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SAS Marketing Optimization Voted Top Enterprise App
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 18, 2004
Datamation Product of the Year voters pick SAS's Marketing Optimization tool as their favorite enterprise application.
HP's iPAQ Named Best Handheld
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 17, 2004
Three-time Datamation Product of the Year 2004 winner Hewlett-Packard Co. took the mobile category by storm, with more votes than the other three finalists combined.
HP Pavilion zd7000 Named Top Laptop
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 16, 2004
Datamation readers vote HP's desktop replacement Pavilion zd7000 as the best laptop of the year.
ScriptLogic Grabs Datamation's Top Desktop Award
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 15, 2004
The field included the ubiquitous Microsoft Office 2003, but Datamation Product of the Year voters in the Desktop Product category this year gave the nod to Desktop Authority from ScriptLogic Corp.
Application Development Products of the Year 2001
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 1, 2002
datmation-poy.gif The quest to take Datamation Product of the Year honors in the application development category was too close to call in 2001, with software from Macromedia, IBM and Sun Microsystems finishing in a virtual dead heat.
Enterprise Applications Product of the Year 2001
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published February 27, 2002
datmation-poy.gif Despite the faltering economy in 2001, companies still recognized the value of enterprise application software. Winning Datamation's Product of the Year in the Enterprise Application category was the PeopleSoft 8 Supplier Relationship Management software.
A Group of One's Own
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published January 17, 2002
Career savvy IT executives know how to use online networks as a way to interact with peers, sniff out good job opportunities, and get up to speed on the latest tech issues.
Tracking a Trend, Part II
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 20, 2001
A realization that the ability to understand Web site behavior has a direct effect on customer perception and business success is driving the growth rate of the Web analytics market.
Tracking a Trend, Part I
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published March 19, 2001
A new generation of Web analytics tools gives companies the business intelligence to target customers more precisely and improve online experiences
The post-PC era
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published August 1, 1999
Thin clients have endured many bumps on the road to acceptance. But there are signs that server-based computing, along with its lightweight PC alternatives, will soon take hold.
Forever COBOL
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published June 1, 1999
Companies are using a variety of tools and techniques to maintain--and modernize--their legacy applications.
Proceed with caution
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published June 1, 1999
Virtual private networks can be cost effective, easy to use, and flexible, but security is still a major concern.
E-billing: The check is in the ether
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published April 1, 1999
The nation's largest utilities are leading the electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) charge. But a lack of standards, a confusing marketplace, legacy data hassles, and, yes, even the Y2K problem are hampering widespread adoption. So don't shred any checks just yet.
New life for clustering
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published November 1, 1998
Most shops use clustering to improve reliability, not increase capacity. UNIX server price reductions and improved Windows NT may change that view, though.
HR jumps on line
By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Article Published June 1, 1998
Whether your company has decided to push ahead with Web-enabled, self-service human resources applications or to wait for a more solid environment, one thing is for sure: Think it through. Bottom-line cost savings may not be what they appear to be.