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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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• Emerging Governance Structures for Tackling Information Management

  Laying the Structure for a Strategic Core Competency in Information Management

  by Patricia Seybold

  Information management is looming as a necessary strategic core competence for organizations in the 21st century. Here’s how forward-thinking organizations are organizing themselves to tackle information management strategically.
  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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• Siebel Acquires UpShot and Motiva

  Strengthening SFA Functionality, Technology, and Packaging

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report presents our take on Siebel’s October 15, 2003, acquisitions of UpShot Corporation and Motiva, Inc.
  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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• The Top 10 Reasons that CRM Projects Fail

  and Our Prescription for Ensuring that Your CRM Project Won’t

  by Mitchell Kramer

  We’ve heard over and over again that 80 percent of CRM projects fail. We’re not sure that this is the right number, but there’s been a lot of commonality in the reasons for this failure. So much so that we offer in this report the top 10 reasons for thos
  Oct. 2, 2003

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• Making Progress in Cross-Channel Retail

  Sears and Lands' End Take Great Strides in Their Merger, but They Still Have Opportunities to Grab

  by Patricia Seybold

  Sears and Lands’ End are just over a year into their merger. Here’s a progress report on merger progress to-date.
  Sep. 25, 2003

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