Customer Analytics, Inc. is the latest business-intelligence company to enter the market.

C&A, Europe's number one fashion retailer, reports it has experienced a significant increase in direct mail response and profitability since

Distributed computing has been a seductive, but mostly elusive, ideal for the computing industry for decades. Lower costs and reduced dependence on central systems are two reasons why the idea of distributed processing and data out into the field where they are actually used have been attractive to many companies.

Distributed computing has been a seductive, but mostly elusive, ideal for the computing industry for many decades. Lower costs and reduced dependence on central systems are two reasons why the idea of distributing processing and data out into the field where they are actually used have been attractive to many companies.

In this interview, George Gluecksmann, systems architect for customer support and information systems at Creo Products, Inc., talks about the company's implementation of SAP and subsequent infrastructure changes, including the introduction of a new front-end system and middleware from Active Software.

Customer Analytics, Inc. is the latest business-intelligence company to enter the market.

Digital Archaeology has released Digital Archaeology Discovery Suite 2.0, the latest version of the company's integrated data mart and analytical platform, and C-Discovery, a new packaged application for marketing analysis.

C&A, Europe's number one fashion retailer, reports it has experienced a significant increase in direct mail response and profitability since implementing Decisionhouse, Quadstone's customer behavior modeling software.

ARDENT SOFTWARE announced new products that support the PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)/Warehouse. Ardent's Extract Packaged Applications Connection Kit (PACK) populates the PeopleSoft Warehouse with data from various sources.

Many, if not virtually all of us, readily agree that the software industry is no longer a cottage industry. Modern tools and high-level languages have brought enormous advances in productivity.

In the wake of Year 2000, IT senior management will be more conscious than ever that software process excellence can alleviate future fire fighting and disasters. Launching or resurrecting a software process improvement (SPI) initiative using the CMM as a guide is likely to be a priority item on many IT executives' agendas.

Many people believe that software development organizations will make major changes to their software development processes in the new millennium. These people think that the Year 2000 problem has been an effective wakeup call for these organizations, which will now proceed to invest heavily in improving their software development processes.

In the mid-1970s, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, and others at Xerox PARC articulated a vision of distributed personal computing. The PC revolution of the 1980s achieved the "personal" aspect of the vision, while in the 1990s, the Internet phenomenon is completing the "distributed" side.

Software process in the 21st century will best be described by two words: just enough. People will want just enough knowledge; people will use just enough process; and they will want this just in time.

Silver bullets and wooden stakes are time-tested components for dealing with vampires and werewolves. Of course, you have to remember which component is to be applied to which monster. Unfortunately, you also have to be at pretty close range to use these components. Use the wrong one, and you are unlikely to have a second chance.

Silver bullets and wooden stakes are time-tested components for dealing with vampires and werewolves. Of course, you have to remember which component is to be applied to which monster. Unfortunately, you also have to be at pretty close range to use these components. Use the wrong one, and you are unlikely to have a second chance.

Many leading companies in software engineering outperform median companies by at least 50:1 in terms of the efficiency of their software processes as measured by the

Many leading companies in software engineering outperform median companies by at least 50:1 in terms of the efficiency of their software processes as measured by the