On-Line Database Technology: Volume 1 - Enterprise Products
Published: 7th January 2004 | By: Philip Howard
This is the first of three reports covering all aspects of on-line (transactional) database technology. In this volume we focus on the perennial database issues of performance and manageability, together with the evolving database requirements of XML, which forms the…
Computer Telephony Integration (In North America) - from the Internet to the Desktop
Published: 1st January 2004 | By: Stephen Coates
CTI is the technology at the core of the modern call centre. It integrates not just the organisation’s computer and telephone systems; it integrates the applications to make every phone call, inbound and outbound, smarter. And although the most widely-known…
Computer Telephony Integration (In Europe) - from the Internet to the Desktop
Published: 1st October 2003 | By: Stephen Coates
CTI is the technology at the core of the modern call centre. It integrates not just the organisation’s computer and telephone systems; it integrates the applications to make every phone call, inbound and outbound, smarter. And although the most widely-known…
Extended Supply Chain Management
Published: 1st October 2003 | By: Fran Howarth
This report provides an examination of the extended supply chain management market – the term “extended” referring to the opening up of supply chain processes to collaboration with business partners. To drive efficiency throughout supply chain operations, the processes that…
Team Collaboration Applications
Published: 1st October 2003 | By: Martin Langham
Collaboration has become a key priority for companies facing the urgent need to get their information workers to work together better. Information worker teams frequently work in different locations with separate partners and in different time zones and need better…
Getting to the Root of the Problem - Automating IT Fault Diagnosis
Published: 2nd July 2003 | By: Steve Barrie
The key to automating the management of the IT infrastructure is to be able to accurately diagnose the root cause of a problem. Accurate diagnosis can be achieved only if the solution is based on a model that truly represents…
Security 101
Published: 1st July 2003 | By: Robin Bloor
This report is intended to act as a detailed primer on IT Security and it has been written to be read both by those who are IT literate and those who only have a limited knowledge of computers. The aim…
Analytics 2 - Predictive Analytics and Web Analytics
Published: 28th June 2003 | By: Philip Howard
This report will be in two sections, the first of which will include Predictive Analytics (Data Mining) and the second Web Analytics. Of course some products included in Volume 1 will have web analysis capabilities, while some products that specialise…
Analytics 1 - Business Analytics and Analytic Platforms
Published: 1st May 2003 | By: Philip Howard
This report aims to answer a number of questions depending on the user type. At the simplest level it will evaluate and compare the leading general-purpose analytic applications. Most often, however, potential customers will be existing users of one or…
Linux – Enterprise Ready?
Published: 9th January 2003 | By: Joe Clabby
You may remember that just three years ago, Bloor Research published a report concluding that Linux was not yet ready to support large enterprise applications. Bloor Research North America recently completed a follow-up study looking at the Linux of today…