The Grid Report
Published: 5th December 2002 | By: Joe Clabby
Grid computing has received a lot of attention lately – some positive and some not so positive. Bloor Research North America has just completed a study that examines the grid market and looks closely at where grids are being used…
Innovations in data warehousing – Answering Complex, Real-Time and Dynamic Queries
Published: 1st October 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Conventional approaches to data warehousing have significant problems with a number of types of query. For example, when attempting to answer complex analytical queries it typically takes either a very long time (certainly measured in hours and often in days)…
Web-Based Technology and the Future of the Insurance Industry
Published: 30th July 2002 | By: Bob McDowall
This report will look at the business criteria for web-based technology and the part it is likely to play in the future of the insurance industry. Influence of E-Business Assesses how insurance products can benefit from the enormous opportunities in…
Outsourcing
Published: 1st June 2002 | By: Graham Fisher
Outsourcing today is bigger than ever before. Whilst Outsourcing is one of the longest established IT strategies, thinking has now evolved in line with the post dot com economy. The traditional customer-supplier relationship is being replaced by partnerships with both…
Fast ROI
Published: 1st June 2002 | By: Robin Bloor
In the current economic climate the desire to take risks is diminished and the need to cut costs is paramount. Corporations and IT departments are looking for technology propositions that are low risk and likely to deliver a high return…
Storage Management
Published: 26th March 2002 | By: Tony Lock
The massive number of tools that fall under the umbrella of “Storage Management” makes it difficult for every feature to be fully assessed. This is a complex field with many different facets. However, it is clear that in most areas…
Service Management
Published: 1st March 2002 | By: Steve Barrie
Whilst the role of IT as a service is now firmly entrenched in our minds, the ability to measure the quality of the service actually being delivered is still not clear. This report is aimed at helping organisations that need…
Web Content Management
Published: 15th February 2002 | By: Ian Hugo
Content management is an idea whose time has come. Originally, it was derived from a need targeted at media companies seeking to move their content to the Web. At least one major CM vendor got started that way. Now content…
Databases
Published: 1st December 2001 | By: Philip Howard
This report represents a new way of considering the leading database vendors. Instead of considering them simply feature by feature, this report focuses on the different types of applications that you might want to develop. Thus each product is considered…
Enterprise Information Portals
Published: 1st September 2001 | By: Philip Howard
There are far too many sources of information: external, internal, e-mail and so forth, for a user to make sense of. Often you feel as if you could simply spend all day sorting the information and never actually doing anything.…