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10+ common questions about SQL Server data types

SQL Server has a variety of data types, and as with anything, the more options you have, the more confusing a choice can be. Most misunderstandings arise from data type limitations rather than functionality. Here are the most common questions I receive about using SQL Server data types. ...

Tags: Byte, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Data Type, Datetime2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Susan Harkins

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Audit data using SQL Server 2005's COLUMNS_UPDATED function

Auditing data changes in your production environment is very important, especially if you are dealing with confidential information. Besides tracking the data that has been modified, it is also useful to track the individual field names that have been modified. This information is great for your auditing department, and it...

Tags: Function, Audit, Microsoft SQL Server, Auditing, Trigger, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, COLUMNS_UPDATED, COLUMNS_UPDATED Function, System Function, Tim, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tim Chapman

Blog posts 2008-05-13

An old Exchange tip highlights feature creep and overlap

Exchange grew from a simple email server to a complete collaboration and groupware package over the course of the last 12 years. Today's Classic Tip comes from TechRepublic's Exchange Tip Techmail dated May 12, 2000, and covers the popular Public Folders feature that's been around since the first version of...

Tags: Folder, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Hardware, John Sheesley

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Reduce Your IT Budget: Consolidate Data to One Platform - See How Quest Software Eases Data Migration to SharePoint

It's costly to manage and maintain multiple data platforms. By reducing the amount of supported systems, you'll save money - but is there a single platform you can trust to consolidate and manage all of your information? In the Quest white paper, "Why Migrate to SharePoint," Adam...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Migration, Quest Software Inc., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-05-06

Combine decision strategies to maximize results

Organizations have been using Business Intelligence BI, Business Process Management BPM, and Business Rule Engines BREs successfully as standalone technologies for several years. But today a number of factors - including an increased demand for IT to partner with the rest of the business and a need for effectiveness and...

Tags: Process, Business Process, BPM, Compliance, Data, Information, Rule, Technology, Rules, Jim, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Databases, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Jim Wray

Blog posts 2008-05-07

BitSlice (zip)

BitSlice is a set of readymade business components encapsulating business functionality that can be used to build business applications quickly and efficiently. BitSlice Component technology allows the developer to demarcate the application into levels of distinct functionality that could be stitched together to compose the application. The BitSlice components can...

Tags: Application, Business Application, Domain, Composite Software Systems, BitSlice, BitSlice Component Technology, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Integrate services into business processes to achieve your SOA objectives

A correctly implemented service-oriented architecture SOA is built on flexible and effective business and infrastructure services. This sample chapter from Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice discusses various ways you can integrate those services into your organization's business processes. It looks at service interaction patterns, service access mechanisms, types of...

Tags: Business Process, SOA, Service, Addison-Wesley, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Operational Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

Book chapters 2008-05-08

YouCMSAndBlog WYSIWYG IDE (zip)

A WYSIWYG IDE for your CMS (Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, php-Nuke) and Blog Templates (Blogger, Wordpress) with code colouring, highlight words and easily extendable to any other CMS or Blog systems through XML config files. You can easily extend and create new support for other open source CMS and blog authoring...

Tags: Blog, Plug-in, Content Management System, Sunento Wu, Content Management, Blogging, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2008-05-09

SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled....

Tags: Design Pattern, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-04-03

ActiveVOS

ActiveVOS makes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of services-based applications easy. By delivering the best of open standards like the Business Process Execution Language BPEL, BPEL4People and WS-Human Task in a comprehensive, all-in-one environment, developers working in a services-oriented architecture environment can deliver applications flexibly, freeing their processes...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, Active Endpoints, ActiveVOS, ActiveVOS 5.01, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-12

TOAD for DB2 (1)

TOAD for DB2 is a database development solution that provides productivity features/functions for rapidly creating and executing queries, facilitating database object management, developing SQL code, and accessing DB2 expertise instantly. Toad Developers have access to a community of users, peers, and experts. Version 3.1.1 includes brand new version with many...

Tags: Quest Software Inc., IBM DB2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-05-07

Strategies for enabling more effective IT-Business collaboration with business rule technology

Effective collaboration between business and IT is essential to the success of both SOA and BPM; as Microsoft points out, "SOA by itself is not sufficient to guarantee alignment of business and IT." A Business Rule Engine can act both as a technology and collaboration enabler; this...

Tags: Business Process, Application, Business Analyst, Collaboration, Information Technology, Business Logic, Business, Calculation, SOA, Rule, Workflow, Organization, Logic, Business Rule Engine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, Management, Theresa ONeil

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Webcast: Best Practices for a Successful SOA Implementation

Pundits claim that you will reap returns on your SOA investments only after the implementation reaches a critical mass. Oracle Fusion Middleware customers have repeatedly demonstrated phenomenal ROI from the get-go. It is a potent combination of seasoned implementers and underlying product capabilities that have ensured tactical as...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, SOA, Best Practice, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-05-05

COPC DLL (zip)

COPC DLL is a light-weight activeX for SCADA developer. COPC DLL is appropriate for developer who like flexible of size configurable within large of OPC tags. COPC DLL use small of memory. Then you can create SCADA system for large of tags within hi-speed of operation. This version is the...

Tags: DLL, SCADA, EDA Instruments & System, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-06

SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change

When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, most information technology IT professionals and business leaders rightly imagine the many benefits that their organizations will see in improved customer interaction, greater business agility, efficient asset reuse, and flexible growth options. Indeed, SOA is one of the bright lights...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-03-21

MKN TaskExplorer 2008 (exe)

MKN TaskExplorer is an advanced process management tool that enables you to easily manage the tasks and applications running on your system. TaskExplorer shows detailed information about each process, including performance and memory graphs, DLLs loaded, threads, and access token. It also shows the information about the handles opened by...

Tags: Process, Process Management, Performance, MKN Software, MKN TaskExplorer, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Improving Financial Performance with Enterprise Resource Planning

Large IT enterprises for many years now have realized the improved financial performance of integrated ERP application suites. Some of them have also experienced the challenges and difficulties that come with being pioneers in business process improvement. But those pioneering efforts have brought us to a point where modular, value-based...

Tags: Financial, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-03-12

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

If you're looking to take your customer relationship management to the next level, we invite you to try Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for 30 days free. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is a groundbreaking new hosted solution that gives you Microsoft Dynamics CRM capabilities without the investment in IT infrastructure and...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft Dynamics Live, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-04

SWU Stadtwerke Implements Service-Oriented Architecture to Automate Business Processes

With more than 200,000 customers, SWU Stadtwerke is a leading energy supplier for Baden-Wurttemberg, one of the southernmost provinces of Germany. SWU wanted to deploy scalable, modern, Web services-based IT infrastructure. The challenge was to implement parameter oriented queries with graphical overview to allow SWU to make verifiable business decisions....

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Healthcare Network Streamlines Workflow With Customizable Patient Records Solution

Founded in 1937, Health First operates three hospitals and other healthcare programs in Brevard County, Florida. Physicians accessed patient information through many different applications. The system was cumbersome to use and hard to manage. As a solution Health First used Eclipsys ObjectsPlus/XA technology to customize Sunrise Clinical Manager, an automated...

Tags: Patient, Health Care, Workflow, Healthcare Network, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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