friends and family, and so on. It seemed to me that everything in the movie was actually possible if only the various data, information and knowledge bases at the agency were fully integrated and available in real-time.

  • Case study: The CIA updates its knowledge management system

    Posted March 26, 2001 - 11:42 am

    The Central Intelligence Agency doesn't like to talk about its mistakes. It's not just embarrassing, but officials believe exposing details about how an operation went wrong reveals too much about how it captures enemy secrets. But published statements and news reports suggest one recent error—the U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war last year, which killed three and injured 20—happened in part because CIA officers targeted what they thought was a Yugoslav Army warehouse based on outdated maps, and others failed to catch the mistake before the proposal was passed to the military.

  • IBM adds data mining to DB2

    Posted March 26, 2001 - 11:25 am

    CONTINUING THE TREND of packing BI (business intelligence) functionality into the database, IBM is putting a piece of its Intelligent Miner data mining tool into DB2.

  • IBM adds data mining to DB2

    Posted March 23, 2001 - 10:44 am

    CONTINUING THE TREND of packing BI (business intelligence) functionality into the database, IBM is putting a piece of its Intelligent Miner data mining tool into DB2.

  • CeBIT: IBM talks wireless partnerships, portal services

    Posted March 23, 2001 - 10:37 am

    IBM stormed the massive CeBIT trade show here Thursday, showing off its WebSphere Portal Server alongside such high-tech goodies as a networked Porsche Boxster car, a new Linux watch, and a high-resolution computer display that Big Blue says is twelve times sharper than current displays and ready to ship. Company executives touted wireless partnerships with the likes of Symbian and Intel and talked up IBM's growth in Europe's mobile Internet market.

  • CeBit: iPlanet steps up wireless access to corporate portals

    Posted March 23, 2001 - 10:31 am

    THE COMPANY FORMED by the Sun-Netscape alliance, iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, introduced a Mobile Access Pack for its iPlanet Portal Server Thursday at the CeBit show in Hanover, Germany, extending the portal platform to include integrated wireless capabilities.

  • Reporting and information dissemination come to the fore in e-commerce

    Posted March 22, 2001 - 12:41 pm

    AS E-COMMERCE REQUIRES tighter integration among suppliers, partners, and customers, e-businesses are finding themselves dealing increasingly in content. And although this rising tide of content is hard for many organizations to manage, the increased data can mean opportunity.

  • Capturing the total customer

    Posted March 21, 2001 - 3:35 pm

    NO ONE DISPUTES that rolling out a CRM (customer relationship management) solution across an enterprise is difficult. But in the past couple of years the Internet has greatly boosted CRM integration, making it easier to link disparate business units that often run proprietary, stove-piped systems.

  • Web collaboration enlivens business relationships

    Posted March 21, 2001 - 3:13 pm

    IN THE DAYS before the Internet became the centerpiece of the corporate survival kit, business project lines were drawn neatly in accordance with geography and enterprise borders. The emergence of the Internet and e-business smashed a wrecking ball through corporate departmental walls and geographic boundaries, offering a virtual medium for the complex and technology-intensive interaction required for collaboration and project development.

  • Novell pins hopes for rebound on One Net strategy

    Posted March 21, 2001 - 1:45 pm

    The struggling software vendor is focusing on an initiative to tie intranets, extranets and the Internet together, and some attendees at its user conference said they buy into the vision -- though not without some qualms.

  • Developers must focus on linking Net services

    Posted March 19, 2001 - 3:32 pm

    Everywhere you look these days, vendors are talking about Web services. The immediate problem we face, however, is not the lack of Web services but rather the lack of an infrastructure to link Web services into something where the whole is greater than the parts. A Web service today is little more than a database-driven Web site where many users come together and use the same application in a collaborative fashion. This is a lot more than simply hosting an application; it's all about providing the infrastructure around an application to create an environment.

  • Collaborate to Cure

    Posted March 16, 2001 - 3:14 pm

    WHEN JAMES HEYWOOD'S brother developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, two years ago, Heywood looked to the Internet to learn more about the debilitating disease. After months of Web searches, however, he concluded that the ALS community was spread too thin. Scientists posted positive findings but produced no therapies and conducted good research but sponsored little development. As Heywood saw it, doctors needed IT to bring them together to coordinate their efforts.

  • CMGI may sell more units

    Posted March 15, 2001 - 4:31 pm

    Internet investing firm CMGI said yesterday that its loss for the three months ended Jan. 31 was $2.6 billion. The company also said it may sell off more units to become profitable.

  • Volera exec talks up caching, content

    Posted March 14, 2001 - 6:24 pm

    Earlier this month, Novell spun off Volera to handle its Internet Caching System and Content Exchange products. Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor spoke to Simon Khalaf, president of Volera, about the company and where it is going.

  • Show to feature products for boosting content speed

    Posted March 14, 2001 - 6:16 pm

    More than 50 vendors and people are expected this week to attend the Content Delivery Networks Event 2001, which will feature an array of hardware and software aimed at speeding up and easing the management of Web and e-commerce sites.

  • Mongoose aims to ease portal changes

    Posted March 14, 2001 - 5:47 pm

    ComNet-goers this week.

  • Data mining, Part 2 of 2

    Posted March 8, 2001 - 3:10 pm

    Last week we looked at the practice of data mining, the process of selecting, exploring and modeling large amounts of data to uncover previously unknown patterns. These patterns can then reveal relationships that may otherwise remain unobserved. Once observed, the relationships can be parlayed into action that leads to greater business value.

  • Data mining, Part 1 of 2

    Posted March 8, 2001 - 3:07 pm

    We all know that feeling when you stick your hand into a pocket and find an unexpected $5 or $10 bill. Bonus bucks! Well, what if you could dip your hand into that pocket and routinely pull out $100 or $1,000? Oh, the joy of a hidden treasure that suddenly gets discovered.

  • Another vendor attacks dynamic content

    Posted March 8, 2001 - 3:03 pm

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  • Microsoft upgrading SharePoint Portal Server

    Posted March 8, 2001 - 1:05 pm

    MICROSOFT THIS WEEK introduced a second release candidate, or preview version, of its SharePoint Portal Server, the company's enterprise-level portal product.

  • Akamai, Context Media smooth out digital content sharing

    Posted March 8, 2001 - 11:33 am

    AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES AND content syndication player Context Media announced a partnership on Wednesday designed to boost the distribution and syndication of corporate digital content.

  • Sybase unveils new version of portal, inks deal with EDS

    Posted March 7, 2001 - 11:28 am

    ATTEMPTING TO BOOST up enterprise connectivity with trading partners and wireless users, Sybase on Monday introduced Enterprise Portal (EP) 2.0, which provides a portal environment for secure access to a variety of corporate applications and information sources. The company, in Emeryville, Calif., also announced an alliance with systems integrator EDS to combine Sybase's enterprise portal with EDS consulting services.

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    Semio rolls out integration toolkit

    Posted March 6, 2001 - 11:17 am

    This week Semio will unveil the Semio Integration Toolkit, a software development kit that company officials say simplifies the process of marrying the Semio software into other applications.

  • Content management attracts b-to-b players

    Posted March 5, 2001 - 3:32 pm

    As suppliers and distributors wake up to the important role content plays in fueling online marketplaces, vendors of content management systems for product distribution are ramping up functionality.
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