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Enterprise Applications Product of the Year 2000
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published February 14, 2001
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Gets the Nod
Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Product of the Year 2000
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published February 13, 2001
It's SQL Server 2000 By a Mile
E-tailers Prepare for the 2000 Holiday Season
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published October 31, 2000
This past summer, a government watchdog agency cited and fined seven online retailers for poor order fulfillment last Christmas season. Now all e-tailers are pressed to do a better job at customer service. Their weapons: increased attention to inventory, customer service, and warehouse management.
Online billing slowly gains momentum
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published September 26, 2000
Electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) has the potential to improve customer service and help retain customers--and it may also benefit your bottom line.
Rewiring the world for handhelds
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published July 1, 2000
With wireless Web devices expected to outnumber wired devices in a year or two, some forward-thinking companies are ready for the future now.
Product of the Year for 1999: EAI/Middleware IBM's MQSeries Integrator triumphs
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published February 1, 2000
Datamation readers praise all Enterprise Application Integration/middleware products for their advances, but a brand name is still key.
Use alternative dispute resolutions to keep lawyers at bay
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published November 1, 1999
More and more, organizations are turning away from the courtroom and choosing other methods of resolving IT-related disputes.
Archive storage solutions for ERP are rarely an option
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published April 30, 1999
Take it from those who know firsthand, the best way to cover your storage needs is to plan ahead, know your data and users, use generous estimates, and review your needs often.
Taking your ERP system 24x7x365
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published April 1, 1999
The challenges inherent in making an ERP system available all day, every day are daunting, but Texas Instruments proves it can be done.
Lean, mean ThinkPad machine wins client-hardware category
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published March 1, 1999
The ThinkPad 600 surged ahead of the product of the year competition in the client hardware category.
PeopleSoft upgrade sweeps enterprise apps
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published March 1, 1999
Tried-and-true ERP systems won top honors in the enterprise applications category of Datamation's 1998 Product of the Year poll, beating the up-and-coming applications that some analysts have been touting.
Manage your bandwidth
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published November 13, 1998
ATM is the way to go if you're looking for screaming bandwidth, but you'll need a set of tools to manage change, capacity, and complexity.
Distributed databases, distributed headaches
By Karen D. Schwartz |  Article Published June 1, 1998
In the multiterabyte world of really big databases, some IT executives are finding that consolidating distributed datacenters into a few "megacenters" saves them money.