Debra Donston

Midsota Plastic Surgeons P.A. has been made over—IT-style. As recently as 1997, the St. Cloud, Minn., plastic surgery practice didnt even have e-mail. Now, MidSota is not only using Microsoft Corp.s Exchange and Outlook but is also using a document management system to expedite day-to-day operations, improve patient care and meet HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability […]

EWEEKs Excellence Awards program not only acknowledges technology advances but also supports organizations that leverage technology to perform community outreach. Vendors pay a fee of $150 each to enter any number of eligible products in the Excellence Awards program. After program expenses, eWEEK donates funds to nonprofit organizations that use technology to support youth and […]

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of anti-spam “solutions” available—be they stand-alone products or applications integrated with other systems. So how do you filter this virtual spam of products to find the one thats right for your organization? That was the challenge posed to eWEEK Labs by service provider WiscNet, which is looking for a […]

When the massachusetts department of education needed to learn how to manage its spam problem, it turned to Zix Corp.s Message Inspector 3.17. The DOE, which serves all the school districts within the commonwealth, saw a sharp increase in spam around April. The anti-spam product it had been using to combat spam did not inspect […]

When executives at British American Tobacco plc. needed a way to tap into and make sense of data in a variety of databases and enterprise applications, the IT department tapped into Web services. BAT, the second-largest publicly listed tobacco company in the world, employs about 90,000 people in 180 countries. The company has a widespread […]

In the Aug. 4 issue, eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee reviewed a number of new tools that mine business data and return meaningful analysis (click here to see review). Cognos next month will release another product that increases companies business intelligence quotient, ReportNet. A Web-based reporting application that competes with products such as Crystal Decisions […]

With more than 100,000 individual members, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors decided it needed to plunge deeper into CRM waters. The $70 million global association, known as PADI, is a scuba diving certification agency. Instructors and member dive centers and resorts agree to teach the PADI method of scuba diving, which includes specialties such […]

The economy, war, the economy, security patches, the economy, natural and unnatural disasters, the economy, SARS—there are dozens of reasons why Web accessibility may not be high on organizations priority lists right now (did we mention the economy?), but the issue should at least be on IT managers radar. Analysts estimate that 10 percent of […]

Watchfire Corp.s Bobby is a robust Web site accessibility testing tool aimed at developers (see screen). Version 5.0 of the Windows-based system, released last month, gains new connectivity features, including the capability to test sites that require log-ins, better proxy support and an improved Secure Sockets Layer connection. Reports have also been designed to be […]

Watchfire Corp.s AccessibilityXM helps to ensure that Web sites can be easily accessed and used by people with physical challenges. Whether organizations use the product to be good corporate citizens, to adhere to government mandates, or to increase affinity and sales (or all of the above), AccessibilityXM provides a relatively easy way for Web administrators […]