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Biometric Security Moves Into the Real World
No system administrator wants to admit the vulnerability of IT systems protected merely by passwords. The need to protect valuable, proprietary information systems against unauthorized access is encouraging a number of organizations to introduce biometric security measures. This short report outlines six types of biometric security systems. (3 pp, 2 figs.)
March, 2002
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Storage Future Looks Attractive
As essential as storage is to IT, managers rarely find the topic exciting. New developments in the storage arena, however, may bring new respect to this often-neglected resource. Two dominant trends that will affect storage through 2002 are improved economies and networking. This short post outlines these trends as of the year 2000.
March, 2002
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Vendor Tactics Will Dictate Directory Services Future
Network directories hold the potential for saving organizations millions of dollars in managing their IT resources. The key to this management is directory services. Directory service vendors, however, have been much more interested in using directories to control their market share than in providing customers with the resources they need.
March, 2002
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Top 10 Teen Wired Cities in America (March 2002)
America Online announced the top 10 teen wired cities in America based on a national survey of more than 6,700 parents of teens and teens conducted by Digital Marketing Services. The results are based on the amount of time that teens, ages 12 to 17, spend online on a weekly basis and also reveals what teens do while they're online, including email, homework, instant message, listen to music, research current events, play games, and more.
March, 2002
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Change is the One Constant in the Database Market
Databases are more essential today than they ever were. The problems of database management, however, are growing exponentially. Data corruption, security, meta data, Y2K, Web compatibility, XML (Extensible Markup Language), and cross-platform operability are just a few of the challenges confronting those administering databases. Database vendors from the top tier to the bottom are confronting many of these issues and are developing applications to address them. These revisions, however, often add to the burden of database management.
March, 2002
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Software Pricing Innovations Can Cut Costs
The Internet is impacting software prices in ways that many buyers will find attractive. Consequently, vendors are being forced to rethink their traditional application software pricing structures. Software vendors are experiencing negative pressures to the commonly encountered price-per-CPU pricing structure they have used in charging customers in the past. At the same time, more flexible pricing strategies are being introduced. These pricing strategies are being driven less by the software vendors themselves than by application service providers (ASP) and fall-outs of court cases such as Microsoft's recent setback. As a result, software buyers have an opportunity to reduce their application server costs if they are sufficiently informed and wise in their decisions.
March, 2002
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Above Average(s): Measuring Application Development Performance
If I was in a room with the starting centers from every team in the NBA, I could say I was about 7 feet tall--based on the average of everyone present. Although misleading, this would be a true statement. IT organizations risk falling into a similar trap of misperception if they measure application development (AD) quality and productivity based on industry averages or high-level aggregates from myriad sources. Such an approach rarely provides meaningful insight into how well or poorly you're doing. More importantly, averages can't tell you what to do to improve your software development. To use measurement effectively, it's necessary to drill down to identify specific performance gaps and take specific actions toward improvement.
March, 2002
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Application Service Providers Can Provide Cost-Effective Outsourcing Solutions (Jul 2000)
The application service provider (ASP) market grows hotter every day as organizations find new ways to cut costs and increase returns on investment through creative outsourcing by means of these online services. The ASP model is based on the concept of letting someone else bring together the hardware, software, management, and staffing necessary to solve business problems. Increasingly, lenders and stockholders are looking askance at large in-house IT organizations, so creative managers are looking toward outsourcing as an alternative. And ASPs can often provide IT applications that are not suitable for traditional outsourcing.
March, 2002
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Compaq/Digital Shared Storage Overview (Aug 2000)
Shared storage provides an economical option for meeting the storage demands of multiple-host environments. Shared storage allows for more effective management of storage for a lower total cost because multiple-host storage needs can be consolidated into a few storage systems, resulting in fewer hardware components and fewer physical locations. Heterogeneous storage area networks go a step further by allowing the interconnection of multiple shared storage environments into a single network and enabling single point management of the storage environment. In addition, the consolidated storage becomes available to any host server, regardless of physical location.
March, 2002
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Turbulence Ahead in the ERP Market (Nov 2000)
The promises of the ERP revolution of a few years ago have too often been realized as expensive, bulky software coupled with painful rollouts and often wrenching organizational realignments. Consequently, ERP vendors are under the gun. Several have faced hard economic times along with rapid changeovers in the executive suites and disappointed customers. The major ERP suppliers are also facing a wakeup call from nimble e-commerce competitors such as Ariba, Clarify, Commerce One, I2 Technologies, and Siebel Systems to say nothing about their traditional adversaries, IBM and Microsoft. Application service providers are yet another threat to ERP providers' welfare.
March, 2002
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The Future of Pay Phones: Universal Communication Kiosks
As mobile technology users increasingly demand convenient connectivity, the face of mobile communications will change. Currently, the average mobile user must access multiple connections to listen to voice mail, make phone calls, and check and respond to email. Establishing each of these connections is a time-consuming process that the rushed mobile user will not tolerate when more convenient technology exists.
March, 2002
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Internet Security Rises to No. 2 Concern in Annual Pinkerton Study (Sep 2000)
Workplace violence is considered the most significant security threat to American business, according to a seventh annual Pinkerton survey completed by 286 corporate security professionals. The second most important security concern identified by the survey is the potential threat to Internet sites and computer networks. This concern jumped to second place this year from seventh last year. The study "Top Security Threats and Security Issues Facing Corporate America" was completed in May 2000 and identified the following top 10 security threats.
March, 2002
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Will Microsoft’s E-Business Plan Pay Off?
Long-time users of Microsoft products are finding themselves in that familiar but disconcerting position again as they enter the e-business realm. Just as Microsoft did with Windows and the Internet, it is once more planning on a grand scale, delaying software launch dates, and confusing potential customers. Despite these drawbacks, the likelihood of Microsoft eventually bringing successful electronic commerce to market is high. And if the products even come close to their grandiose goals, the software will solve many problems for electronic merchants.
March, 2002
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2000-2001 Industry Rankings by Number of Companies in the Sector (Oct 2000)
One way some supply chain operators identify industries within the U.S. that may by likely to participate in supply chains in 2000 and 2001 is to determine which industries have the largest number of companies in them. However, before recruiting all of the most densely populated industries into supply chains it is important for supply chain promoters to also examine the amount of revenue that is likely to flow through supply chains in the given industry. A large number of companies in an industry may mean it is a good target for supply chain participation, but supply chain promoters should not stop there.
March, 2002
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2000-2001 Industry Potential to Participate in Supply Chain Systems (Oct 2000)
To help organizations identify industries within the U.S. that have high potential for participating in supply chains in 2000 and 2001, Computer Economics ranked each industry by NAICS code in terms of its potential supply chain volume. Figure 1 shows the top ten industries that have the highest potential dollar amount flowing through supply chain systems in 2000 and 2001. The automobile wholesale sector's relative rank of 100.0 should indicate to supply chain operators looking to promote their systems that this industry has a high supply chain density and has many organizations to participate in new supply chains.
March, 2002
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