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The Golden Dream 08 October, 2003 10:32:51
The road to Web services is paved with potential opportunities, not the least of which is improved collaboration with customers, partners and suppliers. But the deafening hype combined with tall tales can make it difficult to separate fact from fiction. - +
Architecting Services 09 November, 2004 11:11:59
The idea is to optimize technology investments and achieve tighter alignment by integrating existing systems, applications and users into a flexible architecture that can easily accommodate changing needs.The SOA concept isn't new, it's not a technology per se, it isn't just the use of XML and Web services, and it's a good deal more than a development methodology. - +
Code Of Practice 10 May, 2004 10:11:58
Developers have been refactoring for years and will continue to do so, and in this regard, it is nothing new. But with the advent of new "agile" processes like extreme programming (XP) refactoring really rules. - +
Timely Response 11 September, 2003 12:08:41
With the average organisation having in excess of three dozen IT applications needing to be integrated, which together consume approximately one-third of the organisation's IT budget, anything that can help to bring costs down is desirable.Real time, right time, whatever you want to call it, dozens of vendors are lining up to give your company information "at the moment you need it". Is it just more hype or does real time wait for no organisation? - +
The Enterprise Gets Googled 08 June, 2007 11:00:00
Can you imagine an IT environment without applications to roll out? You're going to have to if Google's plan to conquer the enterprise worksCan you imagine an IT environment without applications to roll out? You're going to have to if Google's plan to conquer the enterprise works
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Talking the Talk 03 August, 2000 12:01:01
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...company executives understood their world and their place within it. With their fingers on the pulse of their companies, they knew what to watch out for. They knew their competitors. They could navigate the roads of their industries, potholes included. - +
Strike up the (broad)band 11 December, 2000 12:01:01
Telecommunications in Australia, since deregulation in 1997, has undergone a dramatic transformation from an industry with limited choices to one in which there are now more than 50 companies licensed to call themselves carriers. - +
Online Tools Boost Expert Workers Efficiency 02 August, 2000 12:01:01
Crestone International had a problem. The Atlanta-based e-commerce consultancy couldn't find enough local designers, programmers and other IT professionals to meet its rapidly escalating workload. Experiencing triple-digit growth each year since its 1995 founding, the company needed to find a way to get extra productivity out of its current employees--or face the disagreeable prospect of turning away work. "It wasn't a matter of cutting expenses; it was a question of long-term viability," says Cal Yonker, Crestone's president. - +
BPM in the trenches 30 June, 2005 16:00:53
Lately it seems the moon and the stars are perfectly aligned for BPM -- the tools and methodologies for modeling, developing, and maintaining enterprise business processes. Scores of vendors now offer BPM software, which provides the means to analyze, optimize, and automate business procedures, from procurement workflows to insurance underwriting.
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Data warehousing and data mining specialist SAS Institute gave a glimpse of its next big technology initiative - named Mercury - at the SAS European user group conference here yesterday.
According to Jim Goodnight, president and co-founder of SAS Institute, the main focus of Mercury is to increase the speed of data mining through parallel processing.
"When you are dealing with millions and millions of records for data mining, it helps to let the task get broken up into different pieces," Goodnight said.
He said Mercury will support "the concept of real-time data mining - that you are improving your models instantly every time a new transaction takes place". Its development is well underway at SAS Institute.
Meanwhile, SAS is nearing completion of its so-called Nashville project, a four-year initiative focused on re-engineering the base SAS system.
The fruits of the Nashville project are incorporated in SAS Version 8 (V8), due for general release early next year. SAS announced some of V8's key capabilities here yesterday: V8 will include 'enterprise integration technologies' (EITs) based on intelligent access engines which will enable users to draw data from both front- and back-end applications, and tailor the data for use on any client through specifications such as Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) and Corba.
EITs in V8 will also enable knowledge derived from back-office analysis to be fed back into operational systems through support for IBM's MQSeries and Microsoft's MSMQ messaging platforms, SAS officials said. New thin client interfaces have been incorporated in V8, which supports both Java and ActiveX component architectures.
V8 also supports Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) which will allow access to information from hand held devices.
"We're seeing a shift in business focus from automating business processes to generating and sharing knowledge as a means to achieve competitive advantage," said Allan Russell, vice president of strategy, SAS Institute.
"For IT this means providing a framework for creating and surfacing information to meet the needs of different users, across different platforms."
Laura Mason travelled to The Hague courtesy of SAS Institute
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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