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Researchers have long recognized that representing large and diverse data sets visually and spatially offers the potential for improving both comprehension and ease of use. With the confluence of work in geographic information systems (GIS), enterprise data systems and distributed computing, this potential is being realized across a wide range of industries -- from manufacturing, logistics and operations research to resource management, public planning, healthcare and financial services...
The business of providing small businesses with e-commerce hosting and support solutions is growing fast. The large-enterprise market is crowded, and competition is fierce. That has led an increasing number of e-commerce platform providers to enter the small and medium-sized business end, where they are looking to establish footholds Part 1 of thi...
Want to be your own boss? Got an itch to try your hand at e-commerce but don't consider yourself a techie? Maybe you've got an eye for style, the next big fad, or just useful products. Or perhaps you have the pulse of a particular space, as well as the sales and marketing savvy to put an idea to lucrative use -- but technophobia has forestalled your plans...
The size of an organization's data mountain can be expected to double roughly every five years, which can be an overwhelming prospect. For the firm that has implemented effective data management procedures, though, there's gold in them there hills.Part 1 of this three-part series explores new methods for organizing, accessing and using the wealth of information stored in most companies' data vaults...
These days it seems that science fact is at least as amazing as science fiction. In a few short generations, actual developments in the real world of computing and information systems, biotechnology, nanotechnology and robotics have surpassed the imaginary leaps of early sci-fi authors such as Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein both in terms of technical possibilities and societal ramifications...
As data warehousing continues to take hold as a powerful tool of modern business, developers are hard at work trying to build applications that will move the technology to the next level. Part 1 of this three-part series looks at how some developers are attempting to fuse two seemingly disparate worlds of data collection and retrieval -- business intelligence (BI) and geographic information systems (GIS) -- to create the multidimensional data warehousing model of the future. This installment examines some of the problems associated with that endeavor, along with some approaches toward solving them...
Since the technology of data warehousing has risen to become common currency, it has been at the epicenter of leading-edge advances in database, data analysis and decision support systems theory and practice -- and for good reason With experts estimating that the amount of data in any given organization doubles every five years, and with much of th...
IT and business managers are spending an increasing amount of time and money trying to predict what kind of return they can expect on theirsoftware investments, because their multi-networked, online working environment requires them to continually invent new approaches, asPart 1 of this two-part series makes clear Part 2 takes a look at how some ve...
A major auto manufacturer spends four years and more than US$200 million to install a Web-based enterprise resource planning system (ERP) from an industry leading developer, then pulls the plug and goes back to its legacy system An IT industry pioneer launches a leading vendor's customized order management system. Shortly thereafter, as many as 20 ...
Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world can be a hostile place Security software and servic...
As critical data continues to leave the office in laptops,PDAs and cell phones, the need for more efficient ways to secure it is growing exponentially InPart 1 of this two-part series, we examined how serious the issue of mobile device theft has become, and how deeply businesses and government institutions have been affected by it. In Part 2, we'll...
University network and IT environments are characterized by their diverse and constantly changing nature, large scale and wide scope. Today, that means weaving wireless networks, Voice over Internet Protocol, mobile phones and other digital gadgets into existing network and computing infrastructures It quickly becomes clear that university IT depar...
Last week, Maryland police arrested two teenagers for the theft of a laptop and hard drive loaded with sensitive data for millions of veterans and military personnel. The equipment contained the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of millions of up to 26.5 million veterans discharged since 1975 -- the U.S. government's worst datasecurity breach to date...
The movement toward a biofuels-based energy infrastructure in the U.S. is steadily building steam.Part 1 of this four-part series focuses on the emergence of a grass roots energy movement.Part 2 takes a look at the pros and cons of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, andPart 3 examines the use of the Internet to foster change This final installment consid...
Be it with ethanol, unused or recycled vegetable oil, biodiesel or carbon fixing, substantial efforts and progress are being made toward developing a biofuels-based energy infrastructure in the U.S. within the next decade or so. Parts one and two of this four-part article included discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative fuel source. Here, in Part 3, we'll examine one communications medium that will be playing an increasingly central role in this ongoing debate: the Internet...
As a groundswell of support in this country is building for the development of biofuels as an alternative energy source, Americans are measuring the strengths and weaknesses of every available option. Among these, of all the first-generation biofuels in the U.S., veggie oil is arguably the cleanest, easiest and most straightforward to implement. However, it doesn't have the field to itself. Quite the contrary -- its virtues may actually work against it...
It seems rarer than ever these days that a majority of Americans can get together, rally round a common cause, hash out their differences, and forge a consensus in support of a durable and lasting approach to a pressing and vital public issue. Yet that is what is happening as a groundswell builds from the grass roots up with regard to U.S. energy policy and the prospect of developing biofuels as an alternative energy source...
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