Lauren Gibbons Paul

The top finishers in the Enterprise Applications category of Datamation’s Product of the Year Awards were a powerful group, with application vendors ranging from SAP to IBM to Cognos. But the first- and second-place spots were claimed by SAS Institute Inc. and its lesser-known subsidiary, DataFlux Corp. Datamation Product of the Year voters in this […]

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. Readers gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up to HP’s powerful business-class iPAQ 5550 series. With 128 Megabytes of RAM and a 400MHz Intel processor, these nifty little handhelds come ready to work. […]

Laptops are ready to take over the world — the world of desktops, that is. Sleek, stylish and powerful, today’s crop of laptop computers are priced more reasonably and can do more than ever before. The nominees in this year’s Datamation Laptop Product of the Year Awards are all worthy of taking the place of […]

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. The top vote getter is an interactive and remote-management tool for networked PCs. Users were won over by Desktop Authority’s ease of administration and […]

The quest to take Datamation Product of the Year honors in the application development category was too close to call in 2001. Macromedia Inc.’s JRun 3 and UltraDev 4 Studio, IBM Corp.’s Websphere Studio 4.0, and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java 2 SDK Enterprise Edition V1.3_01 shared the top spot in this hotly contested space, each […]

Despite the faltering economy in 2001, companies still recognized the value of enterprise application software. Topping the Enterprise Applications category of Datamation’s Product of the Year competition was PeopleSoft Inc.’s brand new PeopleSoft 8 Supplier Relationship Management product, which gained 78 votes, or 35% of a total 225 cast. With 24% of the vote, Siebel […]

Whenever Jay Hemmady has a question about technology –such as whether to upgrade to Microsoft XP, what are the weaknesses in Microsoft’s Passport technology or how to increase user satisfaction levels– he takes the issue to the member’s forum on CIN, the CIO Information Network from internet.com. Spending about 20 minutes per day on the […]

By Lauren Gibbons Paul (A new generation of Web-based business intelligence tools can do much more than count and collate page view information. Today, in Part II, contributing writer Lauren Gibbons Paul says that Web BI are being used to hone business strategies, target marketing promotions, ease site navigation, and more.) The Web analytics market […]

For a retailer, ABC Distributing Inc. has an unusual business model. The family-owned company began as a direct-mail seller of gifts and housewares in the 1950s. Rather than mail its catalogs to people’s homes, North Miami, Fla., company sends them to businesses in the hopes that the workers–mostly female–will pass them around and pool their […]

Today, early thin-client adopter Chip Childress understands that manageability is the true power of thin clients. But that hasn’t always been the case. Four years ago, he was attracted to thin clients because he thought they would be cheaper than full-blown PCs. AT A GLANCE: Holston Medical Group The company: Holston Medical Group is a […]