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• EasyAsk Commerce Advisor Product Search Solution

  EasyAsk Enterprise 9 Family Enables You to Build Consistent Search and Navigation Using All Your Product Information Assets

  by Susan Aldrich

  This report evaluates EasyAsk against our framework for product search solutions.
  Nov. 20, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Data Warehouse Databases: Best Data Type Support

  Which Providers Offer the Best Data Type Support?

  by Mitchell Kramer

  Our “Bull’s-Eye” graphical report presents the highest-level summary of our analysis, evaluation, and comparison of the data type support in the four leading data warehouse databases.
  Nov. 20, 2003

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• Understanding the Strategies of Major Enterprise Content Management Suppliers

  Which Suppliers' Strategies Match Yours? Which Suppliers Will Remain Viable?

  by Geoffrey Bock

  This report charts the landscape for seven enterprise content management vendors. It assesses the business strategy, viability, product strategy, and cultural fit for Documentum, FileNet, IBM, Interwoven, Merant, Microsoft, and Stellent.
  Nov. 20, 2003

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• Data Warehouse Database Feature Comparison Matrix

  Comparing IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition Version 8.1, Oracle9i Enterprise Edition, Sybase IQ 12.5, and Teradata Warehouse 7.0 against Our Evaluation Framework

  by Mitchell Kramer

  In this report, we summarize our framework-based evaluations of four data warehouse database products in the form of a matrix.
  Nov. 13, 2003

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• Building New Applications Using Service-Oriented Architectures

  Implementation Strategies and Example

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report describes how to compose new applications from services and works through a case study based on a Customer Scenario and candidate services list developed in our Service Granularity reports.
  Nov. 6, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull’s-Eye: Enterprise Portal Platforms: Best Overall Portal Platform

  Which Providers Offer the Best Overall Portal Platform?

  by David Marshak

  The Enterprise Portal Platform Composite Bull’s-Eye aggregates our ratings of the key services of portal platform products from IBM, Oracle, Plumtree, SAP, and Vignette.
  Nov. 6, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull’s-Eye: Enterprise Portal Platforms: Best Personalization Services

  Which Providers Offer the Best Personalization Services?

  by David Marshak

  This Bulls-Eye is our evaluation of the personalization capabilities provided by the portal platforms of IBM, Oracle, Plumtree, SAP, and Vignette.
  Oct. 30, 2003

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• Teradata Warehouse 7.0

  An Excellent Database for the Largest Data Warehouses

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report evaluates Teradata Warehouse 7.0 against our framework for data warehouse databases.
  Oct. 30, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull’s-Eye: Enterprise Portal Platforms: Best Customization Services

  Which Providers Offer the Best Customization Services?

  by David Marshak

  This Bull’s-Eye is our evaluation of the customization capabilities provided by the portal platforms of IBM, Oracle, Plumtree, SAP, and Vignette.
  Oct. 23, 2003

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• Time to Take Another Look at Your Application Adapters

  New Integration Technologies Deserve Consideration

  by Paul Korzeniowski

  The key to solving your ongoing application integration challenges may lie in the next generation of application adapters; in this article, you will learn what benefits these devices may offer your company.
  Oct. 23, 2003

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• Why EMC Acquired Documentum

  Towards the Next Generation Platform for Storing and Managing Enterprise Content

  by Geoffrey Bock

  EMC Corporation, a company that has made its mark over the past decade by delivering networked storage solutions, plans to acquire Documentum, an industry-leading enterprise content management software provider.  We believe that competing enterprise content management vendors will now need to address the persistent storage requirements for the unstructured business information that they produce and manage as part of their product offering.
  Oct. 16, 2003

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• Retrofitting Applications Using Service-Oriented Architectures

  Implementation Case Study

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report works through a case study of retrofitting applications using Web Services that are integrated into or run in parallel with the applications themselves.
  Oct. 16, 2003

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• Computer Associates International Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) 3.0

  Service Level Monitoring for Web Services

  by Susan Aldrich

  Computer Associates will release Unicenter WSDM by year-end 2003 to help customers manage the service levels of Web Services and keep track of what services are being offered.
  Oct. 9, 2003

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• Producing an XML-Based E-Catalog at Snap-on Incorporated

  Maintaining an Adaptive Product Content Management Solution for Enterprise Operations

  by Geoffrey Bock

  Snap-on Incorporated now deploys an XML-based e-catalog that extends the company’s existing business processes to the Web. We believe that Snap-on’s experience demonstrates how a well-designed XML-based e catalog avoids the overhead of maintaining produc
  Oct. 9, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull’s-Eye: Portal Platforms

  Which Providers Offer the Best Portlet Development Capabilities?

  by David Marshak

  This Bull’s-Eye is our evaluation of the Portlet Development capabilities provided by the portal platforms of IBM, Oracle, Plumtree, SAP, and Vignette.
  Oct. 9, 2003

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• Retrofitting Applications with Service-Oriented Architectures

  Implementation Strategies and Alternatives

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report explains how to retrofit applications that suffer from four data and application problems that don’t yield to entirely external, non-invasive solutions: obsolete data structures or missing data, redundant data, redundant processing, and busin
  Oct. 2, 2003

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• Three Steps to Success in Cross-Business Interactions

  Coordination and Trust Will Enable You to Seize Web Service and Portal Opportunities, Reaping the Value While Containing the Risks

  by Susan Aldrich

  Web Services and Portals can make it easier to do business, but you’ll need to plan for changes in relationship, trust, and system capabilities in order to take advantage of new opportunities.
  Sep. 18, 2003

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• DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition

  A Comprehensive Bundle for Top-End Data Warehouses

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report evaluates IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition against our framework for data warehouse databases.
  Sep. 11, 2003

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• Solving the Root Causes of Nine Common Data and Application Problems

  SOA Solutions that Minimize Changes to Applications

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report explains how to solve common data and application integration problems using IT services.
  Sep. 11, 2003

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• Using Service-Oriented Architecture to Deal with Data and Application Problems

  Nine Common Issues in Dealing with Data and Applications

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report identifies nine common data and applications problems and the four underlying architectural causes that all share in common. We outline how SOA and, specifically, Web Services, can address each root cause and each of the nine common IT integr
  Sep. 4, 2003

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